Online Discussion “Sarajevo Under Siege: Cultural Resistance and the City as a Living Monument – Voices of Defiance”
1 September 2025 року
Speaker: Claudia Zini, Founder and Director of Kuma International, Center for Visual Arts from Post-Conflict Societies in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
17 September 2025
online
When? September 17 at 3:00 PM (EEST)
Where? Zoom (link will be available after registration)
Who is it for?
- researchers
- students
- anyone interested in cultural practices in post-conflict societies
Organizers: “CITY AND WAR 2.0” project, Kuma International
Key discussion questions:
- How does Sarajevo's cultural resistance position the city as a resilient and expressive subject?
- How did the actions of individuals and the roles of institutions serve as examples of a new, embodied form of urban resistance during the siege?
- What are the main paradoxes and challenges in preserving the ephemeral legacy of Sarajevo's wartime cultural heritage, and what accounts for its fragility within contemporary memory cultures?
