Cristina Beretta (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt/Celovec, Institut für Slawistik), Elena Messner (Universität Wien, Institut für Slawistik) and Markus Gönitzer (Forum Stadtpark and Muzej/Museum Peršman) organize a conference that addresses and questions current artistic and scientific positions on partisan art through the lens of gender and gender-theories. The focus lies on art and culture both of the partisan movement and about the partisan movement in Yugoslavia and Carinthia.

The question that guides this conference is: how – in addition to politically and socially rooted themes such as the struggle for liberation, the question of class, the socialist revolution, and the victory over Nazism – can we pinpoint aesthetics of the “partisan” that conveys specific revolutionary and emancipatory narratives, and how can this aesthetic be (re)interpreted through a gender-focused gaze?

The conference aims to generate scientific knowledge that encompasses cultural-theoretical, historical-scientific and art-analytical positions, that explores the formats of the partisan aesthetic.

 

Programm/Program

 

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26TH, 2023 (EVENING)

Venue: WerkStattMuseum (Schütte-Lihotzky-House)

 

7.00 – 8.30 pm _ Evening Get-Together: Uncovering Partisan Pasts and Presents (Performance and Exhibition)                        

            Chair: Markus Gönitzer, Peršman Museum, Forum Stadtpark

Nataša Mackuljak: Antifascist Spirits (Performance) (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna)

Kurs Kollektiv Print Series: Lessons on Defense (Exhibition) (KURS, Beograd)

Carla Maruscha Fellenz: PRISUTNI (Film) (Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig)

Dana Rausch: Postcard Series: Jelka (Exhibition) (Artist, Vienna/Linz)

8.30 pm _ Dinner

 

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27TH, 2023 (MORNING, AFTERNOON AND EVENING)

Main Venue: Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Stiftungssaal, Building O (O.0.01)

 

9.00 – 9.15 _ Welcome (Cristina Beretta, Elena Messner, Markus Gönitzer)

 

9.15 – 10.30 am _ Introductory Lectures: Female Resistance

            Chair: Cristina Beretta, Institut für Slawistik, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt/Celovec

Barbara Wiesinger: Gendering Armed Resistance: Women Partisans in the Yugoslav National Liberation Army (Independent historian, Vienna/Austria)

Janine Schemmer: Noi donne antifasciste friulane – Women of the Resistenza and the Battle for Emancipation (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt)

Brigita Malenica: Unsichtbare Seiten des Widerstands: Jüdische Partisaninnen in der transnationalen Erinnerungskultur (Gedenkstätte Bergen-Belsen)

 

10.30 – 11.00 pm _ Break

 

11.00 am – 1.00 pm _ SESSION I: Magazines, Graphic Arts & Journalism

Chair: Jörg-Uwe Nieland, Institut für Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt/Celovec

Barbara Blasin: FOR WOMEN FROM ALL SOCIAL STRATA! Progressive women's antifascist magazines 1934 – 1946 (University of Zagreb)

Tina Bahovec: Postwar Representations of (Carinthian) Slovene women partisans. The examples of Naša žena and Slovenski vestnik (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt)

Zsófia Lóránd: New yugoslav feminism (Institut für Zeitgeschichte, RECET, Universität Wien)

Ana Rajković Pejić: Be like Anka (Centre for Women’s Studies, Zagreb, Croatian Institute of History)

Elena Messner: Publikationsorgane des weiblichen Widerstands im Netz: feministika.ba und www.afzarhiv.org/ (Universität Wien, FWF Elise Richter)

 

1.00 – 2.00 pm _ Lunch Break

 

2.00 – 4.00 pm _ Session II: Theatre, Dance, Singing/Choir & Performance

            Chair: Andreas Hudelist, Institut für Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften, Alpen- Adria-Universität Klagenfurt/Celovec; Institut für Germanistik, Universität Graz

Iva Jelušić: Women, Fun, and Women's Way of Having Fun during the People's Liberation Struggle (ERC Christian Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway)

Ljubinka Škodrić: Between Combat, Party Judgement and Art. The Case of Female Partisan Vera Crvenčanin (Institute for Contemporary history, Belgrade)

Leja Jurišić, Bara Kolenc: Dancing Resistance: Brina – The Partisan Contemporary Dancer  (Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Ana Hofman: Protests, artistic practices and culture of memory in the post-Yugoslav context (Institute of Culture and Memory Studies, Academy of Science, Ljubljana)

 

4.00 – 4.30 pm _ Break

 

4.30 – 6.30 pm _ Session III:  Visual Media, Art & Museum 

            Chair: Anna Schober de Graf, Institut für Kulturanalyse, Abt. Visuelle Kultur, Alpen-  Adria-Universität Klagenfurt/Celovec

Gal Kirn: »Memory is resistance« (University of Ljubljana)

Davor Konjikušić: Unwanted Images (Academy Of Dramatic Arts, University of Zagreb)

Alexandra Zaremba: “The Object is the Alpha and the Omega:” Museum Professionals and the Ideological, Theoretical, and Practical Evolution of Yugoslav Socialist Museums (American University, Washington D.C.)

Douglas McKnight: Reading Landscape: The Southern Carinthian Landscape of Remembrance and the Construction of Counter-Memory (Independent scholar, Graz)

Petz Haselmayer: Videoarbeit: Feminist and Posthuman. Entanglements on Female Resistance and Practices of Care. Artistic research on Remembrance as affirmative speculative Aesthetics in Lobnik/Lobnig, Carinthia

 

7.30 – 9.00 pm _ Performance: The lost Futures of the Carinthian Partsans

Venue: WerkStattMuseum/Schütte-Lihotzky-House, Klagenfurt/Celovec

Markus Gönitzer (Forum Stadtpark Graz; Muzej/Museum Peršman Železna Kapla/Bad Eisenkappel) and Klub slovenskih študentk in študentov na Dunaju (Ana Grilc, Elsa Logar, Isabella Burtscher, David Ressmann, Julija Urban, Simon Urban)

8.30 pm _ Dinner Venue: WerkStattMuseum/Schütte-Lihotzky-House, Klagenfurt/Celovec

 

 

SATURDAY, OKTOBER 28TH, 2023 (MORNING, AFTERNOON)

Venue: Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Stiftungsaal

 

9.00 – 10.30 am _ Session I: Graphic Novels, Film & Iconization

            Chair: Elena Messner, Institut für Slawistik, Universität Wien

            Pavel Pilch: Učiteljice, djevojčice, vampovi – nacrt tipologije ženskih likova u jugoslavenskom partizanskom stripu (Masaryk University, Brno)

Klaudija Sabo: Kriegerin trifft Mutter – das Motiv der weiblichen Figuren in den 1990ern in Kroatien (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt)

Olja Alvir: Bila sam jača. Die Frau im frühen jugoslawischen Partisan*innenfilm (Universität Wien)

Ana Adamović: On singing, salt, and tears (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna; Belgrade)

 

10.30 – 11.00 am _ Break

 

11.00-12.30 am _ Session II:  Literatur I

            Chair: Marija Tepavac, Institut für Slawistik, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt/Celovec

Tijana Matijević: Ratno putovanje Mitre Mitrović: kako smestiti našu borbu u literaturu? (Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju, Beograd)

Tatjana Rosić Ilić, Goran Lazičić: Partisan memory and Yugonostalgia (Singidunum University/Belgrade and University Graz)

Peter Svetina: Ptice in Grm: Text und Bilder lesen und 70 Jahre dazwischen (Institut für Slawistik, Universität Klagenfurt)

Katja Kobolt: Gendering (Yugoslav socialist) artistic production for children (ZRC SAZU - Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana)

 

12.30 am – 2.00 pm _ Lunch Break

 

2.00 – 3.30 pm _ Session III: Literatur II

            Chair: Andrej Leben, Institut für Slawistik, Karl-Franzens Universität Graz

Dubravka Zima: The Legend of the Girl-Freedom: The Imagology of Partisan Girlhood (University of Zagreb)

Zlatan Delić: Literatur & Revolution von Vera Obrenović Delibašić: Frauenemanzipation durch Antifaschismus, Volksbefreiungskampf und -bewegung (Martin-Luther-Universität in Halle-Wittenberg)

Stephan Teichgräber: Die weiblichen Charaktere in der Partisan:innenliteratur (Universität Wien)

Stanislava Barać: Postajanje omladinkom – postajanje partizankom (u pripovetkama Milke Žicine i Nadežde Ilić Tutunović) (Institute for literature and culture, Belgrade / Videovortrag)

 

4.00 – 4.30 pm _ Break

4.30 – 6.00 pm _ Session IV: Monuments & the Arts

            Chair: Klaus Schönberger, Institut für Kulturanalyse, Alpen-Adria-Universität  Klagenfurt/Celovec

            Anna Seidel: Warrior, Guardian Angel, or Sex Symbol: Staging Female Yugoslav Partisans and Warsaw Łączniczki (Humboldt-Universität Berlin)

Jelena Petrović: Yugoslav Hauntology of Women Resistance in post-Yugoslav Art (Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, FWF Elise Richter)

Jakob Holzer: Kämpferin und Pietà. Weibliche Darstellungen bei Partisan:innendenkmälern und der relative Kunstwert in Kärnten/Koroška (Muzej/Museum Peršman Železna Kapla / Bad Eisenkappel)

Lea Furbach: Spomenik – Erinnern an die Zukunft (Universität Kassel)

 

7.00 pm _ Opening of the Exhibition with members of the curatorial team: Žensko ime odpora / The Female Name of Resistance

            Venue: at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt / Celovec, on Campus, Central Building (Z), Space in front of the University Library

Curated by Helena Verdel, Vida Obid, Sissi Rausch, Elisabeth Holzinger and Gerti Malle

 

 

SUNDAY, OKTOBER 29TH, 2023

Museum / Muzej Peršman

  

10.00 am – 2.00 pm _ Excursion to the Museum / Muzej Peršman Exkursion to Muzej in spominski kraj pri Peršmanu / Museum und Gedenkstätte Peršmanhof, Koprivna pod Peco / Koprein-Petzen 3, 9135 Železna Kapla / Bad Eisenkappel

            Guide: Markus Gönitzer, Peršman Museum, Forum Stadtpark

 

Registration requested (markusgoenitzer@gmx.at)

 

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PRESSEBERICHTE

 

 

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