PD MMag. Dr. phil
Ljiljana Radonić
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Biography
Born 1981 in Zagreb (Croatia), PD MMag. Dr. phil
MA in political science and philosophy as well as in translation studies (Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and English) at the University of Vienna. 2006–2009 PhD fellowship at the Initiativkolleg „Cultures of Difference. Transformation Processes in the Central European Region“. PhD graduation in 2009 at the University of Vienna. Since 2004 lecturer at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna. 2009-2013 postdoc-coordinator of the PhD program „Austrian Galicia and its Multicultural Heritage“ funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) at the University of Vienna. Visiting professor at Gießen University in Germany in the summer semester 2015: Interdisciplinary professorship for Critical Theory of the Society. Research fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK) in the winter semester 2016/17. In the summer semester 2017 visiting professor at the Centre for Jewish Studies, Graz University. Since 2013 employed at the IKT - first within the context of her habilitation project about World War II in Post-Communist Memorial Museums, from 2013—2017 APART post-doc fellowship at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2018/19 funded by the Elise-Richter-Program of the Austrian Science Fund — FWF. 2020 habilitation at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna. She was awarded the ERC Consolidator Grant in 2018 and heads a project on "Globalized Memorial Museums. Exhibiting Atrocities in the Era of Claims for Moral Universals" from 2019-2024. Since 2021 group leader at IKT (ERC project).
Areas of Specialization
Museum representations of genocide and war, Memory politics in Central and South East Europe, Memory theory with focus on WWII and the communist era, theory of antisemitism, Kritische Theorie/Frankfurt School, Psychoanalysis as a theory of society, critical gender studies
Responsibilities at IKT
ERC project "Globalized Memorial Museums. Exhibiting Atrocities in the Era of Claims for Moral Universals"
Publications (selection)
Der Zweite Weltkrieg in postsozialistischen Gedenkmuseen. Geschichtspolitik zwischen der ‚Anrufung Europas‘ und dem Fokus auf ‚unser‘ Leid, Berlin: De Gruyter 2021
Radonić, Ljiljana/Uhl, Heidemarie (eds.): Das umkämpfte Museum. Zeitgeschichte ausstellen zwischen Dekonstruktion und Sinnstiftung, Bielefeld: transcript 2020
Special Issue "The Holocaust/Genocide Template in Eastern Europe", Journal of Genocide Research 4/2018, Ljiljana Radonić (ed.);
Die friedfertige Antisemitin reloaded. Weibliche Opfermythen und geschlechtsspezifische antisemitische „Schiefheilung“ (= Vorlesungen des Centrums für Jüdische Studien 12), Graz: Clio 2018, 2nd edition 2020
Bogusław Dybas/Irmgard Nöbauer/Ljiljana Radonić (eds.): Auschwitz im Kontext – die ehemaligen Konzentrationslager im gegenwärtigen europäischen Gedächtnis, Wien: Peter Lang 2017
Radonić, Ljiljana/Uhl, Heidemarie (eds.): Gedächtnis im 21. Jahrhundert. Zur Neuverhandlung eines kulturwissenschaftlichen Leitbegriffs, Bielefeld: transcript 2016
Krieg um die Erinnerung. Kroatische Vergangenheitspolitik zwischen Revisionismus und europäischen Standards, Campus, Wien 2010; Mit Freud. Psychoanalyse und Gesellschaftskritik, ça ira, Freiburg 2007 (ed. with Renate Göllner)
Die friedfertige Antisemitin? Kritische Theorie über Geschlechterverhältnis und Antisemitismus, Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2004