Events

"Genocide in the Former Yugoslavia"
A public address followed by open discussion

Dr. Marko Hoare
Kingston University, London

Friday, February 24, 2012
10am - noon
Ruffner Hall G004B
University of Virginia

Complimentary food and beverages provided.

Dr. Marko Hoare is a Reader at Kingston University specializing in the history of South East Europe, in particular of Yugoslavia, Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.  He is the author of The History of Bosnia: From the Middle Ages to the Present Day (Saqi, 2007); Genocide and Resistance in Hitler's Bosnia: The Partisans and the Chetniks, 1941-1943 (Oxford, 2006); and How Bosnia Armed (Saqi, 2004).  He is currently working on a history of twentieth-century Serbia.  Prior to his present post at Kingston University, Dr. Hoare was a Research Fellow at the Faculty of History of the University of Cambridge, a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, a war-crimes investigator at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and a research assistant at the Bosnian Institute in London. He is currently the Greater Europe Section Co-Director of the Henry Jackson Society, an independent think-tank promoting democratic geopolitics. He is also an advisory editor of Democratiya: The Labour Friends of Iraq Review of Books, and a member of the editorial board of Spirit of Bosnia, an international, interdisciplinary, bilingual, online journal.

Sponsored by the Page-Barbour Initiative on Forced Migration, the Center for International Studies, and the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies.