Contemporary Issues in V4 Countries

The sixth panel from the international conference "Togetherness, Solidarity, Relational Knowledge. Towards a Convivial Anthropology" celebrating the 90th anniversary of ethnology and anthropology at the University of Warsaw, June 9-11, 2025.

Presenting are: Juraj Buzalka (Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave), Jakub Grygar (Univerzita Karlova, Praha), Anna Malewska-Szałygin (Uniwersytet Warszawski), and Elena Soler (Univerzita Karlova & Akademie věd ČR)

In this panel, members of the V4Net network affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology will present findings from recent research conducted in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia. The studies explore contemporary socio-economic processes that connect global and local dimensions, complex political transformations, issues of collective memory and silencing, as well as forced migration driven by political events.