In this recording, you can listen to the lecture of Eli Krasniqi. For PRISON RADIO she contributes a lecture with the title Gendered Histories of Resistance and Imprisonment as well as a masterclass titled Archives in Suspension: Temporalities of the Resistance Movement in Kosova. In her lecture she examined the gendered history of the Kosovo Albanian Resistance Movement, commonly known as Ilegalja. It will first give a brief history of the movement and then focus on the experiences of women in resistance and imprisonment. Through stories and experiences scattered across diaries, songs, oral histories, and other sources, the talk will trace genealogies of women’s resistance and ask what these sources allow us to see. In particular, it will look at how these forms of archive bring forward not only the political aspects of women’s experiences of resistance and imprisonment, but also their affective dimensions.

Elife (Eli) Krasniqi is an anthropologist historian and writer. Her research explores gender, memory, social movements, historical inequalities, and marginalised histories. From 2018 to 2023, she taught and conducted research at the Southeast European History and Anthropology (SEEHA) working unit, Institute of History, University of Graz. Currently she is a University of Regensburg SEED Postdoc Fellow at SEEHA. For many years intermittently, she researched various aspects of the resistance movement, commonly known as Ilegalja, and in recent years her attention shifted to the politics and gendered archives of the movement

PRISON RADIO Festival

PRISON RADIO is an international, transdisciplinary sound and radio art project that rethinks both prison and radio as social, political and artistic structures. Broadcast and recorded in Prishtina from 10 to 13 September 2026, the festival featured a 72-hour radio programme, comprising approximately 30 hours of live broadcasts and 42 hours of pre-produced content. Taking the Former Prishtina Prison as a resonant site, the festival approaches the prison not only as a historical institution of confinement, but also as a metaphor for wider invisible architectures of limitation: social roles, gender norms, borders, political pressure, economic constraint, trauma, language, surveillance and silence. Through radio art, soundwalks, live broadcasts, performances, concerts, lectures, workshops, a community run, collective listening sessions and the exhibition Sound, Resisting, which extended across four prison blocks, the watchtower and the courtyards, PRISON RADIO transformed a former site of punishment into a temporary space of voice, resistance and public reflection. The festival draws on critical prison studies, the politics of listening, sound studies, the concept of the prison without walls and the carceral continuum. It understands radio as a dissident and participatory medium through which voices, art and sounds travel beyond walls, borders and dominant narratives.

Curation & programme: PRISON RADIO Collective (Alban Beqiraj, Blertë Ismajli, Alexander Vojvoda, Verena Walzl)
Organisation: STRALLI
Radio production: Lumpen Station (CH), commissioned by PRISON RADIO Festival
Live radio direction, technical production & post-production: Andrea Marioni, Lumpen Station
Partners: Lumpen Station (CH), Kolektiv Radio (KS), Molla e Kuqe (KS)
Venues: Burgu i Idealit (Former Prishtina Prison) and Hani i dy Robertëve, Prishtina
Supported by: Embassy of Switzerland in Kosovo, Austrian Embassy in Prishtina, Institut Français du Kosovo / French Embassy in Prishtina