[Commlist] Call for Book Chapters - Replaying Communism: Memories of Soviet Occupation in European Media and Culture

Call for Book Chapters - Replaying Communism: Memories of Soviet 
Occupation in European Media and Culture

deadline for submissions: January 19, 2024
full name / name of organization: Replaying Communism Project (AHRC)
contact email: (replayingcommunism /at/ gmail.com)

With apologies for cross-posting.

After a successful symposium that took place on 1 December 2023, the 
co-founders of the multi-disciplinary ‘Replaying Communism’ project 
(which received funding from the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research 
Council) are looking for contributors to an edited collection entitled: 
Replaying Communism: Memories of Soviet Occupation in European Media and 
Culture.
The book explores the cultural memory of Communist regimes in former 
Soviet satellite states, as portrayed in twenty-first-century media, 
cultural sites, and political rhetoric. The editors welcome submissions 
that examine contemporary portrayals of the Communist occupation of 
Central and Eastern Europe (1945-1990). Further information about this 
research project can be found on the Replaying Communism website: 
https://sites.google.com/view/replayingcommunism/home

The editors are looking for chapters that ask one or more of the 
following questions:
Why is contemporary media ‘replaying communism’?
How do various media, cultural sites, and publications represent the 
Communist past?
How and in what ways have representations of ‘Eastern European’ 
identities changed?
How does contemporary media and culture created by artists/journalists 
born after 1989 differ to that by creatives who experienced Communism 
first-hand? And what impact is this having on the narrative of the 
Communist era?
Who controls representations of the Communist era (large technology 
conglomerates, governments, cultural institutions, privately owned media 
outlets, etc.) and in what ways does this shape our understanding of 
Communism? What can we gain from both scholarly and creative engagements 
with the synergies between the Communist era and today?
The edited collection welcomes analyses of cultural memories of the 
Communist era in fictive and non-fictive accounts across all media and 
cultural institutions from a wide range of perspectives that include:
Nostalgia for communism or Ostalgie
Postcolonial perspectives (Eastern European identities)
Heritage and museum studies
Archiving Communism
Media studies (television; film; journalism; gaming)
Literary studies
Art historical approaches
Musicology

Please submit your abstracts (250 words) and bio to the editors Dr Lucy 
Jeffery and Dr Anna Váradi at (replayingcommunism /at/ gmail.com) by 19 January 
2024.

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