Bleiburg & Beyond. Transnational Approaches Towards Memory Politics and Commemorative Practices
CSEES
UNI GRAZ
As a first result of the joint research project “Transnational Cultures of Bleiburg Remembrance in Austria and Croatia” granted by the WTZ Program (Science and Technology Cooperation) of the Austrian Exchange Service (ÖAD) the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz and the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Rijeka are organising the workshop “Bleiburg & Beyond. Transnational Approaches Towards Memory Politics and Commemorative Practices”.
When: 13 May 2016
Where: University of Graz, RESOWI building, LS 15.01
Conference Programme
14.00 Introduction by Dario Brentin (University of Graz) & Vjeran Pavlaković (University of Rijeka)
14.15-15.45 State of the Art: Historiography and Recent Research
– Vjeran Pavlaković & Renato Stanković (University of Rijeka) – Researching the Bleiburg Commemoration: Methodologies, Sources, Controversies
– Christian Axboe Nielsen (Aarhus University) – The Surveillance and Infiltration of the Bleiburg Commemorations by the Yugoslav State Security Service
– Davor Pauković (University of Dubrovnik) – Bleiburg in the Context of Memory of Communism in Croatia
15.45-16.00 Coffee Break
16.00-17.45 Commemorative Practices and the Politics of the Past
– Jovana Mihajlović Trbovc (Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts) – Lack of Pliberk/Bleiburg in Slovene Memoryscape
– Ana Ljubojević (University of Zagreb) – Contested Narratives of Bleiburg in the Context of WWII Remembrance in Croatia
– Valentin Sima (University of Klagenfurt) – Does “Bleiburg” Belong to a Carinthian Culture of Memory? An Approach Towards a Blurry Relationship
17.45-18.00 Coffee Break
18.00-19.30 Transnational Approaches to Collective Memory
– Nikolina Židek (IE University, Madrid) – Historical Memory Practices and Links between Croatia, Spain and Argentina
– Tamara Banjeglav (University of Rijeka) – The Bleiburg Commemoration in Croatian Parliamentary Decisions
– Jelena Đureinović (University of Giessen) – Remembering 1944/1945 in Contemporary Serbia: Memory Politics and Discourses on the Victims of Communism
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Usp. Research Project on ‘Transnational Cultures of Bleiburg Remembrance in Austria and Croatia’,
http://historiografija.hr/news.php?id=2611