Working Group 1: Culture Under Surveillance

Working Group Chairs: Muriel Blaive and James Kapalo
This Working Group will analyze dissent as it was influenced in a direct and top-down manner by institutions wielding the power of surveillance in the realm of culture, i.e. of documenting, classifying, analyzing, reporting and intervening in what was deemed to be subversive. We will examine the effects of the exposure of culture to political surveillance, i.e. the impact of censors, the security apparatus and the professional organizations in the former socialist countries on the life trajectories of cultural creators, cultural events and objects.
At the same time and in the same scope, we are interested in the strategies of counter-surveillance performed by Western state institutions and transnational centers of cultural transmission such as Radio Free Europe. In particular, we will examine how such transnational rivalry opened spaces for cultural alternatives.
Persons
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Aigi Rahi-Tamm
University of Tartu, Tartu (EE) -
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
Lund University, Lund (SE) -
Beatrice Tottossy
University of Florence, Firenze (IT) -
Bent Boel
University of Aalborg, Aalborg (DK) -
Daria Ghiu
CESI - Center of Excellence in Image Study, Bucharest (RO) -
Epp Lauk
University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä (FI) -
Gianluca Volpi
University of Udine, Udine (IT) -
Halisa Čengić
Institute for Research of Crimes, Sarajevo, Sarajevo (BA) -
Iliana Veinberga
Riga Porcelain museum, Riga (LV) -
Irena Myzeqari
European University of Tirana, Tirana (AL) -
James Kapalo
University College Cork, Ireland, Cork (IE) -
Jens Gieseke
Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam, Potsdam (DE) -
Jose Maria Faraldo Jarillo
University Complutense of Madrid, Madrid (ES) -
Kinga Povedák
University College Cork, Ireland, Cork (IE) -
Konstantinos Giakoumis
European University of Tirana, Tirana (AL) -
Magda Predescu
National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest (MNAC), Bucharest (RO) -
Muriel Blaive
Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Prague (CZ) -
Nebojša Blanuša
University of Zagreb, Zagreb (HR) -
Nelson Ribeiro
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon (PT) -
Neringa Latvyte Gustaitiene
Vilnius University, Vilnius (LT) -
Peter Bugge
Aarhus University, Denmark, Århus (DK) -
Petra James
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels (BE) -
Rolf Werenskjold
Volda University College, Volda (NO) -
Tomas Sniegon
Lund University, Lund (SE) -
Zrinjka Perusko
University of Zagreb, Zagreb (HR)
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