Damčević, Katarina (Hrsg.): Women Writing Socially in Academia. Dispatches from Writing Rooms.
Chapter title: Different Layers of Togetherness: Virtual Writing Sessions During and After Covid-19.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
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Katarina Damčević, Ph.D.
Political Science Research Group
Research Associate
Research Associate
- Description
- Publications
- Curriculum vitae
- Projects
- Teachings
- Presentations
Description
Katarina Damčević’s research centers on the semiotics of hate speech and controversial symbols in (post)conflict societies with a regional focus on Southeast Europe. She defended her doctoral dissertation titled “Semiotics of Hate Speech and Contested Symbols: The ‘Za dom spremni’ Ustaša Salute in Contemporary Croatia” in 2023 at the University of Tartu in Estonia. Katarina was a research fellow in the US based Dangerous Speech Project, the Humanitarian Law Center in Belgrade, Serbia, and the seeFField Fellowship program at the University of Regensburg, Germany. Katarina is one of the co-founders of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Research in Southeast Europe based in Croatia at the University of Rijeka’s Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. She teaches at the University of Tartu and contributes to the Journal Southeastern Europe (Brill) as an editorial team member. In March 2024 she joined IOS and the KonKoop network where she coordinates the KonKoop junior research group, and contributes to the creation of a database of knowledge-production centres for Peace and Conflict Studies in Eastern Europe.
Publications
Publikationen
Edited Volumes and Special Issues
Journal Articles
Damčević, Katarina: “Ready for the Homeland” in Croatian media: Commemorations, victory, and foundation. In: Sign Systems Studies, 2023. (Journal with Impact Factor, Refereed Journal, Open Access)
DOI: 10.12697/SSS.2023.51.1.02
Damčević, Katarina: Jurij Lotman u suvremenom kontekstu: refleksija. In: Forum: Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2022. (Journal with Impact Factor, Refereed Journal, Open Access)
Damčević, Katarina: Review of "Speaking for the Nation: Intellectuals and Nation-building in the Post-Yugoslav Space" (Federico Giulio Sicurella). In: Journal Southeastern Europe, 2022. (Journal with Impact Factor, Refereed Journal, Open Access)
DOI: 10.30965/18763332-46010008
Damčević, Katarina: Cultural texts, enemies, and taboos: autocommunicative meaning-making surrounding the “Ready for the Homeland” Ustaša salute in Croatia. In: Social Semiotics, 2021. (Journal with Impact Factor, Refereed Journal, Open Access)
DOI: 10.1080/10350330.2021.1883404
Damčević, Katarina: Review of "Framing the Nation and Collective Identities. Political Rituals and Cultural Memory of the Twentieth-Century Traumas in Croatia". In: Journal of Contemporary History, 2019. (Journal with Impact Factor, Refereed Journal, Open Access)
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Perak, Benedikt/Damčević, Katarina/Milosević, Jana: O sranju i drugim neprimjerenim stvarima: Kognitivno-lingvistička analiza psovki u hrvatskome. In: JEZIK I NJEGOVI UČINCI. Zbornik radova s međunarodnoga znanstvenog skupa Hrvatskoga društva za primijenjenu lingvistiku održanoga od 4. do 6. svibnja 2017. godine u Rijeci. Zagreb:Srednja Europa, 2018. (Journal with Impact Factor, Refereed Journal, Open Access)
Damčević, Katarina/Rodik, Filip: Ready for the Homeland: Hate Speech on Croatian Right-Wing Public Facebook Pages. In: Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations, 2018. (Journal with Impact Factor, Refereed Journal, Open Access)
Hromadzic, Hajrudin/Damčević, Katarina: Bracna zajednica u uvjetima kapitalisticke komodifikacije i ideologije konzumerizma. In: Socijalna ekologija : journal for environmental thought and sociological research = Socijalna ekologija : Zeitschrift für Umweltgedanken und soziologische Forschung, 2015. (Journal with Impact Factor, Refereed Journal, Open Access)
DOI: 10.17234/SocEkol.24.1.2
Other Publications
Damčević, Katarina: Ready for Memory Wars: The Case of the HOS Memorial Plaque in Croatia. http://www.hlc-rdc.org/?p=39262&lang=de, 2023. (Open Access)
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Damčević, Katarina: Between Danger and Meaning: The ´Ready for the Homeland´salute in Croatia. 2023. (Open Access)
Curriculum vitae
Professional Career
- Book Review Assistant, Journal Southeastern Europe (Brill), since 09/2023
- University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Research in Southeast Europe, since 04/2023
- Lecturer, University of Tartu, Center for Academic Writing and Communication, since 02/2018
- Lecturer, University of Tartu, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics, Autumn semester 2018, spring semester 2020, spring semester 2023
- seeFField Visiting Fellow, University of Regensburg, 05/2023
- Research Fellow, Humanitarian Law Center, Belgrade, 01/2023–03/2023
- Junior Research Fellow, University of Tartu, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics, 10/2022–08/2023
- Research Fellow, Dangerous Speech Project, Washington, D. C., 10/2020–08/2022
- Event Coordinator and Writing Retreat Facilitator, University of Tartu, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Dean’s office, 09/2020–11/2023
- Project Manager, University of Tartu, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Dean’s office, 09/2021–03/2022
- Associate, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Cultural Studies, 07/2016–07/2017
Education
- PhD in Semiotics and Culture Studies, University of Tartu, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics, 11/2017–06/2023
- MA in Semiotics, University of Tartu, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics, 09/2014–06/2016
- MA in Cultural Studies, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Cultural Studies, 10/2012–07/2014
- BA in Cultural Studies, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Cultural Studies, 10/2007–09/2012
Fellowships and Awards
- Recipient of the “Juri Lotman Scholarship”, 2023
- University of Tartu, Dora Plus Stipend for Full Time Doctoral Studies, 2017
- University of Tartu, Achievement Stipend for Graduate Studies, 2015
- University of Tartu, DoRa 9 Monthly Stipend for Graduate Studies, 2014
- University of Rijeka, Achievement Stipend for Graduate Studies, 2013
Projects
Projekte
Current Projects
- Project partner in “The Power of Personal Stories in Confronting Oblivion”, CERV. Coordinating Institution: Documenta – Center for Dealing with the Past, Zagreb, Croatia, 2024–2026
- External partner in “Relational Approach to Strategic History Narratives”, University of Tartu, Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics, 2023–2027
Completed Projects
- Project partner in “Reshaping the Image of Democratic Revolutions 1989: European Contemporary Perspectives and Forgotten Lessons from the Past”, Europe for Citizens. Coordinating Institution: Documenta – Center for Dealing with the Past, Zagreb, 2019–2022
Teachings
Summer term 2024
- Communicating Science, University of Tartu
Winter term 2023/24
- Communicating Science, University of Tartu
- Introduction to Cultural History (guest seminars/workshops), University of Rijeka
Summer term 2023
- Master's seminar, University of Tartu
- Communicating Science, University of Tartu
Summer term 2022
- Communicating Science, University of Tartu
Summer term 2021
- Communicating Science, University of Tartu
Winter term 2020/21
- Communicating Science, University of Tartu
Summer term 2020
- Semiotics of Conflict, University of Tartu
Winter term 2019/20
- Communicating Science, University of Tartu
Winter term 2018/19
- Semiotics of Conflict, University of Tartu
- Academic Writing and Study Skills, University of Tartu
Winter term 2016/17
- Language, Thought, and Culture, University of Rijeka
Summer term 2016/17
- Academic Writing and Study Skills, University of Rijeka
Presentations
2024
- Joint workshop for doctoral students with Vjeran Pavlakovic, "Monuments, murals, and minefields: A workshop on researching post-conflict sites of memory" IOS and the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, University of Regensburg, 25.10.2024.
- Joint presentation of the newly established Center for Holocaust and Genocide Research in Southeast Europe, with Vjeran Pavlakovic Center for Commemorative Culture, Regensburg, 24.10.2024.
More about the presentation - Joint presentation with Iaroslav Boretskii (ZOiS) entitled "Mapping Peace and Conflict Studies in Eastern Europe". Participation in the workshop "(Un)frozen Conflicts: Polymorph aspects of contested sovereignty and multi-dimensional borders in Europe and beyond" University of Regensburg, 17.10.2024.
More about the presentation - Workshop for doctoral students "Writing groups and peer-feedback". 2-week visiting fellowship at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana, Slovenia 23.09.2024.
More about the presentation - Controversial symbols and narratives of war. International Symposium "Hate Speech Intersections with Nationalism, Racism, Gender, and Migration" (4-5 July) The Peace Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 04.07.2024.
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