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It’s 2021, Joe Biden just become President of the United States, and we’ve got some great things coming up. Good Luck with the Start of Term!
Book Launch: Jelena Đureinović, The Politics of Memory of the Second World War in Contemporary Serbia
Wednesday January 27th 2021, at 5.30pm
Jelena Đureinović will present her new book on the politics of memory. The book explores the concepts of collaboration, resistance, and postwar retribution.
Since the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević in 2000, memory politics in Serbia has undergone drastic changes in the way in which the Second World War and its aftermath is understood and interpreted. The glorification and romanticisation of the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland has become the central theme of Serbia’s memory politics during this period. The book traces their construction as a national antifascist movement equal to the communist-led Partisans and as victims of communism, showing the parallel justification and denial of their wartime activities of collaboration and mass atrocities.
Jelena Đureinović is a postdoctoral researcher and scientific coordinator of the Research Platform for the Study of Eastern Europe and Transformations at the University of Vienna. She holds a PhD in History from Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany. She also works as the coordinator of the Memory Program at the Humanitarian Law Center in Belgrade, Serbia.
The Trump Coup D’Etat and Insurrection Was Long in the Making, And Will Continue
Professor Inderjeet Parmar provides trenchant analysis of the violence that marred the final days of the Trump Administration. A must read.
CNN: Inderjeet Parmar on the Incoming Biden Administration
Professor Parmar was also interviewed by CNN’s Rosemary Church
Once Donald Trump is out of the White House, Americans should write him out of history too
Gwilym David Blunt, Lecturer in International Politics, has written a short piece for The Conversation arguing that Donald Trump should be given the Benedict Arnold treatment in American life: remembered but not commemorated.
Training Opportunity: Researching Queer London with Senate House Library resources
Monday, 25 January 2021, 14:00 – 15:00 GMT, on Microsoft Teams
Join us to explore some of the rich collections of queer literature and discover the e-resources available to you at Senate House Library. The session will include presentations from:
Dr Sarah Pyke, TIDE Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, on researching Queer London.
Dr Richard Espley, Head of Modern Collections at Senate House Library – introducing Senate House Library’s archival holdings on queer history from anthropologist and collector Eric Dingwall, and libertarian campaigner Alec Craig.
Argula Rublack & Leila Kassir, Academic Librarians at Senate House Library, showing examples of electronic and print resources available at Senate House Library
There will then be time for you to ask your own research queries at the end of the session.
Audience: The session will be particularly useful for postgraduate and research students.
The link to join the event will be emailed to you nearer the date of the time once you’ve signed up.
PhD Opportunity: Future of Humanity Institute, The University of Oxford
Applications close on 14th February at 11:59pm GMT.
FHI is excited to announce that applications are now open to its DPhil scholarships programme. FHI will be offering full funding to up to 6 DPhil students at the University of Oxford, from the academic year 2021/2022.
We are looking for outstanding students whose research aims to improve humanity’s prospects over the long term. Candidates will be considered from a range of disciplines, including but not limited to computer science, economics, international relations, mathematics, philosophy, and public policy. Successful applicants will be awarded full funding for their DPhil, office space in FHI, and the chance to participate in FHI activities.