On November 7–8, 2024, the conference “Memory Institutions and the State. Connecting History, Understanding the Present and Building a Future” took place in Vilnius, hosted by the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania. Organized by the library’s Statehood Center, the event marked the institution’s 105th anniversary and brought together an impressive array of scholars. The conference featured numerous panels running in parallel sessions across two venues. As part of this event, Jan Haugner held a presentation titled “’The Soul of the State’: Archives as Sites of Power, Memory and Representation in Early Modern Switzerland”. We are pleased to share that selected papers from the conference, including Jan Haugners, will be published in a special issue of the journal Relevant Tomorrow in 2025. For more information about the conference, visit the official website here.