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Multiple Girlhoods: Growing up in Bosnia Before and During the Civil War

book talks nycLecturers:

Ms. Jasmina Dervisevic-Cesic, Author and Bosnian Genocide Survivor

Dr. Emily Bent, Pace University

In this event, Ms. Jasmina Dervisevic-Cesic and Dr. Amy Traver will discuss how war can produce multiple girlhoods in a single life. Ms. Dervisevic-Cesic will read from and discuss her memoir, The River Runs Salt, Runs Sweet, which documents her experience growing up in Bosnia before and during the civil war. Dr. Traver, an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Queensborough Community College, will draw on her girls’ studies research, as well as her previous position as Co-Chair of the Girls’ Studies Caucus of the National Women’s Studies Association, to offer commentary and context.











When: Wed., Nov. 18, 2015 at 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Where: Queensborough Community College
222-05 56th Ave.
718-281-5044
Price: Free
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book talks nycLecturers:

Ms. Jasmina Dervisevic-Cesic, Author and Bosnian Genocide Survivor

Dr. Emily Bent, Pace University

In this event, Ms. Jasmina Dervisevic-Cesic and Dr. Amy Traver will discuss how war can produce multiple girlhoods in a single life. Ms. Dervisevic-Cesic will read from and discuss her memoir, The River Runs Salt, Runs Sweet, which documents her experience growing up in Bosnia before and during the civil war. Dr. Traver, an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Queensborough Community College, will draw on her girls’ studies research, as well as her previous position as Co-Chair of the Girls’ Studies Caucus of the National Women’s Studies Association, to offer commentary and context.

Buy tickets/get more info now