In Sweden, activities to present Bosnian and Herzegovinian society have intensified, and in early February a round table and exhibition were held in Norrköping.
On February 1, an exhibition by authors Adis Elias Fejzić and Hariz Halilović entitled “Missing You: Emptiness, Absences and Silences in Bosnian Places of Pain” was presented at the Stadsbiblioteket in Norrköping.
The authors also held a meeting with the Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Sweden, Bojan Šošić, and the Swedish parliamentarian of Bosnian and Herzegovinian origin, Azra Muranović. They discussed the possibilities of presenting Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sweden in a cultural and scientific sense.
On February 2nd, a roundtable discussion “Voices of the Unspeakable – Missing People, Missing Stories after Genocide” was held at the Arbetets Museum in Norrköping. The panelists were Professor Adnan Mahmutović, Doctor Hasan Nuhanović, Professor Hariz Halilović and Doctor Adis Elias Fejzić.
This interactive roundtable discussion offered a discussion on different approaches to researching and presenting the social, cultural, political and psychological legacies of the genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
As part of the activities, Professor Hariz Halilović gave a lecture at the University of Stockholm on the topic “Bosnian and Herzegovinian Literature in the Diaspora”, Klix.ba writes.
