THURSDAY, 28.9
14.30–15.00 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
Oliver Aas, Hana Gründler & Magdalena Nieslony

RESISTANT AND PROTESTING BODIES
Chair: TBC
15.00–15.45 ANJA FÖRSCHNER
‘Possibilities of Resistance’. Meje Kontrole št. 4 and queer Yugoslavia
15.45–16.30 EMILY CURTIN [ONLINE]
Bodies Lead the Way. Anti-Authoritarian Protest in Post-Soviet Belarus

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FROM INDIVIDUAL TO COLLECTIVE?
Chair: TBC
17.00–17.45 KAREL CÍSAR
The Body, the Thing and the Real. On Phenomenological Interpretations of Body and Corporeality in American and Czechoslovak Art of the 1970s
17.45–18.30 ANDRES KURG
Relations without Purpose. Communication and the Body in Late Soviet Architecture

FRIDAY, 29.9
THE COLLECTIVE BODY
Chair: TBC
9.30–10.15 BILJANA PURIC
Revisiting the Collective Body in Contemporary Art
10.15–11.00 ANNA MARKOWSKA
Moving Over. Exercises for Recreating a Collective Body

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SHAPING THE SOCIALIST BODY
Chair: Matteo Bertelé
11.30–12.15 JOHANA LOMOVA
Imprint of Socialist Body. The Role of Czechoslovak
Artists in the Process of Humanization of Factory Work
12.15–13.00 AMIR SAIFULLIN
The Projectionist Theatre. Body-Images and Bio-Politics after the October Revolution

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DEVIATING FROM THE IDEAL
Chair: Oliver Aas
14.00–14.45 TAMARA HUNDOROVA
Trauma, Body and Motherphobia in Post-Totalitarian Ukrainian Literature. The Postcolonial Aspect
14.45–15.30 INGRID RUUDI
Spaces for Deviant Bodies in Late and Post-Soviet Estonia

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FROM SOCIALIST BEAUTY TO REVOLUTION
Chair: Magdalena Nieslony
16.00–16.45 STEFANIE EISENHUTH
Negotiating Socialist Beauty. Body Politics, Gender, and National Identity in East Germany, 1950s-1980s
16.45–17.30 AGATA JAKUBOWSKA
Women Artist Facing the Socialist Sexual Revolution

SATURDAY, 30.9
BODY POLITICS IN (PUBLIC) SPACE
Chair: Julie Deschepper
9.30–10.15 SERAINA RENZ
Performing Individual and Collective Ethics of Resistance. The Body of the Yugoslav Monument
10.15–11.00 MÁTÉ CSANDA
The Družba and Its Afterlife – Bratislava‘s Freedom Square as Stage and Litmus Paper of (Post)Socialist Body Politics

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11.30–12.15 YARASLAVA ANANKA
From Vandalism to Voodoo, from Bust to Body. Iconoclasm and Maleficium in Contemporary Ukrainian War Culture

12.30–13.00 CLOSING REMARKS