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We are looking forward to the first Pariser Platz Seminar in 2026! The discussion will examine two recently published books on intellectual production in East-Central Europe: Politics, Literature and Tertium Datur: Socialist Central Europe, 1928–1968 by Ivana Perica (Bloomsbury 2025) and the edited volume Intellectual Production in Socialist Europe 1956–1968: Ideas in Flux (Brill 2025), edited by Aleksandra Konarzewska, Una Blagojević, and Natalia Borisova. Together, these works challenge the notion of the Iron Curtain as an impermeable barrier.Focusing in particular on the period between the Thaw and the Prague Spring, the discussion highlights a brief but intense phase of intellectual ferment in Socialist Europe, during which literature, philosophy, literary theory, and political thought grappled with the legacy of Stalinism and the emergence of early postmodernist ideas.
Intellectual Ferment in Socialist Europe (1928-1968)
18.02.2026, 18.00 | Pariser Platz 4A, 10117 Berlin | Registration: https://forms.gle/XY2c9hAkQJHMAJsa7
Panelists
Ivana Perica (Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin)
Natalia Borisova (University of Tübingen)
Aleksandra Konarzewska (University of Tübingen)
Bartłomiej Kapica (Pilecki Institute)
Una Blagojević (LMU Munich)
Moderation: Susanne Frank (Humboldt University Berlin)
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Pariser Platz 4a, 10117 Berlin, Germany, Pariser Platz 4A, 10117 Berlin, Deutschland, Berlin, Germany
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