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Noteworthy news about upcoming exhibitions, performances, archival collections, as well as academic events and projects

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October 12th, 2020

Through the Lens of the Secret Police: Images of the Religious Underground in Eastern Europe

The exhibition “Through the lens of the secret police: Images from the religious underground in Eastern Europe” has been opened in Cork and will run from October 9th until March 31st 2021.

September 16th, 2020

New book of Central and Eastern Europe published

The Routledge History Handbook of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century, Volume 3: Intellectual Horizons has been published recently.

May 20th, 2020

Artpool40: Conference Video Recording Published Online

The video recordings of the conference of the Artpool Art Research Center "Artpool40 – Active Archives and Art Networks" tat place on 21–22 February 2020 in Budapest are published online.

February 5th, 2020

CFP: ‘She is made of stone’. Women in the Socialist and Post-Socialist Public Space

The goal of this conference is to open up a multidisciplinary conversation about representation, memory and monumentalization of women within the socialist and post-socialist public spaces.

January 28th, 2020

CFP: Visual Ethics after Communism – Special Issue of Journal "Martor"

The Museum of the Romanian Peasant is seeking contributions for its annual journal Martor 26/2021, on the topic of Visual Ethics after Communism.

December 19th, 2019

Pilecki Fellowship

The Pilecki Institute announces the call for applications to participate in Junior Visiting Fellows or Senior Visiting Fellows.

October 16th, 2019

Visegrad Scholarship at the Blinken OSA Archives

The International Visegrad Fund offers fifteen research fellowship grants annually on a competitive basis, to support scholars who wish to conduct research in OSA's holdings, and whose current research projects are relevant to the holdings and the given research priorities of the Fund and OSA.

August 29th, 2019

CFP: Artpool 40 -- Active Archives and Art Networks (Feb 20-21, 2020, Budapest)

Application deadline: September 30, 2019

July 8th, 2019

CFP: BASEEES Annual Conference 2020 (3-5 April, 2020, Cambridge, UK)

Papers and panels/roundtable proposals due 30 September 2019. Any interested NEP4DISSENTers should email Libora Oates-Indruchova as soon as possible.