Memories of Imvros: Transformed Spaces of Identity and Belonging on an Aegean Island

Research Area 1 – Displacements, “Dépaysement” and Discrepencies: People, Knowledge and Practices

Research Area 3 – Objects, Traces, Mapping: Everyday Experience of Spaces

Contact: laura.brody(@)alumni.duke.edu

Fitting into the wider context of studies on diasporic transformation, the purpose of this research is to investigate intergenerational differences in the relationship that members of the Greek-speaking Imvriot diaspora have to Imvros (Gökçeada), one of the islands ceded to Turkey in the aftermath of WWI. The project seeks to take an alternative approach to understanding the experiences of ‘being Imvriot’ and ‘belonging to Imvros’ through an exploration of both the individual and collective relationships that members of the Imvriot diaspora exhibit towards both the island as a whole and to specific sites across the island.

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Metonymy and Stereotypes: theoretical perspectives and immigration discourse in German language

Research Area 1 – Displacements, “Dépaysement” and Discrepencies: People, Knowledge and Practices

Contact: ciro.porcaro(@)cefres.cz

The project has as its object metonymic phenomena in German Language. In the project, special attention is paid to the German migration discourse and to the metonymic models underlying social stereotypes (cf. Lakoff 1987). More specifically, metonymic phenomena which contribute to the stereotypical comprehension of the category of “migrants” (understood as category of practice in the migration discourse) are identified and analyzed, with particular reference to the tabloid Bild-Zeitung and to the news magazine Der Spiegel. In order to analyze the topics of displacement and migration, the methods and the instruments of Cognitive Linguistics are adopted as part of a discourse-analytical approach (cf. Ziem 2013).

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Intergenerational transmission of the memory of the war: The Cases of Families in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Bosnian diaspora in Europe

Research area 1 – Displacements, “Dépaysement” and Discrepencies: People, Knowledge and Practices

Contact: emina.zoletic@cefres.cz

The doctoral research project deals with the intergenerational transmission of memory, with the focus on the first generation of Bosnians who experienced the 1992-1995 war and their children, born after the war in Sarajevo and currently living in the EU countries, UK and the U.S. The study of war memory transmission has great social and political significance. The past does not simply disappear; lived experience eventually becomes a narrative curated among one generation and passed on to another. What is more, collective memory may lie dormant ready to emerge generations or even centuries later. The principal aim of this project is to explore the dynamics of intergenerational transmission of the memory of war among families living in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the EU Bosnian diaspora, with particular focus on how the past is remembered, e.g., selection, emphasis, recalibration, and for what purpose, e.g., identity construction, esteem needs, empowerment, social change etc.

She is currently a Fulbright visiting student researcher at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCCA), Syracuse University, New York, United States.

In August 2023, Emina started a new role as a Fulbright visiting student researcher at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, collaborating with the Department of Anthropology and the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC) at Syracuse University, NY, USA. During this appointment, she will closely work with her Fulbright supervisor, Associate Professor Azra Hromadzic, and Dr. Ralph E. Montonna, Professor for Teaching and Education of Undergraduates. She will have access to scholars at Cornell University. She will continue to work on her PhD project related to war, intergenerational transmission of memories and narratives, diaspora, and migration.

This fellowship is sponsored for one academic year, 2023-2024, by the US Embassy in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

CV

Education

• 2023-2024: A Fulbright visiting student researcher, Syracuse University, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCCA), Syracuse University, New York, United States. https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/program-for-the-advancement-research-on-conflict-collaboration

• 2020: Doctoral school in social sciences, sociology, University of Warsaw, PhD program

• 2019-2020: Master in Public health – Comparative Effectiveness Research, University Paris Descartes, Faculty of Medicine

• 2016-2017: Master of health sciences, specialization Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Centre Rotterdam, the Netherlands

• 2011-2019: Postgraduate program in  clinical psychology, specialization in the Clinical Psychology, University of Zagreb, Croatia, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

• 2003-2008: Graduate Psychologist, University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Psychology

Work experiences

• 2019-2020: Internship research, Centre de Recherche Épidémiologie et StatistiqueS (CRESS-UMR1153) Equipe METHODS Inserm, Université Paris Descartes
• 2009-2019: Clinical psychologist, University Clinical Centre Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 2008-2009: Psychologist, Foundation for Local Democracy, Shelter for women andchildren, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Teaching experiences

• 2022: University of Warsaw, Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies. Course: Institutions, structures and technologies – R programming
• 2022: Riseup-PPD’s COST Action (CA18138) Fifth Training School “Peripartum Mental Health Disorders Prevention for Health Professional.I have been a trainer of the sessions “Introduction to prevention: Prevention and methods for programs evaluation” and “Prevention program design”

Publication

• Blackburn, A. M., & Vestergren, S, & the COVIDiSTRESS II Consortium (2022). COVIDiSTRESS diverse dataset on psychological and behavioural outcomes one year into the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific Data, 9(1), 1-25
• Nguyen, V,T, Rivière, P, Ripolle, P, Barnier, J, Vuillemot, R, Ferrand, , Cohen-Boulakia, S, Ravaud, P, Boutron, I, The COVID-NMA Consortium Team (2021). Research response to COVID-19 needed better coordination and collaboration: a living mapping of registered trials. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. Vol 130, 107-116
• Sehanovic, A, Smajlovic, Dz, Tupkovic, E, Ibrahimagic, O.C,Kunic, S, Dostovic,Z,  Zoletic, E, Pasic, P (2020). Cognitive Disorders in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis. Mater Sociomed. 32(3): 191-195
• Sehanovic, A,Kunic, S, Ibrahimagic, O, C,  Smajlovic, Dz, Tupkovic, E, Mehicevic. A, Zoletic, E (2020). Contributing Factors to the Quality of Life in Multiple Sclerosis. Medical Archives 74(5):368
• Salihović, D., Smajlović,Đž, Mijajlović, M., Zoletić, E, Ibrahimagić, O.(2018). Cognitive syndromes after the first stroke. Neurological Sciences, Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-018-3447-6
• Zoletic, E., Durakovic-Belko,E (2009). Body image distortion, perfectionism, eating disorders in group of fashion models and ballerinas. Danubine psychiatry Croatian medical journal. Vol. 21, No. 3, 302–309

Awards

• 2023-2024: A Fulbright Visiting Student Researcher. The Fulbright fellowship for one academic year to continue her Ph.D. research at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, NY, USA.
• 2022-2023: CEFRES scholarship as Young researcher fellowship for research area area Displacements, “Dépaysement” and Discrepencies: People, Knowledge and Practices
• 2022-2023: ZEIT-Stiftung EbelinFoundation Germany, scholarship one year within the program Beyond Borders and Migration
• 2022-2025: Grant holder, NCN Preludium 20 grant, in the panel HS6, supporting my research project
• 2019-2020: Scholarship Erasmus MIEM, France
• 2016- 2017: Scholarship in ERAWEB programme (Erasmus Mundus Western Balkans) for master program Health Sciences, Netherland

Membership

• 2022: current Member of COST Action network, CA20105 – Slow Memory: Transformative Practices for Times of Uneven and Accelerating Change
• 2021: current Member ofthe Memory Studies association
• 2021: currentMember of the COVIDiSTRESS II consortium
• 2020: currentMember of the Centre for Research on Social Memory at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw
• 2009: currentMember of Society of psychologist in the Federation Bosnia and Herzegovina,  The Committee for Ethical Issues

Preaching the Passion in 14th-century Bohemia: The rhetoric of Good Friday sermons

Contact: Kalashnikova_Olga[@]phd.ceu.edu

Olga Kalashnikova is a doctoral candidate at the Central European University in Budapest. Her PhD dissertation, entitled Preaching the Passion in 14th-century Bohemia: The rhetoric of Good Friday sermons contributes to CEFRES research area 2.

My dissertation aims at shedding light on the nature of late medieval Bohemian piety by tracing the evolution and peculiarities of preaching techniques for Good Friday in fourteenth-century Bohemia, from the 1330s till the 1380s. Good Friday sermons were one of the most elaborated forms of late medieval preaching and became crucial in shaping the religious devotion of the time, which increasingly focused on the commemoration of the Passion of Christ. The main goal of the dissertation is to examine the theological and communicative methods of composing and presenting Good Friday sermons, the peculiarities of Bohemian preaching styles, and possible reasons for these characteristics.

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