Activities
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Information about NEP4DISSENT's upcoming and past events, publications, and other activities
New book "Dissident Legacies of Samizdat Social Media Activism" by Piotr Wciślik published
A new book "Dissident Legacies of Samizdat Social Media Activism. Unlicensed Print Culture in Poland 1976-1990" written by Piotr Wciślik has been published by Routledge in its Histories of Central and Eastern Europe series.
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- 1989, alternative culture, art, censorship, cold war, grey zone, libraries and archives, memory studies, samizdat, underground
CFP: Theory and Methods Workshop on Alternative Cultures
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.
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- alternative culture, art, grey zone, libraries and archives, media, memory studies
Artpool40 – Active Archives and Art Networks
International Conference of the Artpool Art Research Center "Artpool40 – Active Archives and Art Networks" will take place on 21–22 February 2020 in Budapest.
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- Working Group
- Working Group 6: Art and Cultural Heritage Curation
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- art, libraries and archives, media
NEP4Dissent widely represented at 2019 ASEEES Convention in San Francisco
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.
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- 1989, academies of sciences, alternative culture, censorship, cold war, digital humanities, grey zone, libraries and archives, media, memory studies, radios, samizdat, surveillance, tamizdat, underground
East European Dissent between Agenda & Legacy
1150 Brussels , Belgium
Avenue de Tervueren 153
Maastricht University, Campus Brussels A collaboration between research groups on culture under surveillance (WG1) and on the cultural memory of dissent (WG4)
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- 1989, alternative culture, libraries and archives, memory studies
Conference report: East European Dissent between Agenda & Legacy
1150 Brussels , Belgiums
Avenue de Tervueren 153
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.
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- 1989, alternative culture, libraries and archives, memory studies
Summer Training School in Digital History: Cultures of Dissent in Eastern Europe (1945-1989)
Budapest , Hungary
CEU Summer University course on "Cultures of Dissent," July 15-23, 2019 in Budapest
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- alternative culture, censorship, digital humanities, grey zone, libraries and archives, media, memory studies, radios, samizdat, tamizdat, underground
MC Meeting: European University of Tirana (UET) (May 30-31, 2019)
1023 Tirana , Albania
Bulevardi “Gjergj Fishta” Nd.70, H.1
Joint MC meeting and WG meeting in Tirana, Albania
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- 1989, academies of sciences, alternative culture, censorship, digital humanities, grey zone, libraries and archives, media, memory studies, radios, samizdat, tamizdat, underground
Joint Working Group Meeting: Budapest
1051 Budapest , Hungary
Nador 15
From Thursday, January 31st, at 12.00 to Friday, February 1st at 16.00 all Working Groups will meet to discuss our progress on the State of the Art Reviews (SoTARS) and plans for the next grant period.
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- 1989, academies of sciences, alternative culture, censorship, digital humanities, grey zone, libraries and archives, media, memory studies, radios, samizdat, tamizdat, underground
MC Meeting: Examining the State of the Art
11000 Belgrade , Serbia
Kneza Mihaila 36, Room 301F
This is a Management Committee meeting dedicated to the preparation of our first deliverable – Joint Review Report – due at the end of April.
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- academies of sciences, alternative culture, censorship, digital humanities, grey zone, libraries and archives, memory studies, radios, samizdat, tamizdat, underground