Central and Eastern Europe Chapter (CEE-ACHS)  

Central and Eastern Europe Chapter of the Association for the Critical Heritage Studies was founded as an outcome of the Prague 2022 conference “Critical Heritage Studies: Central European Perspectives.” The chapter brings together scholars from different fields working on or based in the region of Central and Eastern Europe.  

While it is a regional-based chapter, we wish to contribute to global heritage research by tackling some of the region’s historically based topics and issues like borderlands and forced migration, nationalism, power inequalities and marginalisation, The Second World War and holocaust heritage, or the legacy of socialism and its impact on the current post-socialist societies.  

The chapter aims to promote critical heritage studies in the region, where the authorized heritage discourse still heavily impacts heritage politics and management. Thus, we aim to provide new perspectives for heritage managers and practitioners and thus stimulate a mutual discussion. The chapter organises regional conferences and workshops and coordinates joint research projects among its members.  

To join the Chapter, please select ’Central and Eastern Europe‘ under ‘Chapter and Networks‘ in the ACHS Membership Directory.  

If you wish to learn more about the Chapter, propose cooperation or find out about planned activities, please do not hesitate to contact one of the Chapter’s co-organisers: Dr Jiří Woitsch (woitsch@eu.cas.cz), Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences; Dr Špela Ledinek Lozej (spela.ledinek@zrc-sazu.si), The Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of  Sciences and Arts; Dr Monika Stobiecka (m.stobiecka@uw.edu.pl), University of Warsaw.