University of Dubrovnik

in cooperation with the Croatian Academy of Science and Arts & Linnaeus University, Sweden

International Scientific Conference

30 years since the attack on Dubrovnik: Political, communicational and cultural aspects of the city under siege

October 1 -2, 2021, Dubrovnik, Croatia

Call for papers

Scientific conference titled “30 years since the attack on Dubrovnik: Political, communicational and cultural aspects of the city under siege” will be held on October 1-2, 2021 at the University of Dubrovnik.

Thirty years after the attacks on Dubrovnik University, Dubrovnik, in cooperation with the Croatian Academy of Science and Arts & Linnaeus University, Sweden, we are organizing an interdisciplinary conference. The scope of the conference is interdisciplinary and contributions from different disciplines are welcome. A special focus of the conference will be given to analysis and comparisons with other cities that were under siege (Vukovar, Sarajevo, Srebrenica…) during the wars in the former Yugoslavia (1991-1999), but comparisons with other conflicts are also welcome.

Proposals may include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

• Understanding the context: the dissolution of Yugoslavia
• War reporting practices from the Dubrovnik area;
• Media analysis on the subject of war in Dubrovnik, Croatia and the ex-Yugoslav area from 1988 to 1995;
• Media and their role in international relations, with a special mention of the recognition of the new states (Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina);
• Strategic communication during wartime (media war);
• Journalists during the war, humanizing the war, journalistic identification with casualties of war;
• Journalistic sources in wartime;
• War propaganda, media control and manipulation;
• Cities under siege – comparative analysis
• Framing the war and collective memory – commemorations, narratives and the confronting of interpretations
• Remembering the war – museums and monuments
• Cultural heritage under the siege

Selected conference papers will be published in the special issue of the journal Collegium Antropologicum (Scopus).

Deadlines:

Conference participation application (title of the presentation and summary) – until August 1, 2021 to e-mail: dmd@unidu.hr

Presentation approval within two weeks of application.

Article delivery (3.000-6.000 words, summary and 6 key words, Harvard System of Referencing) – until November 20, 2021.

Please note: In light of the inability to predict the development of the Covid-19 pandemic, it is very likely that the conference will be conducted as a hybrid event.