Thursday 17 October
18:00, Informal pre-conference get-together (Plzeňský restaurant Anděl, Nádražní 114, Prague 5, https://www.restauraceandel.cz/)
Friday 18 October
Venue: Ethnographical Museum – Musaion, Kinsky Folly, Kinského zahrada 98, 150 00 Prague 5
8:45, Registration, coffee
9:00, Conference opening
9:15, Panel 1, Ethnography of Post-Socialism
(Chair: Stanislav Holubec)
- Gábor Egry: An Anti-Communist Revolution of Gastronomy. The Gastronomy Renewal Movement and Hungarian History.
- Mateja Habinc: Flexibility of “Objectively Authentic” Events: Cow’s Ball, Vasovanje and Rural Wedding in Bohinj.
- Petr Janeček: Anti-Communist Anecdotes of the Early 1990s between Folk and Popular Culture.
10:30, Panel 2, Memories and Imagination of Post-Socialism
(Chair: Jan Lomíček)
- Tamás Bezsenyi: Conflicting Memories of Anti-/Post-communism in Popular Culture. A Committed Resistant?
- Stanislav Holubec: Primitives from the East. Stereotyping and Othering of Slovaks and Russians in the Czech Post-Communist Discourse 1990 – 1999.
- Josef Švéda: The Czechs Rediscover America. Reflections of the USA in the Czech Post-Communist Literature and Culture.
11:45, Break
12:00, Ann Gray: Taking Popular Culture Seriously.
13:00, Lunch
14:00, Panel 3, Screens of Post-Socialism
(Chair: Reana Senjković)
- János Deme, Mate Zombory: From consumer freedom to political liberty. Representations of Lake Balaton in Hungarian and German Fictional Movies since the 1960s.
- Dubravka Djurić: Constructing New National Identity in Serbian TV Serials: Rural and Urban Divide, and the War Trauma.
- Georgiana Dragota: Key Features of the Glocalization of a Popular Culture Genre: the Production of Local Television Series in Post-Socialist East-Central Europe.
- Petra Milički: Monuments of a Yugo-sized Global Village.
15:30, Break
15:45, Panel 4, Gendered Post-Socialism
(Chair: Jiřina Šmejkalová)
- Adéla Gjuričová: Naked Democracy: Erotics and Naked Body in Czech Public Space after 1989.
- Suzana Kos: Gender, Sexuality and Transitional Change in Czech Popular Literature.
- Lucie Peisertová: The Changes of (not merely) Practical Woman and Emancipation of a Hobby Magazine.
- Eva Schaeffler: Reflections of Sexuality and Gender in the Eastern German “Super Illu”.
- Milica Trakilović: Moving the Body of the Nation: Mimetic Self-Performance as Subversion of Ideological Othering.
17:45, Alternative Smíchov Walk (Jan Lomíček)
19:00, Social Programme
(dinner on own premises, place: Plzeňská restaurace Zubajda, Zubatého 3, Prague 5, https://www.hotelumartina.cz/zubajda/cs_kontakt.php)
Thematic screenings:
- Brakfest: Plush Humour and the Very Best of Czech Transformation Comedy.
- Shockproof Film Festival: Czechsploitation - The Wild East films of the 90's.
Saturday 19 October
Venue: Ethnographical Museum – Musaion, Kinsky Folly, Kinského zahrada 98, 150 00 Prague 5
8:45, Coffee
9:00, Panel 5, To be Young in Post-Socialism
(Chair: Gábor Egry)
- Tomáš Kavka: World of Czech Teenager from the Perspective of Teenage Youth Magazines at the Turn of 1980s and 1990s.
- Pavel Kořínek: From Barbánek to Smurfette. The Changes of Publication Strategies of Comics Serials in Czech Magazines for Children and the Youth.
- Ina Píšová, Jakub Machek: Guilty Pleasure and Moral Panic: Collective Memory and Watching of the Late Socialist and Early 1990s TV Shows.
10:15, Break
10:25, Panel 6, Soundtrack of Post-Socialism
(Chair: Petr A. Bílek)
- Marija Grujić: „Drop Rock, Let's do Folk“: Why Turbo-Folk Music in Difficult Times?
- Teodora Konach: Pop Folk Music and the Politics of Time: Disco-polo vs. Tchalga and the Dynamics of Identity in Post-Communist Poland and Bulgaria.
- Irena Šentevska: „Nesting Folklorismus“: Turbo-Folk, Chalga and the New Elite Culture of the Post-Socialist Balkans.
11:40, Break
12:00, Eric Gordy: That Theory there?
13:00, Lunch
14:15, Panel 7, Post-Socialist Subcultures I
(Chair: Eric Gordy)
- Jan Charvát: Nationalism, Anti-communism and "Traditional Values" in the Non-Political Branch of the Skinhead Movement.
- Ondřej Daniel: Ashes of a Flag: For a Microhistory of Post Socialist Youth Delinquency.
- Margit Feischmidt: Popular Nationalism: Rock Music and Radical Right in Hungary.
- Paulina Kudzin: Girls with Safety Pins. Anarchofeminism in Polish Popular Music (paper will be presented by Sylwia Czachór).
15:45, Break
16:00, Panel 8, Post-Socialist Subcultures II
(Chair: Robert Kulmiński)
- Daniela Dobos: Constructions of Women in the Romanian Hip Hop Urban Subculture and Beyond.
- Liutauras Kraniauskas: No More Heroes Anymore: Reflecting Transformations of Rebel Music Subcultures in Post-Soviet Klaipeda, Lithuania (1990-2000).
- Antonín Kudláč: Fans as the Active Makers of Popular Culture: The case of Czechoslovak fandom after 1989 (paper will be presented by Petr Janeček).
- Colleen McQuillen: “Domesticating the Streetscape: Reproductions of Russian Graffiti and Their Subversion of Subculture”.
17:30, Conference wrap-up
18:00, Informal post-conference get-together (Tea room Bílý Jeřáb, Štefánikova 51
Prague 5, https://www.bily-jerab.cz/index.php/en/)