Activities

This standing open call for Grant Period 4 has been now reopened.

We aim to develop a strong cohort of scholars of East European cultures of dissent who are fluent with the concepts and practices of digital history, and interested in carrying out larger-scale, possibly collaborative projects in the future.

NEP4DISSENT (COST Action 16213) is pleased to announce the call for Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM) for Grant Period 4 (May 2020 - April 2021), to support the scientific objectives of the Action, in particular, to contribute to realisation of the implementation plans of the NEP4DISSENT working groups, as defined in the Joint Review Report.

This workshop offers an overview of digital storytelling basics, guidelines for information presentation and several case studies selected among many projects they implemented in recent years.

The workshop addressed the complex relationship between the practice of
communist-era surveillance of culture and religion and the emergence of cultures profoundly impacted by state surveillance. Exploring a range of national contexts (Albania, Estonia, Lithuania, Romania, Czech Republic, East Germany and Spain) and conceptual themes, the workshop provided the basis for historical comparative reflection across (and beyond) the region.

On October 23, 2020, the workshop of the WG1 "Culture under Surveillance. Culture of Surveillance" takes place on Zoom.

The Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin will host the 7th International Forum for Doctoral Candidates in East European Art History on May 6th and 7th 2021. Doctoral candidates are invited to apply by submitting their dissertation topic. Those who wish to present on their research are requested to submit a proposal in either English or German by February 28th 2021.

Recipient of a recent award by the CollEx-Persée in its 2019–2020 call for funding, the project DISSINVENT – DISSidences de l’Est en exil : INVENTaire, histoires, pratiques documentaires joins the growing international efforts to reinforce the collaborative work between researchers and heritage institutions in the handling of archives and collections.

ARTMARGINS online journal has recently published an article "Whose Land, Their Art? Debates over the Tendencies Exhibition Series (1980–81)" by Nep4Dissent member Kristóf Nagy. 

The exhibition “Through the lens of the secret police: Images from the religious underground in Eastern Europe” has been opened in Cork and will run from October 9th until March 31st 2021.

The Routledge History Handbook of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century, Volume 3: Intellectual Horizons has been published recently.

Visegrad Scholarship at the Open Society Archives. Applicants from the fields of history, the arts, philosophy and sociology to reflect on the conditions of knowledge production during and after the Cold War are invited.