Dear YURG-ers,
We are delighted to invite you to the lecture by Emina Zoletić, titled "Intergenerational transmission of war and migration memories: The case of families in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the diaspora". Emina's lecture will take place on June 17th at the Central European University Vienna Campus (A-420), starting from 18.00 h.
RSVP is required. Please confirm your attendance by sending an email to
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Abstract
This presentation is based on PhD research into the experiences of first- and second-generation Bosnians residing in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as their diasporic communities.
The central part of this research explores intergenerational war memories and war migration in Sarajevo and diasporic families across several locations in the EU and the USA. Considering both local and transnational dimensions, it was crucial to demonstrate how intergenerational transmission of memories is processed, selected, transmitted, experienced, and activated by research interlocutors.
The research employed semi-structured and narrative biographical interviews, as well as participant observation, between 2022 and 2024. The memories of that war continue to evolve, with largely unknown consequences for collective competing narratives, social cohesion, and identity formation. This presentation examines how war and war migration memories are passed down from the first to the second generation in Bosnian families that stayed in post-conflict society and those who fled during the war in Western countries. The author’s interdisciplinary background and frameworks within memory and migration studies, social psychology, and sociology facilitate the analysis of the multiple and differentiated sociopolitical transformations and mnemonic patterns in post-conflict or diaspora contexts.
Bio
Emina Zoletic is a PhD student at the Doctoral School of Social Sciences, University of Warsaw. She examines the intergenerational transmission of war family memory in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Bosnian diaspora under the supervision of Joanna Wawrzyniak (University of Warsaw) and co-supervisor Chris Hewer (Kingston University, London). She is undertaking a CEEPUS fellowship (March-June 2025) at the University of Vienna, Institute of Sociology, as part of Mijic's team and in support of her PhD thesis. For her Ph.D. research, she has been awarded the Preludium grant from the National Science Center (Poland), the Zeit Stiftung Bucerius Scholarship, and the CEFRES Junior Fellowship in Prague (Czech Republic). She was a Fulbright visiting researcher at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, New York, and the New School, NY, from 2023 to 2024.
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