"Remain a memory?"

The aim of Tímea Baumann's book "Will the memory remain?" The social memory of the Yugoslav war in the Hungarian memory community of Kopačevo is to examine and analyze the memory community as a specific culture, its social practices, and the development of social memory that can be considered the memory community's own. The social memory examined is the events of the so-called Yugoslav war that took place in 1991 and 1995 in Baranja, Croatia, which accompanied the breakup of Yugoslavia, and their (individual and social) consequences. The author conducted her research among people living in Kopačevo, Croatia, who mostly identify themselves as Hungarians. In her writing, Tímea Baumann presents the memory community as a "specific culture", exploring its strategies of remembering and forgetting with qualitative research methods based on fieldwork. In doing so, she seeks to prove that there is a local social memory that regulates the narrative and silence strategies of individual rememberers. Tímea Baumann is a cultural anthropologist and teacher of Hungarian as a foreign language. She graduated from the University of Pécs in 2007 with a degree in communication and Hungarian language and literature, and in November 2014 she defended her doctoral dissertation with summa cum laude in the Cultural Studies Doctoral Program of the Doctoral School of Literature of the University of Pécs. She is currently a lecturer at the International Education Center of the University of Pécs.