Please join us for a symposium convened by Tanya Domi (SIPA; Harriman Institute) and Laura B. Cohen (Kupferberg Holocaust Center, Queensborough Community College-CUNY), featuring a keynote address by Srebrenica genocide survivor Emir Suljagić (International University of Sarajevo).
This symposium brings together activists, practitioners, and scholars to reflect upon critical human rights-and research-oriented issues that receive less international attention but are well-known locally in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The first is the long-term traumatic as well as professional impact that the country’s history, people, and culture have had upon those who have worked there for any period of time. A new generation of activists and survivors, both at home and abroad, are also asserting more control over the existing wartime narratives—either by reinforcing and/or or pushing against them creating new tensions. Finally, the Bosnian research landscape has been fundamentally changed by the hundreds of analyses with and about the population over the years which has important implications for the kind of nuanced scholarship that is sorely needed but increasingly difficult to conduct.
SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2019
Location: Deutsches Haus (420 West 116th Street)
9:05 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. Opening Remarks
Panel 1: Researching Between the Lines: The Future of Engaged Scholarship
9:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Sarah Wagner, George Washington University
Jelena Subotic, Georgia State University
Laura Cohen, Kupferberg Holocaust Center, Queensborough Community College-CUNY
Moderator: Tanya Domi, Columbia SIPA and Harriman Institute
10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Break
Panel 2: Owning the Narrative: Next Generation Tensions at Home and Abroad
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Velma Šaric, Post-Conflict Research Center
Davorka Turk, Centre for Nonviolent Action
Kemal Pervanic, Most Mira/Bridge of Peace
Moderator: Emir Suljagic, International University of Sarajevo
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Break
Panel 3: The Affect and Effect of Activism: Transformations in the Field
1:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Tom Simpson, Phillips Exeter Academy/Cuvaj Se
Elizabeth Hume, Alliance for Peacebuilding
Kate English, Educators for Human Rights
Moderator: Laura Cohen, Kupferberg Holocaust Center, Queensborough Community College-CUNY
3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Closing Remarks
Wednesday, April 10: keynote & film screening at Maison Francaise.
