ERA-NET RUS.Plus-project “LIVINGMEMORIES – Living together with difficult memories and diverse identities” (www.livingmemories-era.net) organizes two guest lectures in collaboration with the research seminar in Folklores Studies: Dr Nona Shahnazarian (National Academy of Sciences, Armenia): Traumatic Experience and Coping Mechanism: The Case of Conflicting Memories after Late-Soviet Pogroms in Azerbaijan Thursday 30.11. 14-16, Metsätalo (Unionink. 40) lecture room 8 Nona Shahnazarian is Associate Researcher at The National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia and Center for Independent Social Research, St. Petersburg, Russia. She was a foreign visiting fellow at UCLA on Fulbright program (2006-2007), at SRC Hokkaido university, Japan (2011-2012), at

In The 12th Conference on Baltic Studies in Europe, “The Baltic states at 99: Past, Present and Future”, held in Riga, Latvia  June 19-21 members of the LivingMemories research project give presentations. There are two theme sessions focusing on the project and in addition, researcher of the project give presentations in other sessions (“Memory, Theatre and Cinema” and “Queering the Baltic Pasts). See conference programme–

Symposium organized by ERA-NET RUS.Plus-project “LIVINGMEMORIES – Living together with difficult memories and diverse identities” University of Helsinki, Main building, Lecture Hall 5 (Fabianinkatu 33) * Wednesday 2 August, 10.15.–16.00 10.15. Opening words: Kirsti Salmi-Niklander, co-ordinator of LIVINGMEMORIESproject 10.30. Prof. Barbara Törnqvist-Plewa (Lund University): Cosmopolitan memory, European politics of memory and local memories in East Central Europe LIVINGMEMORIES – Team presentations: 11.30: Gulsina Selyaninova (Perm National Research Polytechnic University): Sociocultural trauma: the problem of Soviet Society`s adaptation to it (1929–1953) 12.00: Hülya Şimga & Gülru Göker (Koc University): Gendering Peace. Perspectives from Turkey 12.30: Vita Zelče & Marita Zitmane