Monday, June, 30, 19:30
Eighty years after Yugoslavia, not Europe in general, was liberated from fascism, the question of how to return to its cultural, political and memorial emancipatory legacy presents itself with theoretical and political urgency. How to return to this legacy in a way that goes beyond a defeatist melancholia by tracing and defragmenting emancipatory impulses, solidarities, and victories of the oppressed. What role does partisan, anti-fascist and liberation(ist) research and engagement play today?
Gal Kirn will present some central points from his most recent book on new political and artistic works that tackle the legacy of liberation in the (post)Yugoslav context. He will be joined in the discussion by art theorist Ivana Bago and filmmaker Marta Popivoda, who has also worked theoretically and practically on the utopian and unfinished dimensions of the buried and demonised project called Yugoslavia. The book launch will be moderated by Steve Corcoran and followed by a drinks reception.
The book has been published by Ljubljana University Press and is accessible in open access: https://ebooks.uni-lj.si/ZalozbaUL/catalog/book/734
Gal Kirn is a cultural theorist andsociologist, who published three books on the topic of Yugoslavia, socialismand now partisan memory. He is currently working at European University ofViadrina and University of Ljubljana.
Marta Popivoda, filmmaker, artist, and researcher(Fellow at Berlin Artistic Research Programme/ Berliner Programm KünstlerischeForschung 2024/2025).
Ivana Bago is an independent scholar, curatorand currently a lecturer at UDK Berlin.
Steven Corcoran is the Secretary of Parrhesia:School of Philosophy, Berlin and the editor and translatorof over twenty works of philosophy.
Organized by b_books and Parrhesia School of Philosophy, Berlin