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Each contribution to this volume provides scholarly insights in particular aspects of the history shared by Serbs and Albanians. Together, these essays constitute a powerful antidote to the contamination of much existing scholarship by the biases and hostility of political elites, and by popular prejudice. - Anna Di Lellio, New York University, US Some years ago Julie Mertus explained the conflict over Kosovo as a story of how myths and truths started a war. But which are the myths and which are the truths? The wide gulf of interpretation has usually meant that the answer depends on who you ask. This project asks the best analysts on both sides of the divide, and the result is a set of deep and provocative parallel analyses by Serb and Albanian historians and social scientists, shedding light on different ways in which the past is understood, and whether different interpretations share common ground. This book is essential to anybody wanting to understand conflict over Kosovo and the possibility of dialogue around Kosovo. - Eric Gordy, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UK

Each contribution to this volume provides scholarly insights in particular aspects of the history shared by Serbs and Albanians. Together, these essays constitute a powerful antidote to the contamination of much existing scholarship by the biases and hostility of political elites, and by popular prejudice. - Anna Di Lellio, New York University, US Some years ago Julie Mertus explained the conflict over Kosovo as a story of how myths and truths started a war. But which are the myths and which are the truths? The wide gulf of interpretation has usually meant that the answer depends on who you ask. This project asks the best analysts on both sides of the divide, and the result is a set of deep and provocative parallel analyses by Serb and Albanian historians and social scientists, shedding light on different ways in which the past is understood, and whether different interpretations share common ground. This book is essential to anybody wanting to understand conflict over Kosovo and the possibility of dialogue around Kosovo. - Eric Gordy, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UK

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Aleksandar Pavlovic is a researcher at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory of the University of Belgrade. He obtained his PhD in Southeast European Studies from the University of Nottingham, and got his BA and MA in Comparative literature and literary theory from the University of Belgrade. He published Epika i politika, and co-edited Politics of Enmity: Can Nation Ever be Emancipatory (2018) and a volume on Serbian-Albanian relations in Serbian and Albanian. Gazela Pudar Draško works as a Research Associate at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade. She was a visiting researcher at the Centre for Southeast European Studies in Graz and the Centre for East European Studies in Warsaw. She writes on the intellectual engagement, movements and gender. Rigels Halili is an assistant professor at Centre for East European Studies at University of Warsaw. He has studied philology, cultural anthropology and international relations at the University of Warsaw, where he has also earned his PhD. His research interests include orality and literacy, especially in the Balkans, history of modern nationalism, interaction between memory and culture, and normative customary practices in the Balkans and Central Europe. His latest research project was focused on social and cultural memory of communism in Central and South-east Europe. He published a monograph based on his PhD dissertation in 2012 and co-edited four books in Polish, Serbian and Albanian. .

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