/ 2018
Joanna Wawrzyniak: ‘On Vernacular Memories of Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe’. Conference Pivotal Ideas of the Last 30 Years: Democracy, Society and Markets at the Turn of the Century, Graduate School for Social Research; Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, 19-20 October 2018.
Joanna Wawrzyniak, Piotr Filipkowski, Hanna Gospodarczyk, Aleksandra Leyk, Agnieszka Nowakowska, Karolina Mikołajewska: Od przemocy wojny do przemocy transformacji. Prezentacja ustaleń projektu’. The workshop accompanied the conference Studia nad pamięcią w Polsce. Stan i kierunki badań, MOCAK; Kraków, 28–30 September 2018 (co-organisation Faculty of Polish Studies at the Jagiellonian University and the Institute of Sociology at the University of Warsaw).
Joanna Wawrzyniak: ‘After Shock Therapy: Work and Nostalgia in (Post)Socialist Industry’. Seminar, Imre Kertész Kolleg; Jena, Germany, 14th May 2018.
/ 2017
Joanna Wawrzyniak: ‘From ‘Shock Therapy’ to “Negotiated Colonisation”: Work and Nostalgia in Post-Socialist Industry’. Conference Between Divergent Narratives and National Loyalties: Oral History and Politics of Memory in Eastern Europe. International Conference of the Association of Historians of Eastern Europe (VOH), Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe; Marburg, Germany, 2–3 March 2017.
Joanna Wawrzyniak: contribution to the workshop Rethinking Post-Socialism: Regional and Global Entanglements, Imre Kertész Kolleg; Jena, Germany, 12 June 2017.
Joanna Wawrzyniak: presentation at the panel on the methodology of research on collective memory – seminar Śladami pamięci, Institute of Sociology at the Jagiellonian University, 18 May 2017.
Joanna Wawrzyniak: consultation of the project Fabryka Sensów Osobistych run by Krytyka Polityczna, spring 2017.
/ 2016
Karolina Mikołajewska, Joanna Wawrzyniak: ‘Nostalgia as vehicle for legimitisation and critique of post-socialist transformation’. Management History Conference; Anaheim, CA, USA, August 2016 – presentation by Karolina Mikołajewska.
Joanna Wawrzyniak: ‘Biographies, Emotions, Neoliberalism: Moral Economy of Transformation in Poland’. Oral History and the Politics of History Making. The Second International Oral History Conference, Hebrew University; Jerusalem, Israel, December 2016.
/ 2015
Joanna Wawrzyniak: ‘Poland/Industrial Transformation and Experts’. Workshop Experts, Globalisation and Transformation in Late and Post-Socialism, University of Exeter; UK, 6–7 November 2015.
Karolina Mikołajewska, ‘Sweet past and bitter present. Collective memory and consent over organisational change’. 12th Conference of the European Sociological Association. PhD Workshop. Charles University; Prague, Czech Republic, 25–28 August 2015.
Joanna Wawrzyniak: ‘The case of Poland’. Conference Into the Open: 1990 – The First Year of Transition, Imre Kertész Kolleg; Jena, Germany, 11–12 June 2015.
Piotr Filipkowski, Joanna Wawrzyniak: participation in the panel Oral History in Poland. Conference: Oral history in Central-Eastern Europe: Current Research Areas, Challenges and Specificity, University of Łódź; Łódź, 17–18 September 2015.
/ 2014
Joanna Wawrzyniak: ‘Documenting economic change in Poland: Global capitalism and life story approach’. Zeitgeschichtliches Kolloquium, Jena Center Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts; Jena, Germany, 8 January 2014.
Hanna Gospodarczyk: ‘Embeddedness and professionalisation. Work in a socialist enterprise in the biographies of mechanics from a cigarette factory’. Conference The People's Republic of Poland and the German Democratic Republic in everyday experience: Biography– Memory – Interpretation, University of Łódź, University in Marburg, History Meeting House; Warsaw, 7–28 March 2014.
Joanna Wawrzyniak: ‘Prywatyzacja w perspektywie biograficznej.’ Conference Przemiany kapitalizmu a doświadczenie biograficzne; Institute for Advanced Studies of Krytyka Polityczna and Centre for Francophone Studies at the University of Warsaw; Warsaw, 10–11 April 2014.
Hanna Gospodarczyk: ‘Follow the Biography. Wykorzystanie metody biograficznej w badaniach świata pracy’. Conference Badania biograficzne w naukach społecznych, University of Łódź; Łódź, 12–13 June 2014.
Hanna Gospodarczyk: ‘Gone with the smoke. Workers' everyday neoliberalism in a cigarette factory in central Poland’. European Association of Social Anthropologists biennial conference (panel PO43 Re-embedding the market economy: innovation, legacy, and techniques of intimate sociality after socialism); Tallinn, Estonia, 31 July – 3 August 2014.
Piotr Filipkowski: ‘Od socjalistycznej fabryki do międzynarodowej korporacji. Transformacja w zakładzie pracy w perspektywie biograficznej’. 19th General Congress of Polish Historians (Session: Oral history – historia mówiona); Szczecin, 17–21 September 2014.
Karolina Mikołajewska: ‘Privatisation in the Polish food industry’. 4th Genealogies of Memory. Conference: ‘Collective vs Collected Memories: 1989–1991 from an Oral History Perspective’. European Network Remembrance and Solidarity; Warsaw, 6–8 November 2014.
/ 2013
Joanna Wawrzyniak: ‘Narrating economic change in Poland: Hidden and outspoken conflicts in employees’ life stories.’ Seminar Mémoires et usages publics du passé en Europe: Désindustrialisation et patrimoine industriel, SciencesPo, CNRS; Paris, France, 15 February 2013.
Karolina Mikołajewska: ‘Manufacturing consent over capitalism. Biographical narratives of managers of a privatised former state-owned enterprise’. 9th New Institutionalism Workshop; Warsaw, 14–15 March 2013.
Karolina Mikołajewska: ‘Sweet past and bitter present: biographical narratives of employees of a privatised Polish chocolate factory’. Standing Conference for Management and Organisational Inquiry 2013; Alexandria (VA), USA, 11–14 April 2013.
Hanna Gospodarczyk: ‘Między zaangażowaniem a rozczarowaniem. Lata 80. w Hucie Warszawa w narracjach pracowników’. Conference Społeczeństwo polskie w latach 1980–1989, Institute of National Remembrance; Warsaw, 16–17 May 2013.
Karolina Mikołajewska: ‘Oral history of post-socialist transformation. Privatisation as biographical experience’. Corporate Voices: Institutional and Organisational Oral Histories. The Annual Conference of the Oral History Society, the Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research; Brighton, UK, 5–6 July 2013.
Karolina Mikołajewska: ‘For the use of biographical method in critical management studies: interpretations of the post-socialist economic order in life narratives’, The 8th International Conference in Critical Management Studies ‘Extending the Limits of Neo-Liberal Capitalism’; Manchester, UK, 10–12 July 2013.
Karolina Mikołajewska: ‘Remembering the post-socialist transformation and changing professional roles in a privatised Polish factory’. ESA 11th Conference ‘Crisis, Critique and Change’; Turin, Italy, 28–31 August 2013.
Karolina Mikołajewska, Joanna Wawrzyniak: ‘Słodka przeszłość i gorzka teraźniejszość. Zmiana i pamięć w fabryce czekolady’. Conference Historia mówiona w kręgu nauk humanistycznych i społecznych; Lublin, 7–8 November 2013 – presentation by Karolina Mikołajewska.
Karolina Mikołajewska: ‘Change and memory in a chocolate factory: Biographical narratives of privatised Polish state-owned enterprise’. 45th Convention of the Association of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies; Boston (MA), USA, 21–24 November 2013.
Karolina Mikołajewska, Joanna Wawrzyniak: Słodka przeszłość i gorzka teraźniejszość. Zmiana i pamięć w fabryce czekolady. Konferencja „Historia mówiona w kręgu nauk humanistycznych i społecznych”; Lublin, 7-8 listopada 2013.
Karolina Mikołajewska: Change and memory in a chocolate factory: Biographical narratives of privatized polish state-owned enterprise. 45th Convent of the Association of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies; Boston (MA), USA, 21-24 listopada 2013.