Conference “Imagining Central Europe” in Vienna
“Imagining Central Europe: (Re-)Shaping a Geopolitical Concept in Literature, Visual Arts, and Popular Culture” is a three-day international conference, held at the University of Vienna (Marietta-Blau-Saal, main university building) on 23-25 September 2024. The conference is held to mark the network’s 10th anniversary. It aims to critically continue the discourse on Central Europe in the cultural sciences and the humanities. At the same time, the conference updates it by addressing current media and political transformation processes from an explicitly interdisciplinary perspective.
In five panel sessions with speakers from diverse fields of Central European Cultural and Media Studies, it will explore old and new perspectives in the studies of Central European arts, culture and media. A diverse social program includes cultural events, such as a City Drift that will bring the participants closer to the concrete ‘Central Europeanness’ of the host city. The Central European Culture Salon brings together scholars, artists, editors and bloggers whose work is centered geographically and thematically in Central Europe.