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Event Details
- Date: Friday, 1 November 2024
- Start time: 16:00 EDT / 15:00 CDT / 13:00 PDT / 21:00 CET / 7:00 AEDT (2 Nov) (World Time Converter)
- End time: 17:00 EDT / 16:00 CDT / 14:00 PDT / 22:00 CET / 8:00 AEDT (2 Nov)
- Online Zoom event
About the Event
Carol Lilly (University of Nebraska–Kearney) discusses burials, gravestones, and cemeteries in the former Yugoslavia, from the post-World War II period to the present, answering the questions:
- What did cemeteries look like in a socialist but also multireligious and multiethnic society like Yugoslavia?
- How did the socialist system change burial cultures and cemeteries in the region?
- What happened to cemeteries when the communist regime and Yugoslavia fell apart?
Presentation topics will include:
- Partisan cemeteries
- Civilian burials and graves under socialism
- Grave desecrations during the wars of Yugoslavia’s dissolution
- Gravestones in capitalism
Carol Lilly is a professor of history at University of Nebraska–Kearney. She is the author of Power and Persuasion: Ideology and Rhetoric in Communist Yugoslavia, 1944-1953 (2000) and most recently, Death and Burial in Socialist Yugoslavia: The Politicization of Cemeteries and Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans* (2024). She is a Yugoblok member.
Giveaway
* A copy of Lilly’s Death and Burial in Socialist Yugoslavia will be given away to one randomly selected event guest.
Pre-Event Media
- “Cemetery Desecration: Carol Lilly Uncovers Significance, Symbolism of Yugoslavian Gravestones,” UNK News, November 7, 2014
- “Better Grave: Cemeteries in the Former Yugoslavia” – Episode #95 of the Remembering Yugoslavia podcast
