PhD Practitioner Day: Monday 7 July 2025

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9.00am: Registration: Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 71000, Zmaja od Bosne 5, Sarajevo 71000, Bosnia & Herzegovina

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9.30am: Introduction and Opening by Vera Zurbrügg

 

9.40am: Keynote Lecture

 

• Bisan Abu Eisheh – Breathing Archives

 

Keynote followed by questions and discussion

 

11.00am: Break

 

11.15am: Session 1 - Remembering in Institutions

 

• Dalila Mirović, Beyond Archives: How the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina Uses Digital Platforms to Preserve and Mediate Memory

• Patrick Dowson, Libraries as "Spaces of Collected Memory" in the Western Balkans

• Marilia Fotopoulou, In the Midst of it all: Collecting and Curating Children’s Perspectives in Times of Migration by the War Childhood Museum in Sarajevo

 

Presentations followed by questions and discussion

 

12:00pm: Session 2 - Generating the Past

 

Alexey Yurenev in conversation with Vera Zurbrügg about his book Seeing Against Seeing

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Followed by questions and discussion

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12.30pm: Lunch (provided)

 

1.15pm: Session 3 - Reclaiming the Narrative

 

• Andreea Elle Vas (Paciu), Remembering the everyday of childhoods under oppression and siege: art and oral history counter-narratives reclaiming the past

• Kyaice Hendricks, Melancholia and post-conflict memory: The relationship between time, grief and family photos in Tarik Samarah’s Srebrenica and Jasmila Zbanic’s Quo Vadis, Aida?

• Arta Uka, Navigating the Ongoing Marginalisation of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Survivors: Exploring the Nexus of Conflict, Art and Memory

 

Presentations followed by questions and discussion

 

2:00pm: Session 4 - Documenting the Future

 

Anders Birger in conversation with David Birkin about his work For Clara

 

Followed by questions and discussion

 

2.30pm: Break

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2.45pm: Session 5 - Reconfiguring, Silencing, Justifying

 

• Hella Wiedmer-Newman, New Memory in Post-Conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina: Re-incribing the Protectorate, Re-Centering the Transnational (2020-2025)

• Maxwin Rayen, Banned from the Beach: Memory, Repression, and the Silencing of Mullivaikkal Remembrance in Tamil Nadu

• Jessica Bombasaro-Brady, Déjà vu in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Comparing police officers’ roles as ethno-political agents in 1992 and 2025

• Samuel Raus, Antemurale Europae: Justifications for the War in Gaza Bring Eerie Echoes of Serb Nationalism in the 1990s

 

Presentations followed by questions and discussion

 

3.40pm: Navigating the Research Process (from Material to Mental Health)

 

Jennifer Good in conversation with Vera Zurbrügg

 

Followed by questions and discussion

 

5:00pm: End of PhD + Practitioner Day

 

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Please wait at the Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina for the Why Remember? Testimonies of Light Conference Opening Event and Drinks, starting at 5:30pm. 

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Monday 7 July 2025: Opening Event

 

5.30pm: Why Remember? Testimonies of Light Conference Opening Event and Drinks

 

Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 71000, Zmaja od Bosne 5, Sarajevo 71000, Bosnia & Herzegovina

 

Speeches by:

 

• Elma Hašimbegović

• Brigitte Lardinois

• Max Houghton

 

• Amra Abadžić Lowe

 

Jan-Joseph Stok presents #PeaceforPaul images

 

7.30pm: End

 

 

 

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Day 1: Tuesday 8 July 2025

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9:00am: Registration: Hotel Europe, Vladislava Skarića 5, Sarajevo 71000

Coffee and Tea

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9:30am: Introduction and Opening

 

• Max Houghton (London College of Communication)

• Kit Messham-Muir (Curtin University)

• Henry Redwood (King's College London)

 

9:40am: Session 1: Artist Roundtable

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Chair: Henry Redwood

 

• Vladimir Miladinović

• Kumjana Novakova

 

10:40am: Session 2: Panel: Art and Reconciliation

 

Chair: Rachel Kerr

 

• Tiffany Fairey

• Elma Hašimbegović

• James Gow

• Melina Michalski

• Vladimir Milandinović

• Denisa Kostovicova

 

Presentations followed by questions and discussion

 

12:00pm: Lunch (Lunch not provided but there are many restaurants local to the venue, we will lead groups to different ones)

 

1:00pm: Session 3: Keynote: Srebrenica keynote - Hasan Nuhanović

 

Chair: Elma Hašimbegović

 

Presentations followed by questions and discussion

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1.45pm: Session 4: Film Screening: Facing Srebrenica – A Living Archive - Erna Rijsdijk and Tim Klaase

 

This short film (25 min) introduces the participatory photo-archive project Facing Srebrenica and explores how images taken by Dutchbat soldiers in 1994–1995 are being revisited by survivors and veterans today. It documents an unfolding process of dialogue, co-creation, and shared reflection on the ongoing presence of the past.

 

Questions and discussion in the following session

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2:15pm: Session 5: Panel: Image, Memory, Conflict

 

Chair: Max Houghton

 

• David Birkin, How to Do Things with Images: Visuality, Performativity, Resistance

• Edmund Clark, The Ordered Universe of War: Knowledge, Meaning and Seeing - American Military Power in the 21st century

• Azra Haracic, Memory, Witness, and the Work of Peace

• Alexey Yurenev, On Present and Absent Photographs as the Silent Heroes of Synthetic and Social Memories

• Tim Klaase and Erna Rijsdijk (Q&A)

 

Presentations followed by questions and discussion

 

3:45pm: Break

 

Room 1: 4:00pm: Session 6A: Panel: Activism and Counter Narratives

 

Chair: David Birkin

 

• Esma Kucukalic Ibrahimović, "Solo el pueblo salva al pueblo" - VALENCIA: from Bosnian Refugees (1992) to DANA (2024). When institutional trust is broken, counter-narratives of community action become visible.

• Denisa Kostovicova, Lanabi La Lova, Digital Divides or Global Bridges? Mapping Online Discourse on #Srebrenica

• Andreea Elle Vas (Paciu), Remembering the everyday of childhoods under oppression and siege: art and oral history counter-narratives reclaiming the past

 

Presentations followed by questions and discussion

 

Room 2: 4:00pm: Session 6B: Panel: Legacies of Conflict

 

Chair: Steve Cross

 

• Jane Drapkin, The complexities of Peace: Tuzla and the containment of ethno-nationalism

• Adisa Avdić Küsmüs, Symbolic Landscape and Reconciliation in Brčko District: Confronting the Legacy of Conflict

• Jessica Bombasaro-Brady, Déjà vu in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Comparing police officers’ roles as ethno-political agents in 1992 and 2025

• Arta Uka, Screaming into the Abyss: Children’s Often Neglected Lived Wartime Experiences

 

 

Presentations followed by questions and discussion

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5:30pm: End of Day 1 at Hotel Europe

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8:00pm: Kumjana Novakova, Silence of Reason (2023, 63 mins) film screening at Kinoteka Bosnia and Herzegovina

 

Kinoteka Bosne i Hercegovine, Alipašina 19, Sarajevo 71000, Bosnia & Herzegovina

 

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Day 2:  Wednesday 9 July 2025

 

9:00am: Session 7: Panel: Museums and Commemorative Practice

 

Chair: Clare Lawlor

 

• Martina Ricci, Commemorating Srebrenica: Cross-Cultural Representations and the Globalization of Trauma.

• Azra Imamović, Memorials, Social Media and Struggles: Cases of Banja Luka, Brčko, Mostar and Sarajevo

• Ajnura A. Akbaš, War Childhood Museum: Ethical Documentation Methodologies for War-Affected Childhoods

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Presentations followed by questions and discussion

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10:30am: Break

 

Room 1: 10:45am: Session 8B: Panel discussion: Innovative Practices of Memorialization and Living Together After Conflict

 

Moderated: Post-Conflict Research Center (PCRC)

 

Chair: Brigitte Lardinois

 

• Velma Šarić and Tatjana Milovanonvić

• Tiffany Fairey, Peace is possible: The role of strategic visual narratives in peacebuilding.

• Pratap Rughani, Impossible Conversations?

• James Smith

 

Presentations followed by questions and discussion

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Room 2: 10:45am: Session 8A: Panel: Genocide and Art Practice

 

Chair: Kit Messham-Muir

 

• Emina Zoletić, Linda Paganelli, Snežana Stanković

"My son, you have a dream

Follow it with the night given to you!"

Artistic Narration Amidst and in Aftermath of Destruction. Bosnia and Herzegovina. Kosovo. Palestine.

• Nina Rojc, The Limits of Reconciliation: Who defines what reconciliation means, and whose voices are legitimized in the process?

• Gabriela Manda Seith, Artistic Memorialization in Sarajevo and in Gaza

 

Presentations followed by questions and discussion

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12:15pm: Lunch: Lunch not provided, but there are many restaurants local to the venue, and we will lead groups to different ones

 

1:15pm: Session 9: Keynote: Adela Jušić in conversation with Kit Messham-Muir

 

Presentation followed by questions and discussion

 

2:00pm: Session 10: Panel: Reimagining Trauma and Community: creative and embodied practices in Ukraine

 

Chair: Henry Redwood and Kit Messham-Muir

 

• Halyna Hleba and Veronika Skliarova, Art as Collective Griefwork: Participatory Practices and Post-Traumatic Growth in Times of War

• Oksana Potapova, Embodied narratives of war-time feminist activism in Ukraine as sites of imagination of feminist peace

 

Presentations followed by questions and discussion

 

3:30pm: Make way to Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 71000, Zmaja od Bosne 5, Sarajevo 71000, Bosnia & Herzegovina

 

4:30pm: Session 11: Closing Sound and Memory Intervention: at Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina

 

• Thomas Gardner

• Alma Żero

 

Performance: Cello and field recordings by Thomas Gardner

 

Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 71000, Zmaja od Bosne 5, Sarajevo 71000, Bosnia & Herzegovina

 

 

6:30pm: Closing speech by Steve Cross and drinks: Museum Terrace of Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina

 

71000, Zmaja od Bosne 5, Sarajevo 71000, Bosnia & Herzegovina