Activities
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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.
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- 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.
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- outputs
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- 1989, alternative culture, art, censorship, cold war, grey zone, libraries and archives, memory studies, samizdat, underground
Forum in Literary Studies / Spring 2021:
Cultural Dissent in Central and Eastern Europe
The spring online lecture series of the Forum in Literary Studies at the Institute of Czech Literature of the CAS will offer insight into current research topics of cultural dissent before 1989 in Central and Eastern Europe, especially issues of gender, alternative culture, mediality, transnationality and leftist thinking.
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- alternative culture, art, censorship, grey zone, media, samizdat, tamizdat
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.
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- Working Group
- Working Group 1: Culture Under Surveillance
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- alternative culture, censorship, cold war, grey zone
CFP: Special Issue of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
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.
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- alternative culture, censorship, grey zone, media
International symposium “Prisms of Silence” in Tallinn
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.
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- alternative culture, censorship, 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.
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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
Workshop "Dissenting forms of animation and film in socialist Europe 1945–1989"
6100 Volda , Norway
Joplassvegen 11
The two-day seminar aiming to reflect on various forms of dissent in film and animation during socialist Europe in the period between 1945 and 1989.
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- Working Group
- Working Group 3: Alternative Cultures
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- 1989, alternative culture, censorship, grey zone, media
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
CFP: Creative Dissent: Alternative Cultures during Socialism and Beyond, 1945-1991
Abstracts due June 30, 2019
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- 1989, academies of sciences, alternative culture, censorship, digital humanities, grey zone, media, memory studies, samizdat, underground