Dora KomnenovicWissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Contact
Dora Komnenovic, PhD
Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History
Am Neuen Markt 1
14467 Potsdam
Office: Am Neuen Markt 9d, room 1.09
Phone: 0331/74510-125
Fax: 0331/74510-143
Email: dora.komnenovic [at] zzf-potsdam.de
Vita
Since 01/2023
Research Associate at the ZZF, Dep. I, in the Europast project
Since 03/2023
Research Associate at the Federal Archives, Department BE/EHRI Project
2020-2023
PR Officer at the Federal Archives/Stasi Records Archive, Berlin
2017-2022
Museum Educator
Berliner Wall Foundation
Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial
Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Berlin
2017
Project Associate In Between? educational project
European Network Remembrance and Solidarity (ENRS), Warsaw, Poland
2013-2016
PhD Fellow at Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Justus Liebig University, Gießen
2012-2013
Research Associate/Project Associate
Bologna University, Italy/Institute for Social and European Studies, Kőszeg, Hungary
2012
Research and Administrative Assistant
Doğuş University, Istanbul, Türkiye
Education
2013-2019
PhD at Justus Liebig University Gießen, Dissertation topic „Everything by the Book? A Sociological Reading of the Discarding of Books from Public Libraries in Post-Socialist Croatia and Slovenia”
2017-2018
Postgraduate Certificate Course Exhibiting Contemporary History, Europäisches Kolleg, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena
2010-2012
Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Research and Studies on Eastern Europe, Bologna university, Italy/Vytautas-Magnus-University, Kaunas, Lithuania/Corvinus-University, Budapest, Hungary/St. Petersburg University, Russian Federation
2007-2010
Bachelor in International Relations, Trieste University, Italy
Projects
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Project
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Project duration: December 2022 - November 2025
Project funding: HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03-01 - Twinning
Publications
Monographs
Komnenović, D. (2022), Reading between the Lines: Reflections on Discarded Books and Sociopolitical Transformation in (Post-) Yugoslavia, ibidem-Verlag, ISBN 9783838216430.
Book chapters and articles
Komnenović, D. (2021), Remembering the 1990s in Croatia: The Potential of Discarded Books on and beyond Anniversaries in Newman, J. P. and Apor, B. (eds.) “Balkan Legacies: The Long Shadow of Conflict and Ideological Experiment in Southeastern Europe, Purdue University Press.
Komnenović, D. (2018), The "Cleansing" of Croatian Libraries in the 1990s and Beyond or How (Not) to Discard the Yugoslav Past, in Bevernage, B. and Wouters, N. (eds.), “The Palgrave Handbook of State-Sponsored History After 1945”, Palgrave Macmillan UK.
Komnenović, D. (2017), The 1990s: A Decade that Never Ended?, «Der Donauraum» 1-2/2014, IDM, Vienna.
Komnenović, D. (2016), Po koliko je kila knjig?, in Mlekuž, J. and Petrović, T. (eds.) “Made in YU 2015”, ZRC-SAZU Ljubljana.
Komnenović, D. (2014), (Out)living the War: Anti-War Activism in Croatia in the Early 1990s and Beyond. Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe (JEMIE), vol. 13, n. 4, pp. 111-128, https://www.ecmi.de/fileadmin/downloads/publications/JEMIE/2014/Komnenovic.pdf.
Book Reviews
Komnenović, D. (2019), Review of Ghodsee, K. (2017), Red Hangover: Legacies of Twentieth Century Communism, Südosteuropa. Journal of Politics and Society, De Gruyter, Vol. 67 (1).
Komnenović, D. (2019), Review of Beronja, V. And Vervaet, S. (eds.) (2016), Post-Yugoslav Constellations. Archive, Memory, and Trauma in Contemporary Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian Literature and Culture, Southeastern Europ, Brill, Vol. 43 (2).
Komnenović, D. (2018), Review of Ramet, S., Hassenstab, C. and Listhaug, O. (eds.) (2017), Building Democracy in the Yugoslav Successor States. Accomplishments, Setbacks, Challenges since 1990, Südosteuropa. Journal of Politics and Society, De Gruyter, Vol. 66 (3).
Komnenović, D. (2017), Review of Catherine Baker’s “The Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s”, Croatian Political Science Review Vol. 53 n. 4/2016: https://hrcak.srce.hr/177263.
Komnenović, D. (2016), The Political Usage of History in Tuđman’s Croatia and Mečiar’s Slovakia, review of Stevo Đurašković's “The Politics of History in Croatia and Slovakia in the 1990s”, Kult_online n. 47: http://kult-online.uni-giessen.de/archiv/2016/ausgabe-47/rezensionen/the-political-usage-of-history-in-tudman2019s-croatia-and-meciar2019s-slovakia.
Komnenović, D. (2015), Tracing (Dis)Continuities: Education Reforms in Socialist Yugoslavia and its Successor States, review of Jana Baćević’s “From Class to Identity: The Politics of Education Reforms in Former Yugoslavia”, Kult_online n. 43: http://kult-online.uni-giessen.de/archiv/2015/ausgabe-43/rezensionen/tracing-dis-continuities-education-reforms-in-socialist-yugoslavia-and-its-successor-states.
Reports and Interviews
Interview with Dubravka Ugrešić: Odgajanje za konobara, in “Vreme” n. 1327, June 9, 2016: https://www.vreme.com/cms/view.php?id=1402502&print=yes.
Religion and the Public from 1989/1991. Conference report in Kult_online n. 42 (2015): http://kult-online.uni-giessen.de/archiv/2015/ausgabe-42/berichte/conference-report-on-religion-and-the-public-from-1989-1991.
Regionalism, Urbanity and Modernity in Multi-Ethnic and Multi-Cultural Eastern Europe in the 20th Century. With Konstantin Rometsch. Conference report in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 10.03.2014, https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-5262.