AESTHETICS OF RESISTANCE: PARTISAN ART AND FEMINIST PARTISAN CULTURAL PRACTICE IN YUGOSLAVIA AND CARINTHIA

PROGRAMM

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: Reading Performance (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna)
Kurs Kollektiv Print Series: Lessons on Defense (KURS, Beograd)
Carla Maruscha Fellenz: PRISUTNI (Film) (Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig)
Dana Rausch: Postcard Series: Jelka (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)
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 (TU Wien, 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)