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FOB Marked 10th Anniversary of the Wars in the Balkans

Sonatas of War & Peace

Requiem or Renewal — A Decade of Balkan Conflict

Writing the Siege of Sarajevo: Poetry and Prose on the Bosnian War and Its Aftermath

War Crimes, Forensic Science, & International Justice

Film Festival

Exhibits

Emir Nuhanovic

 

 
 

 

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FOB Briefs
Vol. 10, No. 1, December, 2003

Looking Back

FOB Marked 10th Anniversary of the Wars in the Balkans

L to R: Mirza Kusljugic, Stephen Walker, Edita Tahiri, John Shattuck,
International Institute Director Westy Egmont, FOB Director Glenn Ruga, and Global Citizens Circle Managing Director Theo Dunfey.
 

In early April 2002, FOB organized a series of speakers, exhibits, concerts, and videos to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the siege of Sarajevo (which began on April 6, 1992) and the wars in the former Yugoslavia. The program, “From Requiem to Renewal: A Decade of Balkan Conflict,” was sponsored by Friends of Bosnia, the International Institute of Boston, Boston College, the Global Citizens Circle, and Physicians for Human Rights. It included a number of events over several days, which are briefly described below:

Sonatas of War & Peace

Music composed by Vuk Kulenovic. Kulenovic was born in Sarajevo and studied in Belgrade and Ljubljana. A former professor at the Belgrade Faculty of Music, he is currently a professor of composition at Boston’s Berklee College of Music.

Requiem or Renewal — A Decade of Balkan Conflict

A panel discussion with three experts on the former Yugoslavia: Mirza Kusljugic, Bosnian Ambassador to the United Nations and former Dean of Electrical Engineering Faculty at the University of Tuzla; John Shattuck, former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor and currently CEO of the Kennedy Library Foundation; and Edita Tahiri, negotiator for Kosovo at Rambouillet, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kosovo, and former member of Presidency, LDK.

Writing the Siege of Sarajevo: Poetry and Prose on the Bosnian War and Its Aftermath

Readings by writers Muharem Bazdulj, Sarajevo, author of One Like a Song; Christopher Merrill, director, International Writing Program, The University of Iowa, author of Only the Nails Remain; Dubravka Ugresic, Amsterdam, author of The Culture of Lies; and Fahrudin Zilkic.

War Crimes, Forensic Science, & International Justice

A discussion featuring Samantha Power, executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and author of Problem from Hell; Susannah Sirkin, deputy director, Physicians for Human Rights; and Anne-Marie Slaughter, then professor of International, Foreign and Comparative Law at
Harvard Law School.

Film Festival

The festival featured showings of the films Bosna!; Calling the Ghosts: A Story of Rape, Women & War; Postcards from Peja; Pretty Village, Pretty Flame; Before the Rain; and Shot Through the Heart.

Exhibits

Paintings by Deryk Houston from Echoes from the Square, a book by Elizabeth Wellburn about Vedran Smailovic, the Cellist of Sarajevo.
Sarajevo War Posters: Posters made by artists and designers in Sarajevo during the first two years of the siege.

Selections from two documentary photography exhibits produced by Friends of Bosnia: “Zones of Separation: The Struggle for a Multi-ethnic Bosnia” and “Reconstructing Kosovo.”

Emir Nuhanovic

In August 2002, FOB hosted Bosnian conductor and clarinetist Emir Nuhanovic at Sabur Restaurant in Somerville in a fundraiser for FOB’s reconstruction work in Bosnia. Nuhanovic is the principal clarinetist of the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra. He was in Boston at the invitation of the Boston Landmarks Orchestra, with whom he played three free public concerts. Nuhanovic won the April 6th Prize for his achievement in the organization of music life in Sarajevo during the 1992–95 war.