On 10^th June 2022, Dr. Uladzislau Belavusau, Principal Investigator for the Dutch team, was invited to present at the three-day 2022 International Scientific Conference at St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia University (Bulgaria). The theme of which was the “Rule of Law – Between Constitutional Transition and Democratic Backsliding: Central and Eastern European Perspectives.” With this in mind, Dr. Belavusau presented his research on the “Rule of Law and Constitutionalism of Memory Politics in Hungary and Russia” based on a forthcoming chapter entitled “Rule of Law and Constitutionalisation of Memory Politics in Hungary and Russia” in Martin Belov (ed.), Rule of Law in Flux (Forthcoming, Routledge, 2023).

A video recording of the event is available here.

Dr. Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias, Principal Investigator in the MEMOCRACY team at the Polish Academy of Sciences, was invited to present at an event “Combating Holocaust and Genocide Denial: Protecting Survivors, Preserving Memory, and Promoting Prevention”, organized on 17 July 2022 by the United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect and Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights.

A video recording of the event is available here.

Dr. Maria Mälksoo’s talk “Who Wants to be a Buffer Zone? Russia’s War against Ukraine and the East European Agency” at the University of Alberta, Kule Institute for Advanced Study Webinar “Russia’s War Against Ukraine and the World”, 17 March 2022.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUMm_SzfK5U