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Blog post 3. 6. 2026 Contesting Water Authority: When Neo-Feudal Grievance Is Translated into Populist Politics in Burgenland’s Seewinkel In this fieldwork reflection from the Austrian region of Burgenland, Franz Graf explores how conflicts over water-management reveal deeper questions of land ownership, political voice, and why feelings of exclusion can become available for populist translation.
Events 1. 6. 2026 MEMPOP Roundtable as Part of the dMSA Online Event Series On 4 June 2026, the MEMPOP team will hold a dMSA roundtable "Memory and Populism in Borderland Regions in Eastern and Central Europe” on how memories of marginality, loss, injustice, and historical transformation are mobilized in borderland regions of Eastern and Central Europe.
Publications 14. 5. 2026 New Publication: Poison and Promise on Eurozine A new article by Astrea Nikolovska, the MEMPOP associated researcher, has been published in Eurozine under the title “Poison and Promise,” exploring the social life of 1999 NATO bombing radioactive remnants.
Public outreach 27. 4. 2026 MEMPOP Presented During Visit of Czech President to the Institute of Ethnology On 1 April Czech President Petr Pavel visited the Institute of Ethnology, as part of his visit meeting centres of excellence within the Czech Academy of Sciences. Diána Vonnák presented the key research areas of the MEMPOP project.
Blog post 10. 4. 2026 Anthropology’s Populism Question: A Note on Studying Populism from Below Diána Vonnák reflects on how anthropology can approach populism from below, not only as ideology or discourse, but as something embedded in everyday life, affect, and social experience.”
Publications 18. 2. 2026 Film Analysis: From Poetic Justice to Moral Rehabilitation, Criminality and War in Serbian Cinema A new article by Astrea Nikolovska focuses on Serbian cinema as a key site of popular memory-making, exploring how film has negotiated the absence of accountability for wartime criminality and traces the shifting moral image of the criminal in post-war cultural narratives.