United Nations Expert Witness To Speak At Muhlenberg College
Andras Riedlmayer, a U.N. expert witness in the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, will give a slide presentation at Muhlenberg College, Thursday, January 29, at 7 p.m. in the Recital Hall, Baker Center for the Arts.Monday, January 26, 2004 01:25 PM
Andras Riedlmayer, a U.N. expert witness in the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, will give a slide presentation at Muhlenberg College, Thursday, January 29, at 7 p.m. in the Recital Hall, Baker Center for the Arts. "Burned Books and Blasted Shrines: Documenting War Crimes Against Cultural Heritage in the Balkan Wars of the 1990s" is free and open to the public.
Riedlmayer has documented the systematic destruction of historical archives, houses of worship and libraries, such as National and University Library of Bosnia-Herzegovina, as part of "ethnic cleansing" in the 1992-95 Bosnian war and in the 1998-99 conflict in Kosovo. Since 1985, Riedlmayer has been bibliographer, in charge of the Documentation Center of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, at the Fine Arts Library, Harvard University. A native of Budapest, Hungary, he was educated in Germany and the United States. His academic involvement with Bosnia began 27 years ago when he wrote his senior thesis (A.B., History, University of Chicago) on "Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Congress of Berlin." He holds graduate degrees from Princeton University and Simmons College.
At Muhlenberg, Riedlmayer will show slides and discuss the implications of these losses to the affected communities and international efforts to remedy some of the losses.
Riedlmayer's appearance is sponsored by the Muhlenberg Center for the Ethics as part of a spring series on human rights.
