Biography
Born 1982 in Belgrade (Yugoslavia), MA Dr.
MA in Political Science (Master 2 Recherche en Etudes Politiques and Master 1 en Sciences politiques et sociales, spécialité science politique) at the University Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas in France (2010-2012). PhD (under cotutelle agreement) in Political Science - Comparative Political Sociology at Sciences Po Paris in France and in Balkan Studies at the Department of Cultural Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. Thesis under the title: (Post)Yugoslav Memories as Resistance Strategies: Understanding the Political Significance of Yugonostalgia defended in July 2021. Lecturer 2020-2023 at Collège universitaire de Paris, Sciences Po Paris and 2022-2023 at Central European University (Socrates project and Policy Lab). From October 2020 to February 2021, CEEPUS Visiting PhD Fellow at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna. Since 2020, Editorial Board member of Balkanologie. March 2021 to July 2023, Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Project Lead at Global Observatory on Academic Freedom, The Yehuda Elkana Center for Teaching, Learning, and Higher Education, Central European University, Vienna. August 2021 to July 2024, Affiliated Fellow at CERI - Center for International Studies, Sciences Po Paris, Paris, France. November 2022, Fernandes Fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Warwick. December 2022 the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fundamental Academic Values Award for early career scientists, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), for outstanding scientific contribution to the promotion of fundamental academic values. September 2023 to February 2024, Researcher at Centre Grande Europe, Institut Jacques Delors, Paris. October 2023, Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Contemporary History, Ljubljana. January-February 2024, Visegrad OSA Visiting Fellow at the Open Society Archives, Budapest. June 2024, Visiting Fellow on project Violence in East and West – Towards an Integrated History of the 20th Century Europe at the East European History Department, University of Konstanz. Since 2024, Advisory Board member of February Journal and Scientific Committee of journal EUrope : cultures, mémoires, identities.
Areas of Specialization
Memory and nostalgia studies; Memory politics in the 20th century; Museums; (Neo)nationalisms; (Post)Yugoslav space; Desertion and Draft Evasion; Academic freedom.
Publications
edited volumes (3)
(with Dang, Que Anh; Matei, Liviu) Special Issue on Academic Freedom. Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education, 5 (2), 2023.
Reimagining Academic Freedom – through students’ eyes, Vienna: OSUN Global Observatory on Academic Freedom 2023.
(with Natalija Majsova) Memory landscapes in (post)Yugoslavia. The Historical Expertise. 4 (25), 2020, 61-209.
Articles (11)
Construire la mémoire dans les Balkans contemporains [Constructing memory in the contemporary Balkans]. In: Clayer, Nathalie and Fabio Giomi (eds.), Les Balkans au prisme des sciences sociales (provisional title), Paris: CNRS Editions 2025. (accepted)
(with N. Jagdhuhn) From Revolution to Nation: Transformation of historical museums in (post-)Yugoslav Croatia and Serbia, Special issue Remembering communism in South and Central-Eastern Europe: Politics and Cultures of Memory after 1989, Qualestoria. 52 (2), 2024.
Yugoslavism in the 21st century, (Memory of) an Identity, Kuckuck. Notizen zur alltagskultur, 2/23, 2023, 16-23.
(with Jacques, Rupnik) Dopo la Iugoslavia: dalla dissoluzione alla iugonostalgia e alla iugosfera. In: Europa. Un’ utopia in construzione. Culture e società, Vol. III, Roma: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani 2019, 93-100.
Yugonostalgia – the Meta-National Memory Narratives of the Last Pioneers, in: Nostalgia on the Move, Belgrade: Museum of Yugoslavia 2018, 42-50.
Exhibiting Yugoslavia. Družboslovne Razprave, 32(81), 2016, 7-24.
La Yougonostalgie – la Yougoslavie au regard des derniers pionniers, Etudes Balkaniques, 2013/1-2014/1 (19/20), 2015, 303-324.
Parliaments or streets?. In: Bergan, S., Klemenčič, M. and R. Primožič. (eds.), Student Engagement in Europe: Society, Higher Education and Governance. Council of Europe Higher Education Series No. 20. Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing 2015.
(with Petra, Belc) Jugonostalgija – Jugoslavija kao metaprostor u suvremenim umjetničkim praksama/Yugonostalgia – Yugoslavia as a meta-space in contemporary art practices.Život umjetnosti, 94 (1), 2014, 18-35.
A perspective from South-Eastern Europe – no development without recognition. In: Bergan, S. and C. Blomqvist (eds.), The Lisbon Recognition Convention at 15: making fair recognition a reality, Council of Europe Higher Education Series No. 19, Strasbourg: Council of Europe publishing 2014.
Prekarne institucije, prekarne alternative. In Radnik Radnica/Umjetnik Umjetnica. Zagreb: Kustoska Platforma 2014.
Encyclopedia Entries (2)
Yugonostalgia. In: Bietti, L.M., Pogacar, M. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Memory Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham 2025.
“Nostalgia.” In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Memory Studies, edited by Lucas M. Bietti and Martin Pogacar. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025, 1-11.
Project Publications (selection)
(with Lakhno, Maryna and Dubrovsky, Dmitry) Academic Freedom in a Post-Pandemic World. Vienna: OSUN Global Observatory on Academic Freedom 2023.
(with Matei, Liviu and Joly, Daniele) Changing Understandings of Academic Freedom in the World at the Time of Pandemic. Vienna: Global Observatory on Academic Freedom 2022.
(with Craciun, Daniela, Matei, Liviu) Study on the Relationship Between the Fundamental Values of Higher Education and Quality Assurance. Council of Europe and OSUN Global Observatory on Academic Freedom 2021.
Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture. Volume 1: Context, concepts and models. Volume 2: Descriptors. Volume 3: Guidance for Implementation. Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing 2018.
Competences for Democratic Culture – Living together as equals in culturally diverse democratic societies. Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing 2016.
Book Reviews (4)
Bojana Videkanić, Nonaligned Modernism: Socialist Postcolonial Aesthetics in Yugoslavia, 1945-1985. Balkanologie [En ligne]. Vol. 17 n° 1, 2022.
Goran Musić - Making and Breaking the Yugoslav Working Class. The Story of Two Self-Managed Factories. Politička misao. 59 (2), 2022, 176-178.
Anne Madelain, l’Expérience française des Balkans (1989-1999). Revue des études slaves, XCII-2 | 2021, 370-371.
Theodora Vetta: Democracy struggles. NGOs and the politics of aid in Serbia (New York: Berghahn Books, 2018). Southeast European and Black Sea Studies. 19 (4), 2019, 645-646.
Public scholarship (9)
How does Austria measure up as a research location? Akademie im Dialog - Forschung und Gesellschaft 10. Preisfrage "Ist Osterreich ein guter Forschungsstandort?" 2024.
Elections in Serbia 2023: One month later, Centre Grande Europe. Institut Jacques Delors 2024.
The legitimate demand for justice within our universities, University World News 2022.
Academic Freedom and Epistemic Injustice. Alternator 2022.
Gradove smo vam podigli : izložba o kraju Jugoslavije.Bilten (published also by Mašina) 2018.
Crise politique en Macédoine. La stabilité contre la démocratie : un faux dilémme ? Note No. 279. Fondation Jean-Jaurès 2015.
La Bosnie-Herzégovine, un Etat failli? Note No. 255. Fondation Jean-Jaurès 2015.
(Bivša) Jugoslavija u očima posljednjih pionira. Zarez 2013.
La Yougonostalgie : à la recherche de la patrie perdue.Regard sur l’Est. 2012.