Book Talk: Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict. Unwanted Memories

Welcome to the Book Talk with Orli Fridman, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Media and Communications (FMK), Singidunum University, presenting her book “Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict. Unwanted Memories” (Amsterdam University Press, 2022)

Speaker: Dr. Orli Fridman, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Media and Communications (FMK), Singidunum University

Abstract: This 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, Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict: Unwanted Memories analyses this evolution in the context of generational belonging and introduces frameworks for the study of #hashtag #memoryactivism, alternative commemorations and commemorative solidarity.
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Dr. Orli Fridman is an associate professor at the Faculty of Media and Communications (FMK), Singidunum University where she heads the Center for Comparative Conflict Studies (CFCCS). She also is the academic director of the School for International Training (SIT) Learning Center in Serbia. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on critical peace and conflict studies, memory politics and digital memory activism.