Balkan Stories

15/03/2024

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Henry Ford

23/11/2021

https://balkansinsite.pollsandpolitics.gr/oi-agnostes-topothesies-ston-istoriko/

Γράφει ο Συμεών Μιχάλκοβ «Η ιστορία ανήκει στους νεκρούς… Η ανακάλυψη ανήκει στους ζωντανούς». – Samuel L. Norman Στην ιστορία της παγκόσμιας αρχαιολογίας, υπήρξαν δεκάδ...

23/10/2021

"Βαλκανικοί Αντίλαλοι" Thessaloniki Photobiennale 2021. Μια αναπάντεχη έκθεση φωτογραφίας από τον Martin Koenig, έναν λαογράφο με ενδιαφέρον στους χορούς των βαλκανικών λαών, που "όργωσε" τα Βαλκάνια απο το '60 μεχρι το '80. Μην την χάσετε.

21/10/2021

The exhibition at the .

09/11/2019

"As in any good story about castigation within a community, and more specifically about castigation and sexual change (from Virginia Woolf’s Orlando to Herculine Barbin’s Diaries, or Panos Koutras’ Strella in recent cinema), the experience of social exclusion is depicted through society’s behavior towards and anger with whoever is different. The rejection of Egor as a woman is a rejection of his freedom to be a full member of society, and the moral frame that makes it permissible to take his freedom away is a projection of society’s contradictions. Whoever opens pandora’s box of difference and reveals these fears, will be punished and excluded."

Anastasia Eleftheriou on Natasha Merkulova and Aleksey Chupov's The Man Who Surprised Everyone (Tchelovek Kotorij Udivil Vseh, 2018).

Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival

https://eefb.org/perspectives/natasha-merkulova-and-aleksey-chupovs-the-man-who-surprised-everyone-tchelovek-kotorij-udivil-vseh-2018/

29/10/2019

https://balkaninsight.com/2019/10/28/winters-approach-enfolds-balkan-cities-in-polluted-air/

Cold weather is bringing an old enemy back to the cities of the Balkans – worryingly high levels of air pollution – which will only worsens as winter consolidates its grip.

19/10/2019

Archaeologists from the City Museum Vinkovci and Institute of Archaeology from Zagreb discovered the Roman carriage on two wheels (known in Latin as a cisium) with horses at the Jankovacka Dubrava site close to the village of Stari Jankovci, near the city of Vinkovci, in eastern Croatia.

Archaeologists uncovered the fossils near the city of Vinkovci in eastern Croatia and said this is the first time a burial ritual like this has been discovered in the country.

23/09/2019

https://www.courrierdesbalkans.fr/Kosovo-ces-femmes-qui-secouent-le-monde-de-l-art?var_ajax_redir=1

Dans un Kosovo toujours très patriarcal, s’imposer dans le monde de l’art quand on est une femme relève du parcours du combattant. Kosovo 2.0 a (...)

22/09/2019

https://emerging-europe.com/after-hours/a-bosnian-artists-handbook-for-migrants/

The only walls we should build should be those which teach us how human freedom must be our greatest achievement. With these words, Bosnian artist Mladen Miljanović begins his handbook, Didactic Wall, a guide for migrants to survive their journey across the Balkan country. The book was exhibited in...

21/09/2019

https://emerging-europe.com/after-hours/a-walk-through-prishtina/?fbclid=IwAR3PXwo_K4beTQ3UXUrwDwUn5g3bxVpOXbKWXaPPbgof5R91HM9CB2Hr6iA

Mixed identity or no identity at all? This overarching question is raised whenever visitors talk about Prishtina, Kosovo’s capital. And the longer the debate lasts, the stronger one conclusion prevails: Regardless of the fact that the city lacks beautiful, old or fancy buildings, Prishtina has a s...