Vladimir Petrović (Institute for Contemporary History, Belgrade)  researches mass political violence and strategies of confrontation with its legacy. He completed graduate studies in contemporary history at Belgrade University, comparative history at Central European University and postdoctoral studies in transitional justice at NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam where he currently works. He teaches at University of Amsterdam, and has taught at Boston University, Central European University and Harvard Extension School. He is also among the conveners of CEU’s Invisible University of Ukraine and holds research professorship at the Institute for Contemporary History in Belgrade, where he leads an Innovation Center.

Bibliography (selected)

Taming the Yugoslav Space: Struggle with Infrastructural Challenges of the 20th century (coedited with Edvin Pezo and Danijel Kežić), (IOS Regensburg/ISI Belgrade, 2023)

Etničko čišćenje: geneza koncepta (Arhipelag, 2019)

The Emergence of Historical Forensic Expertise: Clio takes the Stand (Routledge, 2017)

Luka Filipović is a research associate at the Institute for Contemporary History in Belgrade, Serbia. He graduated PhD studies at the department of History, Faculty of Philosphy, University of Belgrade. His field of research is history of League of Communists of Yugoslavia, relations between Marxist parties and movements in Europe during Cold War, history of ideology, Eurocommunism, democratic socialism, liberalism etc; as well as resistance against neoliberal economic reforms, development of labor unions and strikes. He had also published papers and articles concerning new political and culutral phenomenon in regard to contemporary ideological debates and the rise of populist movements in Europe.

Bibliography (selected)

Evrokomunizam i Jugoslavija 1968-1980 (Eurocommunism and Yugoslavia 1968-1980),
Novi Sad: Akademska knjiga, 2023.
,,Yugoslav Communists and European Far-Left – From First Supporters
of Italian Eurocommunists to Last Allies of French Neo-Stalinists“ (1965-1985), Philosophy and
Society, 34 (2023) 4, 591–612.
,,Cultural Perceptions of Democratization and Equality in National
Symbolisms as one of the Structural Foundations of Eastern Populism“, Montenegrian Journal for
Social Science, 1 (2019) 29-57 [M23]
,,Humanity in exile; Four decades of neoliberal reforms“, in Conf. Proc.:A multipolar world order takes shape; Being human and humanity in a changing world, Mut zur Ethik, Sirnach, Switzerland, in 1- 3 September 2023. (Published in The Floutist, 15. October 2023).

Ivana Pantelić is a senior research associate at the Institute for Contemporary History in Belgrade. She has BA degree in History and MA degree Social Anthropology and PhD degree in History at Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. Her field of research is social history, especially women emancipation in Serbia and Yugoslavia. Pantelić is author of the books on social emancipation of female partisans in post-war Yugoslavia, and about Jovanka Broz’s public  representation, co-author of books about diaries from the Second World War and book about  twenty most important women in 20. century Srebian history.

Bibliography (selected)

Uspon i pad prve drugarice Jugoslavije, Jovanka Broz i srpska javnost od 1952. do 2013. godine (Rise and Fall of Jovanka Broz and the Serbian Publick 1952-2013),  Beograd: Službeni glasnik 2018.

Partizanke kao građanke – društvena emancipacija partizanki u Srbiiji 1945-1953 (Female Partisans as Citizens: Social Emancipation of Female Partisans in Serbia, 1945-1953). Beograd: Instituit za savremenu istoriju – Evoluta 2011.

Šarenac Danilo i Ivana Pantelić. Dve polovine sećanja: partizanski dnevnici kao izvor za istoriju Drugog svetskog rata (Two parts of Remembrance: Partisan Diaries as a Source of  Second World War History). Beograd: Institut za savremenu istoriju, 2013.

Ivana Pantelić (editor), Jelena Milinković, Ljubinka Škodrić, Dvadeset žena koje su obeležile XX vek u Srbiji (Twenty Women Who Marked 20. Century in Serbia) 1–2, Beograd: Nin d.o.o. Beograd, 2013.

Rade Ristanović is a senior research associate at the Institute of Contemporary History, Belgrade. He’s field of research is a history of resistance during the Second World War. Others areas of his scientific interest are: the history of the state and society in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in the years immediately preceding the war, collaboration, everyday life in Serbia during the Second World War and urban history. He is the author of four monographs, and over fifty scientific papers. He is a one of the funders of Urban History Society. His most recent book is collection of papers “Anti-Axis Resistance in Southeastern Europe, 1939-1945 Forms and Varieties” (ed. John Paul Newman, Ljubinka Škodrić & Rade Ristanović, Brill, 2023).

Bibliography (selected)
Mapping the History of the Resistance in Southeastern Europe, in: Anti-Axis Resistance in Southeastern Europe, 1939-1945 Balkan Studies Library, ed: John Newman, Ljubinka Škodrić, Rade Ristanović, Paderborn : Brill | Schöningh 2024, 18-34.
Reluctant Beneficiaries of the Final Solution: Popular Responses to the Plundering of Jewish Property in Occupied Belgrade, A Marketplace Without Jews Aryanization and the Final Solution in Southeastern Europe, ed: Rory Yeomans, Routledge 2024.
Београдски комунисти – Комунистички покрет отпора у окупираном Београду: 1941–1944, Београд : Институт за савремену историју : Catena mundi 2022.
Београдски равногорци – Југословенска војска у отаџбини и Равногорски покрет у окупираном Београду 1941-1944, Београд : Институт за савремену историју : Catena mundi, 2021.

Ljubinka Škodrić is a senior research associate at the Institute of Contemporary History in Belgrade. She earned her PhD in Yugoslav history at History Department of Faculty of Philosophy at Belgrade University. Areas of her research are: Gender History of Serbia, History of Education, Social History of Serbia, Digital History, History of Serbian Archival Service. She co-edited the volume Anti-Axis Resistance in Southeastern Europe, 1939–1945. Forms and Varieties (Paderborn: Brill | Schöningh, 2023) and co-authored the chapter “Working for the enemy: civil servants in occupied Serbia, 1941–1944” in the volume Coercion and Wage Labour: Exploring Work Relations through History and Art (London: UCL Press, 2024).

Bibliography (selected):

“War, Occupation and Infrastructure Planning. The Serbian Civil Plan 1941–1944”. In: Taming the Yugoslav Space Continuities and Discontinuities in Coping with the Infrastructural Challenges of the 20th Century. Edited by: Danijel Kežić, Vladimir Petrović, Edvin Pezo, 163–184. Belgrade: Institute for Contemporary History, Regensburg: Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung, 2023.

Žena u okupiranoj Srbiji 1941–1944 (Women in Occupied Serbia 1941–1944), Beograd: Arhipelag, Institut za savremenu istoriju, 2020.

Ministarstvo prosvete i vera u Srbiji 1941–1944. Sudbina institucije pod okupacijom (Ministry of Education and Religion in Serbia 1941–1944. The Fate of Institution under Occupation) Beograd: Arhiv Srbije, 2009.

Ana Radaković is a Ph.D. student and research assistant at the History Department, Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. She is currently working on her thesis titled “European Dimension and Development of Historical Consciousness in History Teaching in Serbia (1990-2020).” She assists with courses at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, specifically History Didactics and Initial Teacher Training. Radaković is a researcher in the “Museum of the Nineties” initiative and the author of several scientific articles. She also contributes to publications regarding teaching sensitive and controversial issues from the past in post-conflict societies, the challenges of history teaching, and historical thinking concepts in history education. In July 2023, Ana Radaković became a grantee of the HISTOLAB fellowship.

Bibliography (selected)

M. Šuica, A. Radaković, “Challenges of Teaching History for the Bosniak Ethnic Community/National Minority in the Republic of Serbia Within the Post-Conflict Setting,” in History Education at the Edge of the Nation (eds. P. Colla, A. Di Michele), Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 101-124.
A. Radaković, C. Savitsky, Teaching the Wars of the 1990s, European Association of History Educators (EuroClio), 2022.
А. Radaković, „Raspad Jugoslavije i ratovi devedesetih u udžbenicima za nastavu istorije u Republici Srbiji“ u zborniku radova Ratovi 1990-ih u regionalnim historiografijama: Kontroverze, interpretacije, nasljeđe, Udruženje za modernu historiju, Sarajevo, 2021, 283-296.
M. Šuica, A. Radaković, “New Educational Concepts in the Reformed History Teaching in Serbia,” in Education Challenges: Curricular and Conceptual Provocations, Limes plus, XVII No. 2/2020, 33-56.

Katarina Beširević is a PhD candidate and research assistant at the History Department at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. She is also an associate at the Faculty of Philosophy’s Center for American Studies and the project assistant at the Association “Fulbright and Friends” in Serbia. Katarina is working as a mentor at the Invisible University for Ukraine. She is a recipient of the “Dositeja” scholarship, the Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund and the GoStyria Scholarship for visiting researchers at the University of Graz. She is currently researching the topic “The Image of the United States of America in the Political and Public Life in Serbia (1990-2000)” for her PhD thesis. Her research interests include memory studies, history from below, the post-socialist period and oral history.

Bibliography

K. Beširević, „Istoričar kao svedok i ekspert: pogled na devedesete“ [Historian as a Witness and an Expert: A Look at the 1990s], Nasleđe Andreja Mitrovića, (ed.) Nemanja Radonjić, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy, 2024.

K. Beširević, „Antiamerikanizam u Srbiji: analiza komentara na Fejsbuku na primeru objava o ratu u Ukrajini“ [Anti-Americanism in Serbia Analyzing Facebook Comments on Posts about the War in Ukraine], Godišnjak za društvenu istoriju, 3/2022, pp. 101-119.

K. Beširević, “Devedesete u nedeljniku Vreme: Sećanja i iskustva jednog ratnog reportera” [The Nineties in the Weekly News Magazine Vreme: Memories and Experiences of a War Reporter], Ogledi  o ratovima devedesetih: zbornik radova mladih istraživača, (eds.) Marijana Toma and Ivan Jovanović, Belgrade: UNDP, 2022, pp. 121-136.

K. Beširević, “The Új Symposion Journal on Trial in Yugoslavia (1971/2)”, Tokovi istorije, 2021/3, pp. 229-252.

K. Beširević, “Časopis Uj Symposion i sećanje Šandora Rože” [The Journal Új Symposion and the Reminiscence of Rózsa Sándor], Godišnjak za društvenu istoriju, 2019/3, pp. 57-71.

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