Research Story
Kirk Barrett
"'As a Wentworth Fellow in 2010, I traveled to the Balkans to research narratives involving the Siege of Sarajevo and the Srebrenica Genocide in the 1990s. In speaking to poets, film directors, journalists, militants, and refugees, I examined the stories I heard from as unbiased a perspective as possible, stepping away from the judgments which so often cloud the narratives that Western politicians and media have forced upon that region and its situations. While in Belgrade, I was a guest lecturer at the International School, addressing grade 11 and 12 students about writing and critical theory. I have published historical fiction about Sarajevo and presented my work at several conferences, and will complete a Departmental Honors project equating stories to walls and bridges (that which divides and that which connects) in December, 2011."
"'In the picture I'm standing on a "Sarajevo Rose," a place where the ground was scarred by artillery fire and, after the Siege, these scars were filled with red polymer wax; one of the numerous examples of how Sarajevans turned their devastation into art."
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