- This event has passed.
“The Political Life of Exported Steel” a talk by Zoran Vuckovac
April 20, 2016 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Over 20 years after the war, Omarska iron mine still lacks any formal marking that shows its infamous history as a former concentration camp for non-Serb population during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. The apparent lack is only a symptom of the silence actively produced around historical events constitutive of what is now known as Republika Srpska.
Taken into account the site’s turbulent history, namely the fact that the former socialist mine was turned a concentration camp only to become a private enterprise ran by the world’s biggest steel producer, ArcelorMittal, this study traces intricate ties between local nationalism and international capital by accounting for the dissenting cultural practices by actors in the country and abroad.
Dr. Vuckovac is a Frank McClosky Fellow at Indiana University.