Wednesday May 5, 10.00-11.30 AM EST

CHAIR

Mila Dragojević

(U of the South, US)

PAPERS

Jelena Đureinović

(U of Vienna, Austria)

Marching the Victorious March:

Populism and Memory Appropriation of the Yugoslav Partisans in Today’s Serbia

Gruia Bădescu

(U of Konstanz, Germany)

Materialities of Bitterness:

Ruins, Reconstructions and Narratives of Victory and Defeat

Sven Milekić

(Maynooth U, Ireland)

The Myth of a Good King:

Franjo Tuđman and King Aleksandar in Veterans’ Eyes

Ana Ljubojević

(U of Graz, Austria)

Contested Narratives of Bleiburg in the Context of World War II
Remembrance in Croatia

DISCUSSANT

Nikolina Židek

(U of Madrid, Spain)

Balkans