INTERDISCIPLINARY CLASSROOM
Politicized memories: the struggle for the territory of collective memory

The TPO Foundation and the Department of B/H/S Language and Literature of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Zenica plan to hold interdisciplinary classrooms in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Croatia in 2016 as part of the PILAR program, which focuses on the affirmation of an interdisciplinary approach in learning methods and research in social and humanistic disciplines in all forms of sociality in the territory of the former Yugoslavia. In this approach, we bring together all existing platforms and initiatives that are interested in joint work for the public good, through the following program topics: politics of memory and building social solidarity, research on trauma in everyday life, cultural production and witnessing trauma.

The first in a series of classrooms was held in Zenica on Friday, April 22, 2016. years. In addition to students studying B/H/S language and literature, undergraduate, master's and doctoral students from Belgrade, Novi Sad, Zagreb, Osijek and Poland also attended the classroom. The Rector of the University of Zenica, prof., wished the lecturers and students a welcome and successful work. Ph.D. Dževad Zečić. The next Interdisciplinary Classroom will be held at the end of June in Zagreb.

The need to re-examine and confront past events, and not only those from the recent past, but also events that happened centuries before, and left their mark on our cultures, is needed today more than ever. This is the time when societies in the area of the former Yugoslavia show less and less tolerance for the other and the different, when our communities turn more and more to revisionism, and ultimately to the extreme right, within which there is no room for a dialogical concept of culture. This means further delaying the process of dealing with the previous war, thereby also satisfying justice, which would instill faith in judicial institutions for all of us, especially the victims of wars. At such a moment, a scientific, interdisciplinary re-examination of all traumas seems necessary so that we can begin the processes of extensive detraumatization, without superficially going over some events, and only counting the victims, and not thinking about the injustice they have lived through all these post-war years, especially because the truth and justice should not have double or triple standards.

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