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Jelena Đureinović
@jelenadj.bsky.social
Historian. University of Vienna. Antifascism, anticolonialism & veterans’ internationalism between Yugoslavia & Africa in the global Cold War. Memory studies. Football.
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Finally out! The paper studies Yugoslav medical assistance to the FLN as stemming from the WW2 experience of the People‘s Liberation War, part of the forthcoming special issue edited by @doravargha.bsky.social, @alilacandonga.bsky.social and Luis Aue.

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In Prague for this conference, presenting about the disability care concerning combatants and veterans in socialist Yugoslavia in the context of transnational circulations of knowledge between the West, East and South.
📍Body and care in the ordeal of war. A socio-historical perspective on East-Central and East-Southern Europe in the 20th-21st centuries📍
❗EURETES @ehess.fr
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November 13, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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#jobopportunity

Ph.D. position – Junior Researcher (Serbian Case, MEMCRIS Project) #Prague @charlesuni.cuni.cz

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Ph.D. position – Junior Researcher (Serbian Case, MEMCRIS Project)
Magazín vysokých škol
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October 21, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Proofs are ready and "Realigning Humanitarianism in the Balkans. From Cold War Politics to Neoliberal Ethics" (Indiana UP 2026) can be pre-ordered 🥂

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October 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Excited to see The Routledge Handbook of 1989 and the Great Transformation hit the web www.routledge.com/The-Routledg... It should be out at the end of 2025.
The Routledge Handbook of 1989 and the Great Transformation
This cutting-edge collection of essays analyses the pivotal year of 1989 and the transformation processes that resulted from a historical perspective. It takes the events of that momentous year as a p...
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August 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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In #Gaza breitet sich eine Massenhungersnot aus und unsere Kolleg*innen und die Menschen, denen wir helfen, siechen dahin - Ein offener Brief von 100 Hilfsorganisationen u.a. von medico Oxfam, Amnesty und der Welthungerhilfe
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Offener Brief, 23.07.2025 - In Gaza breitet sich eine Massenhungersnot aus und unsere Kolleg*innen und die Menschen, denen wir helfen, siechen dahin - medico international
Mehr als 100 Organisationen schlagen Alarm, um lebensrettende Hilfe zu ermöglichen.
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July 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
So many great articles on socialist medicine and health in this issue, with a very broad geographical scope!
Our special issue 'Socialist Health: Of Shortages and Solidarity' in EHMH has been published! brill.com/view/journal... Fantastic articles by @alilacandonga.bsky.social @jelenadj.bsky.social @nalbrecht.bsky.social @severyandyakonov.bsky.social and many more, supported by @erc.europa.eu #histmed
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July 6, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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BREAKING: Zeteo has released, globally, the film the BBC so controversially refused to air.

"Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" is now available to watch in full at gazadoctors.film and zeteo.com.

Here's the trailer:
July 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM
#ECAS2025, where @alilacandonga.bsky.social and I had wonderful two panels on medical socialist entanglements between Eastern Europe and Africa, including, among others, @severyandyakonov.bsky.social. Also heard some excellent talks on veterans, memory of anti-colonial wars and public health!
June 29, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Thank you Prague and #ECAS2025 for the chance to share my work! It was especially entertaining to be hosted in the building where my research events happened in 1961. Look up for texts on Socialist Medical Entanglements in the decolonizing world in this OA special issue
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June 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Gaza and the Sociology of War, open access, with @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social in Journal of Genocide Research
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Organized Callousness: Gaza and the Sociology of War
Published in Journal of Genocide Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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May 14, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Finally out! The paper studies Yugoslav medical assistance to the FLN as stemming from the WW2 experience of the People‘s Liberation War, part of the forthcoming special issue edited by @doravargha.bsky.social, @alilacandonga.bsky.social and Luis Aue.

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June 4, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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My first article on my current History of International Red Cross project is finally out! I hope more texts on Soviet doctors abroad will come out in the upcoming years. This one is on first Soviet doctors in Delhi.
#USSR #INDIA #REDCROSS #HUMANITARINISM
June 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Research at @rutgershsl.bsky.social in Newark this week, working with papers of Henry H. Kessler, a leading expert in rehabilitation who worked in postwar Yugoslavia and trained Yugoslav experts at his institute in New Jersey, who would later establish the field of veterans’ disability care at home
May 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This Wednesday! 👇
On Wednesday 14 May 2025 @jelenadj.bsky.social l will present her project "Globalising the Yugoslav Revolution in the Postcolonial World: Veterans, Memory and Transnational Networks of Solidarity" at the ie.talks. Looking forward to an interesting discussion!
May 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Just arrived to Reggio Emilia excited about the 3 days of discussions about antifascism and actors, practices and meanings after 1989 (and curious about “international turbo folk” band playing on the main square tonight) #Liberazione80

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April 28, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Call for application 2025/26
The Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana is now accepting applications for the Visiting Fellowship program.
The deadline for applications is July 1, 2025.
The decisions will be made by July 31, 2025.

For more information visit: www.inz.si/en/VF/
April 23, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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So great to meet up with so many colleagues from the Military Welfare History Network at #esshc #esshc2025
March 28, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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April 2, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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The People’s Liberation War, as the symbol of Yugoslavia, became in the 1990s the subject of radical revision in the often-parallel processes of erasure, demonisation, inversion and appropriation. Read @jelenadj.bsky.social new essay in The Helsinki Notebooks: helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/04/01/e...
Erasing the Yugoslav Revolution: (Mis-)Remembering Antifascism in Serbia and the Post-Yugoslav Space
The People’s Liberation War (Narodnooslobodilački rat, NOR), as the Yugoslav Partisans’ antifascist struggle and parallel socialist revolution during World War II were officially termed, was the bi…
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April 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Our Researcher Dr. Jelena Ðureinović (@jelenadj.bsky.social) will be giving a keynote at the New Directions in Veteran History workshop at Maynooth University (@maynoothuniversity.ie) this Wednesday, April 2. You can join online or in person!
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New Directions in Veteran History workshop
The COLVET project team are delighted to welcome you to attend this hybrid workshop on 'New Directions in Veteran History', in the Arts and Humanities Institute, First Floor of Iontas Building,
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March 31, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Looking forward to our panel on actors and spaces of entanglements between Eastern Europe and anti-colonial wars tomorrow at #esshc
March 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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If you are in Vienna tomorrow – Come and drop by for Prof. Jill Massino's (UNC Charlotte) #TransformativeSeminar on "History Doesn't Travel in One Direction: Real Existing Postsocialism in Eastern Europe", 13:00-14:30
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March 19, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Research Group New Cold War Studies on BlueSky!
We focus on the global dimension of the Cold War.
We discuss new approaches to studying the global Cold War that go beyond the traditional field of international relations.
What we do 👇
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Research Group New Cold War Studies
Research Group New Cold War Studies
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March 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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DEADLINE!!! Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal for #EAHMH25 in Berlin by March 10. It's going to be a fantastic conference with keynotes @historyelaine.bsky.social , Projit Mukharji and Birgit Nemec. More information and link to submission site at eahmh25.org #histmed #histSTM
EAHMH: Health Beyond Medicine
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March 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Very excited to announce our first COLVET workshop on April 02. The theme is New Directions in Veteran History and our keynote will be the brilliant Jelena Ɖureinović. This is a hybrid event and all are welcome to attend. Registration required. Please share widely.
March 3, 2025 at 10:44 AM