Each year, the Division of Arts and Humanities celebrates its faculty who have recently been promoted to the rank of professor by asking each to present a public lecture on his or her body of research or creative activity and current projects.
Dr. Yana Hashamova of the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures will present “War Rapes: Redefining Motherhood, Fatherhood, and Nationhood.” Based on Slavenka Drakulic’s S. A Novel about the Balkans (1999) and Jasmila Zbanic’s Esma’s Secret (2006), this paper considers the horrors of war rapes and their consequences for a generation of women who were forced to experience motherhood under transgressive circumstances, the mytho-creation of fatherhood, and the new(old) face of nationhood in Bosnia.
If you would like to attend, please RSVP.
