SHAPING REVOLUTIONARY MEMORY: Book presentation and film screening in Graz

Together with Sanja Horvatinčić and Beti Žerovc, the editors of the book Shaping Revolutionary Memory: The Production of Monuments in Socialist Yugoslavia, and Heike Karge, participating author in the book, we will discuss memorials to the Second World War in Yugoslavia, we will talk about practices of memory culture in a socialist country, about architectural competitions and memory "from below", and finally we will reflect on the passing – of memory and of the monuments themselves. The discussion will be accompanied by the short amateur film Zaustavljena Istorija (Suspended History, 1961, Kino Klub Novi Sad, YU), which expands the view to cinematic practices of cultural remembrance. 

More about the book

Sanja Horvatinčić is a Research Associate at the Institute of Art History in Zagreb, Croatia. Her research focuses on the production of monuments and remembrance culture in socialist Yugoslavia, as well as on heritage and memory politics in the post-socialist context.  

Beti Žerovc is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana. Her areas of research are visual art and the art system since the mid-nineteenth century, with a focus on their roles in society.

The co-author Heike Karge is Professor of Southeast European History and Anthropology at the Institute of History at the University of Graz. Her research areas are cultural and social history of Southeast and Eastern Europe, the cultural and social history of medicine and psychiatry, war, violence and memory, transitional justice, legal anthropology, and interdisciplinary trauma research.  

Film Program:
Hanna Stein is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Southeast European History and Anthropology at the University of Graz. In her dissertation, she examines “eigensinnige” (eigensinnig), creative, and pragmatic practices in Yugoslav amateur film of the 1960s and 1970s.   

Moderation:
Christina Sternisa is a university assistant at the Department of Southeast European History and Anthropology at the University of Graz. She writes her dissertation on the topic of places of resistance during the occupation in Athens. 

The event is organized in cooperation with: Forum Stadtpark, the Department of Southeast European History and Anthropology at the University of Graz, and Southeast Europe Association e.V. (SOG)