Yugoslav Memories II: Remembering after Yugoslavia: Archives, Feelings, and Anachronistic Memories

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

The papers in this panel revisit archives related to Yugoslavia's socialist past and reflect on their capacity to simultaneously accommodate and generate feelings and emotions, thus challenging the idea of a fixed and unchangeable relationship between the past, the present and the future. By focusing attention on notions of afterlife, legibility, and anachronism, we aim to shed light on the ways in which feelings keep the past alive in the present, but also on the impossibilities and tensions intrinsic to this (after)life, which stem from the fact that it is asynchronicity and anachronism that keeps the past alive and challenges the linear and teleological idea of time.

Sub Unit

• Anthropology, Cultural Studies

Chair

• Robert Edward Niebuhr, Arizona State U

Papers

• How Material Objects Remember Yugoslavia: An Inventory of Feelings through Things in the Post-Yugoslav Novel - Maša Kolanovic, U of Zagreb (Croatia)

• The Political Value of Anachronism: On Affective Logics of Yugoslavia’s Socialist Architectural Heritage - Ana Miljacki, MIT

• Remembering the Inexplicable: Yugoslav Partisan Doctors and Their Memoirs and Memories - Tanja Petrovic, Scientific Research Centre SAZU (Slovenia)

Discussant

• Nace Zavrl, Harvard U