Russian/Eurasian Studies Program, Experimental Humanities Program, and Art History and Visual Culture Program Present
A Lecture by Tijana Vujosevic, University of Western Australia
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Olin Humanities, Room 102
5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Of Animals and Seas: Yugoslav Geopolitics and Global Space during the Cold War
During the 1950s and 1960s, Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito occupied the high seas for months, sailing with his fleet to Asian and African countries, which he tried to recruit for the Non-Aligned movement. As part of his diplomatic performance of maritime conquest and international mediation, Tito collected animals-as-souvenirs of embodied diplomacy, which were transported by military ships and collected in a veritable Noah’s Ark: the zoos on the Adriatic island of Brioni. This lecture will focus on these peculiar practices of embodied diplomacy and its entanglements with the politics of collecting, transporting, assembling, and safeguarding animals.
For more information, call 845-758-4388, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Olin Humanities, Room 102