Indira Anna Hajnács, M.A.
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About
Indira Hajnács studied German and Romance languages at ELTE in Budapest (BA) from 2016 to 2019. From 2019 to 2022, she pursued a Master’s degree at the Humboldt University of Berlin in the programme »Cultures and Literatures of Central and Eastern Europe« with a focus on Russian language, Russian literature and Central European Studies. Her master's project dealt with the Hungarian dance-house movement. From 2019 to 2022, Hajnács was a research assistant at the Institute of Hungarian Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin and from 2021 to 2023, a project manager at the science management organisation Falling Walls Foundation.
Indira Hajnács has been a researcher in the department »Culture and Imagination« within the Leibniz Association funded collaborative project »Adaptation and Radicalization. Dynamics of Popular Culture(s) in Eastern Europe before the War« since July 2023.
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Work focus
- Instrumentalization of folk culture in Hungary
- Aesthetics, history and social relevance of the Hungarian dance-house movement
- Reception and metamorphoses of Hungarian folk music
- Ethnosemiotics