Fabio Giomi, Visiting Fellowship 2023/24

Biography

Fabio Giomi is a researcher at the Centre d’études turques, ottomanes, balkaniques et centrasiatiques (CETOBaC – EHESS, CNRS, Collège de France) in Paris. His research focuses on the social and cultural history of Southeastern Europe between the late 19th and mid-20th centuries, with a special emphasis on the Yugoslav region. Among his current research topics are voluntary associations and social movements, women’s and gender history, and transnational studies. His recent publications include “Public and Private Welfare in Modern Europe: Productive Entanglements” (Routledge, 2023, with Célia Keren and Morgane Labbé), “Making Muslim Women European: Voluntary Associations, Gender, and Islam in Post-Ottoman Bosnia and Yugoslavia” (CEU Press, 2021), and “Kemalism: Transnational Politics in the Post-Ottoman World” (I.B. Tauris, 2019, with Nathalie Clayer et Emmanuel Szurek). Since 2012, he has been teaching at the EHESS in Paris. For additional information, see his webpage: https://cetobac.ehess.fr/membres/fabio-giomi-0

Visiting Fellowship July 2024

Motivation

My main motivation for this fellowship is to develop further cooperation with the colleagues from the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana. I visited the Institute for the first time in 2021 as a co-organizer of the workshop  “At the Nexus of Voluntary Action and Public Policies: Rethinking Care in Southeastern Europe”; the workshop was co-organized with Isidora Grubački and within the framework of the COST Action »Who Cares in Europe?«. We are now planning to revisit this topic and to include the doctoral students from the Institute. Besides that, I plan to develop relationship between the EHESS and different academic institutions in Slovenia

Finally, the will help me begin writing the first part of my habilitation research, which focuses on the relationship between volunteering and state formation in Southeastern Europe (1870-1945). A primary goal of this research is to write the history of the multiple and contradictory ways in which men and women of various regional, national, religious, and class backgrounds engaged with these institutions from the late imperial period to the Second World War. Simultaneously, this research aims to highlight the role of voluntary associations in constructing social problems and defining public policies in various domains (welfare, education, economy, sports, etc.). Scholarship on writing, paperwork, and archival practices developed by sociologists, anthropologists, and historians is of great help in developing my own approach and understanding of the state-association relationship.

List of publications (a selection)

Fabio Giomi, “Making Gymnastics Catholic: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of the Croatian Orao in Interwar Yugoslavia”, East Central Europe 50 (2023), pp. 253–275.

Fabio Giomi, Célia Keren and Morgane Labbé (eds.) Public and Private Welfare in Modern Europe: Productive Entanglements, Routledge, London, 2022 (available in open access here).

Fabio Giomi, Making Muslim women European. Voluntary associations, gender and Islam in post-Ottoman Bosnia and Yugoslavia, Central European University Press, Budapest & New York, 2021 (available in open access here).

Fabio Giomi, Ece Zerman (eds), “Gendering the (post-)Ottoman world”, Clio. Women, Gender, History Volume 48, Issue 2, 2020, available in open access here).

Nathalie Clayer, Fabio Giomi, Emmanuel Szurek (eds.) Kemalism. Transnational Politics in the Post-Ottoman World, I.B. Tauris, London & New York, 2019.

Fabio Giomi, Stefano Petrungaro (eds.), “Voluntary associations in Yugoslavia, 1918-1941”, European Review of History: Revue européenne d’histoire, Special Issue, 26, 1, 2019.