Conference – Negotiating the Revolt: Punk in Times of Political Transformation

The conference is organized by the Institute of Czech History at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University alongside the project Negotiating the Revolt in Czech and Slovak Postsocialist Transition, which is supported by the Czech Science Foundation and carried out in collaboration with the Archive of Czech and Slovak Subcultures, the Centre for the Study of Popular Culture and the Punk Scholars Network Slovak and Czech.

 

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Time & Place

 

 

Schedule

 

Thursday, 15. 5. 2025

 

16:00 – Studying Populism through Cultural Inquiry, hybrid public debate, https://meet.google.com/azs-sqfi-juc

Finn Smyth, University St Andrews

Petr Gibas, Masaryk University

Martin Šorm, Czech Academy of Sciences

moderation Ondřej Daniel, Charles University

17:30 – Tracing the Memory of Protests Against International Monetary Fund and World Bank Meeting in September 2000 in Prague, memory walk (offered by Centre for the Study of Popular Culture; Ondřej Daniel, Tomáš Kavka, Jiří Andrs).

Leaving from Eternia venue

19:00 – Concert: MDC + Barackca, Klub 007 Strahov. More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1549344595711462

 

Friday, May 16, 2025

 

9:00 – Registration

9:30 – 10:00 – Opening of the conference (Miroslav Michela, Ondřej Daniel, Karolína Válová)

10:00 – 11:30

Stan Erraught – ‘Emerging from the Darkness?’: Punk, New Wave and Modernity in Ireland 1977-1983

Sangheon Lee – Kino´s Post-Punk Aesthetics and the Transition of Soviet Rock

Martina Vuksan – Towards the End of Socialism: 1980s Slovenian Punk’s Role in Developing a Vocal Civil Society

11:30 – 12:00 – Coffee break

12:00 – 13:30

Liutauras Kraniauskas – No Fun? Bring on the Nubiles! So What? Cracking Hegemony of Resistance in Historical Punk Discourse

Viktória Taskovics – “It’s like the 80s have never ended” – Nostalgia and Continuity of the Eastern European Identity in Hungarian Punk

Ondřej Daniel – Czech Punk: From Rebellion to Heritage

13:30 – 14:30 – Lunch break

14:30 – 16:00

Pavla Jonssonová – Culture Wars in the 1990s. Rebirth of Czech Feminism and Female Punk

Marie Arleth Skov – Punk Feminism and Body Politics in the underground culture of the late GDR era

Jennifer Ramme – Navigating gender regimes – women* in punk in changing systems and scenes

16:00 – 16:30 – Coffee break

16:30 – 18:00

Marta Haiduchok – Anarchist nationalists: punk political thought at “Chervona Ruta” festival in 1989 Ukraine

Miklós Mitrovis – Punk in the Hungarian public sphere on the eve of the regime change in Hungary

Martin Tharp – Dying to Recreate Themselves in Caricature, or Management of Spoiled Identity? Czech Punk Semiotics and Social Space before and after 1989

18:10 – 19:00 – Exhibition opening + book launching with Stanislav Grežďo and Miroslav Michela

19:00 – 23:00 – Concert at Subzero Club in Eternia: Chorobopop, Zuby nehty, Lidské zdroje, Marcel and Davová psychóza

23:00 – 24:00 Punk DJs Music Selection

 

Saturday, May 17, 2025

 

9:00 – 10:30

Padraig Parkhurst – Between official and unofficial: Polit-Punk band Die Skeptiker on the threshold in Wende-era East Germany

Matthew Worley – Punk, Post-Punk and Thatcherism

Adam Rubczak – Beware of these places: themes of decay, destruction and self-destruction in the Polish punk and post-punk aesthetics of the late socialist period

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30

Xawery Stańczyk – When did the long 1980s end? Instances of politicization and depoliticization of punk and alternative public in socialist and post-socialist Poland

István Sántha – Everyday life of Anarchist Punks in Budapest in the 1990s

Pavel Šuška – Riots in Town: Violence, Insecurity and Postsocialist Geographies of Racism

12:30 – 14:00 – Lunch break

14:00 – 15:00

Sławomir Kuźnicki – “I Am My Father’s Son?” The Criticism of Angry Masculinity in Idles’ Lyrics

Brigitta Davidjants – From Rebellion to Reflection: Estonian Punk in the Transition from Soviet to Post-Soviet Society

15:00 – 15:30 – Coffee break

15:30 – 17:00

Slađana Josipović Batorek /Tatiana Ileš – Freedom, rebellion, boredom: punk in Tito’s Yugoslavia

Vladimir Zherebov / Martina Napolitano – Siberian Punk: Egor Letov’s Music as “Peripheral” Counterculture in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia

Jānis Daugavietis – Is it easy to be the last generation of Soviet punks?

17:00 – 17:30 – Technical break

17:30 – 19:00 – Roundtable with Luk Haas, Martin Valášek, Tamás Rupaszov (Radim Kopáč)

19:00 – 19:30 – Technical break

19:30 – 20:30 Discussion on preparation of the documentary film Garáže (Garages) with the author Tomáš Bulánek

20:30 – 22:00 DJs Punk Music Selection

 

Sunday, May 18, 2025

 

9:00 – 10:30

Jonáš Jánsky – Transformation according to Podzemák: Politics of Nitra’s underground

Aušra Kairaitytė-Užupė – Mapping Cultural Trends: Kaunas Punk Fanzine “KNK” in the Early Nineties

Mateusz Flont – QQRYQ”(1985-1993) – an outline of history and an attempt to characterize punk zine

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:30 – 13:00

Aldis Gedutis – The Last Chapter of A Clockwork Orange: The Sex Pistols in Her Majesty’s Court

Huseyin Serbes – Istanbul Underground Praxis: A Subcultural Evolution Amid Political Shifts

Rebecca Carr – Problematising Punk Hair in Spike Lee’s Summer of Sam

13:00 – 14:30 – Lunch break

14:30 – 16:30

Alexandra Karamoutsiou – „I don’t understand what’s going on here… but maybe I didn’t try hard enough“: female voices of the DIY music network of Thessaloniki

Marianna Lucarini – Punk as retro: a reflection on memory, legitimacy, and subcultural capital

Selin Yagci – No More Generations Left to Take Over the Streets? A Brief Overview of Punk Scenes and Sociability in 2000s Ankara and Madrid

Balázs Apor – “Inherited Reflexes”: Communist Legacies and the Revival of Punk in Viktor Orbán’s Hungary

16:30 – 17:00 – Farewell, take home messages, AOB