War Did Not End: The Ex-Yugoslavia Three Decades Later

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Saturday, 6 November 2021


Scholars and practitioners of politics will analyze and discuss literature on the Yugoslav conflict and the impact it has on the construction of memory and historical narratives, the rise of political radicalism and atavistic passions of nationalism in this region, and the role of the international community and the ICTY in addressing the Yugoslav breakup and its aftermath as well as the EU membership perspectives of the Western Balkans.
 
Opening Keynote
Dr. Eric Gordy, Professor of Political and Cultural Sociology. School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London.
 

Panelists include:
Dr. Christian Axboe Nielsen, Associate Professor of Southeast European Studies, Aarhus University
Mr. Vesko Garcevic, Professor of the Practice of IR at the Pardee School for Global Studies, Boston University & former Ambassador of Montenegro in Brussels (NATO)
Dr. Hariz Halilovich, Social and Global Studies Centre, RMIT University.
Dr. Sinisa Malesevic, Chair of Sociology. University College DublinDr. Mitja Velikonja, Professor, Department of Cultural Studies, University of Ljubljana
Dr. Mitja Velikonja, Professor, Department of Cultural Studies, University of Ljubljana

 
Sessions to be moderated by:
Dr. Srdja Pavlovic, University of Alberta, Edmonton