Location
Fontbonne University, Taylor Library
Website
https://upress.missouri.edu/9780826222671/bosnian-studies/
Description
Join us on Saturday, February 4, for a panel discussion and conversation with the editors and two scholars in the field for a discussion inspired by the newly released Bosnian Studies: Perspectives from an Emerging Field.
About the volume
This volume seeks to illuminate how Bosnian migrant and diaspora scholars are contributing to the development of Bosnian Studies. The authors included in this volume are either writing from their (new) home bases in Australia, Austria, Canada, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, among others, or they have returned to Bosnia after a period of migration. Their chapters have distinct entry points of inquiry, demonstrating how scholars have integrated Bosnia as a theme across the range of disciplines in which they are situated. The selections included in the volume range from literary analysis to personal memoirs of the conflict, from studies of heritage and identity to political science analysis of diaspora voting, to genocide studies and questions of (or lack of) ethics in the growing field of Bosnian Studies.
Reception to follow.
Copies of the book will be available for purchase from Left Bank Books.
Free and open to the public.
Event Type
Panel Discussion
Start Date
2-4-2023 4:00 PM
Bosnian Studies: A Community Conversation [Book Launch]
Fontbonne University, Taylor Library
Join us on Saturday, February 4, for a panel discussion and conversation with the editors and two scholars in the field for a discussion inspired by the newly released Bosnian Studies: Perspectives from an Emerging Field.
About the volume
This volume seeks to illuminate how Bosnian migrant and diaspora scholars are contributing to the development of Bosnian Studies. The authors included in this volume are either writing from their (new) home bases in Australia, Austria, Canada, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, among others, or they have returned to Bosnia after a period of migration. Their chapters have distinct entry points of inquiry, demonstrating how scholars have integrated Bosnia as a theme across the range of disciplines in which they are situated. The selections included in the volume range from literary analysis to personal memoirs of the conflict, from studies of heritage and identity to political science analysis of diaspora voting, to genocide studies and questions of (or lack of) ethics in the growing field of Bosnian Studies.
Reception to follow.
Copies of the book will be available for purchase from Left Bank Books.
Free and open to the public.
https://griffinshare.fontbonne.edu/bosnia/2023/2023/1
Additional Notes
Hariz Halilovich – an award-winning social anthropologist and author – is Professor of Global Studies and Australian Council Future Fellow at the Social and Global Studies Centre, RMIT University, Melbourne. His research has focused on place-based identity politics, politically motivated violence, forced migration, memory studies, and human rights. His publications include the books Places of Pain: Forced Displacement, Popular Memory and Trans-local Identities in Bosnian War–torn Communities (2013); Writing After Srebrenica (2017); and Monsters of Modernity: Global Icons for Our Critical Condition (co-authored with Julian C.H. Lee et al) (2019). In addition to academic writing, he has also produced multimedia exhibitions, works of fiction, and radio and TV programs.
David Pettigrew, PhD is a Professor of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University, in New Haven, CT, where he also created and teaches a course on Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Pettigrew serves as a member of the Steering Committee of the Yale University Genocide Studies Program. He lectures and writes about the genocide in Bosnia to raise awareness, resist denial, and to ensure that the victims will not be forgotten. In 2018, his book chapter "The Suppression of Cultural Memory and Identity in Bosnia and Herzegovina" appeared in Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Genocide and Memory. In 2020, his article, "Mandate Interrupted: The Problematic Legacy of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia,” appeared in the Washington University Global Studies Law Review. Pettigrew served as a consultant for the completion of the first comprehensive educational museum about the Srebrenica genocide that was opened in the Srebrenica Memorial Center, February 9, 2017.
Dženeta Karabegović is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Salzburg. Her academic interests are in international political sociology with a focus on migration, transnationalism, diaspora, education, remembrance, transitional justice, democratization, foreign policy, and the Balkans. She consults and guest lectures with local and international organizations focused on diasporas and development, returnees, education, countering extremism, remembrance, democratization, social entrepreneurship, and civil society. She holds a PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Warwick, an MA in International Relations from the University of Chicago, and a BA (Hon) in German and Political Science with a minor in Holocaust Studies from the University of Vermont. Besides article- and chapter-length publications in peer-reviewed outlets, she has co-edited several books, including the first book on Bosnia and Herzegovina’s foreign policy, a volume on diasporas and transitional justice, migration studies in Austria, and Bosnian Studies – Perspectives from an Emerging Field.
Adna Karamehić-Oates is director of the Center for Bosnians Studies at Fontbonne University. She is also a Senior Program Officer at Open Government Partnership, where she supports the cross-team efforts to mobilize coalitions, strengthen partnerships, and provide knowledge resources and technical support to OGP governments, civil society, and other stakeholders who leverage OGP to advance reforms in priority thematic sectors. Before joining OGP, Karamehić-Oates spent 11 years at the Open Society Foundations in Washington, DC in program management and advocacy roles focusing on central and eastern Europe. She holds a PhD in Globalization and Governance from Virginia Tech University.