Dissidents as figures of truth (since the 1970s)

0547989 - MÚA 2022 RIV eng U - Conference, Workshop Arrangement
Cain, F. - Hüchtker, D. - Kleeberg, B. - Reichenbach, K. - Surman, Jan
Dissidents as figures of truth (since the 1970s).
[online, 14.06.2021-16.06.2021, (W-WRD 18/16)]
Institutional support: RVO:67985921
Keywords : Socialism * dissidents
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

What do Andrei Sakharov, Noam Chomsky, Protestant Nonconformists separating from the Church of England in the 17th and 18th centuries, and today’s mask opponents have in common? They all have at times been called, and identified themselves as, dissidents. Though, we almost intuitively associate dissidents with Soviet intellectual nonconformists, and those from other countries of the Eastern Bloc. At our conference, we want to look more closely at how the figure of the “dissident” became constructed and solidified across the Iron Curtain and after the fall of the Soviet Union. We will focus on practices, techniques, and media settings which (co)produce the dissident as a (mostly male) “truth figure”, which includes practices of staging oneself, and ways of embodying the (epistemic) values and virtues associated with this figure.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0324125