Democracy in History | Democracy Institute
"Democracy in History" is a research group at the CEU Democracy Institute focused on creating a broad historical perspective and opening up the research field toward the humanities.
On the 25th of November Zsolt Czigányik from the History of Democracy working group acted as respondent to the papers of a Hungarian conference on History and fiction, organized by Péter Csunderlik historian form the Institute of Political History.
Image: http://polhist.hu/programok2/sport-es-politika-a-20-szazadban/
On the 15th of November we hosted a conference (in Hungarian) co-organized by the Institute of Political History and CEU’s Democracy Institute about the popular and timely topic of the relationship of sports and politics. The lectures concentrated on the 20th century, several of them on the role of sports in Cold War politics. Balázs Trencsényi and Ágnes Kelemen from the Democracy Institute’s working group served as panel chairs. The last panel of the event was a roundtable discussion by Róbert Takács historian, Péter Pető and Viktor Egri journalists and Ferenc Dénes sport economist where mainly the football world championship of 2022 and the current Hungarian government’s sport-related policies were discussed. The video recording of the roundtable is available at the YouTube channel of the Institute of Political History.
The Democracy in History Workgroup of the CEU Democracy Institute invites you to a conversation with Dubravka Stojanović.
Moderators: Marko Milošev, Ivana Mihaela Žimbrek, PhD candidates, Department of History, CEU
Zoom link:
https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/96607176447?pwd=cGJTRVNsWndJTDNxMXI1SUtHeXNjZz09
Meeting ID: 966 0717 6447
Passcode: 234093
ABSTRACT
The imperative that historians intellectually participate in the public sphere and contribute to the wider community often comes with risks when their interpretations are at odds with the broader political framework and dominant historical narratives. In her active career as an academic historian and public intellectual in Serbia, Dubravka Stojanović has dealt with issues of democracy in Serbia and the Balkans and (mis)uses of history in education and public discourse. In conversation with her, we will examine the position of historians in the academic and public sphere in Serbia and Southeastern Europe as well as the benefits and dangers that this position brings in relation to different historiographical interpretations and political circumstances.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dubravka Stojanović is a Serbian historian, and professor at University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy. She is a vice-president of the Thessaloniki based History Education Committee organized by the Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeastern Europe as well as a consultant of the United Nations on the issues of misuses of history in education. Her primary fields of interest are processes of modernization in Southeast Europe, democratization in Serbia, history of Belgrade, historical memory and presentations of history in history textbooks.