BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Paris BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20180113T140000 RDATE:20180325T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20181028T020000 RDATE:20190331T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20191027T020000 RDATE:20200329T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201025T020000 RDATE:20210328T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20211031T020000 RDATE:20220327T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20221030T020000 RDATE:20230326T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231029T020000 RDATE:20240331T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241027T020000 RDATE:20250330T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251026T020000 RDATE:20260329T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261025T020000 RDATE:20270328T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20271031T020000 RDATE:20280326T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20180325T030000 RDATE:20181028T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20190331T030000 RDATE:20191027T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200329T030000 RDATE:20201025T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210328T030000 RDATE:20211031T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220327T030000 RDATE:20221030T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230326T030000 RDATE:20231029T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240331T030000 RDATE:20241027T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250330T030000 RDATE:20251026T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260329T030000 RDATE:20261025T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20270328T030000 RDATE:20271031T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Paris CEST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2b78da30e77ad9cf5ee20df4031c51f7 CATEGORIES:Séminaire du CREM, CREM CREATED:20181029T174647 SUMMARY:Even the gods die… Regional crying and national mourning for the Albanian communist dictator Enver Hoxha, Bledar Kondi (Martin Luther Universität, Halle-Wittenberg) LOCATION:Lesc – salle 308F (3e étage) - 21\, allée de l’Université\, Nanterre\, \, 9 2000\, France DESCRIPTION: xhaxhi

This presentation focuses on the death, state funeral and nat ional mourning for the Albanian communist dictator Enver Hoxha (1908-1985). Hoxha’s first (natural) death in 1985 and second (political) death in 1991 , generate a full circle of events from the immortalisation to the damnatio n of an absolute monarch, from anti-communist iconoclasm to bittersweet nos talgia for the dictatorship. The one-week long mortuary ceremony, the public work of mourning , commemorative rites and national folk festivals, the Pharaonic immortalis ation in a pyramidal museum were all structured so as to articulate the rea lity of death according to the specific grammar of a totalitarian world vie w. The female voca lisation of painful shock and grief crisis through public ritual “crying wi th howls” (e qarë me ulërimë) and “crying with words” (e qarë me ligje) aimed to tell of the unspeakable, to discharge the insufferable, to deny the unimaginable: death of the deathless leader.

How can one “measure” the loss of a deified dictator? Do the limits of crying imply the limits of loss? The affective-political drama upon the dictator’s death will be interpreted to the measure it was experi enced and enacted by three groups of the socio-political hierarchy: politic al bureau, common people and class enemy. Dictatorial regimes have the most self-evident manifestations of music as an attribute of power, social cont rol and cultural repression. Hence the musical drama within the political d rama help us to understand how death of a leader breaks the ideologically f rozen forms of consciousness and the synchronised rhythm of socialist life, how it sheds light on the “unpredictable past” of the regime and contribut es to an essential understanding of dictatorship as experience. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: xhaxhi

This presentation focuses on the deat h, state funeral and national mourning for the Albanian communist dictator Enver Hoxha (1908-1985). Hoxha’s first (natural) death in 1985 and second ( political) death in 1991, generate a full circle of events from the immorta lisation to the damnation of an absolute monarch, from anti-communist icono clasm to bittersweet nostalgia for the dictatorship. The one-week long mortuary ceremony, the public work of mourning, commemorative rites and national folk festivals, the Pharaonic immortalisation in a pyramidal museum were all structured so as to articulate the reality of death according to the specific grammar of a totalitarian world view. The female vocalisation of painful shock and grief crisis through public ritual “crying with howls” (e qarë me ulërimë) and “crying wi th words” (e qarë me ligje) aimed to tell of the unspeakable, to dis charge the insufferable, to deny the unimaginable: death of the deathless l eader.

How can one “measure” the loss of a deified dictator? Do the limits of crying imply the lim its of loss? The a ffective-political drama upon the dictator’s death will be interpreted to t he measure it was experienced and enacted by three groups of the socio-poli tical hierarchy: political bureau, common people and class enemy. Dictatori al regimes have the most self-evident manifestations of music as an attribu te of power, social control and cultural repression. Hence the musical dram a within the political drama help us to understand how death of a leader br eaks the ideologically frozen forms of consciousness and the synchronised r hythm of socialist life, how it sheds light on the “unpredictable past” of the regime and contributes to an essential understanding of dictatorship as experience. DTSTAMP:20260629T130434 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20190114T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20190114T160000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR