1914-2014, A Retrospective from the Beginning of WWI to the Present

The Library of Congress and the Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS cordially invite you to

1914-2014, A Retrospective from the Beginning of WWI to the Present

Tuesday, September 16, 2014
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Whittall Pavilion, Thomas Jefferson Building
Library of Congress
10 First Street, SE
Washington, DC 20540

Program will begin promptly at 3:00 p.m.

Please allow 10-15 minutes of extra time to pass through security

Light refreshments will be served at the conclusion of the program

Welcoming Remarks:

Ambassador Jadranka Negodić
Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the United States

Georgette Dorn
Chief, Hispanic Division/Acting Chief, European Division, Library of Congress

Panelists:

Ambassador (ret.) Jacques Paul Klein
Former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations

Gerard Toal
Professor of Government and International Affairs, Virginia Tech

Paul Miller
Associate Professor of History, McDaniel College

Moderator:

Michael Haltzel
Senior Fellow, Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS

Closing Remarks:

The Honorable Erdal Trhulj
Minister of Energy, Mining and Industry, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Ambassador Jadranka Negodić was born in Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She graduated from the University of Sarajevo with a degree in Law. During her diplomatic career, Ambassador Negodić has served as head of the division for neighboring countries and chief of diplomatic protocol, as Assistant Minister at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Sarajevo. She was Head of Mission of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the EU and Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the United Kingdom before assuming the post of Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the United States of America.

Erdal Trhulj is the Minister of Energy, Mining, and Industry of the Government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. From January to March 2011 he served as Acting Director of the public enterprise FBiH Motorways Mostar. From 2006 to 2010 he was director of the Federal Directorate for Highway Construction, Management, and Maintenance in the Federal Ministry of Transport and Communications.

Ambassador (ret.) Jacques Paul Klein served as United Nations Transitional Administrator for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium from 1996 to 1998 (with the rank of Under-Secretary-General), Principal Deputy High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1998 to 2001, and United Nations Special Representative and Coordinator of the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2001 to 2003. Ambassador Klein was a career member of the Senior Foreign Service of the United States. He also served over 35 years in the United States Air Force, rising to the rank of Major General. Ambassador Klein has held lecturerships and professorships at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School and the International University of Dubrovnik. He is a graduate of Roosevelt University, which conferred on him an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters.

Gerard Toal is Professor of Government and International Affairs at Virginia Tech’s National Capital Region campus in Alexandria, where he directs the Government and International Affairs program. He has a Ph.D. in Political Geography from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University and is one of the founding figures in establishing Critical Geopolitics as a domain of research within political geography and international relations. His most recent book, Bosnia Remade: Ethnic Cleansing and Its Reversal, won the 2012 Julian Minghi Outstanding Research Award in the Political Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers and was shortlisted for the 2012 Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies. Toal has held fellowships at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute and the Center for International Studies at the University of Southern California. In 2005 he testified before the United States Congress on political developments in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Paul Miller did his Ph.D. in modern European history at Yale University (1995). His dissertation, From Revolutionaries to Citizens: Antimilitarism in France, 1870–1914, was published by Duke University Press in 2002. Since 1998, Miller has taught at McDaniel College in the U.S. In 2004–05, he was a Fulbright fellow at the University of Sarajevo, where he wrote on genocide memory in Bosnia and taught a course on contemporary genocide. From 2011–13, Miller was a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Birmingham (UK), where he worked on a book on the memory of the Sarajevo assassination tentatively entitled: June 28, 1914: A Day in History and Memory. Miller’s article on Yugoslav memory of the assassination—“Yugoslav Eulogies: The Footprints of Gavrilo Princip”—was recently published in The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies (No. 2304).

Michael Haltzel is Senior Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Dr. Haltzel served from 1994 to 2005 as senior foreign policy advisor to then-Senator, now U.S. Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., and as Staff Director of the Subcommittee on European Affairs of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was the lead Democratic Senate staffer on NATO and Balkan policy and served as Head of the U.S. Delegation to three OSCE review conferences. His previous positions include Chief of the European Division at the Library of Congress and Director of West European Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian Institution. He is the author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of ten books and is a frequent contributor to American and European newspapers. Dr. Haltzel has been decorated by seven countries of the European Union. He received a B.A. magna cum laude with honors in History from Yale University and an M.A. in Soviet Studies and a Ph.D. in History from Harvard.

Acting Chief Georgette Dorn is also Chief of the Hispanic Division. She has a Ph.D. in history from Georgetown University. In addition to her duties at the library she has taught part time at Georgetown University from 1982- 2002.

In partnership with the America-Bosnia Foundation, Sarajevo Canton, and the Federal Ministry of Culture and Sports of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Whittall Pavilion is located in the Thomas Jefferson Building (10 First Street SE). Please enter and exit the building via the carriage entrance located on the lower level of the First Street side of the building.

The closest Metro station is Capitol South (Blue, Orange, and Silver Lines), located at 355 First Street SE, two blocks south of the Thomas Jefferson Building.