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Confronting the Past: European Experiences

This edited volume is based on the conference proceedings presented and discussed at the international conference Confronting the Past, held on 23 April 2009 at the European House in Zagreb. This academic conference, organized jointly by the Political Science Research Centre and the Scientific Forum, gathered researchers from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, United Kingdom (Northern Ireland), Portugal, Latvia, Belarus, Macedonia, Austria, and Italy. The conference focused on the various experiences and practices of European states and societies in dealing with troubled pasts and often authoritarian legacies in the course of the 20th century. The idea behind the conference was to portray diverse European perspectives on processes of confrontation with recent history. The papers presented at the conference included a multitude of views and opinions, some of which may be in conflict with each other or provoke controversies in the field of memory studies. The Political Science Research Centre seeks to organize academic events with a strong multidisciplinary character, and this conference brought together political scientists, historians, ethnographers, lawyers, sociologists, and psychologists to discuss the challenges of confronting the past. It was divided in two panels which explored the various facets of collective remembrance and the politicization of historical narratives. The first panel, titled Politics of the Past, dealt with various political processes and practices of confrontation with the legacy of wars, war crimes, mass crimes and authoritarian and totalitarian regimes. The second panel, named Culture of Memory, focused on the modes and manners of remembrance and commemoration of victims of war crimes and crimes and injustices committed by authoritarian and totalitarian regimes.

politics of the past; culture of memory; remembrance; contemporary history; transition

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