We are open for contributions and recommendations, and are keeping an open call among colleagues and present collaborators for further cooperation possibilities.

The first micro-conference in Zagreb opens with the theme

ACTIVE EUROPEAN REMEMBRANCE: What does it stand for?
Mnemopolitics. Mnemotopias. Mnemopoetics

23-25, April 2010
Venues: Kino Tuškanac, Center for Independent Culture and Youth, Museum for Contemporary Art

In the planning of further formats we are looking forward to open debates on all levels of interdisciplinary approach to subject MEMORY, which includes:

• the question of trans-national didactic approaches in teaching history in common EU cultural space (present in the eg Beutelsbach Consensus and the civic education in Germany); wish to invite Mr Wolfgang Sander, Professor for the Didactics of Civic Education at the Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Sciences at the University of Vienna
• the relations between psychoanalysis and representation, as well the complex issue of trauma and ignorance
• addressing the issue of intergenerational solidarity and questioning social politics of exclusion, while pointing out to empancipatory life quality which has been taken out from silenced and opressed elderly citizens who are mostly addressed when some issues need to be recalled, but without continuous care for that fragile 'body of knowledge' (Pina Bausch)
• welcoming case-studies and scientific papers, as well art works from various fields which are linking memory and history, as well pointing to missing links in Croatian academic and civic education where role of cultural remembrance is being emphasised
• welcoming case-studies and scientific papers which tackle subjects like documentary theatre and theatre of trauma
• welcoming case-studies and scientific papers which deal with film and trauma as well film and remembrance
• emphasising of literary work which tackles the fragile relationship between memory history and its importance for Central-European space, while underlining the effort of SouthEast European writers (especially Daša Drndić)
• including more artists who address the issue of individual freedom of speech and expression (Sanja Iveković, Igor Grubić, Andrea Kulunčić...) an/or collective memory and trauma (Valie Export, Marina Abramović,...)