PhD in linguistics, research advisor, professor
Tanja Petrović is a linguist and anthropologist. She is interested in uses and meanings of socialist and Yugoslav heritage and cultural identity in post-Yugoslav societies. She deals with the problematic of language in forming ideologies, memory and identity.
She is the Head of the Institute of Cultural and Memory Studies and coordinator of linguistic module Language as social practice in forming ideologies, memory and identities of the postgraduate programme Comparative studies of ideas and cultures at the ZRC SAZU Postgraduate school.
She is a Honorary research associate of The Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, LMU Munich and the University of Regensburg.
Towards an affective history of Yugoslavia. Filozofija i društvo, ISSN 0353-5738. [Štampano izd.], 2016, [God.] 27, [br.] 3, str. 502-520, fotogr. http://147.91.230.44/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Tanja-Petrovic.pdf, doi: 10.2298/FID1603504P. [COBISS.SI-ID 40456493]
Industrijsko delo v socializmu : od izkušnje do dediščine. Glasnik Slovenskega etnološkega društva, ISSN 0351-2908, 2016, [Letn.] 56, št. 3-4, str. 31-40. [COBISS.SI-ID 40762157]
Serbia in the mirror: parodying political and media discourses. Slavic review, ISSN 0037-6779. [Print ed.], summer 2015, vol. 74, no. 2, str. 288-310, ilustr. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5612/slavicreview.74.2.288?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents, doi: 10.5612/slavicreview.74.2.288. [COBISS.SI-ID 38482989]
On the way to Europe: EU metaphors and political imagination of the Western Balkans. V: HORVAT, Srećko (ur.), ŠTIKS, Igor (ur.). Welcome to the desert of post-socialism: radical politics after Yugoslavia. London; New York: Verso, 2015, str. 103-121. [COBISS.SI-ID 37840685]
Portraits of Yugoslav Army soldiers : between partisan and pop-culture imagery. V: JAKIŠA, Miranda (ur.), GILIĆ, Nikica (ur.). Partisans in Yugoslavia : literature, film and visual culture, (Culture & theory). Bielefeld: Transcript, cop. 2015, str. 137-156, fotogr. [COBISS.SI-ID 38377005]
Srbija i njen jug: "južnjački dijalekti" između jezika, kulture i politike, (Edicija Reč, knj. 90). Beograd: Fabrika knjiga, 2015. 141 str. ISBN 978-86-7718-147-5. [COBISS.SI-ID 215105548]
Yuropa: das jugoslawische Vermächtnis und Zukunftsstrategien in postjugoslawischen Gesellschaften. Erste Aufl. Berlin: Verbrecher, cop. 2015. 255 str., ilustr. ISBN 978-3-95732-018-6. [COBISS.SI-ID 38477613]
(Re)construction of memory of Turning Points in Slovenian History of the 20th Century (fundamental research project • 1 May 2010–15 March 2014)
Multicultural heritage and nation state: cases of Prekmurje, Bela krajina and Primorska (fundamental research project • 1 July 2011–30 June 2014)
Sites of memory, sites of barrier: memory and identity in the Italoslovene borderlands in the long 20th century (fundamental research project • 1 July 2014–30 June 2017)
Other projects >>Current post
Research advisor at Institute of Cultural and Memory Studies, Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Head of the Institute of Culture and Memory Studies, Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana
Education
PhD, 2005, Ljubljana Postgraduate School of Humanities Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis Thesis Title “The Serbs of Bela Krajina and their Language Ideology in the Process of Language Shift”
MA, 2002, Philological Faculty, University of Belgrade Thesis Title: “The Ritual Toast of Balkan Slavs”
BA, 1998, Philological Faculty, University of Belgrade
Languages
Serbo-Croatian (mother tongue), English (fluent), Slovenian (fluent), Russian (very good), Bulgarian (very good), Polish (very good), German (good)
Teaching experience
Assistant Professor (2006-2011); Associate Professor (2011-) University of Nova Gorica;
Professor (2016-) ZRC SAZU Postgraduate School
Political laughter: towards an anthropology of humour
Language and identity in transnational context
Remembering socialism in Central and South-Eastern Europe
International scholarships
Centre for Women's Studies, School of School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, February 2017
Graduiertenschule für Ost- und Südosteuropastudien, Univerza v Regensburgu, October / November 2016
Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Wassenaar, September 2013 / January 2014
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, October 2010 / July 2011
University of Osaka, Centre for World Languages, October 2008
L'École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, June 2008
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Dunaj, July 2006
Center for Advanced Studies Sofia, 2005 / 2006
Polish Academy of Sciences and Arts, Warsaw, December 2003
CEEPUS, Department of History of Southeastern Europe, Univeristy of Graz, January 2000
Research interests
memory, post-socialism, Yugoslav and socialist legacies in post-Yugoslav societies; discourses and language ideologies; political humour; language of minorities, language and cultural contacts; multicultural patterns in Central and Southeastern Europe
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