In 1941, the Nazis invaded Sarajevo, a Bosnian city that was home to Muslims, Christians, and Jews. Over the next four years, the town became embroiled in civil war, genocide, and resistance. This talk discusses ways that local Sarajevans responded to the crises of the war, revealing a series of contradictions in the ways people thought about race, religion, and politics in Nazi Europe.
Emily Greble is an historian of the Balkans and Eastern Europe. Her research interests include Islam in Europe, the transition from empire to nation-state, civil conflict, and local responses to socialism. Greble’s book, Sarajevo, 1941-1945: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Hitler's Europe (Cornell, 2011) examines the persistence of institutions and networks in the city of Sarajevo under Nazi occupation during the Second World War. She is currently writing a history of Muslims in the post-Ottoman Balkans, which explores how Muslims living in new European states engaged with discourses of citizenship, migration, and secularism, and how Islamic institutions, like a Sharia judiciary, became integrated into modern European state structures.
This speaker series is co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (Rothman Endowment), the History Department, International Studies Center, Center for Global Islamic Studies, Office of Research, Department of Literatures, Languages, and Cultures.
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