It is often that we think and discuss memorial spaces through lightmotives of remembrance and conservation, using narrational forms with references to the past, which certainly is not without function. However, in the times of transformation of historical narration into a content, together with emerging of eclectic audience of postmemory era, communicational models of memorial spaces turn from traditional to contemporary strategies. There are many different responses to this challenge, especialy in the times of massive production of attractive material and digital content, which further leads to ethical questions of memorial representations and narrations. This also brings up the issue of tourism strategies into the academic field of memory studies.

In the case of the Holocaust, this issue is especially prominent and present. The traumatic quality of the Holocaust makes it a specific void, an ultimate loss which is hard to be recreated, materialized or replaced, regardless of the type of media or technology we might be using. It is even harder, and ethically more problematic, to turn it into an „attractive“ object of touristic offer. But is this kind of transposition always and undoubtedly problematic? Is there a way to make touristic content related to the Holocaust more connected to the processes of active and/or participatory learning? And, last but not the least, what about the issues of digital turn within mentioned discoursive and productional areas? This lecture will try to expose different views on contemporary Holocaust narrational problems through the ethics of tourism.

Dragana Stojanović completed her PhD studies of Theory of Art and Media at the Interdisciplinary studies department of University of Arts in Belgrade. Currently she works as an Associate professor in the fields of Culture studies and Theory of Art and Media at the Faculty of Media and Communication in Belgrade.

She is an author and co-author of numerous articles and papers in the fields of memory studies, Holocaust studies, education studies, art theory, new media studies, culture studies, and ethnomusicology. She actively cooperates with the Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory in Belgrade through Holocaust Studies Laboratory (ShoahLab). She also works as an Educational Project Consultant in the organization Haver Serbia, where she works on educational programs contributing to the idea of inclusive society, specifically focusing on traditional and contemporary learning within Jewish cultural and historical context.