Projektdetails
Hochschule
Pädagogische Hochschule Kärnten
Sprache
Projektleitung gesamt
Hrobat Virloget, Katja; Dr.
Projektleitung intern
Wutti, Daniel; HS-Prof. MMag. Dr. MSc
Interne Projektmitarbeiter/innen
Externe Projektmitarbeiter/innen
Bandelj, Karin;
Kreft, Jure;
Tamer, Alex;
Čok, Štefan;
Švara, Manca;
Kreft, Jure;
Tamer, Alex;
Čok, Štefan;
Švara, Manca;
Kooperationspartner
Laufzeit
2025 – 2027
Beschreibung
The project’s aim is to work on borderland remembrance, reconnection, restoring and healing of
communities with conflicting and traumatic memories along the former Iron Curtain. The recent past in
these multi-ethnic Slovenian-Italian and Slovenian-Austrian borderlands has been burdened by totalitarian
and authoritarian regimes, such as fascism, Nazism, World War II crimes, and inter-ethnic conflicts. The
memories have been politically abused and today compete in their victimhood strategy, where a memory
of one group is used to immunize against its neighbor preventing mutual comprehension and empathy.
While some victimhood memories are exposed, others are silenced and ignored, especially the ones of
the crimes against humanity, such as Nazism and fascism. As the Communication No Place for Hate
claims, indifference or ignorance presents a threat to the people facing discrimination and it can be even
more hurting than the crimes themselves. A need has been identified to foster intercultural, inter-ethnic,
and international dialogue which encourages the construction of a shared European memory based on
responsibility, self-criticism, emphatic view of the “other”, where groups no longer compete to be the
greatest victim. The memories of the silenced groups which have been neglected in the dominant national
memories, will be given voice by upgrading them in a historical, anthropological, educational, and
psychotherapeutic professional frame. The young and wider public of the different ethnic and migrant
groups along the borderland will be educated to construct responsible shared memories based on mutual
respect and European values of “living United in diversity” (No Place for Hate Communication). The aim
will be achieved through a documentary film on silenced borderland memories, workshops with film
screenings, four conferences based on anthropology, history, psychotherapy, and education, public
discussion with testimonies, and a concert by one of the silenced groups.
communities with conflicting and traumatic memories along the former Iron Curtain. The recent past in
these multi-ethnic Slovenian-Italian and Slovenian-Austrian borderlands has been burdened by totalitarian
and authoritarian regimes, such as fascism, Nazism, World War II crimes, and inter-ethnic conflicts. The
memories have been politically abused and today compete in their victimhood strategy, where a memory
of one group is used to immunize against its neighbor preventing mutual comprehension and empathy.
While some victimhood memories are exposed, others are silenced and ignored, especially the ones of
the crimes against humanity, such as Nazism and fascism. As the Communication No Place for Hate
claims, indifference or ignorance presents a threat to the people facing discrimination and it can be even
more hurting than the crimes themselves. A need has been identified to foster intercultural, inter-ethnic,
and international dialogue which encourages the construction of a shared European memory based on
responsibility, self-criticism, emphatic view of the “other”, where groups no longer compete to be the
greatest victim. The memories of the silenced groups which have been neglected in the dominant national
memories, will be given voice by upgrading them in a historical, anthropological, educational, and
psychotherapeutic professional frame. The young and wider public of the different ethnic and migrant
groups along the borderland will be educated to construct responsible shared memories based on mutual
respect and European values of “living United in diversity” (No Place for Hate Communication). The aim
will be achieved through a documentary film on silenced borderland memories, workshops with film
screenings, four conferences based on anthropology, history, psychotherapy, and education, public
discussion with testimonies, and a concert by one of the silenced groups.
Beschreibung (engl.)
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