Book presentation & film screening

SHAPING REVOLUTIONARY MEMORY

with Sanja Horvatinčić and Beti Žerovc

    Together with Sanja Horvatinčić and Beti Žerovc, the editors of the book Shaping Revolutionary Memory: The Production of Monuments in Socialist Yugoslavia, 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." 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.

    Am 12.01.2024, 18:30 h

    Venue: FORUM STADTPARK, Graz

    Graz BranchYugoslavia