Activities
What we do
Information about NEP4DISSENT's upcoming and past events, publications, and other activities
Conference "Central and Eastern European Samizdat during the Cold War. Comparative and Transnational Perspectives"
Online conference ‘Central and Eastern European Samizdat during the Cold War. Comparative and Transnational Perspectives’ will take place on 29–30 September 2021.
- Category
- Events
- Tags
- 1989, alternative culture, censorship, cold war, digital humanities, grey zone, media, radios, samizdat, tamizdat, underground
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.
- Category
- outputs
- Tags
- 1989, alternative culture, art, censorship, cold war, grey zone, libraries and archives, memory studies, samizdat, underground
Special Issue on Dissent and Dissidents in Central and Eastern European Film is coming
Special Issue on Dissent and Dissidents in Central and Eastern European Film in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television has been published online.
- Category
- outputs
- Working Group
- Working Group 3: Alternative Cultures
- Tags
- alternative culture, art, cold war, media
Workshop "Culture under Surveillance. Culture of Surveillance"
On October 23, 2020, the workshop of the WG1 "Culture under Surveillance. Culture of Surveillance" takes place on Zoom.
- Category
- Events
- Working Group
- Working Group 1: Culture Under Surveillance
- Tags
- alternative culture, censorship, cold war, grey zone
Report for nep4dissent.eu on the Creative Dissent Zoom workshop
- Category
- Events
- Working Group
- Working Group 3: Alternative Cultures
- Tags
- alternative culture, art, cold war, grey zone, 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.
- Category
- Events
- Tags
- 1989, academies of sciences, alternative culture, censorship, cold war, digital humanities, grey zone, libraries and archives, media, memory studies, radios, samizdat, surveillance, tamizdat, underground
"Legacies of 1989 for dissent today" by Barbara J. Falk published in Eurozine
"Legacies of 1989 for dissent today" - a keynote speech given by Barbara J. Falk in recent NEP4Dissent conference is published in Eurozine.
- Category
- Events
- Working Group
- Working Group 4: Cultural Memory of Dissent
- Tags
- 1989, cold war, memory studies
Workshop report: Left Feminist Theory and Historiography. Between the Legacy of State-Socialist Emancipation and Today’s Crises
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.
- Category
- Events
- Working Group
- Working Group 2: Culture in the Grey Zone
- Tags
- 1989, alternative culture, cold war, grey zone