Pursuing the Albanian Dream: language and nation in Kosovo, by Dr Justin Elliott
Mon, 10 May
|Zoom webinar
A talk on the changing status of the Albanian language in Kosovo during the Yugoslav period and why in 1968 Albanians in Yugoslavia abandoned their own attempts to form a standard language in favour of one developed in Albania which bore little relation to what was spoken in Kosovo
Time & Location
10 May 2021, 18:00 BST
Zoom webinar
Guests
About the Event
Dear Anglo-Albanian Association member, friends
We are glad to announce another AAA talk, which will be given by Dr Justin Elliott on Monday 10 May via Zoom, starting at 6pm London time.
Dr Elliott received his PhD at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, and is a long-standing member of the Anglo-Albanian Association. He was a member of the management of Kosova Aid, a charity set up to co-ordinate the response of the Albanian community in the UK to the state of siege in Kosovo in the 1990s. He also served as a member of the British delegation to the UNHCR Humanitarian Evacuation Programme in Macedonia during the Kosovo war. Since the war, he has been pursuing an academic career. From August 2021, he will be a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation working on video testimony of Albanian political prisoners during the regime…