2025
WHW Akademija’s program for 2025 borrowed its title “Remember Freedom“ from a speech given by science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin at the National Book Award reception in 2014. She urged society to face up to the difficult times that were then on the horizon and have now arrived, and, in doing so, not to forget the freedom held by poets and artists - "the realists of a larger reality".
The program, which included twelve participants, started in April 2025 and ran through November 2025, launching with online sessions, before convening a first in-person intensive gathering in Zagreb and Bihać. The latter has always been a border city, since Ottoman/Habsburg rivalries, with a heavy history both during WWII and the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. Located close to the Croatian border, today it is one of the key points in the attempts of migrants to enter the EU and the location of two EU-funded migrant camps.
What, How & for Whom/WHW and Ana Kovačić served as resident professors for the program of 2025; visiting professors included Emina Bužinkić, Branislav Dimitrijević, Ayesha Hameed, KRAK, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, Bojan Mucko and Marijana Hameršak / IEF, Dubravka Sekulić, Miloš Trakilović, and Harsha Walia.
The program in Bihać was realized in collaboration with the Center for Contemporary Culture KRAK.
The program, which included twelve participants, started in April 2025 and ran through November 2025, launching with online sessions, before convening a first in-person intensive gathering in Zagreb and Bihać. The latter has always been a border city, since Ottoman/Habsburg rivalries, with a heavy history both during WWII and the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. Located close to the Croatian border, today it is one of the key points in the attempts of migrants to enter the EU and the location of two EU-funded migrant camps.
What, How & for Whom/WHW and Ana Kovačić served as resident professors for the program of 2025; visiting professors included Emina Bužinkić, Branislav Dimitrijević, Ayesha Hameed, KRAK, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, Bojan Mucko and Marijana Hameršak / IEF, Dubravka Sekulić, Miloš Trakilović, and Harsha Walia.
The program in Bihać was realized in collaboration with the Center for Contemporary Culture KRAK.