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Photo: Vjeko Afrić (Theatre of the People’s Liberation), Courtesy of Muzej II zasjedanja AVNOJ-a In this presentation, Iva Jelušić gives the outline of the Yugoslav People’s Liberation Struggle from the perspective of fun. Starting from the very end, with her research outputs, she reflects on the considered avenues of analysis and sheds light on the process of exploration of intersections of war and fun in the context of Partisan guerilla warfare.
War and Fun: Reconceptualizing Warfare and Its Experience (WARFUN) is a research project funded by the European Research Council and led by Research Professor Antonio De Lauri.
Light lunch will be served.
Iva undertook a Doctoral program in Comparative History at the Department of History at the Central European University (Budapest, Hungary/Vienna, Austria). Prior to this, she completed a Master of Arts in European Women's and Gender History at the Department of Gender Studies at the Central European University in 2015.
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Iva undertook a Doctoral program in Comparative History at the Department of History at the Central European University (Budapest, Hungary/Vienna, Austria). Prior to this, she completed a Master of Arts in European Women's and Gender History at the Department of Gender Studies at the Central European University in 2015.
Her research interests include social history, especially women’s and gender history and the history of feminism in the state socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe, and her main area of research is the politics of the past and the development of the cultural memory of World War II in Yugoslavia. Her dissertation focuses on the development of cultural memory of the war in Yugoslav popular media, with particular focus on the figure of the female soldier, the partizanka.
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