Traces and Social Justice
Working Group Leadership
Sanja Horvatinčić & Karolina Pauknerova
WG2 focuses on exploring the life of traces in contemporary social, political, and historical struggles connected to the legacies of mass violence, colonialism, and gender and class inequality. Combining research, art and activism, the group will investigate topics including spectral legacies of dispossession, hidden traces of resistance and contentious heritage forms, from monuments and memorials to human remains and collections.
Events
- WG2 and WG3 – Call for Papers TRACTS Symposium on Water: Traces of Social Justice in Times of Climate Crisis, September 5, 2025, in Venice, Italy
- WG2 Workshop – Care and repair: Ungendering Memory and Museum Practices, September 29-30, 2023
- WG2 and WG3 workshop – Tracing Temporalities, Unearthing Archives
- WG2 – Traces of Inequality – Tracing Hidden Rural History, October 10-11, 2022
- WG2 Workshop – Radical Heritage: Tracing Resistance in (Post)Socialist Europe, September 9–10, 2022
- WG2 – Traces of Sisterhood- publication
- WG2 Roundtable – “Restitution: Or, how (to begin) to repair a broken world”
- MC Meeting 2022 – “Dictatorship, Revolution, Decolonization: Traces of the Past in Contemporary Portugal”
- WG2 Meeting – Traces of inequality: Tracing hidden rural history, October 14-15, 2022, in Krakow, Poland
- WG2 Workshop – Traces of sisterhood, May 13-15, 2022, Warsaw, Poland