Intergenerational transmission of the memory of the war: The Cases of Families in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Bosnian diaspora in Europe

Research area 1 – Displacements, “Dépaysement” and Discrepencies: People, Knowledge and Practices

Contact: emina.zoletic@cefres.cz

The doctoral research project deals with the intergenerational transmission of memory, with the focus on the first generation of Bosnians who experienced the 1992-1995 war and their children, born after the war in Sarajevo and currently living in the EU countries, UK and the U.S. The study of war memory transmission has great social and political significance. The past does not simply disappear; lived experience eventually becomes a narrative curated among one generation and passed on to another. What is more, collective memory may lie dormant ready to emerge generations or even centuries later. The principal aim of this project is to explore the dynamics of intergenerational transmission of the memory of war among families living in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the EU Bosnian diaspora, with particular focus on how the past is remembered, e.g., selection, emphasis, recalibration, and for what purpose, e.g., identity construction, esteem needs, empowerment, social change etc.

She is currently a Fulbright visiting student researcher at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCCA), Syracuse University, New York, United States.

In August 2023, Emina started a new role as a Fulbright visiting student researcher at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, collaborating with the Department of Anthropology and the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC) at Syracuse University, NY, USA. During this appointment, she will closely work with her Fulbright supervisor, Associate Professor Azra Hromadzic, and Dr. Ralph E. Montonna, Professor for Teaching and Education of Undergraduates. She will have access to scholars at Cornell University. She will continue to work on her PhD project related to war, intergenerational transmission of memories and narratives, diaspora, and migration.

This fellowship is sponsored for one academic year, 2023-2024, by the US Embassy in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Education

• 2023-2024: A Fulbright visiting student researcher, Syracuse University, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCCA), Syracuse University, New York, United States. https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/program-for-the-advancement-research-on-conflict-collaboration

• 2020: Doctoral school in social sciences, sociology, University of Warsaw, PhD program

• 2019-2020: Master in Public health – Comparative Effectiveness Research, University Paris Descartes, Faculty of Medicine

• 2016-2017: Master of health sciences, specialization Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Centre Rotterdam, the Netherlands

• 2011-2019: Postgraduate program in  clinical psychology, specialization in the Clinical Psychology, University of Zagreb, Croatia, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

• 2003-2008: Graduate Psychologist, University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Psychology

Work experiences

• 2019-2020: Internship research, Centre de Recherche Épidémiologie et StatistiqueS (CRESS-UMR1153) Equipe METHODS Inserm, Université Paris Descartes
• 2009-2019: Clinical psychologist, University Clinical Centre Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 2008-2009: Psychologist, Foundation for Local Democracy, Shelter for women andchildren, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Teaching experiences

• 2022: University of Warsaw, Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies. Course: Institutions, structures and technologies – R programming
• 2022: Riseup-PPD’s COST Action (CA18138) Fifth Training School “Peripartum Mental Health Disorders Prevention for Health Professional.I have been a trainer of the sessions “Introduction to prevention: Prevention and methods for programs evaluation” and “Prevention program design”

Publication

• Blackburn, A. M., & Vestergren, S, & the COVIDiSTRESS II Consortium (2022). COVIDiSTRESS diverse dataset on psychological and behavioural outcomes one year into the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific Data, 9(1), 1-25
• Nguyen, V,T, Rivière, P, Ripolle, P, Barnier, J, Vuillemot, R, Ferrand, , Cohen-Boulakia, S, Ravaud, P, Boutron, I, The COVID-NMA Consortium Team (2021). Research response to COVID-19 needed better coordination and collaboration: a living mapping of registered trials. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. Vol 130, 107-116
• Sehanovic, A, Smajlovic, Dz, Tupkovic, E, Ibrahimagic, O.C,Kunic, S, Dostovic,Z,  Zoletic, E, Pasic, P (2020). Cognitive Disorders in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis. Mater Sociomed. 32(3): 191-195
• Sehanovic, A,Kunic, S, Ibrahimagic, O, C,  Smajlovic, Dz, Tupkovic, E, Mehicevic. A, Zoletic, E (2020). Contributing Factors to the Quality of Life in Multiple Sclerosis. Medical Archives 74(5):368
• Salihović, D., Smajlović,Đž, Mijajlović, M., Zoletić, E, Ibrahimagić, O.(2018). Cognitive syndromes after the first stroke. Neurological Sciences, Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-018-3447-6
• Zoletic, E., Durakovic-Belko,E (2009). Body image distortion, perfectionism, eating disorders in group of fashion models and ballerinas. Danubine psychiatry Croatian medical journal. Vol. 21, No. 3, 302–309

Awards

• 2023-2024: A Fulbright Visiting Student Researcher. The Fulbright fellowship for one academic year to continue her Ph.D. research at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, NY, USA.
• 2022-2023: CEFRES scholarship as Young researcher fellowship for research area area Displacements, “Dépaysement” and Discrepencies: People, Knowledge and Practices
• 2022-2023: ZEIT-Stiftung EbelinFoundation Germany, scholarship one year within the program Beyond Borders and Migration
• 2022-2025: Grant holder, NCN Preludium 20 grant, in the panel HS6, supporting my research project
• 2019-2020: Scholarship Erasmus MIEM, France
• 2016- 2017: Scholarship in ERAWEB programme (Erasmus Mundus Western Balkans) for master program Health Sciences, Netherland

Membership

• 2022: current Member of COST Action network, CA20105 – Slow Memory: Transformative Practices for Times of Uneven and Accelerating Change
• 2021: current Member ofthe Memory Studies association
• 2021: currentMember of the COVIDiSTRESS II consortium
• 2020: currentMember of the Centre for Research on Social Memory at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw
• 2009: currentMember of Society of psychologist in the Federation Bosnia and Herzegovina,  The Committee for Ethical Issues

Preaching the Passion in 14th-century Bohemia: The rhetoric of Good Friday sermons

Contact: Kalashnikova_Olga[@]phd.ceu.edu

Olga Kalashnikova is a doctoral candidate at the Central European University in Budapest. Her PhD dissertation, entitled Preaching the Passion in 14th-century Bohemia: The rhetoric of Good Friday sermons contributes to CEFRES research area 2.

My dissertation aims at shedding light on the nature of late medieval Bohemian piety by tracing the evolution and peculiarities of preaching techniques for Good Friday in fourteenth-century Bohemia, from the 1330s till the 1380s. Good Friday sermons were one of the most elaborated forms of late medieval preaching and became crucial in shaping the religious devotion of the time, which increasingly focused on the commemoration of the Passion of Christ. The main goal of the dissertation is to examine the theological and communicative methods of composing and presenting Good Friday sermons, the peculiarities of Bohemian preaching styles, and possible reasons for these characteristics.

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The impact of the environmental crises upon international law

Research Area 2 –Norms and Transgression

Contact: arthur.thevenet(@)cefres.cz

The environment is a recent concept in the legal sciences. Because it is part of the human sciences, law has not escaped the fact that it has evolved over the centuries, reflecting the major issues facing humanity.

From a legal point of view, international texts began to take environmental protection into account in the 1970s and 1980s (Stockholm Declaration, Montreal Protocol, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change).

Nevertheless, acts harmful to the environment on an international scale are not yet clearly punished. The issue of the crime of ecocide, recognised only in a dozen of States, has not yet emerged at the international level and is not included in the category of international crimes recognised before the International Criminal Court.

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The interdisciplinary selection jury of the CEFRES mobility grants auditioned 12 candidates on May 31, 2022. It congratulates all the candidates for the high quality of their file and their hearing.

After deliberating, the jury have decided as follows:

Platform CEFRES Grants

1. Jan Kremer (Charles University, PedF): Digital Game as a Representation of History

Waiting list

1. Debraj Banerjee (Charles University, FHS): The Nation and its Aliens: Contentions of Citizenship under a Hindu Nationalist regime

Young Fellows Grants

1. Vojtěch Pojar (CEU): Experts in Post-imperial Transitions: Entanglements and Diverging Trajectories of Eugenicists between the Habsburg Empire and the Nation States, 1912–1939
2. Sabrina Rospert (Université Paris 1/LMU Munich): Penser et percevoir la désobéissance contre l’État. Vers une histoire
3. Emina Zoletic (University of Warsaw): Intergenerational transmission of the memory of the war: The Cases of Families in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Bosnian diaspora in Europe

Waiting list

1. Adrien Beauduin (CEU): Réarticulations de genre, sexualité, race et classe dans la droite radicale populiste en Tchéquie et en Pologne

The following candidates are proposed to become «associated fellows» to CEFRES for the year 2022–2023

• Laura Brody (Charles University, FF/Université Paul Valéry): Imagining Imvros: Past and Present Narratives of Place, Memory and Belonging from Within the Imvriot Diaspora
• Ciro Porcaro (Charles University/ Sapienza Roma): Metonymy: Theoretical Perspectives and Migration Discourse in German Language