Nemanja Stanimirović

PhD Student
Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade, Serbia

Visiting Fellowship 2025/26 (July 1, 2026 – August 1, 2026)

Nemanja Stanimirović is currently a second-year PhD student of Culturology at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Belgrade with a previous international background. After his BA in Politics and International Relations at the University of York, he attained two Master degrees – first in Nationalism Studies at the Central European University and second in History at the University of Belgrade. He has also spent a year as an exchange student at the Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” and attended the International Summer School at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow and St. Petersburg. He was an intern at the Serbian Embassy to Rome as well as to the Centre for Cultural and Historical Research of Socialism (CKPIS) at the University of Pula, and has briefly worked as an archivist assistant at the Institute of Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Art.

His interdisciplinary research focus revolves around the intellectual history of Eastern Europe after the Second World War, especially around topics of economic systems and nationalism among the arguments of the dissidents in Yugoslavia. So far, he has published two articles on the topic of Yugoslav Trotskyism, developed from his second Masters’ dissertation, and has a forthcoming article on the issue of Yugoslav dissidents and peace during the Cold War. He has attended multiple academic conferences around Europe and has given public talks on his areas of research several times in Serbia and the region. He is an activist, an aspiring angler, a passionate coffee drinker and a failed footballer, hoping that an academic career will allow him to read historical books in peace.

Statement of interest

My stay at the Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino will allow me to further develop my PhD research on the intellectual history of Yugoslav. During the fellowship, I plan to develop with INZ colleagues a joint project on UJDI (Association for the Yugoslav Democratic Initiative), an underexplored actor of the late 1980s. Together, we aim to investigate its role in shaping democratic socialist alternatives during the dissolution of Yugoslavia and its legacy in post-Yugoslav political spaces. The fellowship also offers an opportunity to exchange methodological insights and to strengthen future international cooperation.

Selected publications

Stanimirović, Nemanja. “Yugoslav Dissidents as Agents of Peace in the Era of Détente.” In Peace, unconditional. Edited by Sanja Petrović Todosijević and Martin Pogačar. 2025. Forthcoming.
Stanimirović, Nemanja. “Izmišljena ili stvarna pretnja? Trockisti u SFRJ od studentskog protesta 1968. do suđenja trockističkoj trojci 1972. godine.” Tokovi istorije 1/2024, 173-201. https://doi.org/10.31212/tokovi.2024.1.sta.173-201
Stanimirović, Nemanja. “Slobodan G. Markovich, ed., Cultural Transfer Europe-Serbia: Methodological Issues and Challenges. Belgrade: Faculty of Political Sciences – Dosije Studio, 2023, 262 p.” Balcanica 54 (2023): 295-298. https://balcanica.rs/index.php/journal/article/view/1369/1291
Stanimirović, Nemanja. “Proletarian Avantgarde and International Tribunes: Tracing Trotskyists’ Activities in Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY).” Matériaux pour l’histoire de notre temps 145-146, no. 3-4 (2022): 82-86. https://doi.org/10.3917/mate.145.0082