Activities

In order to achieve its main aim, NEP4DISSENT created a platform that opened the national and disciplinary silos in dissident studies to transnational, multidisciplinary and technology-conscious research with creative dissemination capacities.

NEP4DISSENT is  proud to establish an Emergency Fund for Ukrainian Scholars. We call all members of our network to disseminate this call as wide as possible and as soon as possible, to allow immediate distribution of the support. 

The reading workshop, organised in collaboration with art historian and curator Svitlana Biedarieva, will address the issues of colonisation, identity and borderlands in the context of the Ukrainian past and present.

In this discussion artists, curators and researchers from Ukraine will talk about their works dealing with the entanglements of past and present, memory and cultural decolonization.

Nep4Dissent scholars from 37 European countries urge the European Commission, COST Association, European Research Council and European governments to prepare funding schemes supporting Ukrainian researchers and sustaining their presence within the European Research Area.

The reading workshop will address the issues of anthropocene, climate change and environmentalism through the prism of ecofeminism, inquiring what does it mean to be human in the current ecological and sociopolitical climate.

Contradictions: A Journal for Critical Thought, vol. 5 (2021) on Thinking Left Dissent, edited by Kristina Andělová, Jan Mervart, and Petr Kužel

The Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) organizes a kick-off conference of its research project examining the art of Hungary in the 1980s.

Final International Conference for the CollEx Persée Project DISSINVENT "Dissidents and Exiles from Socialist Eastern Europe and the USSR: History, Archives and Memories (1945-1991)" will take place on 2-3 June 2022.

New book "Central Europe Culture Wars: Beyond Post-Communism and Populism" published by the Faculty of Arts at the Charles University, edited by Pavel Barša, Zora Hesová, and Ondřej Slačálek.

Artpool Art Research Center and the Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) are organizing a conference in May 2022 to investigate the possibility of applying the concept of cultural transfer to the field of transnational art histories of the Central-East European region.

An international conference exploring transcontinental cultural relations, representations, and imaginations that occurred and developed between the countries of Africa and Eastern and Central Europe during the Cold War era.