In her book Children Born of War in the Twentieth Century published in 2017, Sabine Lee, CHIBOW's network coordinator, explores the life courses of children born of war in in different twentieth-century conflicts, including the Second World War, the Vietnam War, the Bosnian War, the Rwandan Genocide and the LRA conflict. The book is not only based on extensive archival research but also on oral hi...

On the 30th March, I was fortunate enough to be in Tuzla, to attend the premiere of U IME OCA / In the Name of the Father (ITNOTF), a docu-dance theatre production by Darrel Toulon and the Alpha Group, a co-production with the Tuzla National Theater, which brings to light the experiences, and voices, of children born of war in Bosnia.

Travelling to Bosnia from London earlier on the 30th, I had...

On March 25th, the people of the Baltic countries commemorated one of the most tragic moments in their history. 70 years ago, on March 25th 1949, tens of thousands of innocent people were loaded into freight trains meant for animals and were forcefully deported to forced-settlements and GULAG prison camps in the depths of the Soviet Union. In one day, nearly 100 thousand people were deported from...

In 2014, Darrel was invited by the Austrian Embassy, to work with the Kosovo National Ballet. Upon arrival in Pristina, and after speaking to some of the dancers, he realised that he had to change course, and use the wartime survival stories from their child-hood. He created YOUR STORIES, MY STORY as a dance piece with documentary character. There was no choice. This was the beginning of a new cha...

It all started in the archives of the Latvian War Museum, where Oskars Gruziņš, member of the Horizon 2020 Marie Curie Innovative Training Network project “Children Born of War: Past, Present and Future,” was studying the personal letters of Latvian soldiers forced to fight on the side of the Waffen-SS in World War Two. Later, archivists at the War Museum, having been acquainted with the subject o...

On 17-18th January, children born of war, artists and academics met at the University of Birmingham to explore the borderlands between performance arts, political theatre and academic research.  

The participants explored the link between research insights and the genesis of performance art, and the nature of collaborations between academic researchers and performance artists. How do we facili...

The University of Birmingham, Children Born of War Innovative Training Network (CHIBOW),
and the alpha group are organising a conference to explore the borderlands between performance arts, political theatre and academic research, and to investigate how and where our practices and methodologies diverge and intersect, cross-fertilise and complement.

During the first day of the conference the partic...