Boris Stamenić (Head)
Boris Stamenić is a lecturer, project coordinator and seminar facilitator with a focus on memory culture and contemporary European history. After studying journalism in Zagreb and Eastern European studies in Berlin, he obtained his doctorate at the Institute of History at Humboldt-University in Berlin. In the cooperation with different institutions and civil society organizations in Germany and Croatia he is implementing projects in the field of democratic education of youth and adults. Boris is also editing the Virtual guide through the history of the camp on Goli otok (goli-otok.net) and the newsletter “Blickpunkt Kroatien”, published by the regional office of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Zagreb. He is also a project associate of the Institute for Migration Reaserch in Zagreb (IMIN).
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-boris-stamenic
Katarina Damčević (Vice Head)
Katarina Damčević deals with the semiotics of hate speech and controversial symbols in (post)conflict societies with a regional focus on Southeastern Europe. She received her doctorate in 2023 at the University of Tartu in Estonia. She has been awarded various fellowships for her research, including Research Fellowships at the Dangerous Speech Project (Washington, D.C.), the Humanitarian Law Fund (Belgrade, Serbia), as well as the University of Regensburg (Germany). Since the spring of 2024, she has been employed as a researcher and academic coordinator at the Leibniz Institute for Eastern and Southeastern European Studies (IOS) in Regensburg. She also works as an external associate at the University of Rijeka, a lecturer at the University of Tartu, and a member of the editorial board of the journal Southeastern Europe (Brill).
Marko Stričević (Secretary)
Marko Stričević is a foreign policy journalist specializing in the post-Soviet space, employed at Nova TV in Zagreb. In his previous career, he also worked for HRT, Jutarnji list, Večernji list, Tportal and a number of other media. From 2007 to 2010, he worked as a permanent correspondent from Russia. He is the author of book Tito in Russia. The Siberian Odyssey 1915-1920, as well as of the documentary films Russian Agents of Freedom (2022, won the Europa Award) and Red Century (2017). He graduated in journalism from the Faculty of Political Sciences in Zagreb.
Vjeran Pavlaković (Member of Board)
Vjeran Pavlaković is a full professor at the Department of Cultural Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Rijeka, where he teaches courses on theoretical and comparative approaches to the culture of memory, cultural history of Southeast Europe, Latin America, and revolutions of the 19th and 20th centuries. He received his doctorate in 2005 at the University of Washington on the topic of the social and political impact of the Spanish Civil War in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In his scientific works and as a leader of research projects, prof. Pavlaković extensively thematized the political dimension of regional commemorative practices related to war episodes of the 20th century. Together with Davor Pauković and Nikolina Židek, he edited the collection of works Framing the Nation and Collective Identities. Political rituals and the culture of memory of the traumas of the 20th century in Croatia, which deals with seven mythical places of the Croatian political past, published in 2022 by the publishing house Srednja Europa. He is currently the leader of the Croatian team on the project MEMPOP: Memory Strategies and Aesthetics in Popular Culture (ARIS/HRZZ).
Goran Stanić (Member of Board)
Goran Stanić deals with interdisciplinary research on the interrelationship of religious, political and cultural phenomena. Since 2022, he has been employed as a collaborator on the research project REVENANT – Revivals of Empire: Nostalgia, Amnesia, Tribulation (ERC Consolidator Grant #101002908) at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Rijeka. He is currently a doctoral student in theology at the KU Leuven University in Belgium. Also, since 2019, he has been a contributor to the Sarajevo portal Prometej, where he publishes columns, essays, short stories and interviews. Recreationally, he is engaged in independent music creation.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/goran-stanic-0a662720b
Eleonora Bruk (Member of Board)
Eleonora Bruk is an academic violist musician, employed at a music school in Ormož, Slovenia. She grew up and was educated in Rijeka and Zagreb, where she graduated from the Zagreb Academy in 2007. He has been following the political situation in Croatia and the region since the nineties and actively researches local history.
https://www.youtube.com/@EleonoraBruk