Activities

The Institute of Art History and Visual Culture at the Estonian Academy of Arts in collaboration with the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art in cooperation with Nep4Dissent Cost Action invite applications for the symposium "Prisms of Silence" that will take place on 21–22 February 2020 in Tallinn (Estonia). 

The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) holds its Annual Convention on 23–26 November 2019 in San Francisco (USA). NEP4Dissent COST Action will be represented by a number of its participants presenting their research and participating in discussions. A special roundtable session will be held where recent NEP4Dissent multi-authored report on the current state of research on oppositional cultures in Eastern Europe (1945-1989) will be presented.

"Legacies of 1989 for dissent today" - a keynote speech given by Barbara J. Falk in recent NEP4Dissent conference is published in Eurozine.

Maastricht University, Campus Brussels

A collaboration between research groups on culture under surveillance (WG1) and on the cultural memory of dissent (WG4)

The joint conference of WG1 and WG4 "East European Dissent between Agenda & Legacy" took place at the Brussels Campus of Maastricht University on Oct 3 and 4, 2019.

The workshop "Left Feminist Theory and Historiography: Between the Legacy of State-Socialist Emancipation and Today’s Crises" took place in Prague on 19–20 September 2019.

A book by Simone Attilio Bellezza "The Shore of Expectations. A Cultural Study of the Shistdesiatnyky" recently published by the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press.

The University of Luxembourg invites applications for the vacancy of Doctoral candidate (PhD student) in the field of Transnational Contemporary History.

A new exhibition "Hidden Galleries: Clandestine Religion in the Secret Police Archives" opens at the Museum of Art in Cluj (Romania) on 21st November 2019. 

The International Visegrad Fund offers fifteen research fellowship grants annually on a competitive basis, to support scholars who wish to conduct research in OSA's holdings, and whose current research projects are relevant to the holdings and the given research priorities of the Fund and OSA.

The journal East European Politics, Societies, and Cultures has published the article «Cold War Books: George Minden and His Field Workers, 1973-1990» written by Paweł Sowiński. 

Blinken OSA Archives, Budapest, Hungary
3 October – 24 November, 2019