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Crimes of War, Crimes of Peace: Destruction of libraries during and after the Balkan Wars of the 1990s

Filed under GSLIS Events and Meetings
Posted by GSLIS, February 05, 2007
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The first Brown Bag Lecture will be on Tuesday, February 13th at 1:00 p.m. in P-207.

Presentation by Andras Riedlmayer, LIS ‘88, Bibliographer in Islamic Arts & Architecture, Harvard University.

This event is co-sponsored by the GSLIS Research Colloquium and Simmons International Relations (SIR).

Snacks & drinks will be provided.

Abstract: The Balkan wars of the 1990s brought about the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and the forced dislocation of millions more, singled out for persecution because of their ethnic and religious identity. The violence against human beings was accompanied by the systematic destruction of the cultural record - libraries, archives, and other cultural heritage.

This lecture will put the destruction of libraries during the wars in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Kosovo into a broader theoretical and legal context. It will examine patterns and methods of destruction; the track record of legal and practical measures to protect endangered collections in time of armed conflict; the ongoing quest to bring those responsible for attacks on libraries to justice; the responses of the international community and of the library community during the war and in the post-war period; and the growing recognition of the nexus between cultural heritage and human rights.