Barbara Törnquist-Plewa is professor of Eastern and Central European Studies, head of the Centre for European Studies at Lund University in Sweden and currently the leader of the international research network “In Search for Transcultural Memory in Europe”(financed by EU’s COST-programme). In her research she focuses on nationalism, identity and collective memories in Eastern and Central Europe. She is the editor and author and of many books and articles in English, Swedish and Polish, all dealing with the modern history and culture of Eastern and Central Europe. The latest is Beyond Transition? Memory and Identity Narratives in Eastern and Central Europe, Lund 2015 (together with N. Bernsand and E. Narvselius).