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Time is (not) on my side: Remembering victims of slow violence in a post-conflict and post-disaster setting (RESLOVI, grant no. 101130805)

Description

The project examines the aftermath of violent events, specifically focusing on memories and experiences of displacement resulting from war and natural disasters. The project’s main research objective is to rethink memory of suffering and violence in a post-conflict and post-disaster setting by raising awareness of violence that is ‘unspectacular’, happening out of sight, and is not publicly remembered or even acknowledged as violence at all. The research aims to redefine how we remember suffering and violence in post-crisis settings, emphasising the concept of ‘slow violence’. The project will investigate slow violence in post-war Croatia, analysing the transformation of the built environment and new displacements. It will introduce the ‘slow memory’ approach to studying how memories of displacement are reframed in recent crises, and examine ‘mnemonic solidarity’ and its political significance in post-disaster and post-conflict contexts.


Results

April 18 – 20, 2024

International conference “Iconographies of the Holocaust. Visual Representations and Migrating Materialities of War and Genocide Since 1945”, Watson Institute, Brown University, Providence, USA

Presentation of the paper “Musealization of the 1990s war and genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina”

April 22, 2024

Department of Politics, University of the South, Sewanee, USA

Invited lecture “Approaches to memorialisation of the violent past: Slow memory in memorial museums”

May 27 – 31, 2024

Faculty of Media and Communications, Belgrade, Serbia

Training school and 3rd annual meeting of the COST Action “Slow Memory. Transformative Practices for Times of Uneven and Accelerating Change”

MSCA project presentation “Remembering victims of slow violence in a post-conflict and post-disaster setting”

September 18 – 21, 2024

Ulster Museum, Belfast, UK

Slow Memory Education Meeting

 

Presentation of educational material “Slow Trails – Slow Memory – Resolution of Conflict”

September 26 – 27, 2024

Institute of Culture and Memory Studies, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia

International conference “The Language of (Perma)Crisis: Discourses and Politics of the 'New Normal'”

Presentation of the paper: “It was the winter of despair”: War narratives, collective memory and the media framing of the 2020 Petrinja earthquake in Croatia 

October 31, 2024

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb

Slow Memory Special Issue Workshop

January 10, 2025
Presentation of the project to students from the Department of Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana
IKSŠ, ZRC SAZU

March 13, 2025

Lecture at the Post-graduate school ZRC SAZU
"Peace Process in Collective Memory of the 1990s War in Croatia"
ZRC SAZU

March 31, 2025
Invited lecture “Commemorating victims in a post-war and post-disaster setting”
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana 


June 23-27, 2025
Summer School in Digital Humanities
University of Zadar, Croatia


Slow Memory capstone conference “Slow Memory and Beyond”
University of Porto, Portugal
July 2 – 4, 2025
Presentation of the paper: "Forget About It: Slow Peace in Collective Memory of the 1990s War in Croatia"

July 14 – 18, 2025
Memory Studies Association annual conference “Beyond Crises”
Charles University, Prague, The Czech Republic

Organisation of the panel “Slow Memory of Slow Violence: Generational Memories, Spatialities and Intersections of Different Forms of Violence” and presentation of the paper “Out of sight and out of mind? Slow memories of marginalization, poverty and neglect in post-disaster Croatia”

July 21 – August 3, 2025
 Research Stay at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS)
Amsterdam, the Netherlands


September 25–27, 2025
 "AFEBalk’s fifth Balkan Studies Meeting Balkan Matters! Material Cultures in the Balkans", MUCEM, Marseille, France
Presentation of the paper “Invisible peace: Absent memory in Croatian memorial museums”

November 20 – 23, 2025
57th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, the Washington Hilton, Washington DC
Presentation of the paper “Give Peace a Chance: Youth Perceptions and Public Memory of Croatia’s Peace Process” and organisation of the panel “Youth perceptions of the 1990s wars, violence and their aftermath in post-war Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina”


March 25 – 26, 2026
“From Harm to Hope: Slow Violence, Collective Memory and Everyday Resistance”, Institute of Culture and Memory Studies, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, Slovenia
presentation of the paper “Aftershocks of Harm: Slow Violence and Delayed Recovery in Post-Earthquake Croatia”

May 21, 2026
Invited lecture “Temporalities of disaster: Prolonged reconstruction and social inequalities after the Patrinja earthquake”, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia

June 4 – 5, 2026
Workshop “Fiction as Memory Work”, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade, Serbia
presentation of the paper “Public memory and younger generations’ knowledge of the past”

June 19 – 22, 2026
The 7th Annual Conference of the International Association for Reconciliation Studies (IARS), University of Nicosia, Cyprus
Online presentation of the paper “Between Battles and Peace Agreements: Youth Understandings of Peace and Reconciliation in Post-War Croatia


Research Project