Dienstag, 12. November 2024, 18:30 - 20:00 iCal

Piro Rexhepi

A Yugoslav Woman in Teheran: Nonaligned Muslims in the Margins of Socialism

Im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Current Gender Research in the Post-Yugoslav Space: Postsocialism, Semiperiphery, Coloniality"

Universität Wien, HS 41, Gerda-Lerner-Hörsaal;
Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien

Vortrag

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Abstract

On March 23, 1983, Yugoslav security forces raided Melika Salihbegović's (1945–2017) apartment Albanska Street in Sarajevo to find the personal letter she had written to Ayatollah Khomeini asking for permission to move to Iran. Together with 13 other Muslim activists she would be sentenced to prison in 1983 for revolutionary activities against the state in what came to be known as the 'Sarajevo trials' which instigated the beginning of state sponsored attack on Muslim communities in Yugoslavia that would later result in the Bosnian genocide. Through a reading of Salihbegovićs' life, this presentation aims to illustrate how subterranean and subversive movements with itineraries and imaginaries that exceeded the capitalist-socialist binding Cold War ‘choices’ sought to rehabilitate from the colonial damage and transcend the modern/colonial matrix.

 

About the speaker

Piro Rexhepi is a research fellow at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at UCL. He is the author of White Enclosures: Racial Capitalism and Coloniality along the Balkan Route (Duke University Press, 2023).

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Veranstalter

Referat Genderforschung der Universität Wien

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Kontakt

Dorith Weber
Referat Genderforschung
01/4277/18452
dorith.weber@univie.ac.at

Erstellt am Freitag, 11. Oktober 2024, 11:43
Letzte Änderung am Mittwoch, 23. Oktober 2024, 10:27