Kinga Anna Gajda is an Associate Professor and adjunct faculty member at the Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Her research interests focus on Central and Eastern Europe, Cultural Heritage and Memory Studies, and Museums.

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• Introduction - Heritage and Identity of Central and Eastern Europe – definition and identification attempt - Eastern Europe as a Community of Values - Liberty of Republic as Central European Inheritance? The Political Debates over True Freedom in the Polish- Lithuanian Commonwealth - Performing the Victory and ‘Liberation’ –Soviet War Memorials in the Capitals of Central and Eastern Europe - Among Homo Sovieticus, “Jammerossi” and Counter- Cosmopolitan: Transformations in East German Ostalgia - Lost & Found – The Case of Adopted Post- Industrial German Heritage in the Post- War Poland. Towards New Cultural Functions and Social Participation - “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past” Historical Narrative and Nation Building in Hungary - Between Resistance and State Violence: The Co- Belonging and Non-Exclusivity of the Pomak Heritage - The Republic of Tarnobrzeg– heritage non grata - The Central European Legacy of the House of Liechtenstein - The “Easternisation” of History and Memory

Kinga Anna Gajda is an Associate Professor and adjunct faculty member at the Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Her research interests focus on Central and Eastern Europe, Cultural Heritage and Memory Studies, and Museums.

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• Introduction - Heritage and Identity of Central and Eastern Europe – definition and identification attempt - Eastern Europe as a Community of Values - Liberty of Republic as Central European Inheritance? The Political Debates over True Freedom in the Polish- Lithuanian Commonwealth - Performing the Victory and ‘Liberation’ –Soviet War Memorials in the Capitals of Central and Eastern Europe - Among Homo Sovieticus, “Jammerossi” and Counter- Cosmopolitan: Transformations in East German Ostalgia - Lost & Found – The Case of Adopted Post- Industrial German Heritage in the Post- War Poland. Towards New Cultural Functions and Social Participation - “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past” Historical Narrative and Nation Building in Hungary - Between Resistance and State Violence: The Co- Belonging and Non-Exclusivity of the Pomak Heritage - The Republic of Tarnobrzeg– heritage non grata - The Central European Legacy of the House of Liechtenstein - The “Easternisation” of History and Memory

Kinga Anna Gajda is an Associate Professor and adjunct faculty member at the Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Her research interests focus on Central and Eastern Europe, Cultural Heritage and Memory Studies, and Museums.

Select Guide Rating

• Introduction - Heritage and Identity of Central and Eastern Europe – definition and identification attempt - Eastern Europe as a Community of Values - Liberty of Republic as Central European Inheritance? The Political Debates over True Freedom in the Polish- Lithuanian Commonwealth - Performing the Victory and ‘Liberation’ –Soviet War Memorials in the Capitals of Central and Eastern Europe - Among Homo Sovieticus, “Jammerossi” and Counter- Cosmopolitan: Transformations in East German Ostalgia - Lost & Found – The Case of Adopted Post- Industrial German Heritage in the Post- War Poland. Towards New Cultural Functions and Social Participation - “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past” Historical Narrative and Nation Building in Hungary - Between Resistance and State Violence: The Co- Belonging and Non-Exclusivity of the Pomak Heritage - The Republic of Tarnobrzeg– heritage non grata - The Central European Legacy of the House of Liechtenstein - The “Easternisation” of History and Memory