Month: July 2024
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What I Wish My Family, Culture, and Friends Told Me About Srebrenica: A Macedonian Woman’s Perspective on Exile, Massacre, and Multi-Ethnic Tolerance
Anastasija Mladenovska I was born in 2003 in Kumanovo, the third largest town in suburban Macedonia, a 30 minute drive away from the Serbian border. Our dialect, heavily influenced by Serbian, is almost indistinguishable from the mannerisms spoken in many of the southern Serbian regions. Because of this, we were often called Serbs by Macedonians…
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Art and Politics at the 2024 Venice Biennale
Annabel DeChant Earlier this summer, I studied abroad in Venice, taking classes on art history. One of the classes focused on the Venice Biennale, and a major part of the course was visiting the 2024 Venice Biennale, which is currently going on. The Biennale featured a wide range of contemporary artwork, arranged in the group…
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EU Parliamentary Elections 2024
Annabel DeChant While studying abroad in Venice, another Miami student and I tried to take a waterbus off the island to go see the Dolomites mountains, only to find out that we needed to take an entirely different line – the waterbus had reduced hours due to the EU parliamentary elections. Despite this hiccup, I…
