10 Mar In defense of history – a panel discussion

Friday, February 12th 2021 at 7pm
Novinarski dom, 2 Perkovčeva street, Zagreb
The number of seats is limited to 25, reservations are mandatory via the email office@krokodil.rs
The event will be broadcast via our YouTube channel and Facebook page at @KrokodilEngagingWords
Participants: Ida Prester, Miljenko Jergović, Dana Budisavljević and Goran Vojnović.
Host: Tvrtko Jakovina.

After the successful final conference of the “Who started it? Historians against revisionism” project, held in June of last year, which announced the Declaration “Defend history”, we are continuing the discussion on historical revisionism in the territory of former Yugoslavia and the abuse of history for political purposes.
On Friday, March 12th 2021 at 7pm, in the Grand hall of Novinarski dom in Zagreb, Ida Prester, Miljenko Jergović, Dana Budisavljević and Goran Vojnović will talk about the Declaration “Defend history”, as well as the relationship we need to nurture with the past on a regional level. The discussion will be moderated by historian Tvrtko Jakovina, while prominent regional historians Dubravka Stojanović, Magdalena Najbar-Agičić, Husnija Kamberović, Damir Agičić and others, will join in on the conversation from the audience. During this event, as well as in the campaign that follows , we want to hear the voices of those who are not only historians, from all regions of ex-Yugoslavia, and in that name we are inviting as many people as we can to sign the “Defend history” declaration.
After the “Languages and Nationalisms” project, which discussed complex problems of reality that exists within four political languages in our region, and after its grand finale – The Declaration of the Common Language, on which 30 linguistics and other experts worked, and which was signed by about ten thousand people from the region of the Western Balkans, the KROKODIL Association has been working on the project entitled “Who started it? Historians against revisionism” since 2018. During this two year long project, we organized two big conferences in Belgrade and Novi Sad, two-week residential programs for historians from this regions, seminars for teachers and history professors in Subotica, Novi Pazar, Leskovac and Belgrade, as well as three summer schools for students coming from the territory of former Yugoslavia.
The “Who started it? Historians against revisionism” project, gathered some of the most prominent historians from the region with the goal of actively fighting against revisionist tendencies in national historiographies, for one possible common multi perspective historical science.
The event is supported by the Ministry of foreign affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany. Forum ZFD is the executive partner of the event
You can read and sign the Declaration here.