In late November and early December 2025, Jelena Đureinović visited Algiers and Oran, thanks to the Centre d’Études Maghrébines en Algérie (CEMA) in Oran, which helped realise the stay as a host institution. The visit involved conducting preliminary research at the National Library of Algeria and the National Archives Center in Algiers on the links between Yugoslavia and Algeria during and after the war of … Continue reading Research Stay in Algeria
Jelena Đureinović presented a paper that outlined Yugoslavia’s involvement in the independence struggles of Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and Cape Verde. The presentation zoomed in on military medicine and medical assistance to the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) during the liberation war, focusing on the case study of Solidarité Hospital in Boké. In 2025, four former Portuguese colonies in Africa … Continue reading Conference “The 50th anniversary of the independence of the Portuguese colonies in Africa”, Lisbon, July 2025
The article investigates the medical dimension of Yugoslav assistance to the Front de libération nationale (fln) during and after the Algerian War of Independence, focusing on care for wounded and disabled soldiers and veterans. The article observes Yugoslav socialist medical internationalism as having had immediate and long-term goals, stemming from the experience of the Second World War and the post-war development of disability care, and based on … Continue reading New publication: War, Disability, and Yugoslav Medical Internationalism in Algeria
When: Wednesday, April 2, 2025 – 10:00 to 16:00 Where: Arts & Humanities Institute, First Floor of Iontas Building The COLVET project team are delighted to welcome you to attend this hybrid workshop on ‘New Directions in Veteran History’, in the Arts and Humanities Institute, First Floor of Iontas Building, Maynooth University on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025. This event brings together colleagues doing innovative research on the history of veterancy across a range … Continue reading Keynote at the Workshop “New Directions in Veteran History”
The Yugoslav commitment to anticolonialism intertwined with its experience of the antifascist liberation struggle and socialist revolution during the Second World War. This entanglement of the past, present and future was most evident during the Algerian War of Independence. This blog was written and originally published as a part of the visiting fellowship at the Leibniz Research Alliance “Value of the Past” and the Centre … Continue reading The Antifascist Past and Decolonisation: The Case of Yugoslavia and Algeria
The book „Wer ist Walter? International Perspectives on Resistance in Europe during World War II” gathers 32 contributions and case studies on the history of resistance against Nazism, fascism, occupation and collaboration during World War II, as well as on its transmission after 1945, especially in Museums. The authors are historians, curators and other researchers from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Germany, Serbia and other … Continue reading New Publication: Wer ist Walter?
As a part of the visiting fellowship at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana, I had a chance to present my ongoing research about the role of war legacies in Yugoslav initiatives of anti-colonial solidarity. Yugoslavia and its institutions and mass organisations invested serious efforts in diplomatic, financial, military and humanitarian assistance to anti-colonial struggle across Africa between the late 1950s and early 1980s. … Continue reading History on the Edge: Project Presentation in Ljubljana
On 9 April 2024, Jelena Đureinović presented the project at the National Research and Study Institute (Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisa, INEP) in Bissau. In the talk, she focused on the relationship between Yugoslavia and the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) in the broader context of Yugoslav assistance to anti-colonial liberation movements. The presesentation particularly addressed the role … Continue reading Project Presentation in Bissau
The article examines the role of memory in Yugoslav exchanges with the postcolonial world, focusing on the agency of Yugoslav war veterans and their involvement with Algeria. During decolonization, Yugoslav institutions and associations stood in solidarity with anti-colonial liberation movements. Former Partisans were critical agents of Yugoslav internationalism, and the memory of the People’s Liberation War (Narodnooslobodilački rat, NOR), which dominated the Yugoslav memory culture, … Continue reading New publication on war veterans and transnational cultures of memory and solidarity between Yugoslavia and Algeria
Globalising the Yugoslav Revolution in the Postcolonial World 