Elon University School of Law is pleased to host the following special forum, free and open to the public:
War Crimes in Bosnia-Herzegovina
and Their Aftermath
Exploring the Role of Historical, Visual, and Scientific Evidence in Trials before the International Criminal Tribunal of the former Yugoslavia and Its Impact on Social Reconstruction
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 from 6 to 8 p.m.
Elon University School of Law, Classroom 207
201 N. Greene St., Greensboro, NC
PANELISTS:
David Crowe, Professor of History, Elon University, Professor of Legal History, Elon University School of Law, and author of Crimes of State, Past and Present: Government-Sponsored Atrocities and International Legal Responses (Routledge, 2010); The Holocaust: Roots, History, and Aftermath (Westview Press, 2008); Oskar Schindler: The Untold Account of His Life, Wartime Activities, and the True Story Behind The List (Basic Books, 2004); A History of the Gypsies of Eastern Europe and Russia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2nd Ed., 2007).
Adnan Džumhur, Originally from Bosnia, Džumhur currently teaches Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His primary academic interest is in documentary theory and production. He is currently completing a feature length documentary about the relations between the factual and the imaginary, history and landscape, and memory and language in the context of Central and Eastern Europe’s recent past. Starting from the depictions of life under Communism and secondly, the war in the former Yugoslavia in literature and film, the film examines how our linguistic and cultural habits shape our perception of events that we experience primarily through text and image.
Sarah Wagner, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Wagner received her PhD in anthropology at Harvard University and holds a Master’s in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. Her ethnography, To Know Where He Lies: DNA Technology and the Search for Srebrenica’s Missing (University of California Press, 2008), explores the sociopolitical significance of the DNA-based technology used to identify the missing of postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is also the coauthor of Srebrenica in the Aftermath of Genocide (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
MODERATOR:
Helen Grant, Professor of Law and Director of the Humanitarian Immigration Law Clinic, Elon University School of Law