Example research topics

• Ideology and visuality: artistic propaganda strategies
• Visual and performative propaganda: a separate type of propaganda?
• Memory politics: censorship, editing of the past and cultural amnesia
• Testimony and artistic gesture: art as a form of complicity
• The politics of ritual and spectacle in totalitarian and post-totalitarian societies
• Artists under pressure: self-censorship, emigration, survival
• The image of the enemy and the image of the hero in visual culture
• Means of “visual/performative” propaganda
• Art during war: culture, propaganda, ethics
• The post-Soviet space and the "return" of the ideological in culture
• Art as a tool for shaping and undermining collective memory
• Monuments, memorials and counter-memorials: the struggle for symbolic space
• Memory promotion: visual strategies for perpetuation and forgetting
• The archive as an artistic and political field
• Artistic activism: visual forms of resistance
• Performance art and street interventions as a political statement
• Trauma memory and aesthetics of testimony
• Aestheticizing protest: feminist, environmental, and anti-war movements
• Digital memory and online activism: memes, storytelling, visual campaigns
• Between document and myth: artistic reconstructions of historical events
• Culture as a mediator of ideological narratives of power
• Linguistic strategies for normalizing violence
• Language policy as an instrument of ideological control