FAMA’s lecture at the British Library
Former BBC correspondent Kate Adie, hosts an evening with speakers Barbara Bond, who reveals the extraordinary world of the silk escape mapssmuggled by MI9 into WW2 prisons, and Miran Norderland
who was born in Sarajevo and has led the documentation of the Siege of Sarajevo and the fall of Yugoslavia through powerful maps and other media.
Kate Adie is synonymous with war zones. In nearly 20 years as a BBC correspondent, including 14 as chief news correspondent, Kate reported fromthe front line of some of the world’s most notorious events. From the protests of Tiananmen Square to the Gulf War, Bosnia and Rwanda. Awardedan OBE in 1993, Adie has won numerous awards for her broadcasting as well as for her bestselling books, which include her autobiography TheKindness of Strangers (2002), Nobody’s Child (2005) and Fighting on the Home Front: The Legacy of Women in World War One. She presentsFrom Our Own Correspondent on BBC Radio 4.
Miran Norderland has been a key figure for over 20 years in FAMA Collection/Methodology, one of the largest independent collections of multi-media projects documenting the Siege of Sarajevo (1992-1996), the Fall of Yugoslavia (1991-1999), Srebrenica Genocide (1995) and theDayton Peace Accords negotiations. Parallel to his ‘Culture of Remembrance’ work in the Western Balkans, Miran has contributed to theInternational War Crimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia; the DPAP on the implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords, and manages the Tufts University Dialogue BiH2.0 project - dedicated to helping consolidate liberal and pluralist democracy in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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