We kindly invite you to a lecture by Dr Milica Popović entitled “The Silence of Saying No: (Un)Remembering Deserters from the Yugoslav Wars”, which will take place as part of Tuesday Meetings on Tuesday, 9 June 2026, at 11.00 am in the library of the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law Ljubljana.
Looking into the cases of desertion and draft evasion in four (post)Yugoslav countries (Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia), the lecture inquires how diverse mnemonic actors create a story of the deserter from the Yugoslav wars. Moreover, the research elucidates how do hegemonic memory regimes use and silence these stories as they find them conveniently (un)fitting within the nationalist memory regimes.
Dr Milica Popovićis currently a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Culture Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. She obtained her PhD in comparative political sociology from Sciences Po Paris and in Balkan studies from the University of Ljubljana. Her research focuses on memory politics, mnemonic silences, desertion and resistance to war, the (post-)Yugoslav space and the Balkans, nostalgia, intersections of art and politics, hegemonic discourses and museums, and the relationship between (academic) freedom and (neo-)nationalism. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Balkanologie and the Scientific Committee of the journal EUrope: cultures, mémoires, identités.
The event will be held in English.
Contact person and event moderator: Nina Žnidaršič.
Audio and video recording of the event is not allowed.
