13 - Partisan Struggles of the Past, Present, Future

In this episode, Iva Jelušić and Gal Kirn talk about the Yugoslav People’s Liberation Struggle. Discussing the Partisan art created during the war, especially on the territory of Slovenia, they consider how wartime art production supported the resistance to fascism and complemented it as well as what its values are relevant today and how it could remain relevant in the future.

Gal Kirn holds a PhD in Intercultural Studies of Ideas from the University of Nova Gorica (Slovenia). He is currently a research associate at the Faculty of Philosophy in Ljubljana (Slovenia) where he is researching “Protests, artistic practices and the culture of remembrance in the post-Yugoslav context” as well as participates in the work of the program group about the social contract in the 21st century. In his research, Gal has mostly been dealing with the context of socialist and post-socialist Slovenia and was especially interested in changes in the field of art, politics, and memory.

Iva Jelušić is a post-doctoral researcher for the “War and Fun: Reconceptualizing Warfare and Its Experience” project at the Christian Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway.

Link to the t-shirt Gal mentions during the conversation: https://etrgovina.ujp.gov.si/muzejnzssplet/sl-SI/Product/Product?id=rQnw8z4O9xzV2x7DxZi6LA--