Myth (De)Construction: Commemoration of “Heroines“ since 1945

• Which patterns and criteria have led to the valorization of women as heroines of World War II?

• Which role models were and are represented through them?

• How did the public remembrance of heroines change after the break-up of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia? Which heroines were “nationalized”, which ones were forgotten?

4 Working Groups (break in between):

WS 1: Role models on posters, in films and historical monuments: victims, heroines, what else? (English) Group booked out!

WS 2: The image of women and woman role models in museums (English)

WS 3: Yugoslav partisan women - ostracised, honored, forgotten? (English) Group booked out!

WS 4: Women in the Red Army: What remembrance and assesments are dominating? (With simultaneous translation Russian-English)