The latest issue of the journal *Archival Science* features an article titled “You can read their words and see they fight for the same things”: strategies of social movement archivists […]

Experiences of protest are preserved in memory: both collective and individual. Protest banners and leaflets are stored in boxes and folders. Like in a theatre warehouse, these accumulated artefacts and […]

As part of the project, we seek to share reflections emerging from our research in a variety of formats and in dialogue with diverse audiences. We were delighted to accept […]

On 16-19 September our team participated in 19th National Sociological Congress of Polish Sociological Association (PTS), held at University in Białystok. The event gathered together researchers from all over Poland. […]

From July 6–11, 2025, Dr. Izabela Kujawa participated in the international conference 5th ISA Forum of Sociology, held at Mohammed V University in Rabat. The event brought together nearly 5,000 […]

IMISCOE is the largest international network of researchers working in the field of migration studies. This year’s annual conference (Paris, Institut Convergence Migration, July 1–4, 2025) received a record number […]

Prof. Maciej Kowalewski presented the paper Solidarity in and through Social Movements Archives at “Contested Solidarities: Contentious Politics Between Resistance, Backlash and Change” at the CEU in(June 16 to 18, […]

How is protest remembered, what kind of work with the past and the archive can be done?  These are research questions that we seek answers to by reaching out to […]

The spaces of independent archives are themselves a ready-made story about the autonomy of the movements that create them. They are all strong with the power of their operators/creators, and […]

Archives we are mapping and striving to better understand, collect and provide access to materials covering various areas of activism, including those focused on supporting migrants and refugees and aiming […]

The Civil Rights and Labor History Consortium at the University of Washington is conducting an interesting project to map American protest movements. The project is creating and sharing free, interactive […]

Das Freiburger Archiv Soziale Bewegungen e.V. was founded in 1985. The collections are impressive – there is only a portion of the storage space on site, and  digitization began here […]

We also conduct our research in Poland, following archives in all their diversity – in terms of form, longevity, and the scope of their activities, which include both strictly archival […]

The archives of social movements in Germany are one of the most important case studies for us, as they are characterized by diversity, both in terms of forms of protest […]

On December 5–6, 2024, the scientific conference „Iconography of Protest. Visual Emanations of Dissent from the 19th Century to the Present Day” took place at the European Solidarity Centre in […]