The children of the Balkan wars: Approaches to a key European generation
A study by Rainer Gries, Eva Asboth and Christina Krakovsky
in German and English in the ERSTE Foundation Studies series
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University of Vienna, Aula am Campus, Altes AKH, Spitalgasse 2, first courtyard, building 11
Franz Vranitzky Chair for European Studies
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Everywhere in Europe, we meet members of a generation that was born into the agony and aporia of the socialist societies of the 1980s. Those who were born in Yugoslavia in the 1980s and early 1990s, which was shaken by conflicts and crises, became eye and ear witnesses to the Balkan wars. For these children and young people, the experience of warlike violence overlaps the experience of social and political upheaval in an existential way.
Today, they are young adults struggling for their present and future - in the successor societies of Yugoslavia and in Austria. In the coming years after the current crises in Europe, it will be the task of the members of this generation to continue, deepen and further develop the European integration of their countries, or possibly to set it in motion in the first place. And this despite the fact that many young adults, particularly in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, are now sceptical and disinterested in the European idea and the European Union.
ERSTE Foundation and the Franz Vranitzky Chair for European Studies at the University of Vienna, together with co-operation partners in Austria, Germany and Southeast Europe, have set themselves the task of observing and accompanying this future generation of Europe's supporters on a long-term scientific basis.
Our book „Generation In-Between“ is intended as an introductory survey of the history, psychology and politics of this key generation.
19:00
Introduction
Franz Karl Prüller, Chairman of the Board of ERSTE Foundation
19:10
The children of the Balkan wars: a seismogram of an ambivalent generation
Rainer Gries, holder of the Franz Vranitzky Chair for European Studies at the University of Vienna and professor at the Sigmund Freud Private University of Vienna
19:30
Dialogue between the generations: Tito's grandchildren - the future of Europe
Young migrants from the successor states of Yugoslavia have their say. They talk about their history and their view of Europe:
Azra Hodić, Sandra Radovanović and Matija Tunjić
with
Former Vice-Chancellor Dr Erhard Busek
The former coordinator of the European Union for the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe (2002-2008) is now the director of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe.
and
Ambassador (retired) Dr Wolfgang Petritsch
The former United Nations High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina (1999-2002) is now President of the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation and a board member of the Bruno Kreisky Forum.
Moderated by Filip Radunovic, Project Manager Programme Europe, ERSTE Foundation
ERSTE Foundation Franz Vranitzky Chair for European Studies
in co-operation with
Sigmund Freud Private University. Bruno Kreisky Forum, IDM