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Snakes and Ladders: Censorship in Late State-Socialist Academia
27 March 2019, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm
This event is free.
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Cost
- Free
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FRINGE Centre
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433SSEES16 Taviton StreetLondonWC1H 0BW
The FRINGE Centre presents
Professor Oates-Indruchová will discuss her current research on censorship in the Eastern bloc, which advances the discussion and the theory of state-socialist censorship by re-focusing the inquiry from literature to social sciences and humanities. She examines the strategies that authors, as well as the institutions in which they worked and for which they wrote, used in the process of scholarly text production. Her approach aims to provide a nuanced account of repression, resistance, negotiation, and complicity.
Czechoslovakia and Hungary are the countries of investigation, but the project takes a broader perspective that includes the former Soviet Union and most other countries of East Central and Eastern Europe. Oral history interviews constitute the backbone of the project, complemented by contemporary science-policy documents and the archive of the Editorial Board of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. There will be a wine reception after the talk.
About the Speaker
Libora Oates-Indruchová
at University of Graz
Libora Oates-Indruchová is Professor of Sociology of Gender at the University of Graz (A). Her research interests include cultural representations of gender, gender and social change, censorship, and narrative research, with a focus on state-socialist and post state-socialist Czech Republic. She recently published “Self-Censorship and Aesopian Language of Scholarly Texts of Late State Socialism” (The Slavonic and East European Review 96 [2018], 4: 614-641). Her most recent book Censorship in Czech and Hungarian Academic Press, 1969-1989: Snakes and Ladders is forthcoming in Bloomsbury in 2019.
Prof. Oates-Indruchová is currently SSEES Research Visitor, suppported by the COST Action CA16213 “New Exploratory Phase in Research on East European Cultures of Dissent” (NEP4Dissent).