Invited lecture at the University of Rio. Balkan music label has for a long time been a way of representing/promoting/selling the “exotic Balkans” in the “Western world” with the use of stereotypes such as Roma, war and violence, sexuality, patriarchy or socialist legacy. In the 1990s, while music markets in Bulgaria and Romania had been experiencing a specific “opening to the West,” the shared music market in the territory of the former Yugoslavia was disrupted by the war. In that way, while the Balkan music has been gaining extreme popularity in the West, music markets in the Balkans have remained relatively isolated (despite the above-mentioned vivid informal links), largely owing to the national elites’ tendencies to develop distinct national cultural politics. Lecture explores the ways through which the assumed exotic value of Balkan music and already existing sonic image of the Balkans are constructed.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 39530797Participation at the round table which focused on how the relationship between history of socialism and imaginations of the future in Eastern Europe, and the region of former Yugoslavia specifically, reverberates today. The participants addressed the issues of the relationship between differently narrated history and lived experience, in affective, museological, academic and activist vein.
B.06 Other
COBISS.SI-ID: 38577965Invited lecture at "Institutskolloquium des Zentrums für Zeithistorische Forschung" in Potsdamu. The author focused on im/possibility of incorporating different, mostly affective registers and naratives into shaping historical interpretations of Yugoslav socialist past.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 39432749Invited lecture at the University of Rijeka (Croatia). The concept of transitional justice is an umbrella term for various political and legal mechanisms of dealing with "troubling past" after wars or authoritarian regimes, and as such is closely related to the culture of memory, or rather the politics of memory. The lecture deals with the relationship between war crime trials and how societies remember and commemorate those crimes.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 38562861Jovana Mihajlović Trbovc was awarded with the 2015 Jean Blondel PhD Prize for the best thesis in politics for her dissertation ‘Public Narratives of the Past in the Framework of Transitional Justice Processes: The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina’.
E.02 International awards