Possible collaborations? (Arts and Humanities research on waterscapes)

My current area of research are literary, cinematic and visual interpretations of space, with a current emphasis on waterscapes such as lakes and rivers, and their role in shaping our understanding of social transformations and contentious issues. Key themes include wartime traumas (rivers as watery graves and sites of wartime atrocities); shifting postwar identities (divided communities), deindustrialisation and environmental issues, as well as local and global migration (representations of rivers as transit points on global and local migration routes). While my primary focus is on the postwar Balkans as well as Central Europe, I am interested in examining similar dynamics in other global postconflict and posttraumatic locations, in order to draw parallels and comparisons.

I am also developing a portfolio of knowledge exchange/impact-generating activities. My current impact spin-off initiative, “The river runs through it: emotions, perceptions, and memories on both sides of the Sava River,” supported by Impact Development Evaluation Fund (IDEF), focuses on the Sava River region, which is a triple border (interstate, EU, Schengen), and affected by the above-mentioned issues. In partnership with a local cultural heritage partner The Brodsko Posavlje Museum, project participants are invited to share memories, ideas, and experiences, and be empowered to create their own narratives of the river in creative and non-confrontational ways. 

Please contact me if any aspect of this project is of interest. I welcome possible collaborative projects on the topic as well.