Call for Papers: Embracing the New, Preserving the Old: Studying Fascism, Communism, and Totalitarianism in the 2020s
More than thirty years after the end of the Cold War, the categories through which the twentieth century was understood are being reactivated, revised, and contested. In a moment marked by misinformation, digital transformation, geopolitical instability, and neo-imperialism, the legacies of fascism and communism have returned to the centre of public and academic debate.
The Pilecki Institute’s 2nd Congress seeks submissions from across disciplines that ask how frameworks of fascism and communism are being reimagined, reappropriated, or resisted today. We welcome methodological or theoretical discussions or case studies of the 20th century past or of totalitarianism/fascism/communism in the present.
The conference is to be held in Warsaw, 14-15 October, 2026.
Some travel and accommodation funding is available.