Remembering Wounded Landscapes: Environments as Shared Memory Sites Commemorating War Destruction in the Former Yugoslavia

On Monday, April 15 at 12:00, Joe Djordjevski will give a lecture Remembering Wounded Landscapes: Environments as Shared Memory Sites Commemorating War Destruction in the Former Yugoslavia.

Joe Djordjevski is a postdoctoral fellow with the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER) in Washington D.C., where he is working on an environmental history of the Yugoslav Wars titled “Landscapes of Transition and Conflict” (LATRACON). Primarily an environmental historian, he received his PhD at the University of California - San Diego in 2022, where he defended his dissertation “A Seaside for the Future: Yugoslav Socialism, Tourism, Environmental Protection, and the Eastern Adriatic Coastline, 1945-2000s,” which was a history of the transformation of the Adriatic seaside during the Cold War. His latest publication is a contribution titled “Sailing Through Heritage: Nautical Tourism, Environmental Protection, Conflict, and the Making of the Kornati National Park in Socialist Yugoslavia,” in the edited volume Entire of Itself?: Towards and Environmental History of Islands, to be published with The White Horse Press in 2024.