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The destiny of each text depends not only on the author, but also on the audience. Andriy Portnov describes the examples of Ukrainian historiography, when a particular reading of academic texts determined the author’s biography, and then stops at the discrepancies in the "Bloodlands" by Timothy Snyder in various countries of the region. How does the same text change its value depending on the changing context of his reading?

Dina Khoury, professor of history and international relations at George Washington University, talks about the Iraq Memory Foundation and the declassification of the Ba'ath Party archives. The key topic of the talk is the problem of institutional organization of the archives. Does a post-tyranny Archive need to be run by a government or rather by a private non-governmental organization?

Using the example of Amsterdam's Anne Frank Museum, Andrei Portnov speaks about the modern museum in the context of global trends of museulization of memory. The author briefly describes the Polish Museum war and wonders when the Ukrainian museums are going to gather such daily queues as the house of the Dutch girl - victim of the Holocaust.

Elena Gapova on intellectuals in post-Soviet space. Lecture in the Vilnius University. The author discusses the division of the academic community in Russia and Belarus, the formation of separate academic communities that do not recognize each other, the status of intellectuals in the social structure and genesis of the "new intellectuals".