"Girlhood At War" made it home! Unlike anything I’ve written before, this book is a personal story about growing up during Serbia's war against Kosovo and about finding myself, at 14, translating for US NATO troops in its aftermath. (Yes, the young girl in these pictures is me.)

It's totally a chant against the establishment elites, who just coincidentally turned up to enthusiastically chant it as well and to take photos with the person leading the chant.

My article finally has an issue! A lot has changed in Serbia since I submitted this in 2021, but my point remains: young people are capable political actors who have their own ideas of what the future should look like.

We’re looking for nonfiction—of any length or form—that dives into the many meanings and manifestations of embodiment in and of the Balkans. Send us your pitches (50–100 words) by October 1 and join us for our first-ever Virtual Open House on September 24: www.womenwritethebalkans.com/specials

In sum: read it read it read it—!

#Slovenia doesn't fuck around <3 #Croatia? Hello?! Anybody home? #ForeignPolicy #InternationalLaw

🔥🏟️ New article out: I am very happy that @felixanderl.bsky.social and my paper ”Dangerous arenas: why activists struggle for change in technocratic institutions“ has just been published in @jird-jour.bsky.social and that it’s open access! link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧶👇🏼 1/

Apparently talking about embassies burning in the 1960s is far more triggering to some people than watching tens of thousands die on livestream (for almost two years) today. Please read the long version, someone actually emailed Milorad Dodik — I guess comic relief in a horrible situation? SFSN

Working on #EnvironmentalJustice topics in Central and Eastern Europe? Then you might want to send an abstract for the conference 'The Greyzone of the Green Transition' that I'm co-organizing with my colleagues from Sibiu next year in Romania (18-19 May 2026). Participation is free of charge!

Dear folks, Check out this list of books up for review, sign up and claim one! 📚🌿 It’s a brilliant way to read something great and get your name out there. #envhist #envhum

🚨Job Alert 🚨 🐕‍🦺 🐄🐎🐦‍⬛ Do you have project management skills & an interest in human-animal relations? We are recruiting a project manager role (5 years) for our new project (info in the 🧵) @sheffielduni.bsky.social 📆 deadline 30 June www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNO134/p...

Call for Papers: Eastern Marxisms. We are planning a special issue of Historical Materialism on Eastern Marxisms, the distinctive tradition of post-war critical and radical thought in East and Central Europe. Please take a look at the extended call, share with your networks and consider applying.

Interested in a British Academy post-doc in politics? Consider applying with us @livunipol.bsky.social. Deadline 16 July. Get in touch with me for all things Middle East and/or IPE. For other topics please check out... www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...

Israeli forces have boarded Madleen - the volunteer-crewed ship trying to break siege to deliver aid to starving people in Gaza - and abducted the crew. If you are a citizen of any country whose citizens are on board (France/Germany/Brazil/Sweden), please watch this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjMd...

#Academicfreedom & #freedomofspech are more important than ever in times of #genocide Statement on "Academic Freedom as a Prerequisite for Peace and Conflict Studies" by Working Group Critical Peace Research of the German Association for Peace and Conflict Studies (AFK) afk-web.de/wp-content/u...

I was interviewed by Miranda Melcher about my book for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. You can listen to the podcast in the link, and the book is available Open Access from @uofmpress.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/beyond-inter...

Colours of a summer storm #Shetland

📢We have an exciting offer for early-careers from CEE and scholars from the Global South. 👉We are able to offer 10 travel bursaries (5 × €500 for early-career scholars from CEE; 5 × €750 for scholars from the Global South) for our conference. See👇for information on how to apply and the conditions.

Wednesday, 16:45, Vienna and online!

#MSCA Postdoctoral #Fellowships 2025 – Call now open! 🚨 Are you a #postdoc looking to take the next big step in your #academic journey? The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is officially open - and we'd love to welcome you to the University of Vienna! 🏛️ More here: ⤵️

Yes, university expense systems are difficult to navigate. But have you tried submitting receipts from Serbia to UniWien? Good luck to me and our Serbian workshop participants I guess 😅

👉A gentle reminder (or a rough nudge?) for you to apply for our Call for Papers: due July 1st 2025. We are organizing a fabulous conference in January 2026 and want you to come! www.linkedin.com/posts/ceeshu...

With Father's Day approaching, I'd like to make space for complicated feelings unsuitable for best-dad school crafts. Last Halloween, I wrote about my father and how sometimes no relationship is the best one in given circumstances: www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/kinde...

I'm a huge fan of The Pitt and now re-watching ER to find many similar teaching moments. Thank you for this piece!

This week at the Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology in Vienna - MA student skillshare 💥💪

I usually don’t support working weekends, but this is day 2 of our writeshop on political ecologies of SEE and…. I’m loving it 🌱 With hard copies of graphic novels on BiH environmental struggles, thanks to Damir Arsenijević.

Join us May 15 at 12:00 PM (CET) for a CAS SEE Seminar with Balša Lubarda & RECAS Fellow Slađana Kavarić Mandić: “Exclusionary Environmentalisms – Coping with the Microfascist Predicament?” Zoom info: cas.uniri.hr/cas-see-semi...

If you like to hold/look/smell/read/display/annotate physical books, both paperback and hardcover copies of my book are now 50% off at @uofmpress.bsky.social. Of course, the electronic version is still free to read and download 🌱 press.umich.edu/Books/B/Beyo...

Over the last few months, I've been working with colleagues in BiH and @ecodiya.bsky.social on updating the #LandMatrix database on land deals in BiH. We also wrote a small report, now published! You can check out the database here: landmatrix.org/map/

Next week, May 9th, legendary Tania Li will give a lecture in Marburg @zfk-mr.bsky.social : "Do we see what our interlocutors see? Bridging divergent perspectives on structural violence". Do come along if you're in the area! @trace-center.de

My plan for this year was to post more about readings that help me think. I was a bit slow, but here goes. This week, a great article by @asantonova.bsky.social and Arvid van Dam on the environment and EU integration (in ES & BG) is helping me think through politics of land and landscape. Link 👇

🙌Our team is overjoyed to announce the 1st International Conference of the Central and Eastern European Security Hub, titled "Between Peripheries: Critical-Relational Security from CEE and the Global South." Call for papers out May 6th. More info: securityhub.ee/news/announc...

Fascinating photographs of everyday life in Montenegro in 1920, taken by the American Red Cross. Humanitarian spectacularism at its finest. Source: www.loc.gov/search/?in=&...

We are looking for a PhD student who wants to rethink Historical International Relations/the History of the Social Sciences from Latin America! Fully funded position with an interdisciplinary supervisory team (Ian Merkel, Konstantin Mierau and myself): www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3505...

And we are starting! Great papers and wonderful hosts @matesuba.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social @mybisa.bsky.social @bisasee.bsky.social

Big day on Thursday! I'm very excited to see such a diverse list of paper topics, very much looking forward to the discussion.

If you are an academic wanting to support academics under attack in Serbia, this is the place to sign. forms.office.com/pages/respon...

I'm at CEU (and online) today to talk about my book. Fitting as this research started during my MA at CEU... so kind of a coming back, but to a different city.

Thinking about publishing with JIRD? We have a thematically open annual Special Issue call with a deadline set for 🚨 October 30 🚨 More details on how to put together a proposal for a JIRD SI can be found here: shorturl.at/0RGlc

So this should be out next week and I'm also doing a few book talks — hard to believe this is happening! March 19, 13:30 at CEU in Vienna, hybrid event (link below) March 26, 12:00 at the University of Liverpool On June 2, there will also be one at UniWien, so less pressure for Vienna people.

Tomorrow (12 March) at 4pm CET! Convert to your time zone here: time.savvycal.com/convert/Cent... #envhist

At the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig, we are looking for two short-term fellows (especially artists and journalists), who work with visualisation and cartography, to take part in a project on peace and conflict in Eastern Europe, see more here: leibniz-ifl.de/en/career-1/...

Happy International Women’s Day from Rosa Luxemburg and me ✊❤️!

Amazing news! Also selfishly excited to learn about hypoallergenic dogs :)

great and useful word!

The article by IFDT Principal Research Fellow Adriana Zaharijević, originally published in @theguardian.com, is now available in Romanian, Albanian, Portuguese, Spanish, Serbian, and French (translated by @ericfassin.bsky.social): blogs.mediapart.fr/adriana-zaha... Find the original text 👇

Full support for @filipejdus.bsky.social ! Attacks against him are part of an attempt to discredit critical voices in Serbia. ifdt.bg.ac.rs/2025/02/cond...

🚨 Bosnian Serb entity president Milorad Dodik was just declared guilty for directly opposing the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina and for not respecting the decisions of High Representative Christian Schmidt.

To start our editorial tenure at @jird-jour.bsky.social, we wrote with @matthiasleese.bsky.social a brief reflection on the historical roots of the journal as well as on the current political and technological challenges to academic publishing. Have a look! rdcu.be/eaZnF

#Job: Two PhD positions (65%, TV-L E13) with a regional focus on #EasternEuropa and/or #SoutheasternEurope for our new Politics Department at the #LeibnizIOS. #PoliticalScience, #InternationalRelations or related. 🗓️ Apply by March 28th ➡️ leibniz-ios.de/en/vacancies...