Activities

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

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 centers on digital methods for working with oral history and provides a survey of emerging practices relevant to anyone running an oral history project, large or small, whether for research purposes, for posterity, or both.

Virtual Summit will be an opportunity to connect virtually and update you on the current developments of the N4D. The Action leadership and Working Group Chairs will report on the activities of the Action in the past Grant Period 3, and announce plans (circumstances permitting) for the Grant Period 4, incl.  virtual community actions we would like to take up in the forthcoming months.

Special Issue of the "Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television" devoted to dissent and dissidents in Central and Eastern European film. Proposals should be submitted by 1 May 2020.

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.

Summer School “Negotiating Gender in the Baltics and Eastern Europe” calls for participants. It will take place in Kuldīga, 31 July–5 August 2020

The video recordings of the conference of the Artpool Art Research Center "Artpool40 – Active Archives and Art Networks" tat place on 21–22 February 2020 in Budapest are published online.

The letter of COST Actions leaders prepared by the Core Group of NEP4DISSENT in cooperation with the Chairs and Vice-Chairs of Distant Reading, ENRESSH and Nexus Linguarum. It calls for action and a fundamental rethinking of our collaboration practices in order to protect our networks against erosion caused by the prolonged inability to meet in person.

The international conference "Socialist Folkloristics: A Disciplinary Heritage" will take place on 28–31 October 2020 in Riga, Latvia.