Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict: Unwanted Memories
2023-12-05
– 2023-12-05
09:30
– 11:00
- ONLINE
- English
We kindly invite you to a seminar with Orli Fridman (Singidunum University) on "Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict: Unwanted Memories" moderated by Joanna Wawrzyniak.
The seminar will take place online, 5 December at 9:30am CET.
Abstract:
In her talk Orli Fridman will feature her book Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict: Unwanted Memories published with Amsterdam University Press (2022). The book investigates the study of memory activism and memory of activism, emerging after conflict, as a political civic action. It examines the appearance and growth of memory activism in Serbia amid the legacies of unwanted memories of the wars of the 1990s, approaching the post-Yugoslav region as a region of memory and tracing the alternative calendars and alternative commemorative practices of memory activists as they have evolved over a period of more than two decades. By presenting in-depth accounts of memory activism practices, on-site and online, the book analyses this evolution in the context of generational belonging and introduces frameworks for the study of #hashtag #memoryactivism, alternative commemorations and commemorative solidarity.
In her talk Orli Fridman will feature her book Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict: Unwanted Memories published with Amsterdam University Press (2022). The book investigates the study of memory activism and memory of activism, emerging after conflict, as a political civic action. It examines the appearance and growth of memory activism in Serbia amid the legacies of unwanted memories of the wars of the 1990s, approaching the post-Yugoslav region as a region of memory and tracing the alternative calendars and alternative commemorative practices of memory activists as they have evolved over a period of more than two decades. By presenting in-depth accounts of memory activism practices, on-site and online, the book analyses this evolution in the context of generational belonging and introduces frameworks for the study of #hashtag #memoryactivism, alternative commemorations and commemorative solidarity.
Bio:
Orli Fridman is an associate professor at the Belgrade based Faculty of Media and Communications (FMK). She also is the academic director of the School for International Training (SIT) learning center in Belgrade, Serbia.
Orli Fridman is an associate professor at the Belgrade based Faculty of Media and Communications (FMK). She also is the academic director of the School for International Training (SIT) learning center in Belgrade, Serbia.
Her interdisciplinary research focuses on critical peace and conflict studies, memory politics and memory activism. In the past 2 decades she has been studying processes of conflict transformation in the post-Yugoslav space, and memory activism that has emerged from the study of anti-war activism during the wars of the 1990s in Serbia. She also has published extensively about Kosovo-Serbia relations, from the perspective of everyday peace and peace formation from below.
Her new co-edited book (with Sarah Gensburger) will be with Palgrave by the end of this year and is titled The Covid-19 Pandemic and Memory. Remembrance, commemoration, and archiving in crisis.
Among her current new research projects is a comparative study of alternative commemorative events, which includes new empirical evidence from The Israeli-Palestinian joint Memorial Day Ceremony.
