Panel
24 Jan 2026 · 12.45 pm
Imagined Pasts, Invented Traditions
Venue: Yerevan State University, 1 Alek Manukyan St, 0025 Yerevan, Armenia
Research project(s): Adjustment and Radicalisation
Panel as part of the conference 3rd PoSoCoMeS – MSA Working Group conference at Yerevan State University, 22–24 Jan 2026
- Nina Weller (ZfL): ‘Like the Cossacks…’ Reactivation and Rewriting of a Myth in Ukrainian Popular Culture (1970s–2000s)
- Matthias Schwartz (ZfL): Reimagining the Communist Past: Resentment and Escapism in Recent Eastern European Popular Culture
- Indira Hajnács (GWZO): Strengthening the Eastern Roots”: Reinventing Ancient Musical Traditions in Hungary
- Aleksandra Szczepan (University of Potsdam): Imagining the People, Remembering the Injustice: Peasants in Polish Popular Culture
Slavist Nina Weller is a research team member in the project Adjustment and Radicalisation. Dynamics in Popular Culture(s) in Pre-War Eastern Europe.
Slavist and historian Matthias Schwartz is deputy director of the ZfL and co-coordinator of the program area World Literature. He is head of the projects World Fiction, Post/Socialist. Eastern European Literatures and Cultures and Adjustment and Radicalisation. Dynamics in Popular Culture(s) in Pre-War Eastern Europe.