An Older and More Beautiful Belgrade A Visual Chronicle of the Milošević Era
Milošević Era This grand illustrated essay depicts the devolution of Serbia’s capital during the exceptionally difficult years of Slobodan Milošević’s rule. An interwoven fabric of facts, reflections, insights, and photographs presents Belgrade in a portrait as imaginative and unique as this city’s culture and life are. Integrating cultural anthropology, the history of art and architecture, urban studies and political commentary,...
CfP: Ambivalent Legacies
Ambivalent Legacies: Memory and Amnesia in Post-Habsburg and Post-Ottoman Cities Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity 26-28 April 2017 Deadline : 1 December 2016 The empires that once defined the political geography of Europe are no more. One cannot meet a Prussian, Romanov, Habsburg, or Ottoman today; these dusty categories of affiliation have ceded to myriad national identities. Yet it would be...
