Jovan byford biography channel

My main research interests lie in the interdisciplinary study of social and psychological aspects of shared beliefs and social remembering, especially in relation to conspiracy theories, antisemitism and Holocaust remembrance.

Jovan byford biography channel

I am also interested more generally in the relationship between psychology and history.

At present, the main focus of my research is the visual rhetoric of atrocity. I have recently completed a book on the role which atrocity photographs played, and continue to play, in forging the public memory of the Second World War in the countries of the former Yugoslavia.

Focusing on visual representations of one of the most controversial episodes of that war - genocidal violence perpetrated against Serbs, Jews and Roma in the Independent State of Croatia between 1941-1945 - the book examines the history of the relevant atrocity images, scrutinizes the institutional dynamic behind their collection and preservation, and explores their subsequent dissemination through boo