Jelena Đureinović, Visiting Fellowship 2023/24

Biography

Dr. Jelena Đureinović is a researcher at the Research Center for the History of Transformations at the University of Vienna. Her current project, funded through the APART-GSK program of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, investigates the role of memory and legacies of war in the relations between Yugoslavia and anti-colonial liberation movements from Africa, focusing on the agency of Yugoslav Partisans. Her main research interests include memory studies, global Cold War history and the history of Yugoslavia. She holds a PhD in History from Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany. Her book The Politics of Memory of the Second World War in Contemporary Serbia: Collaboration, Resistance and Retribution was published with Routledge in 2020.

Visiting fellowship April 2024

Motivation

During the fellowship, I will focus on the medical aspect of my broader project that explores the role of the memory and legacies of the People’s Liberation War in exchanges between Yugoslavia and anti-colonial liberation movements during the Cold War. I am focusing on Yugoslav medical internationalism during decolonisation as directly linked to the understanding of the conditions and challenges of anti-colonial wars as similar to the People’s Liberation War in Yugoslavia. Furthermore, I examine medical assistance to the anti-colonial struggle and post-colonial states as related to the wartime and postwar experiences of military medicine, care for the wounded fighters and creating public health structures dedicated to rehabilitation of the Partisans with war-related disability. I will use my stay in Ljubljana to study published sources and relevant literature in the National Library and finalise the first draft of a journal article about Yugoslavia’s medical assistance during decolonisation.

Recent publications

Đureinović, Jelena. “Internationalizing the Revolution: Veterans and Transnational Cultures of Memory and Solidarity between Yugoslavia and Algeria.” International Review of Social History, 2024, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859023000652.

Đureinović, Jelena. ‘Marching the Victorious March: Populism and Memory Appropriation of the Yugoslav Partisans in Today’s Serbia‘. Nationalities Papers, 2022. https://www.doi.org/10.1017/nps.2022.50.

with Jade McGlynn. ‘The Alliance of Victory: Russo-Serbian Memory Diplomacy’. Memory Studies, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980211073108.