{"id":200727,"date":"2013-10-01T12:30:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T10:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nenasilje.org\/?p=200727"},"modified":"2013-10-14T08:14:27","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T07:14:27","slug":"conference-unveiling-personal-memories-on-war-and-other-forms-of-political-violence-since-1941","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.nenasilje.org\/en\/conference-unveiling-personal-memories-on-war-and-other-forms-of-political-violence-since-1941\/","title":{"rendered":"Documenta Conference: &#8220;Unveiling Personal Memories on War and Other Forms of Political Violence Since 1941&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Organised by Documenta &#8212; Centre for Dealing with the Past<\/p>\n<p>26 September 2013, Zagreb, Croatia<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As a guest\/participant, I attended the conference to mark the end of the first phase of the project that collects personal testimonies of political violence from 1941 to the present day into a video database (450 testimonies collected).\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.osobnasjecanja.hr\/\">http:\/\/www.osobnasjecanja.hr\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apart from the Dutch Ambassadress, welcoming remarks were also given by personal representatives of the Croatian president and minister of culture, who were unable to attend.\u00a0 I mention this because it is indicative of the institutional support given to this programme despite the perceived unfavourable climate in Croatia for matters of dealing with the past. I mean to say that things are changing, little by little, the public space is becoming more receptive to voices with a critical attitude towards the past and the culture of memory fostered in Croatia, and especially towards the so-called &#8220;dignity of the homeland war&#8221;, that is, the injustices committed by Croatian forces.<\/p>\n<p>The keynote speeches were followed by four panels on the following topics: the relationship between social and individual memory, the need for personal testimony and possible ways of using recorded oral histories for educational, research, museum and artistic purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Much was said about the importance of personal testimonies, but I would like to point out the following:<\/p>\n<p>Nothing can take the place of human testimony in constructing social memories.<\/p>\n<p>History is not a closed book, there is no one single narrative.<\/p>\n<p>Memories fade, memorials, for the most part, remain.<\/p>\n<p>Personal memories are important as a corrective to social history developed somewhere between scholarly work and the ideological context.<\/p>\n<p>The value of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osobnasjecanja.hr\/\">video database<\/a> of oral histories is in the emotional experience available to the viewer of these personal testimonies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nenad Vukosavljevi\u0107<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organised by Documenta &#8212; 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