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Center for Balkan Development
2 CLOCK TOWER PLACE #510
MAYNARD, MA 01754
TEL: 978-461-0909
FAX: 978-461-2552
info@balkandevelopment.org
www.balkandevelopment.org

April 3-7, 2002


A commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the siege of Sarajevo and the wars in the former Yugoslavia. The siege of Sarajevo began on April 6, 1992.

Sponsored by Friends of Bosnia, the International Institute of Boston, Boston College, the Global Citizens Circle, and Physicians for Human Rights

Press Release

Wednesday, April 3
Sonatas of War & Peace by Sarajevo-born composer Vuk Kulenovic

Thursday, April 4
Requiem or Renewal—A Decade of Balkan Conflict
Note speaker change: Mirza Kusljugic, Bosnian Ambassador to the United Nations, will be speaking instead of Sven Alkajaj.

Friday, April 5
Writing the Siege of Sarajevo: Poetry and Prose on the Bosnian War and Its Aftermath

Saturday, April 6
War Crimes, Forensic Science, & International Justice

Party to Celebrate the Future of the Balkans

Exhibits
Paintings by Deryk Houston from Echoes from the Square

Sarajevo War Posters

Selections from Zones of Separation: The Struggle for a Multi-ethnic Bosnia and Reconstructing Kosovo

Film Festival

Contact Information


 From Requiem to Renewal
 Program Details


Wednesday, April 3
Sonatas of War & Peace
By Vuk Kulenovic

7:30 p.m., St. Ignatius Church
28 Commonwealth Ave., Boston College
(Across from the Boston College Green Line T stop)
Click here for map.

Musicians:
Cynthia Forbes,
has performed solo cello with the New England String Ensemble and the Boston Virtuosi
Todd Brunel, principal clarinet with the Opera Ebony of Harlem, the American Opera Musical Theatre Company and the Butch Morris Ensemble, NYC
Biliana Voutchkova, violin, assistant concertmaster of the Boston Philharmonic and BMOP (Boston Modern Orchestra Project)
Synthia Sture, piano

Composer:
Vuk Kulenovic,
Born in Sarajevo, studied in Belgrade and Ljubljana. Former professor at the Belgrade Faculty of Music. Currently professor of composition at Berklee College of Music.

“[Kulenovic] is one of the most important and interesting composers working in the area—or anywhere—today.”
Richard Dyer, Boston Globe

Tickets:
Advance: $15 regular/$10 students
At door: $18 regular/$12 students
$50 for “Composers Seats” (Front two rows)

Tickets available at:
• Call 1-800-THE TICK
• Boston College at the McElroy Commons Box Office or Dept. of Slavic and Eastern Languages, Lyons 210
• Dreams of Freedom Box Office, One Milk Street, Boston
• Tickets also available at the door but seating is limited

This event is a fundraiser for Friends of Bosnia’s reconstruction work in the former Yugoslavia.

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Thursday, April 4

Requiem or Renewal—A Decade of Balkan Conflict
A panel discussion with three experts on the the former Yugoslavia

Old South Meeting House
310 Washington Street, Boston
6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Free and open to the public
Click here for map

Dr. Westy Egmont, Welcoming remarks: Executive Director, International Institute of Boston and New Hampshire

Stephen Walker, Moderator: Board member, Friends of Bosnia

Mirza Kusljugic: Bosnian Ambassador to the United Nations, former Dean of Electrical Engineering Faculty at the University of Tuzla.

John Shattuck: Former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor; currently CEO of Kennedy Library Foundation

Edita Tahiri: Negotiator for Kosovo at Rambouillet, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kosovo, and former member of Presidency, LDK.

Since hosting the Boston Tea Party in 1773, Old South Meeting House has been a vital center for diverse intellectual and cultural thought in the city of Boston.

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Friday, April 5

Writing the Siege of Sarajevo: Poetry and Prose on the Bosnian War and Its Aftermath
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Devlin Hall 101, Boston College
Click here for map.

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

Fahrudin Zilkic

Admission is free

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Saturday, April 6

War Crimes, Forensic Science, & International Justice
2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Cushing Hall 001, Boston College
Admission is free
Click here for map.

Samantha Power, Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Author of Problem from Hell

Susannah Sirkin, Deputy Director, Physicians for Human Rights

Anne-Marie Slaughter, Professor of International, Foreign and Comparative Law at Harvard Law School

Party to Celebrate the Future of the Balkans
Click here for map
9:30 p.m. until closing
Sabur Restaurant, 212 Holland St. Somerville, MA
Hors d’oeurves, music and cash bar

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Film Festival

All films at Dreams of Freedom, International Institute of Boston,
One Milk Street, Boston
Admission: Donation requested
Click here for map

All films shown in VHS Video

Saturday, April 6
6:15 p.m.: Bosna! (90 min)
8:00 p.m.: Calling the Ghosts, a Story of Rape, Women & War (63 min), Postcards from Peja (15 min)

Sunday, April 7
2:00 p.m.: Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (115 min.)
4:30 p.m.: Before the Rain (112 min.)
7:00 p.m.: Shot Through the Heart (115 min.)

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Exhibits

Paintings by Deryk Houston from Echoes from the Square
A book by Elizabeth Wellburn about Vedran Smailovic, the Cellist of Sarajevo


April 4- April 22
Dreams of Freedom
International Institute of Boston
One Milk Street, Boston, MA
Hours: 10 a.m.-6 p.m., daily
Free with museum admission
Click here for map


  Sarajevo War Posters
Posters made by artists and designers in Sarajevo during the first two years of the siege




March 25 – April 8
Academic Development Center
O’Neill Library, 2nd Fl, Boston College
Click here for map.
Hours: Mon.–Thurs., 9 am -9 pm; Friday, 9 am–5 pm; Sunday, 12–9; Saturday, closed.



  Selections from Zones of Separation: The Struggle for a Multi-ethnic Bosnia and Reconstructing Kosovo
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Two documentary photography exhibits produced by Friends of Bosnia. Photos by Glenn Ruga and Frank Ward, text by Barbara Ayotte
For online versions of exhibits, click on the links below:
Zones of Separation: The Struggle for a Multi-ethnic Bosnia
Reconstructing Kosovo


March 25–April 8
Social Work Library, McGuinn Hall, Boston College
Click here for map.
Hours: Monday–Thursday, 8 a.m. – 10 p.m.; Friday, 8–5; Saturday, 9–5; Sunday, noon–10.

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  For more information, contact:

Glenn Ruga
(away March 8-14)
Friends of Bosnia/Center for Balkan Development
978-461-0909
glenn@friendsofbosnia.org
www.friendsofbosnia.org

Barbara Ayotte
Physicians for Human Rights
617-695-0041x210
bayotte@phrusa.org
www.phrusa.org

Beth Nolan
International Institute of Boston
617-695-9990
bnolan@iiboston.org
www.iiboston.org

Dreams of Freedom
617-338-6022 X 187
www.dreamsoffreedom.org

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