Kinga Anna Gajda is an Associate Professor and a head at the Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University. She is a professor of cultural studies, and holds a doctorate in literary studies. Her research interests include memory and heritage, with a particular focus on Eastern Europe in the post-communist era, including nuclear memory, and intercultural competencies.

• Kinga Anna Gajda: Introduction – Mirosław Natanek: European Values after 30 Years of Poland’s Membership to the Council of Europe: Protecting the Rights of National and Ethnic Minorities in Europe as an Example of Europe’s Common Heritage – Jan Květina: Instrumentalisation of Democracy in Central European Interwar Authoritarian Discourse: The Case of Czechoslovakia – Kinga Anna Gajda & Piotr Michałowski: Eastern Europe’s Colonial Heritage: Beyond Western Perspectives and Russia’s Imperial Aspirations – Kinga Anna Gajda, & Michał Kuryłowicz: Enduring Wounds: Exploring the Legacy of Russian Labor Camps and the Strained Ukrainian- Russian Relationship in Post- Soviet Eastern Europe – Michał Kuryłowicz: Between Canon and Archive: The Memory of Communism in the Recollections of Polish Mountaineers – Francesco Trupia: Whose Heroes? The Paradox of Non- Commemoration of the Interwar Period in Bulgaria and Ukraine – Andrea Schmidt: The Past Living with Us, the Politicization of National Holidays (the Changing Memory of 1956) – Jan Bureš: The President as the Culprit? Edvard Beneš and February 1948 in the Context of History Textbooks – Ladislav Cabada: Symbolic Displacement of Austrian Symbols and Austria in Czech Political and Public Discourse – Petr Körfer: From Regional to National Consciousness: The Wallenstein Festival in Eger/ Cheb – Piotr Michałowski: Times of Change: The (Non- )Commemoration of Heritage Within the Context of Poland after 1945 and the Former German Cities – Case Studies of Wrocław and Contemporary Museums in Germany Dedicated to the Memory of Migrations – Christoph Meißner: From Diplomacy to Brick and Mortar: The Implementation of the Housing Programme in the Soviet Troop Withdrawal from Germany – Kamil Glinka: Does Urban Governance Really Matter? The Cultural Policy of theCapital Cities of the Provinces in Poland – Vita Zelče: Discourses about Dismantling the Monument to the Soviet Victory in Riga in the Public Media of Latvia – Krzysztof Koźbiał: The Memory of the “cursed eights” in Czech Society: Between Myth and Monumental Event – Agnieszka Gawlas- Zajączkowska: Holocaust Politics of Memory in Opposition to Testimonies and Research in Poland (2015– 2023) – Tadeusz Kopyś: Central European National Heritage: The Hungarian Diaspora in Argentina