Kaleidoscopic Patterns of Protest

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1.     Publications

Peer reviewed:

• Sulzhytski, I. & Kulhayeva, V. (2024) “Ambassadors of War: Social and Semantic Networks of Belarusian pro-government Telegram channels during the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine.” Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics (Intersections.EEJSP). – paper accepted for publication
• Howanitz, G., Kaltseis, M. & Sulzhytski, I. (2024) “Representations of Eastern Slavic Protest on YouTube between 2020 and 2024: A Metadata Study.” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. – paper currently in preparation, due date 31 May 2024.
• Howanitz, G., Kaltseis, M. (2023). Kaleidoskopische Muster des Protests. Visuelle und textuelle (Selbst-)Repräsentationen osteuropäischer Protestkulturen aus qualitativer und quantitativer Perspektive. DHd 2023, 393–395.
  

2.      Conferences and workshops attended

• Howanitz, G. "Video-Annotation mit GPT-4", 2. KI Tools Treffen, Innsbruck, 16.05.2023.
• Kaltseis, M. “Media representations of protest: symbols and slogans in the Belarusian protest movement (2020)”. 47. Österreichische Linguistiktagung 2023, Graz, 09.12.2023. (Weblink)
• Howanitz, G. & Sulzhytski, I. “Decoding Eastern European Protest: An Image-Semantic Network Approach”. Analyzing protest in the digital age: Challenges and opportunities in combining text and video sources. WZB Berlin, Social Science Center, December 7-8, 2023
• Howanitz, G. “Quantifying Protest Symbols: A Deep Learning Approach”. International Congress on Belarusian Studies, Gdańsk, 22.09.2023 (Online).
• Kaltseis, M. “The aesthetics of protest: The cinematic (self-)representation of the pBelarusian protest movement”. International Congress on Belarusian Studies, Gdańsk, 22.09.2023 (Online).
• Sulzhytski, I. “#Revolution: Semantic network analysis of YouTube hashtags from the 2020 Belarusian protests”. International Congress on Belarusian Studies, Gdańsk, 22.09.2023 (Online).
• Howanitz, G., Kaltseis, M. & Sulzhytski, I. “Kaleidoscopic Patterns of Protest: Qualifying and Quantifying Visual and Textual (Self-)Representations in Eastern European Protest Cultures.”
  DH2023. Collaboration as Opportunity, Graz, 12.07.2023. (Weblink)
• Howanitz, G & Kaltseis, M. “Kaleidoscopic Patterns of Protest: Qualifying and Quantifying Visual and Textual (Self-)Representations in Eastern European Protest Cultures.”
  DHd 2023 - Open Humanities open Culture, Trier and Luxemburg, 16.03.2023.
  

 

3.     Organized workshops

• “Analyzing Eastern European Protest Through Media Lenses: Cultures, Practices, and Symbols.” Panel discussion at the 11^th International Congress of Belarusian Studies, Gdańsk, Poland. 22. 9. 2023. Program
• Internal Workshop "Witnesses to Protest? Films on Protest Movements in Eastern Europe" , 20. 11. 2023. Program

 

4.     Visitors

• Mischa Gabowitsch (Liese Meitner Fellow, University of Vienna); Guest lecture „Menschenmassen und was sie tragen: Beobachtungen aus Osteuropa zur Materialität von Protest- und Gedenksymbolen“, 27.04.2023.
• Chiara Foscolo Foracappa (University of Bologna): October-December 2023. Guest researcher (financed by U of Bologna) who used her stay in Innsbruck to finish her MA thesis on anti-war protests in Russia; Guest lecture “Kreativer Widerstand gegen den Krieg in der Ukraine: Aktuelle Formen der äsopischen Sprache in Russland”; lecture held within the proseminar “Language of Protest” (summer term 2024), 17.04.2024.
  

 

5.     Public dissemination

• Newsroom, University of Innsbruck: „Forschungsprojekt zu politischen Protesten in Osteuropa gestartet“: 
• Proseminar „Sprache des Protests“ by Magdalena Kaltseis, University of Innsbruck (summer term 2024 ).