Media and Memoria in South-Eastern Europe

19. - 22. May 2010
Moderna galerija, Tomšičeva 14

The workshop Media and memoria is the initial meeting of a new international network for South-Eastern studies which intends to intensify the international exchange of scholars and students from different branches - history, political sciences, art history, media studies and literature. Its scientific focus are the diverse transnational and national memory cultures in South-Eastern Europe, their interference and their rivalry. It deals with various phenomena associated with the construction of memory in different media of remembrance. These involve longue durée, breaks and gaps, selection and suppression, traumatic events and the loss of memory, nostalgia, false memory, reactivation, rituals and traces of memory, various cultures of remembering.

→  Conference Program - pdf