Commemorative acts surrounding modern warfare and mass deaths have been first and foremost practiced within a nation-state framework. However, if looked more carefully, many boundary cases appear that do not follow the state-based perspective. The existence of deaths in borderzone, rather, might critique such a fixed framework. In this symposium, we will consider the memory and commemoration of war and mass death from the crossing perspective of various borders such as nation, ethnicity, gender, religion, Vietnam, Japan, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. 

【Date/Time】October 23 (Wed) 13:00-17:00

【Venue】Library Conference Room, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Sarajevo

【Speakers】

Tam Ngo (Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the Netherlands)

Akira Nishimura (The University of Tokyo)

Elma Hašimbegović (History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

【Discussant】

Dino Abazović (University of Sarajevo)

【Program (tentative)】
13:00-13:10 Opening Remarks
13:10-13:40 Tam Ngo "For whose soul the bell tolls? Commemorating civil war dead and the challenges of reconciliation in postwar Vietnam"
13:40-14:10 Akira Nishimura “Hibakusha Masked by Borderline: Atomic Bomb Victims from Amami Archipelago”
14:10-14:45 Questions and Answers
14:45-15:15 Coffee Break
15:15-15:45 Elma Hašimbegović (Title TBA)
15:45-16:30 Discussion
16:30-17:00 Closing Remarks (Dino Abaović)