Writing Oneself into History | Kosovar-Albanian Literature in the German-speaking sphere with Dr Chloe Fagan
Dr Phil Chloe Fagan is our guest for the episode Writing Oneself into History | Kosovar-Albanian Literature in the German-speaking space.
Dr Chloe Fagan received a Bachelor's Degree in German and English, and then her PhD in German Literature from Trinity College Dublin. She currently works for Goethe-Institut Irland. She has published 'Translation and the Renegotiation of Albanian-Austrian Migrant Identity: Ilir Ferra's "Halber Atem" as a Critique of Migrantenliteratur' in Moving Texts, Migrating People and Minority Languages (2017) and "Senthuran Varatharajah's Vor der Zunahme der Zeichen.
Representing the Kosovo War and the Tamil Conflict as an Absence and the Trauma of Language" in Germanistik in Irland. Writing oneself into history | Kosovar-Albanian Literature in the German-speaking sphere. Situating and differentiating between experiences matters. Unlike Turkish-German literature, which took root in Germany with the arrival of the Gastarbeiter, Kosovar-Albanian and Albanian writing in German-speaking contexts did not begin to appear until the 1990s. While it is gaining more traction, it remains a marginal movement, and precisely for that reason, it highlights the stakes: the need for recognition and for recording different ontologies of place, memory, and identity. It shows how communities carve out visibility when the archive has not made room for them. To discuss this and the quest to learn Albanian, I spoke to Chloe Fagan for this episode.
12 Dec 2025
Bosnia and Herzegovina 30 Years after Dayton with Dr Jasmin Mujanović
In this episode I am joined by Jasmin Mujanović to explore Bosnia's political and social landscape three decades after the Dayton Peace Accords, which were initialed on 21 November 1995 in Dayton, Ohio, and formally signed in Paris on 14 December 1995.
We discuss how the country's constitutional setup shapes its sovereignty and democratic development, the importance of understanding pre-war ideologies from the 1990s, and how the memory and narrative of genocide continue to inform national identity and political life.
Bosnia's geopolitical position in the Western Balkans also comes into focus as we trace the key turning points that have shaped the country since the war.
We also speak about the role of the diaspora in shaping narratives about Bosnia from abroad and much more.
Dr. Jasmin Mujanović is a political scientist and policy specialist focused on Southeast European politics and international affairs. He holds a PhD from York University in Toronto and has worked across North America and Europe as a scholar, analyst, consultant, and researcher.
He is the author of Hunger and Fury: The Crisis of Democracy in the Balkans (Hurst/Oxford, 2018) and The Bosniaks: Nationhood After Genocide (Hurst/Oxford, 2023).
Dr. Mujanović is currently a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Western Balkans Center of the Washington, DC–based New Lines Institute.
7 Dec 2025
Diasporas Speaking Season Two announcement
After an enriching first season, Diasporas Speaking is happy to come back with a second season, with the first episode streaming the week of the 8th of December 2025.
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