Lana Jurman, Visiting Fellowship 2024/25

Biography

Lana Jurman is a doctoral candidate and university assistant at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna. Her research interests are focused on organizational strategies of political parties and currents of conservative ideas, especially in the post-socialist space. Her dissertation is concerned with the organizational strategies of political parties in Slovenia, and how they have shifted with their embrace of neoliberal ideologies. At the Department of Political Science, she teaches courses on Nationalism in (South)Eastern Europe and (Un)Civil Society in (South)Eastern Europe. She holds an MA degree in International Politics from Newcastle University, and BA degree in Philosophy and English from the University of Ljubljana.

Visiting fellowship 21.11.- 1.12.2024

Motivation

As a visiting fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History, my goal is to advance the parts of my dissertation dealing with Slovenian political parties’ organizational strategies during the transition (1989-2004). Staying at the Institute will allow me both to access empirical sources not available to me in Vienna, and the expertise of the Institute’s researchers working on Slovenian political history. During my stay, I also hope to review the media archive at the National University Library and conduct interviews with relevant actors. As part of my stay, I will present my initial findings to the Institute’s researchers, and discuss potential future collaborations.