Thursday, 15 Feb 2024

2.30 pm
- Welcome & Introduction of Participants and Projects
- Aleksandra Szczepan (University of Potsdam): Sentimental Auschwitz and Righteous Gentiles: Holocaust Kitsch as a Political Tool in East-Central Europe
- Alina Mozolevska (Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, Mykolaiv/Centre for East European and International Studies, ZOiS): Meme Wars: Weaponization of Popular Culture in the Russo – Ukrainian War

5 pm
- Marina Scharlaj (Dresden University of Technology): Pop Music, Politics and the Construction of War (Before and After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine)
- Indira Anna Hajnács (Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe): Folk Music as a Projection Vehicle. Music and Populism in Hungary

Friday, 16 Feb 2024

10.15 am
- Konrad Sierzputowski (Jagiellonian University, Kraków/ZfL): Populism, Popular Culture, and Communities of Laughter in Poland (2015–2023)
- Joanna Staśkiewicz (University of Potsdam): Burlesque as Queer Heterotopia. Queering Gender Constructions, Myths and Biography in Burlesque using Examples from Berlin, New Orleans, and Warsaw

12.15 pm
- Daria Ganzenko (Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam): Comedy of Resentment and Pride: ‘Russian People’ in Mikhail Zadornov’s Satiric Monologues (1989–2000s)

2.30 pm
- Final Discussion