Project Diary 15.03 – 20.03. 2012

Two members of our project team Nataša Tepavčević and Vedrana Madžar participaded at Zagreb spring school:

 "SHARING BEST PRACTICES IN REMEMBERING THE HOLOCAUST AND WAR CRIMES"

March 15 - 20, 2012, Zagreb, Croatia

 

Thursday, 15 March

 15:00 - 16:00 Arrival and registration

16:00 - 18:00 Opening session

Welcome and introduction of all participants

 

Friday, 16 March

 Taking Stock: Remembering the Second World War and the Holocaust

in the Western Balkans

 09:00 - 09:45 Official Opening

- - Tamara Banjeglav, Project Coordinator, Documenta

- - Stephan Felsberg, Executive Director, Institute for Applied History

09:45 - 11:00 Key note panel followed by discussion:

Remembering all victims: creating space for acknowledgment of suffering and confronting lack of political will to educate about the holocaust and mass crimes in Croatia

Moderator: Hrvoje Klasić, Department of History, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb

- - Vesna Teršelič, Director, Documenta - Centre for Dealing with the Past

- - Vjeran Pavlaković, Department of Cultural Studies, University of Rijeka

- - Slavko Goldstein, publicist

11:15 - 13:00 Key note panel followed by discussion:

Analyzing Contemporary Museum Practices in the Region - Problems and Perspectives

Introduction and moderation: Vjeran Pavlaković, Department of Cultural Studies, University of Rijeka

- - Katarina Živanović, Museum of Yugoslavia's History, Belgrade, Serbia

- - Maja Kučan, Memorial Centre of the Camp Jasenovac, Croatia

- - Enes Milak, Museum of the Second AVNOJ, Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina

14:30 - 15:30 Presentation and discussion of civic projects in the region

Moderater: Juliane Tomann

 Exhibitions

- - Nataša Mataušić, Croatian Historical Museum, El Shat Exhibition

- - Sabina Sabolović, Vojin Bakić, Collective Who? How? For Whom?

 Study Visits

- - Tamara Banjeglav, Documenta, Study Visits to Sites of Memory from the period 1941-1945

15:45 - 17:00 Continuation of Presentations and discussion of civic projects in the region

Moderater: Jacqueline Nießer

 Art interventions

- - Igor Grubić, 366 Liberation Rituals

 Oral history projects

- - Tanja Petrović, Documenta, Personal Memories of the Second World War and Imprisonment in Croatia

 

Saturday, 17 March

European Memory of World War Second and the Holocaust

09:00- 11:00 Key note panel followed by discussion:

The Holocaust as Reference Point for European Memory

Moderator: Filip Škiljan, Institute for Migrations and Nationalities, Zagreb

- - Alicja Bialecka, Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, Poland

- - Philipp Sukstorf, Stiftung Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas,

Berlin

- - Nicolas Moll, Centre Andre Malaraux, Paris/Sarajevo

11:30 - 13:00 Presentations followed by discussion

What to Do with (Forgotten) Authentic Sites of Memory?

Moderator: Renata Jambrešić-Kirin, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore

Research, Zagreb

- - Karmen Španjol Bićanić, Initiative Committee for the opening of Kampor Camp Memorial, Rab, Croatia

- - Rena Raedle, Reserach on the Site of the Nazi Concentration Camp 'Staro Sajmište', Belgrade

- - Drago Roksandić, Initiative for remembering victims of Glina tragedy

- - Ratko Maričić, President of the Association of Anti-fascists of Croatia, Initiative for Reconstruction of the most important Antifascist Monuments

- - Stephan Felsberg, "Makom Tov", Initiative for remembering the Jewish Cemetery in Slubice, Poland

14:30 - 17:00 Parallel working groups - Part 1

Key questions to be addressed: How to deal with challenges in developing the culture of memory? How to communicate with governmental institutions? How to overcome the lack of political will?

 Preservation and Erection of Memorials/Museums to Victims of Fascism at Authentic Locations

 Challenge of linking informal education programs with teaching about the Holocaust and mass crimes in schools

 Dealing with obstacles to (re)creating antifascist resistance collections

 Building partnerships - Museums with holocaust remembrance collections working in cooperation with artists and human rights organizations

 

Sunday, 18 March

Exploring Croatian Memory Culture on the Spot

 

10:00 Guided tour to the Memorial Site Donja Gradina

11:30 - 14:00 Guided visit of the Museum and Memorial Site Jasenovac

 

Monday, 19 March

De-constructing Memory and Constructing Joint Regional Approaches

09:30 - 11:00 Critical evaluation of the study visit

Moderators: Jacqueline Nießer, Juliane Tomann

11:30 - 13:00 Parallel working groups - Part 2

Key questions to be addressed: How to shape the culture of

memory work in different countries? How to link ongoing projects? How to strengthen established institutions? How to strengthen the network in order to involve more participants?

14:30 - 16:00 Parallel working groups - Part 3

16:00 - 18:00 Presentations of conclusions from working groups and concluding discussion