Welcome note 9:00 (Coffee)

IDENTITY PANEL 9:15-10:45

Chair: Dr Cemal Burak Tansel (University of Sheffield)

Silvia, Nicola, Felsberg Institute for Academic Research and Education, Research Assistant Making and breaking collective identities. A comparison of Iraqi-Kurdistan and Kosovo

Behar Sadriu, SOAS University of London, Senior Teaching Fellow The Syria War and identity in the Balkans

Mate Subašić, University of Liverpool, PhD student In between nationalising fields: Croatia’s policies towards Croats in Herzegovina

Júlia Palik, Corvinus University of Budapest, Peace Research Institute of Oslo", PhD student Rebel disarmament, identity and game theory: The case of the Yemeni Houthis

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VICTIMHOOD PANEL (11-12:30)

Chair: Professor Adam Fagan (QMLU)

Kalina Yordanova, MSF (Doctors without borders), Psychologist Melancholic response to war violence and the emergence of group assumption of post-ness

Ivor Sokolic, London School of Economics and Political Science, Research Officer Skirts and Words: The Art of Acknowledgment, War Time Rape and Albanian Nationhood in Kosovo

Nena Mocnik, University of Turku, Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, Finland, Post-doctoral Researcher WHO ARE BOSNIAN RAPE-VICTIMS? Victimised Cautiousness & Narrative Fetishism in Post-War Identity Construction

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MEMORY PANEL (13:30-15:00)

Chair: Professor Erika Harris (University of Liverpool)

Giuditta Fontana, University of Birmingham, Birmingham Fellow The Sound of Silence: Narratives of War in the Education and Museums of Lebanon and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Vjeran Pavlakovic, University of Rijeka, Associate Professor From a Stormy Past to a Troubled Future: Regional Reconciliation and Commemorative Practices of Croatia's Homeland War

Taylor McConnell, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, PhD Researcher in Sociology “KRVatska”, “Branitelji”, “Žrtve”: (Re-)framing Croatia’s politics of memory and identity

Lea David, School of Sociology, UCD, Marie Curie Research Fellow Why memory matters? Findings from Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Israel and Palestine

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SPATIALIZATION PANEL (15:15-16:45)

Chair: Dr Hannes Baumann (University of Liverpool)

Susane Ford, University of York, "Associate Lecturer in International Relations" Mapping post-conflict communities: Lessons from Mostar

Gruia Badescu, School of Geography, University of Oxford, Research Associate Architectures of Memory: Post-war Urban Reconstruction and Shifting Identities in Sarajevo and Beirut

Daniel Walter, Lund University, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Prospective PhD Student Commemoration Refurbished - The New Generation of Iran-Iraq War Murals in Tehran

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