What’s On

Popular Dynamics is a platform that connects scholars and practitioners of popular culture of Eastern and East-Central Europe. It maps publications, events, and other projects dedicated to the dynamics of popular culture in the region in recent decades and offers new insights into current research on the topic.

Daria Ganzenko at the “Processing Perestroika” conference in Washington, DC

Talk by Nina Weller at the “Belarus Digital” Winterkolleg in Graz

Recommended reading: “Staging the Pagan Past” edited by Ralf Hoppadietz and Karin Reichenbach

Project workshop “Digital Tools, Radical Views, Appealing Aesthetics” at the ZfL

Book presentation “Horror & Melodrama” at the ZfL

Talk by Matthias Schwartz on “Borderlands in Polish Popular Culture” in Giessen

Recommended reading: Svitlana Pidoprygora on “Documenting war in Ukrainian comics”

Special issue of “Filosofia” on pop-culture and politics with a contribution by Matthias Schwartz

Lecture Series “Pop East, ConsumEast, HedonEast” at University of Hamburg

Workshop “Slavic Game Studies” at the University of Bochum

Filming the far right in Poland and Hungary

Talk by Aleksandra Szczepan on Holocaust kitsch at the ASEEES convention

Talk by Magdalena Marszałek on polarisation in culutre at the University of Halle

Talk by Nina Weller: “Der Westen im Osten”. Konstruktionen des Westens in der russischen Populärkultur

Lecture Series “Populäre Kulturen in Mittel-, Süd- und Osteuropa” at Humboldt University, Berlin

Lecture Series “Populismus: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven” at the University of Potsdam

New book edited by Matthias Schwartz and Nina Weller “Appropriating History” is out now

International conference “Pop-Culture, Pop-Politics: The Digital Turn”

CfP: “Performances of Belonging? Popular Entertainment, Race, and Nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe, 1880-today”

Conference “Imagining Central Europe” in Vienna

New blog text by Matthias Schwartz on Russian TV series “The Boy’s Word”

Call for Applications: 3-Month Fellowships in the project “Adjustment and Radicalisation”(ZfL, Berlin)

Research seminar on East European and Eurasian History

Talk by Indira Hajnacs on “Renegotiating History in Hungarian Popular Music”

Talk on “Slavs and Pagans in Polish Popular Music” at the GWZO Annual Conference

Conference panel on Polish popular culture and populism

New book on the classics of Romanian cinema

Special issue of Wiener Almanach “Beyond Nostalgia”

New book on Hungarian popular culture and politics

CfP: Workshop “Poland and Its Neighbours in the 20th and 21st Century”