On June 6-7, 2024, the Faculty of Social Sciences UL (room FDV23) will host the “MEMPOP Loading: Regional Perspectives on Popular Culture, Memory, and Cultural Studies” international workshop. Organized as part of the 30th anniversary of the Department of Cultural Studies, the two-day event offers a platform for popular culture and collective memory researchers from Central and Southeastern Europe to discuss their ongoing research on popular music, film, murals, and video games as mnemonic media embedded into complex configurations of people, technologies, policies, and markets. The workshop is also envisaged as an exchange of experiences, opinions, and practices related to research and education in Cultural Studies in Central and Southeastern Europe, and as an initiative to strengthen and enhance cross-border and regional collaboration.
The public programme of the MEMPOP Loading workshop is as follows:
Thursday, June 6, 2024
14:30-16:00 Music and Collective Memory Project Panel
Diana Grgurić: Evaluating the Memory Potentials of the Entertainment-Music Show ‘A Side’ on Croatian National Television
Jernej Kaluža: The Structure of Mainstream on Slovenian Radio
Robert Bobnič: Yugowave and Yugocore: (Post)nostalgic and (Post)ironic Remediation of Yugoslav Music and Culture
Moderated by Jasmina Šepetavc
16:30-18:00 Keynote Lecture
Irena Šentevska: Singing Belgrade: Urban Identity and the Music Video (Research and Methodology Presentation)
Moderated by Jernej Kaluža
Friday, June 7, 2024
11:30-13:30 Collective Memory, Film, and Visual Culture Project Panel
Vjeran Pavlaković: Mnemonic Murals of the Homeland War
Boris Ružić: Documentary as ‘Anti-Festival’? Aporias and Opportunities
Natalija Majsova and Jasmina Šepetavc: Strategizing Screened Memory from Sarajevo to Ljubljana
Ana Dević and Peter Vermeersch: The Theatrics of National Commemoration versus the Dynamics of Citizen-led Commemorative Practices
Moderated by Robert Bobnič
14:30-16:00 MEMPOP Expanded Panel: Video Games and Memory
Jasmina Šepetavc: Bold Smugglers and DIY Heroes: Collective Memories and Erasures of Yugoslav Gaming Histories
Mirt Komel: The Music of Nier: Song of the Ancients
Felix Schniz: The Collective / Genre / Memory of Video Games
Moderated by Maruška Nardoni
16:15-18:00 Mapping Regional Realities in Cultural Studies Across Central and Southeastern Europe. Round Table with an introduction by Peter Stanković, featuring Milena Dragičević Šešić, Katja Hrobat Virloget, Tanja Petrović, Aljoša Pužar, Boris Ružić, Rainer Winter, René Reinhold Schallegger.
Moderated by Aljoša Pužar and Natalija Majsova
The workshop is organized by the Centre for Cultural and Religious Studies and the Department of Cultural Studies (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana), and is co-funded by the research projects MEMPOP: Mnemonic Aesthetics and Practices in Popular Culture WEAVE research project (ARIS no. J7-50215), Slovenian Folk-Pop Music as Politics: Receptions, Perceptions, and Identities (ARIS no. J6-2582), and TECHNOPST: Remembering the Early Digital Age (ARIS no. N6-0302).
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