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Lecture format: on siteRoom: 2R-EG-07 (lecture hall of the Institute for Eastern European History).
Street address: Spitalgasse 2, Campus of the University of Vienna, Hof 3.
How have ordinary people been affected by, responded to, and made sense of the manifold changes in Eastern Europe over the past three decades? How have dominant narratives of transition obscured everyday experiences of this period and how have people, in turn, challenged these narratives? Drawing on the recently published volume Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe: History Doesn’t Travel in One Direction, this talk explores how various actors—industrial laborers, entrepreneurs, sexual minorities, and youth—have experienced “real existing” postsocialism. Focusing on ruptures and continuities, the talk highlights the multidirectional character of change in the region and complicates 1989 as an epochal event, suggesting alternative periodizations of transformation.
Jill Massino is an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is the author of Ambiguous Transitions: Gender, the State, and Everyday Life in Socialist and Postsocialist Romania and coeditor of Gender Politics and Everyday Life in State Socialist Eastern and Central Europe.
More information on this event: https://www.recet.at/event-news/events/detail/real-existing-postsocialism-in-eastern-europe
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Spitalgasse 2, 1090 Wien, Austria, Spitalgasse 2, 1090 Wien, Österreich,Wien, Österreich, Austria
