Borderlands of Memory

Borut Klabjan is Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and Senior Research Fellow at the Science and Research Centre in Koper. He graduated from the University of Trieste and received his PhD from the University of Ljubljana. In 2011 he was Humboldt Fellow at the Institute for South-East Europe at the Humboldt University in Berlin and in 2014 at the Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg. His work addresses themes of political, diplomatic and cultural history, memory, border and minority issues in nineteenth and twentieth century Europe.

CONTENTS: Borut Klabjan: Bordering and Memorializing the Northern Adriatic and Central Europe: Introductory Notes on Borderlands of Memory – Hannes Grandits: Changing Legitimations of State Borders and «Phantom Borders» in the Northern Adriatic Regions – Marta Verginella: Slovene Mapping of Urban Centres in the Austrian Littoral in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries – Borut Klabjan: Habsburg Fantasies: Sites of Memory in Trieste/Trst/Triest from the Fin de Siecle to the Present – Vanni D’Alessio: Divided Legacies, Iconoclasm and Shared Cultures in Contested Rijeka/Fiume – Nancy M. Wingfield: The Sonnenwende: From Traditional German Folk Festival to Radical Right-Wing Mobilizing Ritual along Austria’s Language Frontiers –Pieter M. Judson: «The border took him»: The Ambiguous Peoples of «Der Fremde Heimat» – Matic Batič: «Le Terre Redente si presentano a noi come vecchie terre italiche»: Building italianita in the Provincia di Gorizia between the Two World Wars – Klaus Tragbar/Elmar Kossel: Conquest through Architecture? Italy’s Strategies of Appropriation in Alto Adige and the Trentino after 1920 – Gašper Mithans: Burnt Villages in the Julian March as Memorial Landscapes – Oto Luthar: Memory, Revision, Resistance: Reviving the Partisan Monuments along the Slovenian-Italian Border – Mila Orlić: Italians or «Foreigners»? The Multilayered Memories of Istrian Refugees in Italy – Vida Rožac Darovec: Commemorating Anti-Fascism: Remembering TIGR in the Northern Adriatic Borderland following Slovenian Independence – Katia Pizzi: Trieste, Film and the Cold War: Sites of Memory in the Borderlands.