BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//EuroSEAS 2021//EN X-WR-CALNAME:EuroSEAS 2021 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Prague X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Prague BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 DTSTART:19700329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 DTSTART:19701025T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20241203T190000 UID:euroseas-2021-subdued-clamor-from-sumatra-voicing-alternative-memories-narratives-and-histories-1 SUMMARY:(P62AB) Subdued Clamor from Sumatra: Voicing alternative memories, narratives, and histories (1) LOCATION:K10 | 2.25 DESCRIPTION:The foundation of a nation entails the establishment of a share d imagination that can bond together its national citizens. For ex-colonize d countries at the beginning of their independence, a common historical nar rative and shared memories have been used as powerful tools to define a new national identity. In the case of Indonesia, which has achieved its indepe ndence through warfare, revolution, and diplomacy, the creation of national history and collective memory has revolved around anti-colonial sentiments melted with patriotic and heroic actions directed to safeguard the newborn nation. In this process, the central political authority has played the ma in role in determining an official historical narrative/narration of the ne w state and in fixing a set of shared cultural elements that could represen t the national population as a whole. In the name of national unity, politi cal stability, integration, and economic development, the central authority enforced the official narrative and memory, especially in the first 50 yea rs of Indonesian independence. These efforts were, however, counterbalanced by strong oppression of and negotiations with other stories and perspectiv es, such as the ones of the regions or social groups in the periphery. Afte r the fall of Soeharto’s authoritarian regime, the political decentralisati on and a more relaxed control of the central power over local authorities p aved the way for questioning the official narrative and memory. Bottom-up i nitiatives, locality, local identity, have started to contest the official version of history and tend to foreground perspectives, for instance from t he victim’s perspective of the national revolution or other minor voices th at have been ignored to this very moment. This panel focuses on the efforts of local communities on the island of Sumatra to subvert or counter centra lising narratives, to create alternative memories and to encourage differen t ways of looking at the construction of the nation by bringing up unheard voices of the so-called “agents”, “victims”, and “witnesses” of all but for gotten historical events. URL:https://euroseas2021.org/panels/subdued-clamor-from-sumatra-voicing-alternative-memories-narratives-and-histories DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20210909T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Prague:20210909T103000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20241203T190000 UID:euroseas-2021-subdued-clamor-from-sumatra-voicing-alternative-memories-narratives-and-histories-2 SUMMARY:(P62AB) Subdued Clamor from Sumatra: Voicing alternative memories, narratives, and histories (2) LOCATION:K10 | 2.25 DESCRIPTION:The foundation of a nation entails the establishment of a share d imagination that can bond together its national citizens. For ex-colonize d countries at the beginning of their independence, a common historical nar rative and shared memories have been used as powerful tools to define a new national identity. In the case of Indonesia, which has achieved its indepe ndence through warfare, revolution, and diplomacy, the creation of national history and collective memory has revolved around anti-colonial sentiments melted with patriotic and heroic actions directed to safeguard the newborn nation. In this process, the central political authority has played the ma in role in determining an official historical narrative/narration of the ne w state and in fixing a set of shared cultural elements that could represen t the national population as a whole. In the name of national unity, politi cal stability, integration, and economic development, the central authority enforced the official narrative and memory, especially in the first 50 yea rs of Indonesian independence. These efforts were, however, counterbalanced by strong oppression of and negotiations with other stories and perspectiv es, such as the ones of the regions or social groups in the periphery. Afte r the fall of Soeharto’s authoritarian regime, the political decentralisati on and a more relaxed control of the central power over local authorities p aved the way for questioning the official narrative and memory. Bottom-up i nitiatives, locality, local identity, have started to contest the official version of history and tend to foreground perspectives, for instance from t he victim’s perspective of the national revolution or other minor voices th at have been ignored to this very moment. This panel focuses on the efforts of local communities on the island of Sumatra to subvert or counter centra lising narratives, to create alternative memories and to encourage differen t ways of looking at the construction of the nation by bringing up unheard voices of the so-called “agents”, “victims”, and “witnesses” of all but for gotten historical events. URL:https://euroseas2021.org/panels/subdued-clamor-from-sumatra-voicing-alternative-memories-narratives-and-histories DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20210909T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Prague:20210909T123000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR