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ized in Belgrade, Banja Luka, Berlin, Mostar, Rijeka, Sabac, while four of them have resulted in publications (booklets): [1] Our Newest Hysteria (October 2010, SpaPort, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina). This workshop set the task to compare how the last 50 years have been described in textbooks issued in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosnian Federation and Republic of Srpska), Croatia and Serbia during the 1990s and the new millennium. [2] Migrations and Expulsions (October 2011, Raumshiff Yugoslavia, NGBK, Berlin). This issue compared how the facts about migrated populations driven out by the Yugoslav Wars have been presented in the textbooks of all post-Yugoslav states, as well as German ones. [3] Joint Histories from Serbian and Albanian textbooks in Kosovo (April 2011, CZKD, Belgrade). [4] False Truths (November 2011, 52nd October Salon, Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade). Through translations and comparative analyses of Albanian and Serbian textbooks describing events in Kosovo, this workshop set 100
as its goal to detect and compare two mutually ignored realities existing in two neighboring states. This intention is also reflected in the title of the issue Istina / E verteta (meaning ‘truth’ in Serbian and Albanian). [5] Beginning of WWII in Yugoslavia: April War, the Upheaval and May Uprisings (December 2012, Cultures of Remembrance, City Library, Sabac, Serbia). This one-day workshop with secondary schoolchildren had the task to compare and discuss how the interpretation of events around the start of the WWII in Yugoslavia changed after the 1990s. [6] Historia/Povijest (May 2013, OKC Abrasevic, Mostar, BiH). In a divided city such as Mostar, with a divided school system and institutions, this workshop set an ambitious goal to rethink new positions, beyond the current nationalist pattern, from where history could be perceived. [7] Socialism Then and Never (October 2013, SIZ, Rijeka). Through analysis of pre- and post-Yugoslav textbooks this workshop aimed to examine how the representation of the socialist development in former Yugoslavia had been transformed throughout recent historical shifts. Panel 5
Notes 1. D. Stojanović, Ulje na vodi (Oil on the Water), Peščanik, Belgrade, 2010. Serbian historian Dubravka Stojanović in her analysis of current Serbian history textbooks compared revised history curricula with pre-military training guides, due to the prevalence of themes related to wars and conflicts in comparison to periods of peace. 2. Meaning that pupils cannot purchase or inherit already used second-hand books that would come for free or be significantly cheaper on the market. 3. This is not the case with current textbooks in Serbia, due to the contempt of the above mentioned procedures. 4. O. Pupovac, “Arbitrariness of the Signifier? The construction of peoplehood in the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia” in: Craig, Garry (ed.) “Race” and Social Research: five case studies, Working Papers in Social Sciences and Policy, University of Hull, 2004. 5. People are social beings and historically they develop through communities. On what principles those communities are regulated is an issue of political importance. Communities based on national principles,