Sites of Atrocity: Comparative Analysis of Bosnia, Croatia, and Slovenia

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Brief Description

The scholars on this roundtable seek to examine how and why atrocities are committed in connection with warfare, what impact hyper-localized violence has on a community, and how these atrocities are remembered and interpreted, seen and unseen. By focusing on examples of the Croatian Krajina, Kočevje, and Prijedor, in particular (though not exclusively), the discussion will focus on three interrelated issues: the role of perpetrators, particularly the relationship between elites at different levels of the state, the micro-level dynamics of genocide and other crimes against humanity, and the way sites atrocity are commemorated (including non-commemoration) in relation to issues of identity and division.

Sub Unit

• Politics/Law

Chair

• Damir Kovacevic, U of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Roundtable Members

• Marko Dumancic, Western Kentucky U

• James Gow, King's College London (UK)

• Blaze Joel, U of Texas at Austin

• Zala Pochat Križaj, King's College London (UK)