MEMORY CULTURE IN FLUX: FROM POST-YUGOSLAVIA TO CONCEPTUAL PROBLEMS

SYMPOSIUM PROGRAME:

MEMORY CULTURE IN FLUX: FROM POST-YUGOSLAVIA TO CONCEPTUAL PROBLEMS /
SPOMINSKA KULTURA V GIBANJU: OD POSTJUGOSLAVIJE DO KONCEPTUALNIH PROBLEMOV

DAY 1: POST-YUGOSLAV CULTURES OF MEMORY / Postjugoslovanske kulture spomina
Hall of Geographic Museum (ZRC SAZU, Gosposka 13) 15. 9. 2022

10:00 – 10:15 Introduction by Gal Kirn, Ana Hofman, Ksenija Vidmar Horvat (leader of research program Social Contract in 21st Century, Faculty of Arts)

10:15 – 11:45 Chair: Cecilia Sjöholm, Södertörn University

Understanding the break up of Yugoslavia through the prism of the »primitive accumulation of memory«
Gal Kirn, Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana

»Micro Antifascism«: Post-Yugoslav Activist Memory Practices, Ana Hofman, Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

12:15 – 13:45 Chair: Martin Pogacar, Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

From the Obliteration of Remembrance to the Muralization of War: Transformations of Post-YU Cultures of Memory
Vjeran Pavlakovic, University of Rijeka

A Problem with (Yugo)nostalgia
Tanja Petrovic, Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences & Arts

15:30 – 17:00
Chair: Katja Kobolt, Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Worker politics beyond nostalgia
Andrew Gilbert, University of Bremen and Larisa Kurtović, University of Ottawa

Local film festivals, Balkan film, and collective memory in the post-Yugoslav space
Jasmina Šepetavc and Natalija Majsova, Faculty of Social Sciences, Ljubljana

DAY 2: WORKSHOP: CONCEPTUAL PROBLEMS / Delavnica: konceptualni problemi
Faculty of arts, Modra soba (FF)16. 9. 2022

14:00 – 14:15 Introduction by Gal Kirn and Cecilia Sjöholm

14:15 – 15:35 Chair: Rebecka Katz Thor, Södertörn University

Impossible Memory
Mladen Dolar, Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana

Conscience
Cecilia Sjöholm, Södertörn University

15:50 – 17:10 Chair: Ana Hofman, Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Beyond Reconciliation
Gal Kirn, Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana

Repair
Rebecka Katz Thor, Södertörn University
17.20-18.00 Chair: Gal Kirn, Faculty of Arts

Exhaustion
Ana Hofman, Research Centre ofSlovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

First day (15. 9. 2022) of Symposium will be also accessible by Zoom.
Register in advance:
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DAY 1
ORGANISERS: Gal Kirn and Ana Hofman
ORGANISING PARTNERS: The Faculty of Arts, Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in cooperation with Södertörn
University
FUNDED BY: Slovenian Research Agency and Foundation for Baltic and
East European Studies - research projects:
»Protest, art practices & culture of memory in the (post)Yugoslav context« (ARRS J6-3144)
»Distrusting Monuments. Art & War in the Former Yugoslavia« (21-PR2-0015)
DAY 2
ORGANISERS & ORGANISING PARTNERS: Ana Hofman, Gal Kirn, Cecilia Sjöholm and Rebecka Katz Thor