LIVINGMEMORIES, an ERA.Net RUS PLUS project funded by the Commission of the European Union (7th Framework Programme), explores difficult memories and diverse identities related with conflicts and protest movements in Russia, Finland, Latvia, Estonia, Germany and Turkey. Based on a comparison of memory work related to different conflicts between 1920s and today, the international project addresses vital questions every society faces after conflict: How can people live together after violent conflicts and with traumatic memories? How are myths, symbols and memories created and re-created? How is it possible to allow difficult and different memories instead of controlling or silencing them?

Teilprojekt am Institut für Politikwissenschaft:“Protest and Memory: how contemporary protests in Germany relate to the ‘long 1960s’ in West and East-Germany”