{"id":4806,"date":"2026-04-20T08:48:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csmk.uniri.hr\/?p=4806"},"modified":"2026-04-20T08:48:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:48:59","slug":"research-seminar-held-with-dr-milica-popovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csmk.uniri.hr\/en\/research-seminar-held-with-dr-milica-popovic\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Seminar Held with Dr. Milica Popovi\u0107"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Thursday, April 16, 2026, the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies of the University of Rijeka hosted Dr. Milica Popovi\u0107, a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Cultural Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Dr. Popovi\u0107 is the lead of the research project <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oeaw.ac.at\/en\/ikw\/forschung\/gedaechtniskultur-memory-culture\/projekte-gedaechtnis\/the-silence-of-saying-no-unremembering-deserters-from-the-yugoslav-wars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The Silence of Saying No: (Un)Remembering Deserters from the Yugoslav Wars<\/em>,<\/a> the first comprehensive study on individuals and groups who refused to participate in armed conflicts on the territory of the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At this occasion, a research seminar was held for faculty members and researchres at the University of Rijeka. Dr. Popovi\u0107 presented the framework and initial insights of her research, followed by a rich discussion. Participants of the seminar agreed that the topic is highly timely and relevant in the context of increasing militarization and normalization of war in political and media discourse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/csmk.uniri.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/MilicaPopovic2-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csmk.uniri.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/MilicaPopovic2-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/csmk.uniri.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/MilicaPopovic2-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/csmk.uniri.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/MilicaPopovic2-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/csmk.uniri.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/MilicaPopovic2-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/csmk.uniri.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/MilicaPopovic2.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/csmk.uniri.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/MilicaPopovic3-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4803\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csmk.uniri.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/MilicaPopovic3-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/csmk.uniri.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/MilicaPopovic3-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/csmk.uniri.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/MilicaPopovic3-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/csmk.uniri.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/MilicaPopovic3-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/csmk.uniri.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/MilicaPopovic3.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, April 16, 2026, the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies of the University of Rijeka hosted Dr. Milica Popovi\u0107, a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Cultural Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Dr. Popovi\u0107 is the lead of the research project The Silence of Saying No: (Un)Remembering Deserters from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":4799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ub_ctt_via":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[66,69,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activities","category-advocacy-networking-community","category-education"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/csmk.uniri.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/MilicaPopovic1.jpeg","author_info":{"display_name":"Mario \u017duli\u010dek","author_link":"https:\/\/csmk.uniri.hr\/en\/author\/mario-zulicek\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csmk.uniri.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csmk.uniri.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csmk.uniri.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csmk.uniri.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csmk.uniri.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csmk.uniri.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4807,"href":"https:\/\/csmk.uniri.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806\/revisions\/4807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csmk.uniri.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csmk.uniri.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csmk.uniri.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csmk.uniri.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}