[news] "Saving the Kosovo Monasteries" in Ottawa

[Miroslav Antic]

 

 

The Lord Byron Foundation for Balkan Stadies

 and
The Embassy of Serbia and Montenegro

          Present a major new documentary film

     "Saving the Kosovo Monasteries"

Speakers:

 

H.E. Professor Darko Tanaskovic

Ambassador of Serbia and Montenegro to the Holy See

Mr. James Bissett

Former Canadian Ambassador to Yugoslavia, Albania and Bulgaria

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 at 7:00 pm

Room 371 West Block, Parliament Hill, Ottawa

Light refreshments will be served

 

Registration: $ 15, students $5   

To register pls. contact Eurofood stores Tel: 228-0008

RSVP by April 12, 2005, (613) 225-3378, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

             

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Ambassador Tanaskovic will present the latest work by the prominent Italian documentary film woman director Elisabetta Valgiusti, Salva i monasteri del Kosovo (English version: Saving the Kosovo Monasteries). The film, screened for the first time at the Italian Parliament last fall, deals with the systematic destruction of Christian culture in the southern Serbian province. Ambassador Tanaskovic's presentation will be of interest to all those who take an active interests in European and South East European affairs. He is an experienced diplomat, respected academic and an internationally renowned Orientalist. His insights on a still-unsettled part of Europe will prove invaluable to the policy-makers, analysts and informed laymen alike. In addition to being professor at the University of Belgrade, ambassador Tanaskovic has acted as a Director of the Department of Oriental Studies. Ambassador Tanaskovic was a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), in Paris. He has been a Member of the Executive Committee of the Euro-Arab Itinerant University in Rome and was nominated a member of the Academy of European Sciences and Arts in Salzburg. Since 2000 he has been a corresponding member of the Society of Turkish Language (Turk Dil Kurumu) in Ankara. He is a member of the Association of Writers of Serbia and of the Serbian PEN.    
Ambassador James Bissett, chairman of the Lord Byron Foundation for Balkan Studies will moderate the event.