What’s On
Games
Dynamics
Screening
Lecture Series
TV-Series
Russia
Popular Music
History
CfA
CfP
Populism
Conference
Publication
Belarus
East-Central Europe
Event
Film
Hungary
Poland
Memory
Nationalism
News
Nostalgia
Popular Culture
Romania
Seminar
Socialism
Southeastern Europe
Soviet History
Ukraine
Workshop
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.
Filter by tag
GamesDynamics
Screening
Lecture Series
TV-Series
Russia
Popular Music
History
CfA
CfP
Populism
Conference
Publication
Belarus
East-Central Europe
Event
Film
Hungary
Poland
Memory
Nationalism
News
Nostalgia
Popular Culture
Romania
Seminar
Socialism
Southeastern Europe
Soviet History
Ukraine
Workshop
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.

Project workshop “Digital Tools, Radical Views, Appealing Aesthetics” at the ZfL
Dynamics
/ Populism
/ Popular Culture
/ Workshop

Book presentation “Horror & Melodrama” at the ZfL
Dynamics
/ TV-Series
/ Russia
/ Belarus
/ Event
/ Popular Culture
/ Ukraine

Talk by Matthias Schwartz on “Borderlands in Polish Popular Culture” in Giessen
Dynamics
/ TV-Series
/ Conference
/ Popular Culture
/ Ukraine

Recommended reading: Svitlana Pidoprygora on “Documenting war in Ukrainian comics”
Publication
/ Popular Culture
/ Ukraine

Special issue of “Filosofia” on pop-culture and politics with a contribution by Matthias Schwartz
Dynamics
/ TV-Series
/ Russia
/ Publication
/ Popular Culture
/ Ukraine

Lecture Series “Pop East, ConsumEast, HedonEast” at University of Hamburg
Dynamics
/ Lecture Series
/ TV-Series
/ Popular Culture

Workshop “Slavic Game Studies” at the University of Bochum
Games
/ News

Filming the far right in Poland and Hungary
Dynamics
/ Screening
/ Film
/ Hungary
/ Poland
/ Nationalism

Talk by Aleksandra Szczepan on Holocaust kitsch at the ASEEES convention
Dynamics
/ Populism
/ Conference
/ Popular Culture

Talk by Magdalena Marszałek on polarisation in culutre at the University of Halle
Dynamics
/ Populism
/ Conference

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

Lecture Series “Populäre Kulturen in Mittel-, Süd- und Osteuropa” at Humboldt University, Berlin
Lecture Series
/ TV-Series
/ East-Central Europe
/ News
/ Popular Culture

Lecture Series “Populismus: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven” at the University of Potsdam
Dynamics
/ Lecture Series
/ Populism
/ East-Central Europe
/ Event
/ Popular Culture

New book edited by Matthias Schwartz and Nina Weller “Appropriating History” is out now
Dynamics
/ TV-Series
/ Russia
/ Publication
/ Belarus
/ East-Central Europe
/ Nationalism
/ Popular Culture
/ Ukraine

International conference “Pop-Culture, Pop-Politics: The Digital Turn”
Dynamics
/ Populism
/ Conference
/ News
/ Popular Culture

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

Conference “Imagining Central Europe” in Vienna
Conference
/ East-Central Europe
/ Event

New blog text by Matthias Schwartz on Russian TV series “The Boy’s Word”
Dynamics
/ TV-Series
/ Russia
/ Populism
/ Nationalism

Call for Applications: 3-Month Fellowships in the project “Adjustment and Radicalisation”(ZfL, Berlin)
Dynamics
/ CfA
/ East-Central Europe
/ Popular Culture

Research seminar on East European and Eurasian History
Event
/ Seminar
/ Soviet History

Talk by Indira Hajnacs on “Renegotiating History in Hungarian Popular Music”
Dynamics
/ Popular Music
/ History
/ Conference
/ East-Central Europe
/ Hungary
/ Popular Culture

Talk on “Slavs and Pagans in Polish Popular Music” at the GWZO Annual Conference
Popular Music
/ Conference
/ East-Central Europe
/ Poland
/ Nationalism
/ Popular Culture
/ Southeastern Europe

Conference panel on Polish popular culture and populism
Dynamics
/ Populism
/ Conference
/ Poland
/ Popular Culture

New book on the classics of Romanian cinema
Publication
/ Film
/ News
/ Romania

Special issue of Wiener Almanach “Beyond Nostalgia”
Dynamics
/ Publication
/ Memory
/ Nostalgia
/ Popular Culture
/ Socialism

New book on Hungarian popular culture and politics
Publication
/ Hungary
/ Nationalism
/ Popular Culture

CfP: Workshop “Poland and Its Neighbours in the 20th and 21st Century”
CfP
/ Belarus
/ Event
/ Poland
/ News
/ Ukraine
/ Workshop