Post-monuments: when art takes responsibility for history

Context This knowledge transfer conversation, within the project “Nordic Insights: addressing cancel culture in public spaces through artistic dialogue and cultural innovation”, features Rebecka Katz Thor, researcher and head of museum development at the Swedish...

How cities remember: transforming public spaces through community and memory work

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Context This conversation features Robert Nilsson Mohammadi, Associate Senior Lecturer at Malmö University and theme leader for Urban Humanities at the Institute for Urban Research, in dialogue with Oana Nasui, a cultural researcher. Their discussion explores...

Whose monument? Memory ownership, contested heritage and cancel culture in Northern and Eastern Europe, Oana Nasui ed.

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Whose Monument? Memory Ownership, Contested Heritage and Cancel Culture in Northern and Eastern Europe (Oana Nasui, ed., PostModernism Museum Publishing House, 2026, ISBN 978-630-95002-3-6) is a collaborative study book bringing together researchers, cultural...

Listening as Method: From Contested Sites to Common Ground

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The third virtual roundtable of the Nordic Insights project brought together cultural practitioners from Romania, Republica Moldova, and the Nordic countries to explore how artistic interventions can transform contested public spaces. Oana Nasui, cultural researcher,...

Call for Participants: Online Roundtable – From Dialogue to Action: Policy and Community Engagement for Contested Public Spaces

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Formare Culturală platform invites cultural practitioners, arts professionals, researchers, cultural organization representatives, and heritage institution professionals from Romania and the Republic of Moldova to participate in the third virtual roundtable of the...

Toppling Monuments: How Russia’s War Reshaped Latvia’s Memory Politics

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In November 2022, Mārtiņš Kaprāns, senior researcher at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia, published an in-depth analysis of how Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine accelerated the dismantling of Soviet-era monuments in Latvia —...

Monuments as Mirrors: Reflecting Democracy’s Health

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Discussion format: online roundtable bringing together Nordic and Eastern European perspectives on public art in politically sensitive contexts Project: ”Nordic Insights”Participants: Niels Righolt (Director, Danish Center for Arts and Interculture, Copenhagen)...

Call for participation for the second virtual round table of the project “Nordic Insights”: artistic interventions and historical narratives in public spaces

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Platform Formare Culturală invites cultural practitioners, art professionals, researchers, representatives of cultural organizations and heritage institutions from Romania and the Republic of Moldova to participate in the second virtual roundtable of the project...

Call for registration for the first virtual round table of the project “Nordic Insights”: controversial monuments in public space

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May 28, 2025, 11:00-12:30 Romania and Moldova time (10:00-11:30 CET) | Online | English language (with possibility of automatic translation in the desired language, as subtitles) Formare Culturala from Romania invites cultural practitioners, art professionals,...