Listening to the Women of Bosnia
New York University will host “Listening to the Women of Bosnia,” a screening and book presentation on the Bosnian genocide.
Date: Monday, October 17, 7-9 p.m.
Place: NYU’s Cantor Film Center, 36 E. 8th St. (at University Place)
The event’s speakers include:
- Margot Wallström, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict at the United Nations
- Mirsada Colakovic, Deputy Representative, Permanent Mission of Bosnia-Herzegovina at the United Nations
- Peggy Kuo, former prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
- Mohamed Sacerby, former minister and ambassador of Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Gregory Stanton, professor at George Mason University, founder and director of Genocide Watch
- Pamela Hogan, PBS Producer
- and author, Selma Leydesdorff, professor at University of Amsterdam and CNRS NYU Research Fellow
The evening will include a screening of Hogan’s “I Came to Testify,” the story of how a group of 16 women who had been imprisoned and raped by Serb-led forces in the Bosnian town of Foca stepped forward to take the witness stand in an international court of law.
“I Came to Testify” is part of PBS’s five-part series, “Women, War & Peace,” which premieres in October.
In addition, participants will discuss Leydesdorff’s “Surviving the Bosnian Genocide: The Women of Srebrenica Speak” (2011), an account of the July 1995 Srebrenica killings by the Army of the Serbian Republic.
Srebrenica had been designated a “safe area” by the U.N. and was ostensibly under the protection of Dutch soldiers. Leydesdorff’s work is composed of interviews with female survivors of the Srebrenica massacre.
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