Srebrenica Calling

Georgio Konstandi is an MA student of South-East European Studies, focusing on Bosnian History and the Bosnian War. During the summer of 2022, he spent two months volunteering at the Srebrenica Memorial Center in Potočari, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Georgio has been collating testimonies from survivors of the genocidal ethnic cleansing that took place from 1992-1995 in Srebrenica and the Drina Valley, as part of his broader project ‘Srebrenica Calling’. ‘Srebrenica Calling’ will be a unique educational resource for British schools and universities, on the 1992-1995 genocide in eastern Bosnia.

In this seminar, Georgio explores his findings while researching survivor testimonies and transcripts from the Bosnian Serb wartime Assembly. Specifically, Georgio’s research hopes to shed light on the question of Bosniak responses to the Republika Srpska’s discursive regime, which reconstructed Bosniak civilians as ‘Turks’, ‘extremists’ and ‘Ustaša’. Moreover, his project ‘Srebrenica Calling’ hopes to show how uncovering these responses can allow us to reconsider the memorialisation of the genocide today.

Image credit: Georgio Konstandi