Zala Pavšič, Visiting Fellowship 2024/25

Short biography

Zala Pavšič is a historian working on the contemporary history of Southeast Europe. Apart from a PhD in Cultural History from the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, her previous training includes a master’s degree in Russian Language and Comparative Literature from the University of Ljubljana. She has held postdoctoral positions at CEU Democracy Institute and at the European University Institute in Florence. Her research areas include the disintegration of Yugoslavia, history and methodology of friendship, and gender studies. Currently, she is working on her edited special issue Friendship in Motion. New Avenues in Historical Research.

Motivation

The fellowship period will strengthen my ties with other researchers dealing with contemporary Southeast Europe, both those affiliated with the Institute for Contemporary History and those visiting.

During my fellowship period, I will be working on a project related to long-time multi-ethnic friendships spanning from socialist Yugoslavia to the period of European integration and the way these are transformed into national narratives. At INZ, I will benefit from the expertise of the fellows at the institute and gain the opportunity to consider possible future collaboration.

List of publications (a selection)

Zala Pavšič. ‘Narrations of Lost and Found: The Shifts and Turns of the Friendship Discourse in the (Post)Yugoslav Environment’. In:  Disclosing (Post)-Yugoslav Time: Towards the Temporal Turn in Critical (Post)-Yugoslav Studies. Leiden: Brill Publishing, 2021.

Zala Pavšič. ‘Remembering Yugoslavia: Board Game Monopoly and Cultural Memory’. Board Game Studies Journal. De Gruyter, 2020.

Zala Pavšič. ‘Critical female voices: Maruša Krese and Slovene independence’. Slovene studies: journal of the Society for Slovene Studies. Washington: University of Washington, 2020.

Zala Pavšič. ‘O pozabi: primer jugoslovanskega Monopolyja’. Ars&Humanitas. Ljubljana: Filozofska fakulteta, 2019.

Zala Pavšič. ‘Razmerje med domovino in tujino na zemljevidu Maruše Krese’. Dve domovini/Two Homelands. Ljubljana: ZRC SAZU, 2016.