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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- Events
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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
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
"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.
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- Working Group
- Working Group 4: Cultural Memory of Dissent
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- 1989, cold war, 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
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
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.
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- Events
- Working Group
- Working Group 2: Culture in the Grey Zone
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- 1989, alternative culture, cold war, grey zone
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
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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- Events
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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