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Deafening Silences: Intercommunal Violence and the Challenge of Telling Human and Inhuman Histories

Dr. Max Bergholz | Deafening Silences: Intercommunal Violence and the Challenge of Telling Human and Inhuman Histories lecture and discussion Max Bergholz’s first book, Violence as a Generative Force: Identity, Nationalism, and Memory in a Balkan Community (Cornell University Press, 2016), investigates the causes and dynamics of violence during 1941 in a multi-ethnic community that straddles the present-day border between Bosnia and Croatia, and their effects on local identities and social relations. He is currently researching and writing a book entitled Deafening Silences: Intercommunal Violence and the Challenge of Telling Human and Inhuman Histories, which investigates how three distinct governments and their local supporters in the Croatian town of Glina attempted – between 1945 and the present day – to confront the memory of that town’s violent past during 1941. Why do silences about intercommunal violence emerge and does their subsequent breaking lead to reconciliation in divided communities? According to Bergholz, the stories of monuments built in northwest Bosnia after World War II, and the radical changes made to them since the war of 1992–95, this local history poses a question of global significance: Can memorials to the violent past ever create a “just memory,” whereby they recall both our humanity and inhumanity, as well as both the humanity and inhumanity of “others” whom we may still see as enemies? About the speakers: Max Bergholz is Associate Professor of History at Concordia University, where he has taught since 2011. He received his PhD in Balkan and East European history at the University of Toronto in 2010. His interests include microhistorical approaches to the history of modern Europe, with a particular focus on the local dynamics of nationalism, intercommunal violence, and historical memory. His fieldwork focuses on Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia, where he researches in central and provincial archives and conducts oral history interviews in small towns and villages. Roma Sendyka is professor at the Jagiellonian University, head of the research team, works at the Department of Anthropology of Literature and Cultural Research at the Jagiellonian University. She is co-founder and head of the Research Centre for Memory Cultures. She specializes in cultural theory, visual culture studies, and memory studies. Her work focuses on “non-sites of memory” and visual approaches to genocide representation.