Memory Cultures in Southeast Europe since 1945 - Buch

On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, the International Academic Week in Tutzing in October 2021 attempted to describe the diverging and often conflicting memory cultures in the Southeast European post-conflict societies today: the canonical and cultural memory concerning World War II and the Holocaust on the one hand and inter-generationally formed communicative memories on the other. The post-Yugoslav debates on memory are conditioned by the renewed experience of ethnic violence, displacement and genocide during the wars of the 1990s. The sixteen contributions in the four panels “Holocaust and Antisemitism”, “Memories of Tito’s Yugoslavia”, “Memory Wars in the National Discourse” and “Writing Memory Culture” use multidisciplinary approaches (archival sources, oral history, fieldwork, popular culture) to highlight the socio-political contexts and medialization of memory production.

Christian Voss is head of the Department for South Slavic Studies at Humboldt University since 2006. He earned his PhD in 1996 on Church Slavonic in the Balkans and his habilitation in 2004 on Slavic minorities in Greece. Sabina Ferhadbegović is a historian and lecturer at the University of Jena. She holds a PhD awarded by Albert Ludwig’s University in Freiburg. In 2022 she finished her habilitation on the prosecution of war crimes in the aftermath of the Second World War in Yugoslavia. Kateřina Králová is associate professor of Contemporary History and Head of the Research Centre for Memory Studies at the Institute of International Studies, Charles University (CUNI). Králová, an alumna of Phillips University Marburg, has been awarded major international fellowships, including from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute, and USHMM, as well as a Fulbright Fellowship at Yale University.