Isidora Grubački

All the dates for this year's History on the Edge talks are here! 😊 In person in Ljubljana, but also on zoom.

Join us for the first History on the Edge lecture on Oct 15, 2025, at 3 p.m. at INZ or via Zoom: us06web.zoom.us/j/85093074535

Marta Baradić will present Revisiting Giuseppina Martinuzzi’s Activism on the Centenary of Her Death.

More at: inz.si/en/2025/10/0...

So happy about this & can't wait!

15 people died in Novi Sad (Vojvodina, Serbia) and our hearts are broken. What happened and what is happening now? 🧵

All in all, I hope you download and read the volume, and, of course - use it for teaching!

Ina Jun-Broda's poem is titled Self-Criticism, and in it Nurse Smilja takes a self-critical look at her behavior in the past week. In the second poem, Comradess Smilja talks with Comrade God, in which she asks him: How on earth have you constructed a woman???
I encourage you to take a look! :)

The third is the text we co-wrote with Iva Jelušić and Lucija Bakšić on another feminist revolutionary, a poet and translator Ina Jun-Broda. This is her first scholarly biography, and the translated text is a poem she wrote in her unpublished wartime diary.

The second is a biography of Mitra Mitrović (1912-2001), one of young communist feminists who fought against fascism and for feminism in the 1930s, then in the Partisan army, and then had an important role in the postwar reconstruction of Yugoslavia. Amazing writer; this biography is only beginning.

I had three entries. The first is contextualuzation of the 1936 program of "new feminism" published by young communist women in Yugoslavia. This text and the journal in which it was published, Žena danas (Woman Today), are one of the reasons why I became a historian: I wanted to understand them.

Texts and Contexts from the History of Feminism and Women’s Rights

Proud to have been part of the big group of feminist historians who contributed to this important volume! It has one hundred (if I counted well :D) translated sources from around East Central Europe, with biographies and contextualizations. It's open access, take a look! ceupress.com/book/texts-a...

So, nothing more than "subtle unease" - as expected. I think this person I am writing about could potentially be concidered antifascist, although she was quite conservative (M. Govekar). I'll be in touch, maybe also with a question or two about the sources! But for now: congratulations!

Loved it! Will reference it in my upcoming (smaller) publication about a Yugoslav NCW activist's speech on housework, delivered on the Women's Hour radio program in Ljubljana. I would also love to read more about antifascism within the ICW—if there was any. :)

Invisible University for Ukraine by Ostap Sereda | eBook | Cornell University Press The Laurence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal, awarded by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State University, recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce inn...

I've followed the activities of the Invisible University for Ukraine with great interest and admiration for the past few years. Its wonderful to see this book now out and you can download it for free here: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

The Zone of Interest review – Jonathan Glazer’s unforgettable Auschwitz drama is a brutal masterpiece Only the constant pall of smoke, and a dread-inducing soundscape, tell of the horrors beyond the wall as the idyllic life of the commandant of the death camp and his family rolls by in Glazer’s Oscar-...

Just saw the film, finally. It's 🤯.

Also, an (un)related topic, I find it increasingly hard not to judge people who "just want a nice life" with everything happening in this day and age, and who do whatever it takes. To put it mildly.

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Cool text 😊 I was so excited when I took that train in 2021! Really a wonderful experience:)

Stručnjak upozorava da će iz šuta od rušenja hotela Jugoslavija biti oslobođena tona azbesta Dejan Bojović iz Srpske asocijacije za rušenje, dekontaminaciju i reciklažu ocenio je da je

It literally hurts. 🙁 Plus, look at this: n1info.rs/vesti/strucn... one ton of asbestos will be released into the air.

Since I'm new here, can I re-up a project of which I am v proud? It's the complete Eric Hobsbawm Bibliography - a fully searchable database of all his published & unpublished works + a set of curated thematic lists to introduce select topics. It was a labour of love. Link: hobsbawm.shca.ed.ac.uk

Summer school: Our Many Easts - e-flux Education Our Many Easts summer school organized by Moderna galerija in Ljubljana in partnership with ZRC SAZU (the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts) as part of L’Internationale p...

A cool workshop in Ljubljana for postgraduate students. Deadline to apply March 15! www.e-flux.com/announcement...

The Invisible University of Ukraine accepts applications for the new semester. It's an amazing program so pls share or encourage any Ukrainian students you know to apply.

Apply here: forms.gle/zxJiJksZjxmW... & send your materials (motivation letter, CV, and research proposal) to iufu@ceu.edu.

Gender Studies @ Central European University is hiring an Assistant Professor of Gender Studies with expertise in Feminist Literary Studies and a focus on world literature.