Beyond Hegemonic Narratives and Myths Charles University PRIMUS Project
November 11, 2020
Book
This book illuminates the interconnections between politics and religion through the lens of artistic production, exploring how art inspired by religion functioned as a form of resistance, directed against both Romanian national communism (1960-1989) and, latterly, consumerist society and its global market. Link here.
October 29, 2020
Article
The paper lifts the curtain on the cross-fertilization of political resistance and theatre performance in three post-socialist countries by focusing on how theatre can function as sites of resistance to right-wing populism from a cross-cultural perspective. It argues that theatre performance can function as a critical platform that engages strategies from popular culture to reveal the voices of those who are silenced by populist institutions and actors. Link here.
October 28, 2020
Book Chapter
The volume brings together a diverse group of scholars from North America and Europe to explore the history and memory of Germany’s fateful push for power in the Balkans during the era of the two world wars and the long postwar period. Jiri and Katerina's chapter looks into German collective guilt in the narratives of Southeastern European Holocaust survivors. Link here.
September 1, 2020
Article
Ths which explores contemporary artistic production in Austria fostering "Roma will to memory" and rendering the traditional approach to Roma as “people without memory and history” inaccurate. Instead, Maria's article shows that the silencing of traumatic testimonies is a result of the lack of infrastructure, the bureaucracy of the archives, and the strategic forgetting politics. Link here.
August 31, 2020
Article
The article argues that the incentives that led a majority of Sarajevan Serbs to leave the city and its surroundings in 1996 were the result of actions not only of the Serb leadership but also of Bosniak leaders and the international community. He also demonstrates that once a partition is accepted at a higher level, it is almost impossible to prevent its emergence on a local level. Link here.
August 28, 2020
Article
This article strives to answer the question as to what extent the first and heavily contested post-war 2013 census in Bosnia and Herzegovina became a hostage to the principle of ethno-politics. Link here.
April 28, 2020
Article
This article examines the identity of Greek child refugees in Czechoslovakia has been published in the Journal of Modern Greek Studies. Link here.
February 3, 2020
Article
The article examines the agenda of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) in relation to the memory of the Holocaust in post-Milošević Serbia. It focuses on the Jasenovac Committee of the SOC and the role of its head, Bishop Jovan (Ćulibrk), in the memorialization of Staro Sajmište, a distinguished place of the Holocaust in occupied Serbia. Link here.
January 6, 2020
Article
This article examines the case of Historijski muzej Bosne i Hercegovine in Sarajevo to explore the entanglements of a history museum and an artistic performativity that provides sensory engagement and a reliving of past moments. Link here.
November 20, 2019
Book
This anthology brings together eight chapters which examine the life of Jews in Southeast Europe through political, social and cultural lenses. Even though the Holocaust put an end to many communities in the region, this book chronicles how some Holocaust survivors nevertheless tried to restore their previous lives. Link here.
November 10, 2019
Article
This article deals with the nationalist tensions in the Bosnia-Herzegovina during the period of the socialist Yugoslavia existence. Link here.
Jun 6, 2019
Article
This article discusses The Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church (2016). By analysing official documents of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) and the statements of Serbian hierarchs, it assesses the role of ethnophyletism and primacy in the SOC’s positioning regarding the Council. Link here.
Apr 29, 2019
Article
This article addresses cultural (artistic) memory’s ability to address past and present injustices by focusing on the artistic-political practices displayed by the professional actresses of Roma descent from the independent theater the Giuvlipen in Bucharest (Romania). Link here.
Jan 29, 2019
Article
This article deals with the political tendencies in the contemporary Bosnia-Herzegovina, still organized accroding to the Dayton agrrement. Link here.
Jan 10, 2019
Article
This paper addresses the role of artistic memory in processes of redressing political violence and historical injustices. Combining philosophical reflection, insights from memory studies and examples of artistic practices, it focuses on how memory and imagination coalesce in problematising mass violence against women and resisting its ‘official’ oblivion. Link here.
Jan 7, 2019
Article
The article explores the means and ends to which textiles are employed by contemporary Romanian artists in their intermedial practices. She claims that tapestry, rugs, and other textiles associated in the past with undervalued housework or folk art have been reinvested in artistic practices after 1989 with political, critical, and mnemonic meanings. Link here.
Jan 7, 2019
Article
Article authored by Maria entitled “Beyond Blood Ana Honey: Re-Imagining the Balkans Through Travelling Exhibitions” on re-imagining the Balkans through travelling exhibitions going 'beyond hegemonic narratives and myths' depicting the Balkans as a region of everlasting conflicts and binary oppositions. Link here.
Nov 3, 2018
Article
Article authored by Jacob Maze entitled “Towards an Analytic of Violence: Foucault, Arendt & Power” deals with looking at various forms of political violence by turning to the theories of Michel Foucault and Hannah Arendt was published in Foucalut studies. Link here.
Nov 2, 2018
Special Issue
A newly published anthology edited by BOHEMs principal investigator Kateřina Králová. Besides editing, Kateřina also contributed with the "Introduction– diverse perspectives on Jewish life in Southeast Europe: the Holocaust and beyond" and Chapter 6 "‘Being traitors’: post-war Greece in the experience of Jewish partisans." Link here.
Oct 8, 2018
Chapter in Book
Hana Kubátová contributed with a chapter to the volume entitled "Lessons and Legacies XIII: New Approaches to an Integrated History of the Holocaust: Social History, Representation, Theory", edited by Alexandra Garbarini and Paul B. Jaskot. Link here.
Sep 26, 2018
Book
Kateřina Králová's chapter on the postwar Holocaust legacy in Greece, published as part of the anthology entitled The Holocaust in Greece by the Cambridge University Press. Link here.
Sep 24, 2018
Book
Maria Alina Asavei's book Aesthetics, Disinterestedness, and Effectiveness in Political Art published by Lexington Books. Link here.
Aug 2, 2018
Article
Tereza Juhászová's article "The Troubled Pasts of Hungarian and German Minorities in Slovakia and Their Representation in Museums" in the Journal of Nationalism, Memory & Language Politics. Link here
Jul 25, 2018
Article
Hana Kubatova and Michal Kubát's article "Were There ‘Bystanders’ in Topol'čany? On Concept Formation and the ‘Ladder of Abstraction’" in Contemporary European History journal published by the Cambridge University Press. Link here
Feb 17, 2018
Article
An article co-authored by Jiří Kocián about sociological usage of the Visual History Archive in the Naše společnost journal. Link here
Feb 15, 2018
Book
A book co-authored by Hana Kubátová together with Jan Láníček. Leiden: Brill, 2018. Link here
Jan 11, 2018
Conference Proceedings
An article written by Ondřej Žíla, based on her conference paper for Studia Balkanica Bohemo-Slovaca volume VII. Link here
Jan 11, 2018
Conference Proceedings
An article written by Karin Hofmeisterová, based on her conference paper for Studia Balkanica Bohemo-Slovaca volume VII. Link here
Dec 2, 2017
Article
A report by Jiří Kocián about the CENTRAL Project and PRIMUS BOHEMS team activities in the Slovanský přehled journal. Link here
Dec 2, 2017
Article
Article by Karin Hofmeisterová "Koncept 'symfonie církve a státu' v srbském prostředí a jeho vliv na utváření postoje Srbské pravoslavné církve k jugoslávské krizi" in the Slovanský přehled journal. Link here
Nov 27, 2017
Article
Article by Maria-Alina Asavei "Laughing for the State The Amateur Rural Comedy Brigades in the Vaslui County of Communist Romania in the 1970s and 1980s" in the Studia politica journal. Link here
Nov 19, 2017
Article
Article by Maria-Alina Asavei "'Call the witness': Romani Holocaust related art in Austria and Marika Schmiedt’s will to memory" in the prestigous Memory Studies journal. Link here
Aug 03, 2017
Article
Article co-authored by Maria Alina Asavei and Jiří Kocián entitled "Gendered Histories/Memories of Labour in (Post-) Communist Romania and Former Czechoslovakia Illuminated through Artistic Production" in the Analize - Journal of Gender and Feminist Studies. Link here
Jul 27, 2017
Article
Barbora Knappová's article "Problematické budování identity v Muzeu Republiky srbské v Banja Luce" [Problematic Identity Building in the Museum of Republika Srpska in Banja Luka] in the Porta Balcanica journal, vol. 8, no. 2, 2016.
Jul 06, 2017
Article
Maria Alina Asavei's article "Art and Religious Revitalization Movements in (Post)Communist Romania: The Zidarus’ ‘Case’" in the Politics, Religion & Ideology journal. Link here
Jun 01, 2017
Article
Nikola Karasová's article "Řecká pravoslavná církev a její interpretace řecké ekonomické krize" [The Orthodox Church of Greece and its Interpretation of the Greek Economic Crisis] in the Studia Teritorialia journal, Download for free
May 08, 2017
Article
Kateřina Králová's introduction to a special issue "Diverse perspectives on Jewish life in Southeast Europe: the Holocaust and beyond" of the Southeast European and Black Sea Studies impact journal, that she also co-edited. Download for free
May 05, 2017
Article
Kateřina Králová's article "‘Being traitors’: post-war Greece in the experience of Jewish partisans" in the Southeast European and Black Sea Studies impact journal. Link here
May 05, 2017
Article
Hana Kubátová's introduction to a special issue "Jews and Gentiles in Central and Eastern Europe during the Holocaust in history and memory" of the Holocaust Studies impact journal (Vol. 23), co-authored with Jan Láníček. Download for free
May 05, 2017
Article
Kateřina Králová's article in a special issue "Jews and Gentiles in Central and Eastern Europe during the Holocaust in history and memory" of the Holocaust Studies impact journal (Vol. 23). Download for free
Feb 05, 2017
Book
Together with Michal Kubát and Martin Mesjtřík, Jiří Kocián co-edited a book entitled Populismus v časech krize [Populism in the Times of Crisis]. Praha: Karolinum, 2017. Link here
Feb 05, 2017
Book chapter
Jiří Kocián's chapter about Romania in Populismus v časech krize [Populism in the Times of Crisis]. Praha: Karolinum, 2017. Link here
Feb 05, 2017
Book chapter
Nikola Karasová's chapter about Greece in Populismus v časech krize [Populism in the Times of Crisis]. Praha: Karolinum, 2017. Link here
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