Event Title
20 Years After Prijedor
Location
Fontbonne University, Taylor Library
Description
A presentation by Refik Hodžić, Bosnian journalist and filmmaker and Communications Director for the International Center for Transitional Justice, to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the beginnings of the war and genocide in Prijedor, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Free and open to the public.
Event Type
Lecture
Start Date
4-29-2012 2:00 PM
COinS
Apr 29th, 2:00 PM
20 Years After Prijedor
Fontbonne University, Taylor Library
A presentation by Refik Hodžić, Bosnian journalist and filmmaker and Communications Director for the International Center for Transitional Justice, to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the beginnings of the war and genocide in Prijedor, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Free and open to the public.
Additional Notes
Refik Hodzic was born in 1972 in Prijedor, Bosnia-Herzegovina. In 1998, he began working for the United Nations, first as a spokesperson for missions in Bosnia-Herzegovina and East Timor and later as Outreach Coordinator for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). In 2004 in Sarajevo, he founded XY Films, which produces documentary films and television programs about war crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia. In 2011, Mr. Hodzic joined the International Center for Transitional Justice, where he serves as Director of Communications.
Co-hosted by the Union of Citizens of the Municipality of Prijedor.
This event was made possible through the generous support of Joseph and Sandra Lehrer.