Events

Winter 2019

Imperial Legacies in the Balkans, Friday, February 8th, 4-5:30pm 2024 Tisch Hall

Language Ideologies, Friday, March 1st, 4-5:30pm 2024 Tisch Hall

Visiting Scholar Breakfast with Chelsi West Ohueri, Wednesday, March 27th, 523 Weiser Hall (prior to the CREES Noon Lecture)

Balkan Studies Write-in, Friday, April 26th 1-3pm, Haven Hall 2608

Fall 2020 (Online)

Gender and Production, Thursday, October 22, 1-2pm (email for zoom link) We will be reading : Nita Luci & Linda Gusia’s “Our men will not have amnesia”: Civic engagement, emancipation, and transformations of the gendered public in Kosovo and Zilka Spahic Siljak’s “Religious feminism periphery within the semi-periphery in the Balkans”

Writing in the Diaspora, Thursday, December 10th at 1pm (email for zoom link) We will be reading two pieces from Tzveta Sofronieva and Dubravka Ugrešić on writing in the diaspora.

“Un-lost in Translation” by Tzveta Sofronieva

“Telemachus’s Dream” by Dubravka Ugrašić

Winter 2021 (Online)

Lake Trump?: A Conversation on Imperialism, Energy, and Electoral Politics in Kosova, Friday, February 5th at 2pm over zoom.

With the breakdown of EU talks in 2018, President Trump appointed a special envoy to mitigate the Kosova- Serbia peace negotiations in fall of 2019. The decision came in hopes of gaining a foreign policy accomplishment for the Trump administration in the 2020 presidential campaign. As a consequence of this intervention, Kosova’s newly and popularly elected government fell in March of 2020. A new government took its place and went to

Washington for special negotiations with their Serbian counterparts this past summer. The culmination of this year came with the renaming of a contested and economically important lake on the Kosova- Serbia border to “Lake Trump.” Join the Critical Balkan Studies RIW on Thursday, January 21st at noon for a discussion with Dr. Nita Luci and Dr. Aidan Hehir, who take Lake Trump as a starting point to discuss the ways energy, imperialism, and electoral politics are intertwined in Kosova today.

Dr. Nita Luci is an assistant professor at the departments of Anthropology, Sociology, and Contemporary Art at the University of Prishtina.
Dr. Aidan Hehir is a reader in International Relations at the University of Westminster.

Student Workshop, Wednesday, April 14th at 1pm over zoom, We will workshop Dejan Durić’s conference paper titled, “‘Podjela u Glavi’ (Divisions in [our] head): The Dialogics of Ethnic Stance in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.” Dejan is a PhD student in American Culture and Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Michigan.