Gajić, Nikola: Can Memory Europeanize Us? The EU Memory Framework and Contested Memories of the Yugoslav Wars in Contemporary Serbia. In: Hypotheses: OstBlog, 2024. (Open Access)
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Nikola Gajić
Political Science Research Group
Research Associate
Research Associate
- Description
- Publications
- Curriculum vitae
- Projects
- Presentations
Description
Nikola Gajić did his BA in International Relations at the University of Belgrade (Faculty of Political Science). He holds an MA in Southeast European Studies from the University of Graz and an MA in Nationalism Studies from the Central European University. In September 2020 Nikola joined the Humanitarian Law Center in Belgrade as a researcher at the RECOM project. In July 2022 he joined IOS Regensburg as a researcher on the project “Cooperation and conflict in Eastern Europe. The consequences of the reconfiguration of political, economic, and social spaces since the end of the Cold War (KonKoop)“.
Publications
Publikationen
Online Publication/Blog posts
Other Publications
Gajić, Nikola: The Position of the Serbian Orthodox Church and the Serbian
State Regarding the Montenegrin Law on Religious Freedom. Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade Hungary, 2022. (Open Access)
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Curriculum vitae
Professional Career
- IOS Regensburg, Research Associate, Project: Cooperation and conflict in Eastern Europe. The consequences of the reconfiguration of political, economic, and social spaces since the end of the Cold War (KonKoop), since 07/2022
- Humanitarian Law Center/ RECOM Reconciliation Network (Belgrade), Researcher, Regional project: Supporting grassroots civil society actors in transitional justice initiatives and confidence-building in the Western Balkans - RECOM Reconciliation Network, since September 2020
- Novi treći put - New third way (Belgrade), Research Associate, since August 2020
- Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade (IFAT) (Budapest), Research Intern, 02/2020—06/2020
- International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) Southeast Europe (Belgrade), Youth Coordinator, 06/2014—09/2016
Education
- Central European University (Budapest/Vienna), Master of Arts in Nationalism Studies, Master thesis title: Contemporary Serbian Ethno-Religious Nationalism in Montenegro: Position of the Serbian Orthodox Church and the Serbian State towards the Montenegrin Law on Religious Freedom, Advanced Certificate in Religious Studies, Graduated with distinction, 09/2019—06/2020
- University of Graz, Master of Arts, Interdisciplinary Joint Master’s Program in South-Eastern European Studies, Master thesis title: Memory Politics Regarding the Wars of the 1990's in Contemporary Serbia and the Process of Europeanization, Graduated with distinction, 09/2017—04/2020
- University of Belgrade, Faculty of Political Science, BA in International Relations, 07/2013—07/2017
Projects
Projekte
Current Projects
- Cooperation and conflict in Eastern Europe. The consequences of the reconfiguration of political, economic, and social spaces since the end of the Cold War (KonKoop) (IOS Regensburg with the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL) in Leipzig, Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU Jena), Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development (HNEE), and the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF) in Potsdam; funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
- Supporting grassroots civil society actors in transitional justice initiatives and confidence-building in the Western Balkans – RECOM Reconciliation Network (Humanitarian Law Center with other partners; funded by the European Commission)
Presentations
2024
- “I Solemnly Declare that I Will Speak the Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth” : The Afterlife of ICTY Victims’ Testimonies. ASN 2024 World Convention ASN; Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York City, 16.05.2024.
More about the presentation - "I Solemnly Declare that I will Speak the Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth": Afterlife of the ICTY Victims' Testimonies. ASEN Conference: Memory and Nationalism The Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN); University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, 09.04.2024.
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