Samizdat

Sad nadjoh neki info jednoj konferenciji, pa me zanima- jel zna neko nesto vise o fenomenu Samizdat-a?

Drawing from the disciplines of history, literature, political science, anthropology, sociology, and media studies, this conference takes as a starting point the movement of printed material between Eastern and Western Europe (as well as across the Atlantic) during the Cold War. One of the underlying arguments of this project is that cross-border communication in the late Cold War in its various forms made a major contribution to the rapprochement between Eastern and Western societies through the Iron Curtain by re-creating “a common market of the mind” in Europe. Cultural initiatives crossing ideologically divided societies and aiming at the promotion of non-official culture/literature in communist countries helped to counteract the ever increasing division between the intellectual communities in East and West.

An analysis of the unofficial literary exchanges between East and West will initiate a discussion of transnational communication after 1945 that has not yet been fully explored. Beyond taking a closer look at the cultural transfer between East and West, we are seeking primarily contributions that focus on the impact of censorship on media and the ensuing emergence of dissident/underground media. The project will deliberately expand the definition of samizdat and tamizdat and use it as a marker of cultural transfer for the analysis of a broad variety of cultural projects that cross ideological, political or cultural borders. In order to establish a link to today’s media, we propose to compare underground circulation of uncensored texts during the Cold War with evolving forms of journalism after 1989, looking at new media and new forms of underground or unofficial communication today.

Travel and accommodation costs will be covered through a grant by the German Volkswagen Foundation. Selected papers will be considered for a publication to appear in the following year.

Please send 1-2 page abstracts and full contact details (email, Telephone, Postal Address) to [email protected] before May 15, 2006.

Papers of 5000- 7000 words must be submitted by August 15, as they will be pre-circulated among the participants. Presentations of these papers should not exceed 20 minutes in length, and must be in English.

For more information please see www.samizdatportal.org , the online platform of the newly founded International Samizdat Research Association [ISRA] or contact one of the organizers below.

Dr. Jessie Labov
Dept. of Comparative Literature,
Stanford University
Pigott Hall, Building 260
Tel.: 001-650 723 0605
[email protected]

Friederike Kind
Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung
Am Neuen Markt 1
14467 Potsdam
Tel.: 0049-331-2899129
[email protected]

Camelia Craciun
Department of History,
Central European University
Nador Utca 11
1051 Budapest
[email protected]

Website: http://www.samizdatportal.org

malo me zbunjuje, kao i druge chitaoce pretpostavljam, ovo kombinovanje s engleskim! ne jezikom, nego politichkim varijantama?!
prvo, nikada pojam samizdat ne bih povezao s engleskim jezikom. vec jedino i iskljuchivo s ruskim! odnosno, slovenskim jezicima! (izuzev onoga shto je CIA chinila s Noamom Chomskim!) ili, MI-5 sa terijem Igltonom!?
drugo, samizdaz je uvijek varijanta otpora! to je uvijek pokushaj da se dodje do ljudi/chitalaca do kojih se nikada ne bi doshlo redovnim putem!
prekucavanje u ilegali, distribucija pod prijetnjom hapshenja, etc. etc...
o tome rusi mogu da govore, poljaci, chesi...

srbi, hrvati, i ostala ex-yu *****dija - ne!!!!
jer, oni nijesu imali pravoga disidenta!

samizdat je uvijek vjera u knjizevnost! a ne u qrchevu glavicu neke od dominantnih literatura! da ih ne nabrajamo po imenima! ili, upravo to treba da chinimo?