Join us for an evening with Professor Vjosa Musliu, Associate Professor at the Democratic Futures Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), as she presents her new book Girlhood at War: Interpreting War and Liberation in Kosovo (Bloomsbury Academic).
In this powerful and original work, Musliu explores how "girlhood" becomes a perspective for interpreting war, liberation, and nation-building in Kosovo. Drawing on feminist, postcolonial, and critical international relations, she challenges dominant narratives of conflict and peacebuilding, offering a deeply personal history and political rethinking of how identity, memory, and bodily experiences shape understandings of war and freedom.
The discussion is moderated by Johanne Rokke Elvebakken, PhD candidate in political science at the Center for Interdisciplinary Gender Research at the University of Oslo. Elvebakken is a scholar of the EuroWARCHILD project, whose goal is to understand the needs and rights of three generations of children born of war in Europe. Elvebakken's academic background bridges gender studies and peace research, with special interest in how stories, feelings and power relationships shape both research and activism.
About the author:
Vjosa Musliu is an associate professor at the Democratic Futures Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). She is the author of Girlhood at War: Interpreting War and Liberation in Kosovo (Bloomsbury Academic) and Europeanization and Statebuilding as Everyday Practices: Performing Europe in the Western Balkans (Routledge Studies on Intervention and Statebuilding). She is co-editor (with Itziar Mujika Chao) of Feminist Encounters of Statebuilding: The Role of Women in Making the State in Kosovo and (with Gëzim Visoka) of the anthology Unravelling Liberal Interventionism: Local Critiques of Statebuilding in Kosovo (Worlding Beyond the West Series). Professor Musliu is a member of the Yugoslawomen+ Collective and Chair of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights in Kosovo.
The event is supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Kosovo in Oslo.
