Day 1 (15 Nov. 2023)

18:00 Book presentation Jens Balzer: „No Limit. Die Neunziger - das Jahrzehnt der Freiheit“

Day 2 (16 Nov. 2023)

Welcome and Introduction

9:00 – 9:30 Jürgen Danyel (ZZF Potsdam): Pop in Transition. Perspectives on post-Communist Popular Culture

Panel 1: Pop between Westernization and National Identity I

Moderation: Michael Homberg (ZZF Potsdam / University of Potsdam)

9:30 – 10:00 John David Vandevert (Uppsala University): To Be or Not To Be. Russian rap and the pursuit of a post-Soviet “Russianness” from 1991 to 1999

10:00 – 10:30 Claudiu Oancea (NEC, Bucharest): From Fakelore to Ethno-Pop and In-Between. Folk and Pop Music in Late Socialist and post-Socialist Romania

10:30 – 11:00 Maximilian Kreter (HAIT, Dresden): ‘Trabireiter, Goitzsche Front & Weimar’ – Embodying the ‘nOSTalgic nation’? Everyday nationhood in East German ‘German Rock’ from 1994 until 2019

(Break 11:00 – 11:30)

Panel 2: Sex, Body and Gender in post-Communist Popular Culture

Moderation: Frank Bösch (ZZF Potsdam / University of Potsdam)

11:30 – 12:00 Kotryna Bėčiūtė (Vilnius University): Restoration of Independence is Sexy. Changes in Representations of Sexuality and the Body in Lithuanian Popular Culture in the 1990s

12:00 – 12:30 Chang Liu (Heidelberg University): Naked Ambitions: Madonna’s Photobook and the Transformation of Cultural Landscape of post-Mao China

12:30 – 13:00 Juliana Matasova (Kyiv University): A Transformational Grammar of Joy. Ukraine and the Women’s Musical Stories of the 1990s

(Lunch break 13:00 – 14:00)

Panel 3: The transition of Music markets

Moderation: Detlef Siegfried (University of Copenhagen)

14:00 – 14:30 Patryk Galuszka (Leuphana University Lüneburg / University of Lodz): From Monopoly to Bankruptcy. The Story of Polskie Nagrania

14:30 – 15:00 Tom Koltermann (ZZF Potsdam): „Those were our Hits“. Marketing Strategies for Socialist Pop Music in Reunified Germany

15:00 – 15:30 Marijana Mitrović (HU, Berlin): Turbofolk Music and the Socio-Economic Changes in Serbia After 1989

(Break 15:30 – 16:00)

Panel 4: Spaces of Change: Club Culture in the 1990th

Moderation: Rüdiger Graf (ZZF Potsdam / HU, Berlin)

16:00 – 16:30 Polina Gundarina (GWZO, Leipzig): Dancing through Transformation. Discotheques and Soviet Houses of Culture After 1991

16:30 – 17:00 Mathieu Guillien (University of Evry, Paris): Why the Berghain is in Berlin

17:00 – 17:30 Tomoko Takaoka (Ryukoku University): Communism Dances! The Transformation of the GDR Disco through the Effects of Gentrification after Reunification

Offer: Guided tour on the history of the building and presentation of the studio house

18:00 – 19.00 Team Flutgraben/Elke Kimmel

19:30 Evening event: Party „The Sound of Transformation“

Day 3 (17 Nov. 2023)

Panel 5: Pop between Westernization and National Identity II

Moderation: Kateryna Chernii (ZZF Potsdam)

9:00 – 9:30 Ondřej Daniel (Charles University, Prague) & Katharina Alexi (Leuphana University Lüneburg): Hate Gone Pop. Racism and Popular Musical Memory of the 1990s – a Comparative Study of the former Czechoslovakia and East Germany

9:30 – 10:00 Ekaterina Ganskaya (University of Turin): Sovietwave. the Soundtrack for Communist Nostalgia

10:00 – 10:30 Florian Völker (ZZF Potsdam): Neue (Ost-)Deutsche Härte. Rammsteinʼs re-interpretation of the German

(Break 10:30 – 11:00)

Panel 6: Pop as Memory

Moderation: Thomas Lindeberger (HAIT / TU, Dresden)

11:00 – 11:30 Daria Khokhlova (CEU, Vienna): Generations of Irony and New Sincerity. Case of Russian Pop Music

11:30 – 12:00 Aleš Opekar (CAS, Prague): Museality and historicisation of Czech popular music and its research after 1989

12:00 – 12:30 Alexandra S. Kolesnik (HSE, Moskow / ZZF Potsdam): Musical heritage in Ekaterinburg. Memory of the Sverdlovsk rock club

Round Table: Pop after Communism. Perspectives, Blind Spots and Open Questions

12:30 – 13:15 Moderation: Nikolai Okunew (ZZF Potsdam)

Podium: Juliane Fürst (ZZF Potsdam), Armin Siebert (Eastblok Records), Polly McMichael (University of Nottingham), Jürgen Danyel (ZZF Potsdam)