Approaches to Counter-Cultural Movements in East-Central Europe, 1960-1990

1. January 14, East European Countercultures, Rock and Roll and New Wave

Guest:  Jenő Menyhárt (Budapest)

2. January 21, Theories of Subculture -- Counter-Cultural movements in Western Europe and the USA

3. January 28, Art and Subcultures

Guest: Tamás St. Auby (Budapest)

4. February 4, Czechoslovakia I, Ideological Orientation and Political Views and Standpoints of Representatives of Czech Underground Culture, 1969-1989 (Underground and Dissent – Allies or Enemies?)

Guest: Martin Machovec (Prague)

 5. February 11, Czechoslovakia II, Childhood’s End. Slovak alternative scene in the 80’s

Guest: Michal Hvorecký (Bratislava)

6. February 18, Counter-Cultural Movements in Poland

Guest – Lukasz Ronduda (Warsaw) 

7. February 25, Bulgarian Counterculture of the 1960-70s: the Music and the Poetry

Guest: Vladimir Trendafilov (Sofia)

8. March 4, The Leningrad art scene in the 1980s: The New Artists group

Guest: Anton Sheverdiaev (St. Petersburg)

9. March 11, Hungary – Politics, Rock and Subcultures

10. March 18, Ethno-rock and Nationalism  

11. March 25, Presentations by the students

12. March 31, Presentations by the students

The seminar is accompanied by series of film screenings on Wednesdays organized by the Center for Arts and Culture between January 27 and March 10, 2010.