Exhibit in Cone Center, North East Lounge until April 3
Events (all events on campus):
Monday, March 17
6:00 pm, Cone Center – McKnight Hall / North East Lounge
Opening Reception for exhibition
Lecture: Emily Makas – “Ruined and Rebuilt Landscapes: Memories of the War in Bosnia”
Co-sponsored by the Office of International Programs
Wednesday, March 19
5:00 pm, CHHS room 281
Movie Screening: “Grbavica” with discussion led by Jill Massino
Monday, March 24
5:00 pm, CHHS room 281
Lecture: Dr. Bob Hayden, University of Pittsburgh
“Memories of War in Bosnia: Conflicting Commemorations in a Contested Country.”
Dr. Hayden is an anthropologist of law and politics, and has done extensive work on the reconstruction of states and nations in the former Yugoslavia, following lengthy fieldwork there. Robert Hayden, who directs Pitt’s Center for Russian and East European Studies, is also the principal investigator of “Antagonistic Tolerance: An International & Interdisciplinary Project on Competitive Sharing of Religious Sites.”
Wednesday, March 26
5:00 pm, CHHS room 281
Movie Screening: “Srebrenica: A Cry from the Grave” with discussion led by John Cox
Wednesday, April 2
6:00 pm, Cone Center – McKnight Hall / North East Lounge
Closing Reception: “Celebrating Bosnian-American Culture”
Panel Discussion: “Rebuilding Identities in the Bosnian–American Diaspora”
These events made possible by a generous grant from the UNC Charlotte Chancellor’s Diversity Challenge Fund and the support of UNC Charlotte’s College of Arts and Architecture; the Department of Global, International & Area Studies and its Center for Holocaust, Genocide & Human Rights Studies; the Department of History; and the Bosnian Students Association, as well as the Bosnian-Herzegovinian American Cultural Center (BHACC).
