Subprojects
Subproject 1 addresses conspiracy-based cultural imaginations regarding the 2010 crash of the Tupolev-Tu-154M aircraft near Smolensk (Russia) in which president Lech Kaczyński died, along with his wife and more than 90 members of the Polish political and military elite.
Subproject 2 focuses on memory and conspiracy narratives regarding the 1986 catastrophe at the nuclear power plant near Chernobyl’ (Chornobil’ in Ukrainian; Charnobyl’ in Belarusian).
Subproject 3 addresses cultural engagements with the Russian war in Ukraine. One of the points of departure in this project is the exploration of post-truth sensibilities and conspiratorial logic in the interpretation and representations of this war.
Subproject 4 focuses on the links between conspiratorial readings of the Soviet past in Russia. It deals with the so-called ‘old left’ communities and analyzes their memory politics as well as their present-day social and political demands.