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.
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