Our last TRACTS Year 1 meeting is taking place on 10-11 October 2022 in the Ethnographic Museum in Cracow, Poland. The WG2 workshop focuses on various approaches to tracing visual and non-visual aspects of a landscape. The group explores a range of topics related to landscape tracking. Participants follow the paths of the landscape with short presentations outlining innovative, experimental perspectives.


By focusing on the case of peasant monuments of freedom from the 19th century in rural Central and Eastern Europe, the meeting sets out to interrogate the relations between materiality, social justice and inequality. By tracing this hidden cross-border history, we can begin to investigate the legacy of rural poverty and its entanglement with conteporary relations of violence and inequality in society today.

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16th August–16th September 2022, Galeria Salon Akademii

Pałac Czapskich, Krakowskie Przedmieście st. 5, Warsaw, Poland

We are delighted to inform you that the TRACTS associate exhibition on Traces of Sisterhood is currently held at the Galeria Salon Academii in Warsaw. On show until 16 September 2022, Traces of Sisterhood exhibition focuses on contemporary art that incorporates fabric/cloth as a form of artistic gesture of sisterhood. The exhibition is curated by Eulalia Domanowska and Eliza Proszczuk, the TRACTS Science Communications Coordinator. It features artists from Poland, Ukraine, the UK and USA including Agnieszka Brzeżańska, Iwona Demko, Małgorzata Dmitruk, Kirstie Macleod, Bazyli Krasulak, Anna Nawrot, Eliza Proszczuk, Natalya Shymin, Monika Weiss, Magda Wiśniewska, Agata Zbylut and Stanisław Andrzejewski.

A related TRACTS COST Action meeting and interdisciplinary seminar on Traces of Sisterhood, was held at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. The outputs from both events can be found in the publication which will be released in 2023.

Image courtesy of Galeria Salon Academii in Warsaw. Artwork by Eliza Proszczuk and Teresa Pryzmont.
Image courtesy of Galeria Salon Academii in Warsaw. Artwork by Agnieszka Brzeżańska.
Image courtesy of Galeria Salon Academii in Warsaw. Artwork by Eliza Proszczuk and Agnieszka Brzeżańska.
Image courtesy of Galeria Salon Academii in Warsaw. Artwork by Eliza Proszczuk, Eliza Proszczuk and Teresa Pryzmont.
Image courtesy of Galeria Salon Academii in Warsaw. Artwork by Eliza Proszczuk, Eliza Proszczuk and Teresa Pryzmont
Image courtesy of Galeria Salon Academii in Warsaw. Artwork by Małgorzata Dmitruk
Image courtesy of Galeria Salon Academii in Warsaw. Artwork by Małgorzata Dmitruk
Image courtesy of Galeria Salon Academii in Warsaw. Artworks by Magdalena Wiśniewska and Agata Zbylut.
Image courtesy of Galeria Salon Academii in Warsaw. Artworks by Agata Zbylut, Stanislaw Andrzejewski and Bazyli Krasulak
Image courtesy of Galeria Salon Academii in Warsaw. Artworks by Bazyli Krasulak
Image courtesy of Galeria Salon Academii in Warsaw. Artworks by Agata Zbylut, Stanislaw Andrzejewski, Bazyli Krasulak and Anna Nawrot
Image courtesy of Galeria Salon Academii in Warsaw. Artwork by Anna Nawrot.
Image courtesy of Galeria Salon Academii in Warsaw. Artwork by Iwona Demko.
Image courtesy of Galeria Salon Academii in Warsaw. Artwork by Iwona Demko.
Image courtesy of the artist Monika Weiss.
Image courtesy of Galeria Salon Academii in Warsaw. Artwork by Iwona Demko.
Image courtesy of Galeria Salon Academii in Warsaw. Artwork by Natalya Shymin.
Image courtesy of Galeria Salon Academii in Warsaw. Artwork by Natalya Shymin.

14–15 October 2022. Krakow, Poland
WG2 Meeting “Traces of inequality: Tracing hidden rural history”

This event consists of an online WG2 Working Group Meeting and a hybrid workshop about visual & material traces of resistance hidden in the landscape. It focuses on serfdom crosses – almost forgotten monuments of peasant freedom across Eastern Europe. #tractsresearch

International Workshop, Zagreb, Croatia, 9–10 September 2022

The international workshop Radical Heritage: Tracing Resistance in (Post)Socialist Europe was held in Zagreb on September 8 and 9, as part of the Working group 2: Traces and social justice. The workshop was organized by Sanja Horvatinčić (Institute of Art History) and Rui Gomes Coelho (Durham University). The event was supported by the Institute of Art History, and the Zagreb Architects Association.

Participants: Nenad Lajbenšperger, Eric Ušić, Lana Balorda, Patricia Manos, Martina Bobinac, Iva Jelušić, Petra Šarin, Rui Gomes Coelho, Marijana Hameršak, Frauke Mogli Seebass, Inês Moreira, Nela Milić, Bojan Mrđenović, David A. Calf, Sanja Horvatinčić.

The program of the workshop & the Book of Abstracts.

From the Call for Papers:

How do people make sense of wartime remains in today's societies?
How do heritage professionals mediate traces of war in community-based projects?
How do contemporary debates such as epistemic decolonization, new authoritarianisms and nationalisms influence the relationship between heritage professionals and communities?

Participants of this WG2 workshop explored the role of materiality in the construction of heritage discourses grounded on the Second World War, and other 20th century revolutionary, military and social conflicts. We are interested in surveying recent developments in the multidisciplinary field of critical heritage studies, and in exchanging experiences across different methodological traditions with a focus on the concept of trace in the context of modern conflicts. This should encourage us to rethink the role of heritage professionals in communities that are dealing with the legacies of recent conflicts or exposed once again to the threat of unrestricted violence. With this workshop we want to explore the ways in which we can critically mobilize the traces of conflict to support and advance claims for social justice.

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13–15 May 2022, Warsaw, Poland, Academy of Fine Arts
WG2 Meeting on “Traces of sisterhood”

The workshop 'Traces of sisterhood' was a three-day meeting initiating a long-term project on tracing sisterhood as a form of social organisation. It explored the meanings of this concept, the ways in which it manifests itself, and how it could generate new forms of practice in the local communities and globally. #tractsresearch

Photograph by Magda Starowieyska
Photograph by Magda Starowieyska
Photograph by Magda Starowieyska
Photograph by Magda Starowieyska
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Photograph by Magda Starowieyska
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Photograph by Magda Starowieyska
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Photograph by Magda Starowieyska
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Photograph by Magda Starowieyska
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Photograph by Magda Starowieyska
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TRACTS COST Action (20134) on "Traces as Research Agenda for Climate Change, Technology Studies, and Social Justice"
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