PUBLICATIONS
MONOGRAPH
Demeter, Laura. Picking up the Pieces from the Communist Past: Transitional Heritage after 1989 in Germany and Romania, PhD Thesis at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy, December 2017, online available [http://e-theses.imtlucca.it/258/]
ARTICLES IN PEER REVIEW JOURNALS
Demeter, Laura. ‘Transnational Activism against Cultural Heritage Destruction as a Human Right Violation in Romania before and after 1989’, Revue d’ Etudes Comparatives Est-Ouest, Special Issue: ‘Transnational Activism and the Globalisation of Anti-Communism after 1989’, Vol.51, No.2-3, November 2020:121-150
Demeter, Laura. ‘Regime Change and Cultural Heritage Protection, a Matter of State Security’, International Journal of Heritage Studies, Vol.25, Issue: Heritage, Revolution and the Enduring Politics of the Past, July 2018.
EDITED VOLUMES PEER-REVIEWED
Knauer Birgit and Demeter Laura (Eds.), Transforming Cities. Planning and Preserving in Historic Urban Contexts, TU Wien Press, 2025, (open access, print)
Demeter Laura, Enss M. Carmen, Kisiel Piotr, Ludwig Carol (Eds.), Cartographies of Catastrophes: Examining Disaster Documentation and Reconstruction Plans in the Past and the Present, Leuven University Press (forthcoming 2026)
BOOK CHAPTERS (PEER-REVIEWED)
Demeter Laura, ‘The Systematisation of the Multi-Ethnic Historic City of Kronstadt/Brasov. A Critical Perspective (1921-1965)’, Transforming Cities. Planning and Preserving in Historic Urban Contexts, edited by Knauer Birgit and Demeter Laura, TU Wien Press (2025)
Knauer Birgit and Demeter Laura, ‘Integrating Heritage in Urban Planning: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives on Transformation Processes of European Cities in the 20th Century’, Transforming Cities. Planning and Preserving in Historic Urban Contexts, edited by Knauer Birgit and Demeter Laura, TU Wien Press (2025)
Demeter Laura, ‘Panciu (1940-1945): A Model for the Planned Reconstruction of the Earthquake-damaged Romanian Small Cities’, Cartographies of Catastrophes: Examining Disaster Documentation and Reconstruction Plans in the Past and the Present, edited by Demeter Laura, Enss M. Carmen, Kisiel Piotr, Ludwig Carol, Leuven University Press (forthcoming 2026)
Enss Carmen, Kisiel Piotr, Demeter Laura, ‘Critical Approaches to Disaster Documentation and Damage Cartography, 19th – 21st Century’, Cartographies of Catastrophes: Examining Disaster Documentation and Reconstruction Plans in the Past and the Present, edited by Demeter Laura, Enss M. Carmen, Kisiel Piotr, Ludwig Carol, Leuven University Press (forthcoming 2026)
Enss M. Carmen, Demeter Laura, Kisiel Piotr, ’Concluding Remarks’, Cartographies of Catastrophes: Examining Disaster Documentation and Reconstruction Plans in the Past and the Present, edited by Demeter Laura, Enss M. Carmen, Kisiel Piotr, Ludwig Carol, Leuven University Press (forthcoming 2026)
Demeter Laura, ‘Heritage in Context: Public Monuments and Restoration Practices in Interwar Romania, 1919–1941’, The Fate of Russian, Ottoman and Habsburg Monuments: From Architectural Conservation to Identity Construction in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, edited by Minea Cosmin, Jõekalda Kristina, CEU Press (under review)
Demeter, Laura. ‘Reevaluating the GDR’s national cultural heritage: The Collections of the Museum for German History in Berlin before and after 1989’, Museums - Places of Authenticity? RGZM – Tagungen,Verlag des Römisch- Germanischen Zentralmuseum, edited by D. Kimmel, S. Brüggerhoff, Mainz, Universitätsverlag Heidelberg: Propylaeum (ISBN. 978-3-88467-XXX) (accepted March 2019, due for publication December 2020)
Rainer Eckert, Laura Demeter, Uwe Sonnberg: ‘German Democratic Republic’, Cultural Opposition and its Heritage in Eastern Europe, The Handbook of COURAGE, edited by Balázs Apor, Peter Apor, and Sandor Horvath, 221-241, Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest: Prime Rate Kft. 2018 (ISBN: 978-963-416-142-4)
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Demeter Laura, ‘Earthquake-damaged Towns and Villages under Authoritarian Regimes: Reconstruction and Preservation Practices in Panciu and Soveja (1940-1945), Tremor: Earth and Heritage in Crisis (Erschütterung. Erde und Erbe in der Krise), edited by Hönig Svenja und Špikić Marko, Conference Proceedings for the Working Group on Theory and Education in Heritage Conservation (AKTLD), ARTHISTORICUM, University Heidelberg, Vol.33, 2024:80-87, open access and print (ISBN: 978-3-95954-140-4 print)
Demeter, Laura. 'Assessing the cultural value of the communist legacy in Romania’, In Heritage 2014: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development. Green Lines Institute for Sustainable Development, 2014: 531-540. (ISBN 978-989-98013-6-3)
Demeter, Laura. 'Value creation mechanisms and the heritisation of the communist legacy in Romania’. In
The Right to [World] Heritage: conference proceedings. IAWHP, 2014: 8-20. (ISBN 978-3-00-047536-8
Demeter, Laura. 'Picking up the pieces: traces of the communist past in Bucharest and Berlin’, In
ICOM International Conference: Museums and Politics, 9-14, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Russia, Sept. 2014: 323-334.
POLICY REPORTS
Demeter, Laura. ‘German Democratic Republic’, H2020 EU Project COURAGE Country Reports, Regensburg, November 2018 (http://cultural-opposition.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/D29-Country-Reports-157-188.pdf)
BOOK REVIEWS
Demeter, Laura. Review: ‘Building a Common Past, World Heritage in Russia under Transformation 1965-2000’, by Corinne Geering, V&R Unipress, 2018, Connections, Centre for Area Studies, University Leipzig, published online June 2020 [https://www.connections.clio-online.net/publicationreview/id/reb-49727?utm_source=connections&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2020-6&utm_campaign=mail&fbclid=IwAR36YLswV8xSEeLlQ6MWXFnmd6OS5i-_xKeZF7nHq-sJn8XBSUcG0x8KHfc]
Demeter, Laura. Review: ‘Cuban Cultural Heritage. A rebel past for a revolutionary nation’, by Pablo Alonso González, Florida: University Press of Florida, 2018, 335pp., (hardcover), International Journal of Heritage Studies, ISSN: 1352-7258 (Print), March 2019
Demeter, Laura. Review: ‘From Antiquities to Heritage. Transformations of Cultural Memory’ (Time and the World. Interdisciplinary Studies in Cultural Transformations), by Eriksen, Anne, New York: Berghahn Books, (hardcover), 2014. (ISBN 978-1-78238-298-0; VII, 179), published online Sept. 2016 [https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-20282]
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
On-line Contributions for COURAGE Collections: Harald Hauswald, Jürgen Nagel, Roger Löwig, Künstlerzeitschriften aus der DDR, Inszenierungsdokumentation, Theater in der Wende, Lügenmuseum, Alltagost. Ein Digitaler Reiseführer in den Alltag der DDR
