Int. Conf on YU - Bradford - broad details

Wed Mar 22 00:29:01 UTC 2000

On the anniversary of NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia.....

Friday 24 - Sunday 26th March 2000
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The Yugoslav Crisis: international responses and the way forward
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(please note the conference proper commences on Saturday morning although
there are a number of events on the evening of Friday 24th March and that
bookings for cheap accomodation have to be made before Monday 20th March)

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Please also note that Father Sava from Kosovo has kindly agreed to
participate in the conference!
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An International Conference with Yugoslav music, food, theatre, film and silent
vigil - almost a festival for Yugoslavia!

Venue: Richmond Building, University of Bradford, UK

organised by:

the West Yorkshire Committee for Peace in the Balkans and the
Rsearch Unit in South East European Studies, University of Bradford, in
association with the City of Bradford Metropolitan Council

Supported by:

Committee for Peace in the Balkans (London); Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament;
National Peace Council; Refugee Action; Northern Refugee Centre, Sheffield;
United Nations Association;  Pax Christi; International Voluntary Service;
Anglican Pacifist Fellowship; ECRE/ICVA Reference Group on Former Yugoslavia,
led by the British Refugee Council

http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/rusees/conference.html

Keynote Speakers:
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Father Sava
Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Kosovo and Metohija
Gracanica Monastery, Pristina,
Kosovo and Metohija

Rev. Dr. Paul Oestreicher, International Consultant, Coventry Cathedral
a political scientist long associated with eastern Europe and the
anti-apartheid movement... recently spent a month in Belgrade for the Church of
England

Larry Hollingsworth, former (and controversial!) head of UNHCR, Bosnia... now a
freelance consultant and advisor to Christian Aid

Paul Watson, Balkan's Bureau Chief, Los Angeles Times
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist... one of the few journalists to remain in
Yugoslavia during the bombing... and fiercely independent

Felicity Arbuthnot, journalist
... specialises in social and environmental issues with special knowledge of
Iraq and the effects of Depleted Uranium and cluster bombs...a regular
contributor to the Daily Herald and New Internationalist and others...

Bob Marshall Andrews MP QC
...will be talking on the legal aspects of the recent war

Stephen Henthorne, Defense Studies Foundation, Louisiana and the Royal United
Services Institute

Programme of Events
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Friday 24th March (the anniversary of NATO bombing)
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5.00pm Feature film, one night only by special arrangement, 'Pretty Village
Pretty Flame' (Lepa Sela Lepo Gore)(dir. Srdjan Dragojevic), Pictureville,
National Museum of Film, Photography and Television, Discounts for conference
ticket holders

'an electrifying war movie, gripping and dense, frequently very funny, a
masterpiece' Misha Glenny, Sight and Sound

'Wilder in its black humour than MASH, bolder in its vision of politics and
the military than any movie Stanley Kubrick has ever made' Emanuel Levy,
Variety

'...a powerful assault on the insanity of war' New York Times

'...hurls the Bosnian war into our faces like a hunk of burning debris...war
in the nineties is different: war profiteers hawk TVs while chatting on
cellphones and the spoils of war are a Gameboy...It burns. It rocks. The
soundtrack stutters in your head. See it on the big screen if you can'
Jonathan Miller, Resnap

7.45pm Meeting: 'Promoting a Culture of Peace in the North of England -
creating partners' called by the National Peace Council @ IHS Department, 26
Pemberton Drive, Bradford University

9.30pm -10.30pm Candlelight Silent Vigil, Queen Victoria's Memorial, City
Centre, Bradford . Please wear dark or black clothes and bring a candle!.
Called by Yorkshire CND with the support of the international conference.

9.00pm - 2.00am . 'Yugoslav Rock Night', New Beehive Inn (nightclub), Manningham
Road, Bradford

Saturday 25th March
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09.30am  International Conference  - registration and coffee
10.30am Opening by the Lord Mayor of Bradford

Day of Seminars and Workshops with keynote speakers

5.00pm close

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8.00pm Theatre Production, Bradford Alhambra Studio Theatre.
'...is normal!' a play by Ray Brown about his friends in former Yugoslavia
with 'Finetime' Fonteyne and Sandra Hunt

'...is normal! is terrific. Ray Brown has found an important way to write about
important matters in a time when trivia rules...' Trevor Griffiths

'...like an except from a surrealist diary, yet it's based on the reality of
what was my country...' Goran Stefanovski

'...is normal!' is a funny, human, spellbinding mixture of fact, fiction,
performance and dramatic readings which also features music and voices recorded
live in former Yugoslavia.

+ Yugoslav art exhibition, Yugoslav wine and food

profits to the Balkan Initiatives Community Fund
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Sunday 26th

10.00am - Conference - Seminars, Workshops and Plenary Sessions
5.00pm close
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Seminars/Workshops
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Staffed by leading experts and practitioners from Moscow, via Yugoslavia,
Croatia, Bosnia to the US - and of course the UK.....

International and strategic Issues
The Aid and NGO Response
Challenging Nationalism
The Economic Dimension
Environmental Destruction
Culture and the Yugoslav Wars
Direct Aid and Community Development
Conflict Prevention and Resolution
Women and Peacework
Peace Activism
Local government, town twinning and peace-building
Refugees in Britain and Yugoslavia
Peacework in political parties

Tickets/Booking
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at door

Enquiries
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Contact:

Bob Jiggins

For the international conference on Yugoslavia see
http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/rusees/conference.html

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Tel: +44(0)7050 615511
Fax: +44(0)7050 644569
Email: rjiggins at bradford.ac.uk

--
Bob Jiggins

For the international conference on Yugoslavia see
http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/rusees/conference.html

Announcement mailing list send blank message to:
YU-conference-Bradford-subscribe at egroups.com

Tel: +44(0)7050 615511
Fax: +44(0)7050 644569
Email: rjiggins at bradford.ac.uk

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