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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- 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 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
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
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
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 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