1st International Postgraduate Conference,ZRC SAZU and the University of Nova Gorica Ljubljana, November 27–29, 2008
Prešernova dvorana SAZU, Novi trg 4
Conference Programme
Thursday, 27.11.2008
Registration (17.00-17.30)
Conference Opens
Panel 1 — Migrations and Borders (17.30–19.45)
Erin Smith: “Remittances: An Indicator of the Transforming of Rural Albanian Family Power Hierarchies? Abroad and at Home”
Urška Strle: “Illegal Crossings through the Prism of Oral Testimonies: the Case of Yugoslavian Western Border Region after the World War II”
Yucel Karadas: “Orientalism and Embodiment of the ‘New Borders’ in the Balkans After Dissolution of Ottoman Empire”
Martha Jiménez-Rosano and Giovanni Melillo: “Shaping your home in my mind.” Explanation of a photographic discourse in an anthropological research”
Coffee break (19.45–20.15)
Evening programme
Film (20.15):
Katja Krajnc, Barbara Turk, Saša Starec in Urša Valič: Kamniti grafiti ali o težavah s Titom / Stone Graffiti or Troubles with Tito
Friday, 28.11.2008
Panel 2 — Discourses and Memories I, Chair: Michael John(9.00–11.00)
Kirsti Joesalu: “Different Ways of Remembering the Soviet Past: the Example of Speeches of Estonian Presidents?”
Wolfgang Reder: “Transformations of an Island? Austrian Memories in the Age of the European Integration”
Ljiljana Radonić : “From revisionism to European standards? – The Croatian case”
Vesna Merc: “Archaeology, Identity and Display: Metamorphosis of Heritage”
Coffee break (11.00–11.30)
Panel 3 — Discourses and Memories II, Chair: Tanja Petrović(11.30–13.00)
Chiara Bonfiglioli: “In 1978 We were in Europe”: The International Feminist Conference “Comrade Woman: The Woman’s Question – A New Approach?” as a Site of Cultural Memory Challenging Current Geographical Imaginations
Martin Pogačar: “(New) Media, Memory and Remembering the Yugoslav Past”
Jelena Vasilijević: “Making Sense and Identity: The Role of Memory in Media Representations of Serbo-Croatian Conflict”
Lunch break (13.00–15.00)
Guest lecture (15.00–16.00)
Stef Jansen: “After the Red Passport: Entrapment and the Visa Queue Outside ‘Borderless’ Europe”
Panel 4 — Monuments (16.30–18.00)
Urša Valič and Špela Paternoster: “The Tower on Cerje: “Monument be the Lighthouse of Our National Consciousness and Defender of Our Ethnic Space’”
Katja Škrlj: “Commemorating Caporetto / Forgetting Kobarid. Strategies of Commemoration in Fascist Italy”
Saale Haale: “Visual Expansion or Visual Restitution at the Example of Estonian Monuments”
Marieke Rodenburg: “Diversity in Journalism Practice and Filmmaking: Representation and Confrontation”
Steven Parham: “On Conducting an Anthropology of Frontiers in a Chinese-Central Asian Borderland”
Rebeca Salois: “Welcome to Beijing: A Study in Crossing Theoretical Borders”
Coffee break (10.30–11.00)
Guest Lecture (11.00–12.00)
Tanja Petrović: “Remembering Yugoslav People’s Army: Masculinity, Memory and Photography”
Panel 6 — Urban Spaces I (12.00–13.00)
Francesco Mazzucchelli: “Memory on the Stocks. Urban Transformations and Auto-representation Strategies in the Cities of Ex-Yugoslavia. A Comparison between Belgrade, Sarajevo, Mostar and Dubrovnik”
Armanda Kodra Hysa: “The Čaršijas of the Balkans – Spaces between History and Anthropology”
Lunch break (13.00–15.00)
Panel 7 — Urban Spaces II (15.00–16.30)
Diego Rogosa: “Imagining Urban Spaces: the Bologna’s Case of ‘Piazza Verdi’”
Maša Mikola:“Behind the Iron Fence: (Dis)placing Otherness, Initiating Silences”
Hanspeter Reihling: “Men on the Move: Sexual Politics in a Virally Divided City”
