tamara.banjeglav@zrc-sazu.si
Tamara Banjeglav is a researcher in cultural studies, specifically in the field of memory studies. Her research has focused on memory politics and memorialisation practices, politics of the past, national identities, transitional justice and dealing with the past, particularly in the post-Yugoslav space. Methodologically, her work draws on oral history method, discourse analysis, ethnographic approaches and other qualitative, interpretive methods.
Banjeglav, Tamara (2022). “Popunjavanje praznina sjećanjima: komemorativni rituali i krajolik sjećanja u poslijeratnom Vukovaru”, in Uokvirivanje nacije i kolektivni identiteti. Politički rituali i kultura sjećanja na traume 20. stoljeća u Hrvatskoj, Pavlaković, V. Pauković, D. and Židek, N. (eds.), Zagreb: Srednja Europa
Banjeglav, Tamara and Nicolas Moll (2021). Outbreak of war memories? Historical analogies of the 1990s wars in discourses about the coronavirus pandemic in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 21(3). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14683857.2021.1942656
Banjeglav, Tamara and Mila Dragojević (2021). Laying Foundations for Democratic Regimes through Memorialization Practices, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 27(1):41-59. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13537113.2020.1862971
Banjeglav, Tamara (2021). The Alphabet wars. Language, memory and national identity in contemporary debates over minority rights in Croatia, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies 23(5). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/19448953.2021.1935075
Banjeglav, Tamara (2018). Political rhetoric and discursive framing of national identity in Croatia's commemorative culture, Journal of Language and Politics, 17(6): 858-881. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.17074.ban
Education
PhD in Diversity Management and Governance, University of Graz, Austria, 2015.
MA in Nationalism Studies, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, 2009.
BA in English Language and Comparative Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia, 2006.
Teaching experience
Department of Cultural Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka, Croatia, academic years 2015/2016 and 2016/2017.
Fellowships and awards
Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, visiting fellowship, 2023 - 2024.
Center for Advanced Studies – Southeast Europe, University of Rijeka, Croatia, visiting fellowship, 2023.
‘Dimensions of Europeanization’ junior scholars fellowship, Centre for South-East European Studies, University of Graz, Austria, 2021.
Erasmus Mundus Join EU-SEE Post-doctoral fellowship, Department of History, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2015 - 2016.
Robert Bosch Junior Visiting Fellowship, The Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna, Austria, 2012.