Damir Arsenijevic: Combating Waste Colonialism: a perspective from Bosnia and Herzegovina
| Termin |
Mittwoch, 22. November 2023, 14.00 - 16.00 Uhr |
|---|---|
| Veranstaltungsart | Vorlesung/Vortrag |
| Einrichtung | Philosophische Fakultät II |
| Veranstalter | Zweigstelle Halle der SOG und Seminar für Slavistik |
| Veranstaltungsort | Seminarraum 10 (R. 2.37) |
| Straße | Emil Abderhalden-Str. 26-27 |
| PLZ/Ort | 06108 Halle (Saale) |
Beschreibung
Post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina today is poisoned politically, economically, and environmentally. In his lecture, Damir Arsenijevic will discuss how working with Bosnian cultural production, created at the intersection of art-activism-academia, challenges depoliticized positions on environmental violence. Three guiding questions are: How does art-activist production resist the ideological foreclosures of the expression of loss, destruction, and forgotten futures due to environmental violence? To what extent does such art-activist production open up access to public spaces, and engage citizens beyond gender, class, and generational divides, to articulate threats posed by the hidden and abandoned toxic waste? What potentially unique resources do these interventions offer to the sociality and politics of life in contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovina?
Professor Dr. Damir Arsenijevic, University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, is a cultural theorist and psychoanalyst in training, working at the intersection of academia, activism, and art. In 2019, he set up Zemlja-Voda-Zrak, a platform for environmental humanities.