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.

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.

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.

Report for nep4dissent.eu on the Creative Dissent Zoom workshop

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

Workshop "Dissenting forms of animation and film in socialist Europe 1945–1989"

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.