Activities

7-day seminar in digital humanities research methods is designed to expose a new generation of scholars in Cold War history and culture to methods of analysis and discovery involving computational techniques.

This standing open call for Grant Period 3 has been suspended due to lack of funds. However, if you need conference support for an event happening between mid March and mid April 2020, please file an application, which we will be able to consider (on short notice) in case we make savings in other NEP4DISSENT activities happening prior to this period.

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.

This workshop is centered around exploring what ‘alternative culture’ means, and how we can critically reflect on the terminology within the context of state socialisms.

On 21–22 February 2020 the symposium “Prisms of Silence” was held at the Estonian Art Academy in Tallinn. The event brought together artists, curators, art historians and literary and theatre scholars from different countries who sought to rethink the silences about WWII, its aftermath and the Soviet era, and reflected on the present social change that evolves from it.

International Conference of the Artpool Art Research Center "Artpool40 – Active Archives and Art Networks" will take place on 21–22 February 2020 in Budapest. 

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

The conference "Capturing Europe in Digital Sources: New Approaches for European Integration History?" will take place in Luxembourg, 28–29 May 2020.

New exhibition "Faith-Trust-Secrecy: Religion through the lenses of the secret police" opens on February 28th at 6pm at the Open Society Archives in Budapest.

The goal of this conference is to open up a multidisciplinary conversation about representation, memory and monumentalization of women within the socialist and post-socialist public spaces.

The Museum of the Romanian Peasant is seeking contributions for its annual journal Martor 26/2021, on the topic of Visual Ethics after Communism. 

The Pilecki Institute announces the call for applications to participate in Junior Visiting Fellows or Senior Visiting Fellows.