Jovana Papovic; Visiting Fellowship 2022/23
I am a PhD candidate at the EHESS and doctoral fellow at the CETOBaC (Center for Turkish, Ottoman, Balkan, and Central Asian Studies) in Paris (LabEx TEPSIS Grant 2018-2021). My doctoral thesis focuses on the most massive civil society association in Interwar Yugoslavia, the Sokol physical culture movement. Through an analysis of its transformations (from the second part of the 19th century to WWII) as well as its complex relations with the state, my doctoral investigation aims to develop a larger reflection on the nature and usages of civil mobilization and organization in the Yugoslav space. My research interests are social and cultural history of Southeastern Europe, social movements and voluntary associations, youth and generational relations, as well as visual history. During the academic year 2021-2022, I was a research and teaching assistant (ATER) in History at the University of Languages and Civilizations (INALCO) in Paris, and in 2020 I have been a visiting fellow at the Center for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz (Ernst Mach Grant).
Visiting Fellowship August-September 2022
My stay at INZ (supported by a COST Action Who Cares in Europe? short-Term Scientific Mission Grant) will allow me to work closely with INZ research assistant Isidora Grubački, and to develop further our collaboration started in 2021, at a ASEEES’ panel presentation, and pursued in 2022, at the conference “Biopolitics and Mass Gymnastics in the Modern History of East Central Europe: Continuities and Discontinuities” in CEFRES Prague and the “Fourth Balkan Studies” conference in Marseille. Our cooperation initially developed within the COST Action Who Cares in Europe?’ working group 2: “The mixed economy of welfare”, together with co-leader Fabio Giomi, encompass different collective projects among which: “The associational archive. Rethinking volunteerism through its documentary fabric” and “Rethinking care from Europe's South-eastern periphery”.
My visit at INZ will also provide me with the opportunity to work and discuss with important scholars developing insightful research on associational culture in Central and Eastern Europe, and more broadly on European social history. I will be presenting my work at a INZ seminar and working on consolidate connections between our two research institutions.
I also intend to devote a part of my visit in Ljubljana to archival research at the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia and the National and University Library, but foremost, the Historical Archives of Ljubljana, which hold documents related to the first Sokol institution created among the southern Slavs in 1862, the Sports Museum of Ljubljana and the National Museum of Contemporary History of Slovenia which keep important collections of material (costumes, flags, medals, etc.) and visual documents (photographs and illustrations) that are essential to my investigation.
Personal page and list of publications: http://cetobac.ehess.fr/index.php?2115
