Workshop

Workshop CFCCS
 

DIGITAL MEMORY PRACTICES IN AND AFTER CONFLICT
WORKSHOP

September 20-21, 2019

Center for Comparative Conflict Studies at the Faculty of Media and Communications
(FMK), Singidunum University
Belgrade, Serbia

Workshop Schedule


FRIDAY, September 20

9:00 Meet and greet: Coffee at the ground floor café at FMK
09:30 - 10:00 Welcome, Workshop opening and introductions
10:00 – 11:00 “'Antifascistas da Resistência': Mnemonic Practices on Social Media”
  Joana Miguel Almeida, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:15 “Transitional Justice and Online/Offline Memory Activism”
  Iavor Rangelov, London School of Economics and Political Science
  Ruti Teitl, New York Law School
12:30 – 13:30 “'Hashtag Memory Activism’: Online Commemorations and Online Memory Activism””
  Orli Fridman, Faculty of Media and Communications & SIT
Lunch Break
15:00 – 16:00 “Listening, looking, acting: archiving resistance against racism and nationalism in the 1990’s, through online audio-visual materials”
  Amanda Egbe, University of Bedfordshire
  Rastko Novaković, independent researcher
16:15 – 17:15 “Holocaust Memory in the era of the ‘Memory of the Multitude'”
  Noam Tirosh, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev


SATURDAY, September 21

9:00 - 10:00 “Digital memory practices and space-time restructuration: past into present for future conflict resolutions”
  Dragana Stojanović, Faculty of Media and Communications
10:15 - 11:15 “Counter Mapping and Memory Activism: The Case of Zochrot's Nakba Maps”
  Orna Vaadia, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30 “The Making of the Museum of Education: Reemergence of Memory of Parallel Education in Kosovo”
  Linda Gusia, University of Prishtina
Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:00 “Digital Memory Analysis of Croatia's War of Independence: Representations of War in Parliamentary Speeches and Iconic Images”
  Vjeran Pavlaković, University of Rijeka
15:30 – 16:00 Workshop closure

Call for Participation and Papers

We are pleased to announce a call for written contributions and an invitation to a two-day workshop at the Belgrade-based Center for Comparative Conflict Studies (CFCCS), at the Faculty of Media and Communications (FMK).

The connective turn in memory studies suggests that contemporary media radically transform the ways in which groups and individuals engage with and experience the past that they consider important, or which is at the heart of on-going contestations. Indeed, new ways to construct, engage with, and consume narratives about the past are being constantly examined and debated within the field. However, less attention is given to recent developments in digital/online memory practices that take place in and after conflict.

In this workshop we aim to bring together a group of scholars to engage with questions related to identifying and analyzing digital mnemonic practices from various perspectives using varied case studies of societies in and after conflict worldwide. We are interested in papers based on empirical research discussing such practices as embraced and used by NGOs working on past contested memories, memory activists engaging with mnemonic battles, state officials, and other actors which can be analyzed in frameworks of peace research or post-conflict transformation.

All papers and discussions will take place in English. In the follow-up of the workshop we will aim for a special issue of a peer-review journal. Details will be specified after the

Proposals for contribution and participation in the workshop are to be submitted by Friday January 18, 2019, to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. In your proposal please include a cover letter indicating your academic affiliation, research interests, recent publications and the abstract (no longer than 300-500 words) of your proposed paper. All applicants will be informed of the decision of acceptance by mid-February, 2019.

Selected contributors will need to send their written paper by Friday August 30, 2019 to be circulated among workshop participants, to deliver a first draft of the proposed paper on September 20-21, 2019 during the workshop in Belgrade, to discuss all contributions and to prepare the final version of their paper after the workshop.


All costs of participation in the workshop are to be covered by the participants.

Orli Fridman, Center for Comparative Conflict Studies (CFCCS), Faculty of Media and Communications (FMK) & School for International Training (SIT), Belgrade, Serbia

Noam Tirosh, Department of Communication Studies, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel


 

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