Project „The Aggressor“ New interviews in „The Aggressor“ project blog
New interviews in „The Aggressor“ project Blog:
- Prof Dr Thomas Cauvin explains how public history can benefit from agonism, or the positive reevaluation of conflict. Doing public history usually involves many participants with different backgrounds and interpretations of history. Instead of searching for consensus, Prof Cauvin suggests using the multiple-voices approach to demonstrate the complexity of understanding the past. He discusses various formats suitable for practising ‛uncomfortable‘ public history, such as guided tours. Rethinking the methods of generating and disseminating historical knowledge appears ever more pressing in the face of rising authoritarian populism and a lack of trust in science.
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Prof em Nada Boškovska speaks about Ante Pavelić, the leader of the Croatian fascist movement Ustasha, who ruled a Croatian puppet state of Germany and Italy during World War II. Despite his reign of terror against Serbs, Jews, Roma, and Communists, Pavelić has not played a prominent role in the memory of different communities living in post-war Yugoslavia and former Yugoslav countries since the 1990s. Even the Neo-Ustasha have preferred to lionise other historical figures, according to Boškovska. To explain this apparent lack of interest in Pavelić, the historian examines the vicissitudes of Croatian politics of memory over the last 80 years.