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Sara Žerić Đulović
@szeric.bsky.social
Historian at Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung/IOS Regensburg

Pula - Regensburg
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On 30 November 2025, around 2,000 people gathered in #Rijeka for an #antifascist protest, while masked men performed fascist salutes & intimidated participants. On our #ostBLOG, @katarina-damcevic.bsky.social (IOS) argues that the mayor’s refusal to take a stand creates space for the far right. ⬇️
Rijeka’s Antifascist Protest and the Mayor Who Saw Nothing
by Katarina Damčević On 30 November 2025, around 2,000 people gathered in Rijeka for an antifascist protest, while masked men performed fascist salutes and intimidated participants. This blog post arg...
ostblog.hypotheses.org
December 2, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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🎉 Deutschlandpremiere am IOS 📕

Am 7.11., 16 Uhr, stellen @tschinderle.bsky.social und @krstorevic.bsky.social ihr neues Buch "Westbalkan – Im Wartezimmer der EU" vor (mit @danijelmajic.bsky.social geschrieben). Zuhören & mitdiskutieren – bei uns oder online.

🔗 Mehr: leibniz-ios.de/veranstaltun...
October 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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We are seeking a PhD candidate with an interest in East–West European relations (1970s–1990s) to work with me and Aline Sierp. The deadline for submitting proposals is 28 September.

vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
PhD in the long-term history of the European Union's Eastern enlargement
PhD in the long-term history of the European Union's Eastern enlargement
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl
August 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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#SaveTheDate: The program of our 12th Annual Conference on "Continuity & Change in the Economic Trajectories of Central, East and South-East Europe in the Long 20th Century" is out now. With keynotes by Tamás Vonyó and János Mátyás Kovács.
📆 26–27 June 2025 | #Regensburg ⬇️
IOS Annual Conference: "Continuity and Change in the Economic Trajectories of Central, East and South-East Europe in the Long 20th Century"
IOS Annual Conference 2025
leibniz-ios.de
June 16, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Today, at the Symposion of the Scientific Advisory Board of sogde.org, @juznaslavenka.bsky.social, member of our TraFFF project, presented research on remittance factories in former Yugoslavia
February 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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You can watch this powerful (and Oscar-nominated) short for free. When I watched it, I had a horrible feeling of it being particularly relevant today.
Watch this. It's based on a true story of what Tomo Buzov did. In time of lawlessness, he tried to fight against it. I write about this event in my book. Now this short film is the Croatian candidate for an Oscar. Watch it: #Film #Oscars www.arte.tv/en/videos/12...
The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent | ARTE in English
February 1993: Štrpci, Bosnia. Paramilitaries stop a passenger train and arrest civilians. Of the 500 or so passengers, only one man puts up resistance. This film tells the true story of the man who w...
www.arte.tv
January 27, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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How did migrant workers' remittances contribute to Yugoslavia's industrialization? @juznaslavenka.bsky.social (#LeibnizIOS) examines in Migration and Development how the #Gastarbeiter shaped local development, using the "Tigar" tire factory (Pirot) as a case study. 🔽
"The Tyres of Change – Remittances as a Wheel of Development in Pirot, Serbia": Article by Sara Žerić Đulović
Article published in Migration and Development.
leibniz-ios.de
January 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Just published my new article in journal "Migration and Development" on Gastarbeiter investments in the "Tigar" factory in Pirot! 🚀
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November 20, 2024 at 11:18 AM
Did you know that there is a #Mercedes town in Croatia? 🚗The background story you can read in the essay I wrote for #seeffield (A small but fertile field:
Strengthening Southeast European Studies in Regensburg)
seeffield.app.uni-regensburg.de/croatias-mer...
Croatia's "Mercedes" Town: How Imotski Honours its Gastarbeiter Heritage - seeFField
At the beginning of June, Croatian and German flags flew over Imotski, a town in southern Croatia, as citizens gathered for a two-day celebration. They celebrated the unveiling of the “Mercedes” monum...
seeffield.app.uni-regensburg.de
July 1, 2024 at 9:18 AM
I am happy to share that my paper "Factories Built on the Deutsche Mark. Yugoslav Gastarbeiter Investments in Creating Jobs in the Homeland" is part of a special edition by Südosteuropa-Jahrbuch entitled "Return Migration and its Consequences in Southeast Europe" 🤓

www.peterlang.com/document/144...
Peter Lang Verlag - Return Migration and its Consequences in Southeast Europe
This volume is a collection of papers presented at the 60th International Academic Week organized by the Southeast Europe Association in October 2022. ...
www.peterlang.com
May 29, 2024 at 7:20 AM
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"'The #Gastarbeiter|s Built Everything for Us.' #Migration|s, Memories, and Emptiness in the #Dalmatia|n Hinterland"

New essay by #LeibnizIOS director Ulf Brunnbauer and @juznaslavenka.bsky.social in Contemporary Southeastern Europe.
In #OpenAccess ➡️ contemporarysee.org/the-gastarbe...
April 24, 2024 at 7:31 AM
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Kann Abwanderung auch positive Impulse für die Wirtschaft der Herkunftsländer haben? Diese für #Südosteuropa bis heute enorm wichtige Frage diskutieren #LeibnizIOS -Direktor Ulf Brunnbauer und @juznaslavenka.bsky.social am Beispiel des sozialistischen #Jugoslawien im @derstandardat.bsky.social. ⬇️
Migration und Entwicklung im sozialistischen Jugoslawien
Schuf Migration aus dem sozialistischen Jugoslawien wirtschaftliche Impulse für die Herkunftsregionen?
www.derstandard.de
April 17, 2024 at 8:56 AM
My dear blue ☁️ community, if you know some young scholars who are dealing with history of migration and development processes in Latin and South America, North Africa and Portugal, Italy, Greece, Turkey - please let me know about them! I'm working on an exciting panel 🤩
January 30, 2024 at 10:55 AM
#CFP IOS Annual Conference!
Reminder | 🗓️ Deadline: February 15th
CfP for our annual conference on "Getting Old in Eastern Europe. Social, Political and Economic Dimensions of Ageing in the Past and Present".

We welcome proposals from various social sciences.
Details ➡️ leibniz-ios.de/wissen-vermi...
January 25, 2024 at 1:32 PM
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Remittances from YU-Gastarbeiters in Western Europe played an important role in Yugoslavia's economic development, argues @leibniz-ios.de research associate @juznaslavenka.bsky.social. More on this by Milica Stojanović (former IOS fellow) for Balkan Insight.
balkaninsight.com/2023/11/29/h...
Helping the Homeland: Yugoslavia’s [Almost] Forgotten Gastarbeiter Factories
Yugoslav ‘guest-workers’ in Western Europe were responsible for an influx of Western-made goods and cash. They also bankrolled the creation of dozens of factories, some that employed the wives lef...
balkaninsight.com
December 7, 2023 at 10:08 AM