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Maria Mälksoo NORMEMO autumn 2022 guest lecture, 10 Nov 2022

This invited lecture at the University of Tromsø investigates how memory laws that regulate the legitimate frames of remembering the past of righteous and perpetrators function as devices of deterrence in states’ (inter)national memory politics. I conceptualize mnemopolitical deterrence and assess the aims and sought effects of various memory laws in the Central and East European…
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Maria Mälksoo speaking at the Genealogies of Memory Roundtable, Warsaw, Poland, 28 Oct 2022

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Maria Mälksoo keynote at the German Peace Psychology Forum, Philipps-University Marburg, 23-24 Sept 2022

The Looking Glass War: Memory and Identity Politics in Russia’s War on Ukraine
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RITUAL DETERRENCE is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant (ERC-2021-COG) awarded to Dr Maria Mälksoo, University of Copenhagen, under the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme (project no 101043468) for 2022-2027.
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Maria Mälksoo NORMEMO autumn 2022 guest lecture, 10 Nov 2022

Maria Mälksoo speaking at the Genealogies of Memory Roundtable, Warsaw, Poland, 28 Oct 2022

Maria Mälksoo keynote at the German Peace Psychology Forum, Philipps-University Marburg, 23-24 Sept 2022