In the month when we celebrate the 80th anniversary of victory over fascism, much of the world is turning more to the right, with the normalization of right-wing radicalization, as well as ongoing wars and humanitarian crises. Monuments in public spaces are a sedimented memory of the long process of revisionism of our antifascist legacy.

It is in this context that we invite you to join the workshop Monument List led by Fokus Grupa, made in the framework of the Monument List – Writing/Erasing: Monument Politics in Post-Socialist Times project initiated by Gal Kirn and Fokus Grupa in 2025.

Monument List is an initiative that aims to document monuments which rehabilitate or celebrate local collaborationists, pro-fascist ideologies and figures, and ultra-nationalist narratives. The project critically examines how public monuments contribute to the rewriting of history and the normalization of revisionist perspectives. By mapping and analyzing these monuments, Monument List seeks to raise awareness about the ongoing processes of historical revisionism in public spaces, and to encourage public dialogue about memory, heritage, and antifascism.

Participants in the workshop will have the opportunity to critically examine case studies from the monumentlist.eu website, but more importantly, to bring their own examples that they believe should be added to the list of revisionist monuments. We encourage you to bring monuments that you have a personal relationship with, that intertwine with your family history, that you find politically dubious, or that you consider particularly controversial. The workshop will provide time and space to discuss these cases, explore them further, and situate them within the broader history of revisionist monuments.

By bringing the many revisionist cases to the fore, the workshop’s aim is to add to the existing monuments listed on the website, as well as to celebrate our common antifascist past and to invigorate an antifascist future.

All attendees are required to:

• Bring one or more cases of what they consider should be classified as a revisionist monument, which can be as simple as the name of the monument and a sentence describing it. Please consult the monumentlist.eu website to see which monuments are already listed.
• Bring a laptop, tablet or smartphone so that you can access the internet during the workshop.

To attend the workshop, contact recepcija.MSUM@mg-lj.si.

The workshop will be held in Slovenian and Croatian, with a possibility of translate to English if necessary.

The workshop is limited to nine participants.