Srebrenica Calling
26 October 2022, 4:00 pm鈥6:00 pm
A SSEES Southeast European Studies seminar with Georgio Konstandi and Sarah Moore (respondent)
This event is free.
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- Free
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SSEES
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Room 347香港六合彩 School of Slavonic and East European Studies16 Taviton steretLondonWC1H 0BW
Georgio Konstandi聽is an MA student of South-East European Studies, focusing on Bosnian History and the Bosnian War. During the summer of 2022, he spent two months volunteering at the Srebrenica Memorial Center in Poto膷ari, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Georgio has been collating testimonies from survivors of the genocidal ethnic cleansing that took place from 1992-1995 in Srebrenica and the Drina Valley, as part of his broader project 鈥楽rebrenica Calling鈥. 鈥楽rebrenica Calling鈥 will be a unique educational resource for British schools and universities, on the 1992-1995 genocide in eastern Bosnia.
In this seminar, Georgio explores his findings while researching survivor testimonies and transcripts from the Bosnian Serb wartime Assembly. Specifically, Georgio鈥檚 research hopes to shed light on the question of Bosniak responses to the Republika Srpska鈥檚 discursive regime, which reconstructed Bosniak civilians as 鈥楾urks鈥, 鈥榚xtremists鈥 and 鈥楿sta拧a鈥. Moreover, his project 鈥楽rebrenica Calling鈥 hopes to show how uncovering these responses can allow us to reconsider the memorialisation of the genocide today.