Conference papers, lectures, and workshop contributions by the team
2023
2023 — Series of lectures at Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam, Netherlands) and during the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven (Netherlands), together with Ukrainian artist Yuliia Krivich, titled "Ukraine Through (De)Colonial Lens: On Western Art & Knowledge Production in the Context of the Russian War in Ukraine". – Anna Greszta
January — Lecture “Weaponizing the Past: The Conspiratorial Memory Work of Putinist Propaganda”. Utrecht Forum for Memory Studies. University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. – Boris Noordenbos
March — Lecture “Digital Conspiratorial Memory of the USSR’s Dissolution: CIA, Zionists, and Other Suspects”. Stony Brook University, USA. – Daria Khlevnyuk
March — Lecture “Russian ‘old left,’ the global rise of illiberal memory, and conspiratorial narratives online”. Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers University, USA. – Daria Khlevnyuk
April — Lecture “Faking Sense of War: The Russian Digital Propaganda Strategy.” University of Basel, Switzerland. – Boris Noordenbos
May — Lecture “(Dis)entanglements of Memory, Conspiracy, and Coloniality in the Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces" as part of the SPEME – Spaces of Memory and Trauma cycle at H401 research, art, and dialogue foundation. – Anna Greszta
June — Conspiratorial Memory team's presentation at Eastsplainers #6: Media & Memory. Part of the public lecture series by the Department of Slavic Languages & Cultures. – Team
June — Workshop “Crossing Borders: Migration, Generational Change, and Historical Narratives”. ZOiS, Germany. — Daria Khlevnyuk
July — XIII Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture. The Lisbon Consortium, Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Paper presentation “Conspiratorial anticipation: The past as the future in narratives of suspicion around the Smoleńsk catastrophe”. — Maria Plichta
July — XIII Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture, The Lisbon Consortium, Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Paper “Beautiful Faraway? Victory Day, Russo-Ukrainian War and Time-Traveling on TikTok". — Anna Greszta
July — Conference Paper “Digital conspiratorial memory of the USSR’s dissolution: CIA, Zionists, and other suspects”. Conference Memory Studies Association 2023. Newcastle, UK. – Daria Khlevnyuk
July — Conference Paper “Conspiratorial Memory as Participatory Propaganda: The Case of the Telegram Channel ‘War on Fakes’.” Conference Memory Studies Association 2023. Newcastle, UK. –Boris Noordenbos
September — Conference Paper “Katyń, Smoleńsk, and the transmission of memory”. Conference “2nd PoSoCoMeS Conference: Post-Socialist Memory Cultures in Transition”. Tallinn University. – Maria Plichta
September — Conference Paper “Temporality Reconsidered: Historical References in Russian State Media Coverage of the Russo-Ukrainian War”. Conference “2nd PoSoCoMeS Conference: Post-Socialist Memory Cultures in Transition”. Tallinn University. – Boris Noordenbos & Daria Khlevnyuk
September — Conference Paper “The Russian Military Disneyland: Conspiratorial Memory in the Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces”, Anna Greszta. Conference “2nd PoSoCoMeS Conference: Post-Socialist Memory Cultures in Transition”. Tallinn University. – Anna Greszta
September — Workshop “Foreign Interference, Manipulation and Russian Strategic Narratives.” Clingendael Institute. The Hague, The Netherlands. – Boris Noordenbos
October — Conference Paper “Disinformation as memory work: temporalities of propaganda”. Conference “Achievements and Perspectives of Cultural and Social Memory Research”. Berlin, Germany. – Boris Noordenbos & Daria Khlevnyuk
October — Conference Paper “Ambient Propaganda: The Dark Refrain of Wartok” (together with Marc Tuters). Conference of the SoMe4Dem project and the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, “The European Union and Its Rural Periphery in East Central Europe.” Leipzig University, Germany. – Boris Noordenbos
October —Conference Paper “Ambient Propaganda: The Dark Refrain of WarTok” (together with Marc Tuters). Association of Internet Researchers Conference. Philadelphia, USA. –Boris Noordenbos
November —Roundtable discussion “Between Trauma, Memory and Forgetting: Nuclear, Environmental and Human-Induced Disasters in the 20th and 21st Century.” Conference “Genealogies of Memory: Pandemics, Famines, and Industrial Disasters of the 20th and 21st Centuries”. Warsaw, Poland. – Boris Noordenbos
December — Conference Paper “Temporalities of Disinformation: The Memory Work of Russian Propaganda during the War against Ukraine”. Conference ASEEES 2023. Philadelphia, USA. – Boris Noordenbos & Daria Khlevnyuk
December — Conference Paper “The Beautiful Faraway! Reappropriations of Soviet Utopianism in Representations of the Russo-Ukrainian War". Conference ASEEES 2023. Philadelphia, USA. – Anna Greszta
2022
January — Keynote Lecture “Repairing the Rupture: Conspiratorial (Non-) Engagements with the 1990s in 21st-Century Russian Culture.” Conference Imagining the 90s: The First Post-Soviet Decade and its Narratives in Literature and Culture. Slavic Seminar, University of Basel, Switzerland. – Boris Noordenbos
April — Conference Paper “Artificial Fog and Suspicious Doppelgängers: Conspiratorial Narratives around the Smoleńsk Catastrophe”. Conference 10th Meeting of the Slavic and East European Studies in the Low Countries. University of Groningen, The Netherlands. – Maria Plichta
April — Conference Paper “War in Donbas: Cultural Imaginations and Competing Narratives". Conference 10th Meeting of the Slavic and East European Studies in the Low Countries. University of Groningen, The Netherlands. – Anna Greszta
April — Conference Paper “Imperceptible Dangers: Conspiratorial Memories of ‘Chernobyl’.” Conference 10th Meeting of the Slavic and East European Studies in the Low Countries. University of Groningen, The Netherlands. – Boris Noordenbos
April — Roundtable “Imagining Collective Selves in Turn-of-the Millennium Russia. Literary Consumption, Memory and Identity (1980– 2020)”. Conference 10th Meeting of the Slavic and East European Studies in the Low Countries. University of Groningen, the Netherlands. – Boris Noordenbos
April — Roundtable “Populism, Politics and International Relations”. Conference Understanding Conspiracy Theories, and What to Do About Them. Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS). Amsterdam, The Netherlands. – Boris Noordenbos
April — Public Roundtable “Oekraïne en Rusland: de verbeelding van een regio”. Spui 25. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. – Boris Noordenbos
May — Public Workshop “How to navigate the (dis)information landscape.” The Tactical Media Room. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. – Boris Noordenbos
June — Roundtable “Practices of Cultural Analysis.” 2nd Conference of the Cultural Analysis Network: Greek Studies Now. University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. – Boris Noordenbos
September — Roundtable event “Trust and (Dis)information in the Digital Battlefield”. University of Manchester, UK. – Boris Noordenbos
October — Conference Paper “Chernobyl’s Rural Mutations: Re-imagining the Soviet Empire’s ‘Wasteland’ in Popular Culture.” OSL Workshop Eternal Presents and Resurfacing Futures: Postcolonial/Postsocialist Dynamics of Time and Memory in Literature and Art. University of Groningen, The Netherlands. – Boris Noordenbos
October — Roundtable “From Mobilizations of the Past to Future Worlding in Post-Truth Rhetoric and Conspiracy Cultures.” OSL Research Day. Leiden University. – Boris Noordenbos
October — Roundtable “Decolonizing Russian and East European Studies: Perspectives from the Global South and East.” OSL Research Day. Leiden University. – Boris Noordenbos
October — Public Roundtable “Fake News, Lügenpresse, and Disinformation Campaigns in the US, Germany and Russia.” Spui 25. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. – Boris Noordenbos
November — “Truth and Untruth: Transmissions of Memory of War” workshop. Paper presentation “From a national tragedy to “the cringiest film about an important subject”. The kitchsification of the Smoleńsk catastrophe in the Smoleńsk (2016) film”. Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. – Maria Plichta
November — Lecture “‘The Polish spirit must awaken’: Memory, conspiracy, catastrophe.” Cultural Memory and Trauma course, University of Amsterdam. – Maria Plichta
November — Lecture “Victims of Stalinist terror: the unclear memory”. Tula State Museum. – Daria Khlevnyuk
December — Public Lecture “De Verhalen van Complotdenkers” Public Program “Creative Culture Talk”. Lux. Nijmegen, The Netherlands. – Boris Noordenbos
December — Lecture “Conspiratorial narratives around the Smoleńsk catastrophe and their cultural representations”. Global Memory Practices lecture series, Leiden University. – Maria Plichta
2021
July — Conference Paper “Nuclear Conspirology: Memory and Suspicion in Chernobyl-themed Visual Culture.” Conference of the Memory Studies Association. Warsaw, Poland. – Boris Noordenbos
September — Public Lecture “Het conspiratoir geheugen” at the Faculty of Humanities’ opening of the academic year 2021/2022. – Boris Noordenbos
October — Conference Paper “The Conspiratorial Sublime, or What Viktor Pelevin Tells Us About QAnon.” Conference Victor Pelevin: Post-Soviet, Postmodern, Global. University of Michigan, USA. – Boris Noordenbos
Conferences & panels organized by the Conspiratorial Memory team
2023
July — Conference Memory Studies Association 2023. Panel: “Conspiratorial Memory Online: Post-Socialist Perspective”. Newcastle, UK. – Daria Khlevnyuk
September — Conference “2nd PoSoCoMeS Conference: Post-Socialist Memory Cultures in Transition”. Panel: “Weaponizing History in Russia’s War against Ukraine: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Platform Perspectives”. Tallinn, Estonia. – Boris Noordenbos & Daria Khlevnyuk
September — Conference “2nd PoSoCoMeS Conference: Post-Socialist Memory Cultures in Transition”. Member of organizing and program committee – Daria Khlevnyuk
December — Conference ASEEES 2023. Panel: “Imaginaries of Disinformation: Conspiracies, Memories, and Explanatory Traditions” . Philadelphia, USA. – Boris Noordenbos & Daria Khlevnyuk
December — Conference ASEEES 2023. Panel: “From Decolonial Struggles to Conspiratorial Reappropriations: The Uses and Abuses of Concepts from Postcolonial Theory in Central and Eastern Europe.” Philadelphia, USA. – Anna Greszta & Maria Plichta
2022
June — Project Launch and Workshop. University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. – Conspiratorial Memory team
2021
June — Conference of the Memory Studies Association. Panel: “Chernobyl Mon Amour – The Traveling Memories of Nuclear Disaster” (Together with Daria Khlevnyuk). – Boris Noordenbos