Dr. Milan Sovilj; Visiting Fellowship 2022/23
Biography
I am a historian, who graduated in 2005 and obtained a Magister’s degree in 2008 from the Philosophical Faculty in Belgrade, Serbia. In 2015, I obtained a PhD in General History from the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Apart from the period of 2018–2020, when I taught General European and World History at the Institute of History of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic, I have been working as a scientific researcher at the Institute for Recent History of Serbia in Belgrade (2007–2010), at the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Prague (2015–2021), at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague (2017–2019, 2020–2022), as well as at the Institute of History of the CAS in Prague (from 2021 to present date). Since the beginning of my career, I have been dealing with the history of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav-Czechoslovak relations, and the history of the states of Central and Southeastern Europe, topics about which I have published many studies in Czech and foreign periodicals, including two monographs (one in Serbian, one in Czech). Some of my newest research topics at the Institute of History of the CAS concern the situation in the Balkans, through the actions of Czechoslovak diplomacy from the end of WWII, through the early post-war period, the Yugoslav-Soviet split in 1948, and the end of the Greek Civil War. I am dealing too with the topic of the formation, development and disappearance of national identity in the Yugoslav territory, about which I am currently leading a one project of the Czech Academy of Sciences (research program of the AV21 Strategy “Anatomy of European Society, History, Tradition, Culture, Identity”), with the title Centralist Ambitions and Peripheral Reality: A Comparison and Analysis of the Relations of National, Regional and Local Identities in Yugoslavia.
Visiting Fellowship (March 2023)
The Visiting Fellowship Program at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana is an opportunity to cooperate with colleagues at that Institute with similar scientific interest and to discuss the possible proposal for a Slovenian-Czech bilateral project (e.g. Mobility Plus Projects of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the CAS). I would be interested to cooperate with Jurij Hadalin and Maja Lukanc and to discuss a project proposal for above-mentioned competition. I would like to use a visit to the Institute of Contemporary History too for research in the library of the Institute, as well as in the National and University Library in Ljubljana. At the same time, this is also a great opportunity to advance my academic progress.
Last relevant publicastions
- Milan Sovilj, Balkan States' Development Immediately after World War II: Through the Eyes of Czechoslovak Diplomats, B. Teodor – J. Baev – M. Crosston – M. Teodor (eds.), Old and New Insights on the History of Intelligence and Diplomacy in the Balkans, New York, Peter Lang 2023, 207–232.
- Milan Sovilj, Übersicht der bisherigen Forschung [Overview of Current Research.], Z. Maršálek – J. Neminář (eds.), Zwangsrekrutierte in die Wehrmacht. Mobilisation – Widerspruch – Widerstand – Gedächtnis in der schlesischen, tschechischen und slowenischen Perspektive, Praha, Ústav pro soudobé dějiny AV ČR, v. v. i. 2021, 23–32.
- Milan Sovilj, The Beginnings of the Czechoslovak and Yugoslav Exile Governments in London during the Second World War. Expectations, Possibilities, and Reality, Czech Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 8, 2020, 5–28.
- Milan Sovilj, Nucená mobilizace v Evropě za druhé světové války: Okolnosti, charakteristiky a význam [Forced mobilization in Europe during the Second World War: circumstances, characteristics and significance], Z. Maršálek – J. Neminář (eds.), Ve dvou uniformách: Nuceně mobilizovaní a jejich účast v odboji. Okolnosti, souvislosti, marginalizace, Hlučín – Praha, Muzeum Hlučínska – Ústav pro soudobé dějiny AV ČR, v.v.i. 2020, 32–39.
Visiting duration: March 9 - March 19, 2023
