Girlhood at War

• Date: 12 March
• Time: 13:00 - 15:00
• Location: Leiden University

This book tells the true story of a young girl growing up during the Kosovo war and its immediate aftermath following Kosovo's liberation by NATO troops in 1999. Through her embodied experiences, the book exposes the tangible and everyday acts and events of the war, providing brutal insight into the impact of war and the politics of subjugation.

Author

Vjosa Musliu is associate professor at the Democratic Futures Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Her research focuses on international interventions, EU external relations and the way the EU creates and maintains its relations with its ‘others’ and how such practices also creep in in academic work. She is author of Girlhood At War: Interpreting War and Liberation in Kosovo (Bloomsbury Academic); Europeanization and Statebuilding as Everyday Practices. Performing Europe in the Western Balkans (Routledge Studies on Intervention and Statebuilding). She is a co-editor (with Itziar Mujika Chao) of Feminist Encounters of Statebuilding. The role of women in making the state in Kosovo; (with Gëzim Visoka) of the edited volume Unravelling Liberal Interventionism. Local Critiques of Statebuilding in Kosovo (Worlding Beyond the West Series). She is also board director at the Youth Initiative for Human Rights in Kosovo.

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