Dissonant heritage in times of populism. Mnemonic memory practices and collective identity formation

Guest lecture by Łucja Piekarska Duraj, Associate professor at Jagellonian University in Krakow (Poland).

Łucja Piekarska is a social anthropologist researching mainly the dynamics of identity and collective memory. She is also a heritage interpreter and museum consultant, having co-authored a number of exhibitions and conducted many interpretive workshops, especially with local communities and museums.

As an expert of the Council of Europe on cultural routes she worked both as a trainer and an evaluator, while religion-politics in populist Poland was the main area of her research in recent years. She writes about museums, democracy and identity, while her recent monograph "The Invisible Hand of Europe" deals with the processes of Europeanization of heritage.