Dear colleagues,


Please forgive any cross-posting.


We would like to invite you to a conference "Listening to the Wind of
Change": Popular Culture and Post-Socialist Societies in East-Central
Europe held 18 - 19 October 2013 in Prague, Czech Republic.


We invite researchers to share their papers and panel proposals related to
the conference theme, including but not limited to such topics as:

Culture Transfer: Westernization and Commodification of the "East",
Culture of the Post-Socialist New Rich: Continuities with Late State
Socialism and Neoliberalism,
Re-traditionalization, Nationalism, Exclusion and Mobilization in Popular
Culture,
Fostering Free-market Ideology through Popular Culture,
Conflicting Memories of Anti-/Post-communism in Popular Culture,
Reflections of Sexuality and Gender in Popular Culture,
Exploitation Culture as Reply to Fast Changes in Post-Socialist Societies,
Visual Culture of Post-Socialist Societies of East-Central Europe,
Popular Culture in East-Central Europe as Commodity,
Travelling Cultural Theory (East West).


Deadline for abstracts is 15 May 2013. Deadline for panel proposals is 15
April 2013.