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On behalf of the Department of East European Studies and The Nemtsov Academic Center, Faculty of Arts, Department of Historical Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Charles university, we would like to inform you about the international conference “Choosing the Past: The Manifestation of History in a Changing Public Sphere” intended for PhD and selected MA students. The conference will be held on June 10-12, 2026 (online & in-person).

Full conference programme is available here: Choosing the Past 2026

Venue: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, náměstí Jana Palacha 1/2, Prague 1, Auditorium №325

Links for online connection:

• Link for Wednesday, 10 June: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/364507210974198?p=g19KygYvvOuYG2IiV6

• Link for Thursday, 11 June: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/354981949960095?p=IqzzfJnQDlNcWo5g1F

• Link for Friday, 12 June: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/377209990277873?p=MDtxJ3ajRQsjJN0CCw

The main research areas are:

• Patriotism and National-Patriotic Version of History;

• The Ideologisation of History and Myth-Making;

• National Identity and the Politics of Belonging;

• Visual Culture and the Representational Forms of Memory;

• Post-Truth and Mechanisms of Disinformation;

• Minorities, Indigenous Studies and Transcultural Memory;

• New Perspectives on Gender and Gender Inequality;

• Media Discourse and Algorithmic Visibility;

• Decolonisation of History and the Transformation of Knowledge Frameworks.

To submit an abstract (max. 300 words) please complete the online form on the http://choosingthepast.conference2026.tilda.ws/ or via email no later than the 10th of May, 2026.

For more information see our webpage: http://choosingthepast.conference2026.tilda.ws