[Commlist] "Loud Memories, Turbo Folks" Symposium

*Loud Memories, Turbo Folks:*

*Mapping Sound, Image and Remembrance in the Post-Yugoslav Space*

*International Symposium*

September 16 and 17, 2021

Main venue: TR/3, Trg republike 3, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Link for online attendants: tba.

Stream: https://www.facebook.com/mglc.ljubljana 
<https://www.facebook.com/mglc.ljubljana>

How do images, sounds, and memories (re)invent traditions, histories, 
and spaces of political intervention? What are the cultural dynamics and 
the affective charges of the post-Yugoslav condition? How do they travel 
across various media and across the borders of various post-transitional 
peripheries?

Organized by the Center for Cultural and Religious Studies, Faculty of 
Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana (CPKR, FDV (UL)), and the MGLC 
– International Centre of Graphic Arts, this symposium complements the 
34th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts: ISKRA DELTA. Inspired by the 
Biennale’s ambition to re-think the actual and virtual contours of the 
“post-“ condition, /Loud Memories, Turbo Folks/ brings together 
researchers in the domains of cultural, popular-music, and memory 
studies in the post-Yugoslav space (and beyond).

The two-day event at the crossroads of ongoing local and international 
collaborative initiatives is designed as a knowledge exchange and 
discussion platform. It aims to foreground ongoing and highlight some of 
the most resonant recent studies on popular music, visual culture, and 
cultural memory in the post-Yugoslav region, complementing the academic 
program with a film night organized in collaboration with the Ljubljana 
Short Film Festival – FeKK, a graffiti tour, a concert, and a special 
guided tour of the Biennale.

With contributions by Jernej Amon Prodnik, Robert Bobnič, Marija Dumnić 
Vilotijević, Nina Dragičević, Ana Hofman, Mateo Hočuršćak, Jernej 
Kaluža, Slobodan Karamanić, Mojca Kovačič, Maja Lazarova, Natalija 
Majsova, Rajko Muršič, Jessica Ortner, Vjeran Pavlaković, Aljoša Pužar, 
Svanibor Pettan, Boris Ružić, Maria Sokolova, Peter Stanković, Muanis 
Sinanović, Tea Sindbæk Andersen, Boris Stepanov, Ksenija Šabec, Jasmina 
Šepetavc, Anamarija Šiša, Eric Ušić, Mitja Velikonja, Fedja Wierød Borčak.

*Registration*: https://forms.gle/ZuHdVaKmyLojWmxn7 
<https://forms.gle/ZuHdVaKmyLojWmxn7>(registration is possible till 
September 13, 2021 if you want to attend on-site, and till September 15, 
2021 if you want to attend online, and is mandatory for the panels and 
round table, but not for the cultural program (film night, graffiti 
tour, concert)).

Until September 13, 2021, you can also register for the guided tour of 
the 34th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts: ISKRA DELTA, via this link: 
https://forms.gle/zmJvDXQy5sKrpmCq9 <https://forms.gle/zmJvDXQy5sKrpmCq9>.

The event will be held in accordance with the NIJZ (National Institute 
for Public Health) recommendations for the prevention of the spread of 
Covid-19 virus (PCT certificate).

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*Program*

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/Day 1, September 16 /

9:30–10:00 Introduction: Peter Stanković and Nevenka Šivavec

10:00–11:00 Keynote speech: Ana Hofman, “Sound, Affect, Memory: 
Re-listening of the Past”

Discussion Moderator: Peter Stanković

11:15–12:45 Panel 1: Popular Music, Affect, Media

Nina Dragičević,**“/The final ace is on its way / Death to fascism, and 
goodbye”: /Antifascist Poetic Text as an Emancipatory Sonic Event”**

Robert Bobnič, “Cultural History and Media Archaeology of Diatonic 
Accordion”*//*

Svanibor Pettan, “Longue Durée Research of the Affective Aspects of 
Romani Musicianship in Kosovo:

An Autoethnographic Look Back”

Mojca Kovačič, “Creating Music Atmosphere through Strategic Performances 
of Slovenian Balkan Brass Bands”

Panel Chair: Jernej Kaluža

14:00–15:30 Panel 2: Genre (and) Politics

Peter Stanković, “Symbolic Imaginary of Contemporary Slovenian Folk Pop”

Jasmina Šepetavc, “Pure Women and Mischievous Men: Gender Imaginary in 
Slovenian Folk Pop Music”

Slobodan Karamanić, “Balkan High, Balkan Low: Pop Music Production 
between Hybridity and Class Struggle”

Jernej Kaluža, “Slovenian Folk-Pop Music and Balkan Turbofolk: Two 
Variations of the Same or Something Completely Different?”

Panel Chair: Robert Bobnič

16:00–17:30 Panel 3: Popular Music and Space

Marija Dumnić Vilotijević, “Musical Characteristics of 
/Folk/ in Turbofolk, Popfolk and Trapfolk in Serbia”

Maja Lazarova, “Theatricality as a Musico-Poetic Form of Expression in 
Contemporary Macedonian Music”

Rajko Muršič, “Grassroots Music Venues, Ten Years After: Popular Music 
Venues Resisting Capital, State, and Apathy”

Ksenija Šabec, “Between Home and the World: (Banal) Nationalism and the 
Absence of Difference in Slovenian Folk Pop Music”

Panel Chair: Jasmina Šepetavc

18:00–19:00 Guided Tour of the 34th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts: 
ISKRA DELTA

21:00–22:30 Post-Yugoslav Short Film Night organized in collaboration 
with the FeKK Ljubljana Short Film Festival, Q Cultural Centre – Club 
Tiffany, Metelkova

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/Day 2, September 17/

9:45–11:15 Panel 4: Mnemonic Migration and Media

Fedja Wierød Borčak and Tea Sindbæk Andersen, “Reading Bosnian War 
Memories in Northwestern Europe and Bosnia”

Jessica Ortner, “Narrative Modes of Communicating Bosnian War Memories – 
Saša Stanišić’ /How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone/”

Natalija Majsova and Jasmina Šepetavc, “Constructing Post-Yugoslav 
Identities in Contemporary Slovenian Film”

Boris Ružić, “Unmediated Migrant Memories: A Case for Countervisual 
Practices on the Balkan Route”

Panel Chair: Peter Stanković

11:45–13:15 Panel 5: Memories, Affects, and Identities

Jernej Kaluža and Jernej Amon Prodnik, “Memory of Media Use in Socialist 
Yugoslavia: Analysis of Interviews Performed by Students of Journalism”

Maria Sokolova, “Post-Socialist Sentimental Inventories: Shuffling 
Memories, Decluttering Nostalgias”

Martin Pogačar, “E/Affect Agropop: Future, Memory, Ethnostalgia” **

Tanja Petrović, “Madness of the Revolution”

Panel Chair: Aljoša Pužar

14:30–16:00 Panel 6: Digital Identities in Eastern Europe

Muanis Sinanović, “The Islamist Pepe”

Mateo Hočuršćak, “I am Yugoslomeme”

Anamarija Šiša, “Feminism and Women’s Digital Identities in the 
Post-Yugoslav Space”

Boris Stepanov, “Soviet Sci-FiCinema Fans and the History of Runet”

Panel Chair: Natalija Majsova

16:30–18:00 Round Table: (Op)positional Visual Cultures

Mitja Velikonja, “Post-Socialist Political Graffiti in the Balkans and 
Central Europe” (Book Presentation)

Eric Ušić, “Graffiti, Landscape and Memory: The Case of (Post)WW2 
Pro-Yugoslav Graffiti in Istria”

Vjeran Pavlaković, “Graffitied Memoryscapes: The Muralization of 
Hooligans and the Homeland War”

Round Table Moderator: Helena Konda

18:00–18:20 Closing Remarks: Aljoša Pužar

18:30–21:00 When the Walls Speak Up: A Graffiti Safari around Ljubljana 
guided by Mitja Velikonja and Monika Kropej

21:00 Concert and Closing Party: SsmKOSK and DJ crew Kafe sa Šlagom, in 
collaboration with KUD Podtalnica, Odprto/Opencycle, Klub Gromka, Metelkova.

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