Local History, Ethnicity, and Intercommunal Violence

Max Bergholz (Associate Professor of History at Concordia University)

27 September 2018, 16:00-19:00, Sala dei Levrieri, Villa Salviati

During two terrifying days and nights in early September 1941, the lives of nearly two thousand men, women, and children were taken savagely by their neighbors in Kulen Vakuf, a small rural community straddling today’s border between northwest Bosnia and Croatia. In his prize-winning book, Violence as a Generative Force: Identity, Nationalism, and Memory in a Balkan Community (Cornell University Press, 2016), Max Bergholz tells the story of the sudden and perplexing descent of this once peaceful multiethnic community into extreme violence.



Cite this blog post
Benoit Vaillot (2018, September 27). Local History, Ethnicity, and Intercommunal Violence. Nationalism Working Group. Retrieved April 19, 2024, from https://doi.org/10.58079/sgwf

Benoit Vaillot

Agrégé et docteur en histoire • Chercheur postdoctoral Labex SMS à Framespa UMR 5136 (Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès) • Chercheur associé ARCHE UR 3400 (Université de Strasbourg) • Frontières, souverainetés et identités XIXe-XXIe siècles • Border/Borderlands Studies

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