International conference “Pop-Culture, Pop-Politics: The Digital Turn”
The conference “Pop-Culture, Pop-Politics: The Digital Turn,” In Memoriam: prof. Ivaylo Ditchev, focuses not just on popular culture in politics and the political in popular culture, but on their transformation as a result of the digital turn.
Project members Matthias Schwartz, Nina Weller and Indira Hajnács present their research at the conference.
4 October 2024, 3.30 pm
Nina Weller: Kastus Kalinoûski as the “pop star” of the Belarusian struggle for independence
Indira Anna Hajnács: The Pentatone Nation – Folk Music as Projection Vehicle of Political Ideas in Hungary
5 October 2024, 4.00 pm
Matthias Schwartz: In a Lad’s World. A popular TV series and social media in the shadow of the Russo-Ukrainian War