Stevo Đurašković, Visiting Fellowship 2024/25

Biography

Stevo Đurašković, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Zagreb, where he teaches the courses in Politics of history and in Modern and Contemporary Croatian history. He received his PhD in Political Science from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana and his MA in Central European History from the History Department at the Central European University, Budapest. His research interests include the politics of history, intellectual history and national identity-building processes in East Central and Southeastern Europe.

Visiting fellowship: 27.11.- 30.11.2024.

Motivation

During my stay, I will discuss on application for the joint Croatian-Slovenian project with colleagues from the Institute, Marko Zajc and Isidora Grubački. Namely, my colleagues from the Department of History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, and I, have for a long time been discussing potential research on how, why, and whether national identity narratives had successfully superseded other concurrent supranational and/ or regional narratives in the course of 19 and 20 century, and what was the influence of the historical context upon the interplay of the narratives. We find the mentioned interplay between national and other identities important to research regarding findings on the power of national identity narratives. Since Croatian and Slovenian national identity-building narratives have been largely similar, but also different, due to the similarities and differences in the historical legacies of the nations, we thought it would be interesting to compare Croatia and Slovenia concerning the mentioned trends.

Recent publications

“Predrag Matvejević The Crisis of Socialist Yugoslavia as a Crisis of Yugoslav Identity” In East Central European Crisis Discourses in the Twentieth Century: A Never-Ending Story?,  Balázs Trencsényi, Lucija Balikić, Una Blagojević and Isidora Grubački (eds). New York (NY): Routledge, 2024, pp. 271-293.

“Odnos prema povijesnim ličnostima.” In Hrvatski birači – 30 godina političkog ponašanja i mišljenja, Kosta Bovan, Daniela Širinić and Višeslav Raos, (eds). Zagreb: Fakultet političkih znanosti, 2024. pp. 201-232 (with Bartul Vuksan- Ćusa)

“Failure to build Yugoslav and European identity: Comparison between the 1950s Yugo Prophecy and 1980s Euro Prophecy”, National identities, 25 (2023), 5; 441-462. (with Nikola Petrović)

“The Youth Shall Inherit the Earth? Supranational Identity-Building in Socialist Yugoslavia and the EU Compared”, Croatian political science review, 59 (2022), 2; 13-40. (with Mario Munta and Miloš Kovačević).