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Episode 30: Desirable Memories (in BCS)

Over the past decade, there has been a growing interest in how the memory of past crimes informs and shapes state policies and international relations. Social scientists, except...

Memory Cultures in Dialogue

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Memory Cultures in Dialogue is a podcast and blog of the Humanitarian Law Center from Belgrade, Serbia.

The podcast and blog oppose the hegemonic narratives about the breakup of Yugoslavia and the wars that ensued. The facts about the armed conflicts that took place in the territory of former Yugoslavia in the 1990s are subject to constant distortion in the frameworks of dominant and state-sanctioned memory politics. The project strives for promoting a public dialogue about politics and cultures of memory and coming to terms with the past. The podcast and blog inform, point out to the constructed nature of dominant narrative and deconstruct these narratives through diskussions with experts and actors of memory activism from below.

Podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Podcast Addict and Podcasts.rs.

Episode 30: Desirable Memories (in BCS)

Over the past decade, there has been a growing interest in how the memory of past crimes informs and shapes state policies and international relations. Social scientists, except...

Episode 29: Reconciliation through RECOM (in BCS)

The initiative to establish the Regional Commission for Establishing the Facts about War Crimes and Other Serious Human Rights Violations in the former Yugoslavia (RECOM)...

Episode 28: Exiting the 1990s (in BCS)

Public memory of war victims is often dominated by ethnocentric narratives as a national strategy, emphasizing the scale of crimes of Other while marginalizing one’s own....

Episode 27: From Guilt to Responsibility

Germany constitutes a singular case of a society which was forced to reconsider its past twice within 50 years. The guilt of the Nazi Germany and the accountability of the German...

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No Playing Around

By: Saša Ilić   Memory politics concerning the 1990s have for decades now remained unidirectional, invariably based on victimisation, and accompanied by the parallel construction

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