The Balkans - A Future in Present Tense
With this speech, the Serbian author Biljana Srbljanović opened the Balkan Case Challenge 2009 held in Vienna from 6 to 11 July 2009. This annual competition, supported by ERSTE Foundation, aims at opening up opportunities and new perspectives for [...]
The Balkans - From Noun to Verb (and back)
“I must admit that I don’t like the name the Balkans.” With this statement in her speech, the Croatian author Slavenka Drakulic opened the two-day symposium Return to Europe – Talking Balkans, held at ORF RadioKulturhaus in Vienna [...]