TOMASZ RAWSKI

You can find “Bosniak Nationalism. Nation-building Strategies After 1995” (so far in Polish) at the website of WN Scholar Publishing. In the book I argue that Eastern European nations emerge and exist in the course of a constant political struggle…

Our research post about memory politics in the urban space of Kabul has just been published at DTM website. Enjoy your reading! We (Zuza Bogumił, Katarzyna Roman-Rawska and me) have recently started a very interesting study about Russian migrants who…

Last Thursday, at the History Meeting House, Agnieszka Nowakowska and I talked about our research trip to Afghanistan. Thank you for coming to listen to us and talk to us. To the next! The monograph “Conflicting remembrance: The memory of the Macedonian 2001 in…

I have just returned from a DisTerrMem research trip to Pakistan (3 weeks) and Afghanistan (1 week). The trip was excellent and very fruitful in terms of knowledge and research. Many thanks to the entire team from FCCU who hosted us in Lahore in…

“Problems of Post-Communism” just published my article on how, in the late 1990s, Polish official memory established anti-communism as the key symbolic foundation of the contemporary Poland. You can download the entire article here. Enjoy your reading! Recently at DisTerrMem…

“Kultura i Społeczeństwo” has just published an important issue on post-war peoples’ histories. In the issue, along very interesting articles by Magda Szcześniak, Agnieszka Mrozik, Agata Zborowska, Łukasz Bertram, Marta Gospodarczyk and other authors, you will also find my essay…

I returned from Armenia at the beginning of September. The research trip was fruitful and greatly deepened my understanding of contemporary politics and culture in the countries of the South Caucasus. My special thanks for all the conversations, advice and…

The International Journal of Comparative Sociology has just published an article on the memory of socialism in Poland and the former GDR, specifically, the gap between official and biographical memories in these countries. We wrote it together with Anke Fiedler…

There’s been a lot going on in the DisTerrMem lately. In late June, we held an internal project conference in Warsaw, which started the project anew after a break forced by COVIDThroughout July we we were in Armenia (Yerevan) with a…

I just returned from the CEPSA conference in Slovenia (Bled), where on a panel moderated by Jerzy Wiatr and Anton Bebler, I talked about how Aleksandar Vučić’s political leadership – especially his multipolar foreign policy orientation – affects the structural…

The latest issue of “Stan Rzeczy” has just published my essay discussing the intellectual framework of new research trend in Polish social sciences: People’s history of Poland. I wrote this essay last summer and encourage you to read it! I…

Most recent news from my activities! I’ve become the Polish team leader in the H2020 grant: Disterrmem. I took over this function from Joasia Wawrzyniak, whom I thank for her trust. The project is just thawing out after a time…

In the latest issue of “Nationalities Affairs” you can find my latest article on Post-war Bosniak Memory Politics of the Srebrenica Mass Killings. Using the Bosniak example, the article shows that contemporary B&H nationalist elites have never lost their monopoly…

The latest (anniversary) issue of the journal “Studia Socjologiczno-Polityczne” has just been published. I contributed to this issue with my article on “Peripheral Nation-Building in the Socialist Yugoslavia (1945-74): Macedonia, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina”. The full article is available…

Tomorrow I am taking part in the Memory Studies Association Fifth Annual Conference, as a representative of the Centre for Reseach on Social Memory, in two events: as a speaker on the panel “B4: East Central Europe: Memory Conflicts and…

I’ve recently commented for “Świat na wskroś” two issues: 16.01 – I talked about what it means for power relations in the region that Russia, Serbia, and Bulgaria have built the Balkan line of the Turkish Stream pipeline right under…

Great news! My book “Bosniak nationalism” has just received the Slavic Foundation Award: Debut of the Year 2019. I would like to thank the Award Committee for this honour.

I have just returned from a two-week library search in Zagreb, where I was collecting knowledge and materials for a new article and a research grant. The stay was very refreshing. Many thanks go to all my friends and colleagues…

An unexpected change of government in Montenegro – for the first time in 30 years. I commented on the parliamentary elections in Serbia for Świat na Wskroś. You can listen (stream from 5 September, from 26:15) here.