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Online-seminar Cultures in war mode 8: The power of memes
From 4-6 pm, Monday, May 22 the 8th online seminar from the series "Cultures in war mode": Humour in the conditions of the war.
Guillem Castañar (University of Helsinki), Anastasiya Fiadotava (Estonian Literary Museum/Jagiellonian University) and Liisi Laineste (Estonian Literary Museum) will give a talk "The power of memes".
Memes offer responsive acute commentary on societal matters. They provide non-violent and democratic spaces of discussion for conflicts. The paper studies memes on the war in Ukraine that spread in Eastern (Russia, Estonia, Belarus) and Western Europe (Spain).
We analyse who are the main actors/characters that personify the war in the memes in these countries, how these characters are represented in memes, and what are the global and local aspects of their portrayal. We show the connections between the degree of a country’s emotional engagement in, and geographical proximity to, the conflict and the humorous memes revolving around this conflict that circulate in the country.
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Contacts: mare@folklore.ee
sergei.troitskii@folklore.ee
Supported by the project EKM 8-2/20/3 Estonian Literary Museum.
