Bosnia and the Targeting of History and Memory

Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts · Nov 26, 2019 · 1h 8m

Recorded November 25, 2019. A public lecture by Helen Walasek (University of Exeter) is organised by Trinity Long Room Hub as part of the 'Out of the Ashes' Lecture Series. Dr Walaseks lecture will be followed by a response on the topic by Dr. Balázs Apor, Director of the Centre for European Studies in TCD. It is nearly twenty-five years since the end of the 1992¬–1995 Bosnian War, a brutal conflict which continues to reverberate in the public imagination. Memories of that war have revived with the highly-publicised attacks on cultural heritage in Syria and Iraq that followed the rise of…