Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict: Unwanted Memories – A Book Discussion with Orli Fridman

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.

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. Her recent co-edited book (2024) is titled The COVID-19 Pandemic and Memory Remembrance, commemoration, and archiving in crisis.

Discussants: Laura Kromják and Karolina Lendák-Kabók 

Date: 5/March/2024 at 16:00

Venue: ELTE TáTK (1117 Budapest, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/a, 2.139)

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