Time is (not) on my side: Remembering victims of slow violence in a post-conflict and post-disaster setting
Principal Investigator at ZRC SAZU
Tamara Banjeglav, PhDProject Team
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Duration
1 March 2024–28 February 2026 -
Financial Source
European Union
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.
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”