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
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
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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- Calls
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- 1989, academies of sciences, alternative culture, censorship, digital humanities, grey zone, media, memory studies, samizdat, 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