New Perspectives on Socialist Yugoslavia: Historiographic and Memory Stakes

Venue: Paris, EHESS, 190-198 avenue de France, 75013, Paris, Salle du conseil A.
Period: 6 - 7  September 2016

Tuesday 6 September
 
9:15-9:30: Welcome of the participants
9:30- 13:00: The Fields, Subjects and Stakes of Current Research on Socialist Yugoslavia

Igor Duda (CKPIS, University Juraj Dobrila, Pula, Croatia)
Everyday Life, Social and Cultural History of Socialist Yugoslavia: State of the Art and Future Directions
 
Goran Musić and Rory Archer (Center for Southeast European Studies, Karl-Franzens-Universität, Graz, Austria)
Between Class and Nation: Working Class Communities in 1980s Serbia and Montenegro
 
Josip Mihaljević (Croatian Institute of History, Zagreb, Croatia)
Labor Issues from Workers Perspective in Socialist Yugoslavia (1958-1971)
 
Nadège Ragaru (CERI-Sciences Po, Paris, France)
Nationalization through Internationalization of the Writing of the Holocaust in Vardar Macedonia
 
Discussion : Roman Krakovsky (CERCEC, Labex Tepsis-EHESS, Paris, France) and Alain Blum (CERCEC-EHESS, Paris, France)
 

14:30- 17:30: Socialist Yugoslavia Viewed from the Outside: International Circulation of the Yugoslav ‘model’? 

Tvrtko Jakovina (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
Exporting the Yugoslav Model /The Far-reaching of Tito’s Foreign Policy
 
Frank Georgi (CHS, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France)
Yugoslav Self-Management Seen from France
 
Vladimir Unkovski Korica (University of Glasgow, Royaume Uni)
Yugoslavia and the British Left in the Cold War
 
Discussion : François-Xavier Nérard (Université de Paris 1) and Jacques Rupnik (CERI-Sciences Po) (sous réserve)
 

Wednesday 7 September
 
9:30-13:00 :  A Research Subject in a Conflictual Memory Space

Dubravka Stojanović (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
Learning Yugoslavia: between Construction of national Identity and critical Thinking
 
Anne Madelain (CERCEC, EHESS, Paris, France)
Tito, Sarajevo, Communism and “New Conflictuality” in French Textbooks and Curricula
 
Mila Turajlić (Sciences Po, Paris/ University of Belgrade, Serbia)
The Cinematic Image - Witness or Agent of History in Post-Yugoslavia?
 
Discussion: Marie-Elizabeth  Ducreux, (CRH-EHESS)
 
12:30- 13:00:  Conclusions  and perspectives

Seen from abroad as a unique experience, or even as a potentially exportable model, socialist Yugoslavia in its time sparked curiosity throughout the world. But research covering the period 1945-1990 has lagged behind and is still in its pioneering stages, in a context where ‘post-socialism’and ‘post-Yugoslav’are intermingled. This situation is attributable to the specific features of the Titoist system, and especially to the violent destruction of the Yugoslav Federation in the 1990s. However, since 2010, research on socialist Yugoslavia has flourished. This workshop, with a strong interdisciplinary and international bent, is intended as the first step in a more ambitious project.

Conception and organisation
Anne Madelain (CERCEC-EHESS)
Frank Georgi (CHS, Panthéon Sorbonne University Paris 1)