The latest news and events from the Bosnian Institute. http://www.bosnia.org.uk/ Following her participation in a European parliament debate, the president of Serbia's Helsinki Committee discusses divisions within the Serbian political elite over European integration, Kosovo, Croatia, Bosnia, international justice and human rights http://www.bosnia.org.uk/news/news_body.cfm?newsid=2532 2009-01-05T00:00:00-00:00 News & Analysis A rare dialogue between a Serbian writer and an Albanian one from Kosova, organized by Radio Free Europe's Most (Bridge) programme and showing a large degree of agreement on the present situation - and also on the future http://www.bosnia.org.uk/news/news_body.cfm?newsid=2533 2009-01-05T00:00:00-00:00 News & Analysis The eminent and widely translated Serbian writer Vladimir Arsenijevic outlines for 'Die Zeit' the calamitous relationship of his compatriots to the Albanians http://www.bosnia.org.uk/news/news_body.cfm?newsid=2534 2009-01-05T00:00:00-00:00 News & Analysis Until recently chair of the B-H Presidency, Silajdžic speaks inter alia about the concessions made by the EU to Republika Srpska, his own hopes for the Obama presidency, and Bosnia's relations with its neighbours Croatia and Serbia. http://www.bosnia.org.uk/news/news_body.cfm?newsid=2531 2008-12-26T00:00:00-00:00 News & Analysis In an article written for the Zagreb weekly Globus, the author of three books on Bosnia casts a critical eye over the record of the ICTY, where he worked for a time as a research analyst http://www.bosnia.org.uk/news/news_body.cfm?newsid=2530 2008-12-24T00:00:00-00:00 News & Analysis Lucid critique, translated from the Belgrade-based Pešcanik website, of the way in which EU mistakes and weaknesses have encouraged first Greece, then Slovenia and in the latter's wake Serbia to make trouble for their neighbours http://www.bosnia.org.uk/news/news_body.cfm?newsid=2529 2008-12-24T00:00:00-00:00 News & Analysis As EULEX deploys throughout Kosova - amid a welter of conflicting statements by EU, UN and US spokespeople, Serbian or Kosova politicians, and independent commentators, concerning the real significance of the deployment - one factor that cannot be ignored is the apparently widespread view reflected in recent popular demonstrations. http://www.bosnia.org.uk/news/news_body.cfm?newsid=2525 2008-12-09T00:00:00-00:00 News & Analysis Radio Free Europe reports on an insolent recent provocation by the RS government, in the form of a charge laid before the B-H state prosecutor against deputy high representative Rafi Gregorian and eight other prominent Bosnian and international individuals for ‘falsely accusing’ a number of RS state functionaries of abusing their official positions or authority. http://www.bosnia.org.uk/news/news_body.cfm?newsid=2526 2008-12-09T00:00:00-00:00 News & Analysis A scholarly and witty talk by the historian - and author of the recently published Kaldrma i asfalt on the modernisation of Belgrade in the years before World War I - discusses how liberal ideas were interpreted, and implemented or not, in the first years of Serbia’s independence, in ways that retain their relevance to this day. http://www.bosnia.org.uk/news/news_body.cfm?newsid=2527 2008-12-09T00:00:00-00:00 News & Analysis In an interview with the independent Sarajevo weekly Dani, an eminent Leipzig law professor and B-H academician contests the ethnic terms in which matters of constitutional law are discussed in Bosnia today, and the legal status of the Dayton accords themselves. http://www.bosnia.org.uk/news/news_body.cfm?newsid=2528 2008-12-09T00:00:00-00:00 News & Analysis The Sarajevo Film Festival runs from 15 to 23 August 2008 http://www.bosnia.org.uk/events/events_body.cfm?eventsID=273 2008-08-23T00:00:00-00:00 diary item Frontline Club, Thursday 31 July, 7.30 p.m. http://www.bosnia.org.uk/events/events_body.cfm?eventsID=272 2008-07-31T00:00:00-00:00 diary item http://www.bosnia.org.uk/events/events_body.cfm?eventsID=271 2007-10-11T00:00:00-00:00 diary item Friends of The Bosnian Institute meet regularly on the first Monday evening of each month at The Phoenix pub, Oxford Circus, 37 Cavendish Square, London, W1G 0PP http://www.bosnia.org.uk/events/events_body.cfm?eventsID=268 2007-07-02T00:00:00-00:00 diary item Amira played to a full house at the Barbican, London (020-7638 8891) at 7.30 p.m. on 1 June, on a programme that also included the Romanian Gypsy ensemble Taraf de Haïdouks. She received a rapturous reception for this, her first performance in the UK. Her debut album 'Rosa' is out now on Snail http://www.bosnia.org.uk/events/events_body.cfm?eventsID=267 2007-06-01T00:00:00-00:00 diary item The Bosnian Institute (London), in association with the Institute of History (Sarajevo), held a very successful international seminar over two days at St Antony's monastery in Sarajevo, on 'Bosnia-Herzegovina under the Habsburgs' http://www.bosnia.org.uk/events/events_body.cfm?eventsID=265 2007-04-27T00:00:00-00:00 seminar Balkan Song and Hurdy Gurdy madness at Pizza on the Park http://www.bosnia.org.uk/events/events_body.cfm?eventsID=266 2007-04-26T00:00:00-00:00 diary item A screening of the film by Refik Hodzic followed by a Q&A with the director. http://www.bosnia.org.uk/events/events_body.cfm?eventsID=264 2007-04-01T00:00:00-00:00 bi activity Kingston University, Room TH 112, 5.30 p.m. Ivo Zanic spoke about his new book 'Flag on the Mountain: a political anthropology of the war in Croatia and Bosnia' http://www.bosnia.org.uk/events/events_body.cfm?eventsID=263 2007-03-07T00:00:00-00:00 diary item Ivo Zanic's 'Flag on the Mountain: a political anthropology of war in Croatia and Bosnia' (hardback, 565 pp., £35)is published in February 2007 by Saqi Books in association with The Bosnian Institute. http://www.bosnia.org.uk/events/events_body.cfm?eventsID=261 2007-03-05T00:00:00-00:00 monthly forum