Dr. des. Douglas Ong

Reviews

• Melchior, Inge. Guardians of Living History. An Ethnography of Post-Soviet Memory Making in Estonia. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press 2020, 368 pp. H-Soz-Kult, November 12, 2021, www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-97260.

• “Forging Identities for City and Nation: Analyzing Selected Museal Depictions of the Kresy Expulsions in Present-day Wrocław,” The Past and Future of Public History – Europast Conference organised by the Institute of International Relations and Political Science of Vilnius University, Vilnius, October 9-11, 2025.
• “Bringing Wrocław into Poland: Analysis on the Kresy Expulsions’ Depiction in the Depot History Centre in Contemporary Poland,” 2nd Post-Socialist and Comparative Memory Studies (PoSoCoMeS) – Memory Studies Association (MSA) conference Post-Socialist Memory Cultures in Transition, Tallinn University, September 20-23, 2023.
• “The Commemorations over a Lost Home: The Examination of the Traumatic Memories of Expelled Kresy Poles from Lwów to Wrocław in Public Spaces,” Herder Institute Research Academy (HIRA) Colloquium, Herder Institute, Marburg, September 7-8, 2023.
• “Bringing Wrocław into Poland: The Expulsions from Kresy in the Depot History Centre,” joint lecture series Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Baltic Sea Region – Spotlight on Marine Governance and Environmental Change, University of Greifswald, July 13, 2023.
• Participation in the CEU Summer University Transdisciplinary Trauma Studies: Trauma Through Contemporary and Historical Perspectives, Central European University, Budapest, July 10-15, 2023.
• “The City as Meeting Point: How Wroclawian Museums Reshape Urban History by Representing Alternating Stories of Expulsion,” international workshop The Same Event? Morphologies, Reflections, Disseminations, organised by the IRTG Baltic Peripeties. Narratives of Reformations, Revolutions and Catastrophes, Institute for Cultural Research, University of Tartu, December 15-17, 2022.
• “An Old Home in a New: Remembrance of Post-Second World War Expulsions in Public Spaces,” 28th Biennial AABS Conference Baltic Studies at a Crossroads, organised by the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS), Seattle, WA, May 27-29, 2022.
• “An Old Home in a New: Remembrance of the Post-Second World War Expulsions in Public Spaces,” Baltic Geopolitics Graduate Seminar – Lent Term, Centre for Geopolitics, University of Cambridge/online, February 25, 2022.
• “Gedenken an die verlorene Heimat: Auseinandersetzung mit traumatischen Erinnerungen von Polen, die von Lemberg nach Breslau vertrieben wurden, im öffentlichen Raum,” project presentation at the Mare-Pomerania-Confinium International PhD Workshop, International Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Department of History at the University of Greifswald, Interdisciplinary Centre for Baltic Sea Region Research (IFZO) at the University of Greifswald, Kulice, January 25-26, 2022.
• Participation in Cieszyn, Těšin, Teschen. One Region, One Culture?, Greifswalder Polonicum – Greifswald Polish Summer School, University of Greifswald/online, September 6-11, 2021.
• Participation in (Ze)Ukraine: Challenges of Hybridity, XXV. Greifswalder Ukrainicum – Greifswald Ukrainian Summer School, University of Greifswald/online, August 9-21, 2021.