dMSA event: The Transnational Aspect of Balkan Memories within Turmoils in Ukraine and Palestine.

Join us tomorrow for the first dMSA event of 2025: The Transnational Aspect of Balkan Memories within Turmoils in Ukraine and Palestine.

When? January 8, 2025 | 3:00 PM (UCT +1)

• Moderator: Agata Domachowska
• Speakers: Arban Mehmeti, Francesco Trupia, Monika Bobako

The current wars in Ukraine and Palestine have taken a toll on societies in whole Europe. In particular, both disruptive events have brought Balkan people to grapple again with the echo of their traumatic experiences of war and displacement. On a political ground, criticism has sparked by paving the way to debate the alignment of the region with the West and its position with the European Union. The aim of the panel will be to discuss how the reverberations of these key events unfolding in Eastern Europe and the Middle East influence the Balkan memoryscape in the context of people’s long-lasting traumas of the violent past. Since the Balkans continue to be the arena of interstate disputes and unfinished nation-buildings, this panel would explore the nexus of memory and traumas in the context of current East and West relations as well as the influences that transnational cultures and political aspirations have had  in the Southeast Europe.