[Commlist] CFP - 30 years since the attack on Dubrovnik: Political, communicational and cultural aspects of the city under siege

*Call for papers*

Scientific conference titled “*30 years since the attack on Dubrovnik: 
Political, communicational and cultural aspects of the city under 
siege*” will be held on *October 1-2, 2021* at the University of Dubrovnik.

Thirty years after the attacks on Dubrovnik, the University of Dubrovnik 
in cooperation with the Croatian Academy of Science and Arts and 
Linnaeus University, Sweden, are organizing an interdisciplinary 
conference on political, communicational and cultural aspects of the 
city under siege. A special focus of the conference will be given to 
analysis and comparisons with other cities that were under siege 
(Vukovar, Sarajevo, Srebrenica...) during the wars in the former 
Yugoslavia (1991-1999), but comparisons with other conflicts are also 
welcome.

Proposals may include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

● Understanding the context: the dissolution of Yugoslavia
● War reporting practices from the Dubrovnik area;
● Media analysis on the subject of war in Dubrovnik, Croatia and the 
ex-Yugoslav area from 1988 to 1995;
● Media and their role in international relations, with a special 
mention of the recognition of the new states (Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia 
& Herzegovina);
● Strategic communication during wartime (media war);
● Journalists during the war, humanizing the war, journalistic 
identification with casualties of war;
● Journalistic sources in wartime;
● War propaganda, media control and manipulation;
● Cities under siege - comparative analysis
● Framing the war and collective memory - commemorations, narratives and 
the confronting of interpretations
● Remembering the war - museums and monuments
● Cultural heritage under the siege

Selected conference papers will be published in the special issue of the 
journal *Collegium Antropologicum* (Scopus).
https://www.collantropol.hr/antropo <https://www.collantropol.hr/antropo>.

Deadlines:

Conference participation application (title of the presentation and 
summary) – until August 15, 2021 to e-mail: (dmd /at/ unidu.hr) 
<mailto:(dmd /at/ unidu.hr)>
Presentation approval within two weeks of application.
Article delivery (3.000-6.000 words, summary and 6 key words, Harvard 
System of Referencing) – until November 20, 2021.

Please note: In light of the inability to predict the development of the 
Covid-19 pandemic, it is very likely that the conference will be 
conducted as a hybrid event.

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