Una Blagojević, Visiting Fellowship 2023/24
Biography
I am a doctoral candidate at Central European University and a researcher on the project Philosophy in Late Socialist Europe: Theoretical Practices in the Face of Polycrisis at the Babeș-Bolyai University. My doctoral research focuses on the intellectual history of Marxist Humanism in socialist Yugoslavia. The aim of my research is to reconstruct this dense stream of philosophical and political thought with a view to its regional and international embeddedness. I am broadly interested in the social, cultural, feminist, and art histories of East Central Europe, and the history of modern philosophy. In addition, I am interested in various theoretical and methodological approaches to history, and the challenges of writing transnational, comparative, and global histories.
Before coming to INZ, I was a researcher on an Erasmus Internship Mobility Grant at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Arts and Sciences (Institute of Culture and Memory Studies) in Ljubljana. During 2021–2022, I was at Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) as the Sidgwick-Miller CEU Scholar at the Cornell Branch of Telluride Association. Last year, I was a fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, IWM) in Vienna, on a SEE Graduate Scholarships program. From September to December 2023, I was a guest at Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin.
Between January 2021 and September 2023, I participated in the project with Prof. Trencsényi, Dr. Isidora Grubački, and Lucija Balikić, Mapping Crisis- Discourses in East Central Europe 1918–2008. The project combined methodology of conceptual history with a contextualist history of political thought and with a transnational perspective. Our volume A Never-Ending Story? East Central European Crisis Discourses in the Twentieth Century, is to be published shortly with the Routledge.
Visiting Fellowship in January 2024
Motivation
At the Institute I will work on the project on Socialist Alliance of Working People, where I will focus on the position and role of critical intellectuals in this organization. I will have an opportunity to visit the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia as well as the National and University Library.
Publications
Blagojević, Una. “Zagorka Golubović: premoščala je utopijo in realnost.” Jovana Mihajlović Trbovc (ed.) Naše znanstvenice: Kako so ženske soustvarjale znanost v Jugoslaviji, ZRC SAZU, 2023.
Blagojević, Una. “L'histoire intellectuelle globale et les marxistes humanistes yougoslaves.” Forum "La Yougoslavie socialiste et le monde, la Yougoslavie socialiste dans le monde" edited by Agustín Cosovschi. Balkanologie: Revue d'études pluridisciplinaires, 2022.
Blagojević, Una. “Phenomenology and existentialism in dialogue with Marxist humanism in Yugoslavia in the 1950s and 1960s.” Studies in East European Thought, 2022
Blagojević, Una. “The Journal Praxis and Women Intellectuals.” Contradictions: A Journal for Critical Thought Vol. 4, No.2 (2020): 47–69.
Blagojević, Una. “Worlds of Praxis: 1968, intellectuals, and an island in the Yugoslav Adriatic.” Unsettled 1968 in the Troubled Present: Revisiting the 50 Years of Discussions from East and Central Europe, edited by Aleksandra Konarzewska, Anna Nakai and Michał Przeperski. Routledge: London, New York, 2019.
Blagojević, Una. “The International Philosophical Problem of Self-Managing Socialism: The Case of Praxis.” Acta Histriae Vol. 27, No.1 (2019): 89–106.
