Reverberations: War Memories

The Anthropology Department, co-sponsored with PARCC, Muslim Student Life, the Balkan Studies Collective, the Center for European Studies, and the Meredith Professorship Funds, will host Velibor Božović, Saida Hodžić, Emina Zoletić, and Rešid and Emrah Salkić. The panel will discuss the transmission of wartime memories across geographies and generations, focusing specifically on the Bosnian War and the subsequent Bosnian diaspora.

Velibor Božović is an artist based in Montreal, where he moved to in 1999 after living through the Bosnian War. He is a part-time Studio Arts faculty member at Concordia University, and has been awarded the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art.

Saida Hodžić is an associate professor of anthropology and feminist, gender and sexuality studies at Cornell University. She has been awarded the Michelle Rosaldo Book Prize and the Amaury Talbot Book Prize for her book “The Twilight of Cutting: African Activism and Life after NGOs” (University of California Press, 2017).

Emina Zoletić is a Ph.D. student at the University of Warsaw. Her research looks at intergenerational transmission of the memory of war, focusing on cases of families in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Bosnian diaspora in Europe.

Rešid Salkić and his son Emrah Salkić  are Bosnian refugees living in the Syracuse area. Emrah is a documentary filmmaker and his father Rešid is a participant in his documentary film.