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11. DOKTORSKA RADIONICA
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Pula, 27-30. kolovoza 2025.
Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Faculty of Humanities, Department of History & Centre for Cultural and Historical Research of Socialism
11TH DOCTORAL WORKSHOP
Systems of Governance
Pula, August 27-30, 2025
Oriented towards PhD students in history, as well as in other fields of the humanities and social sciences, this year’s annual summer workshop will explore the diverse systems of governance that were envisioned from the early 19th century and have shaped societies throughout the 20th century and up to the present day. Our focus is both on Europe and global developments. The workshop will address the theory and practice of governance at various levels – from intellectuals and party ideologies to state institutions, social movements, companies and corporations, offering both top-down perspectives and views from a range of local and everyday practices. Participants are encouraged to examine themes such as democracy, authoritarianism, totalitarianism, utopian socialism and state communist systems, colonial and postcolonial governance, as well as destatisation, Yugoslav self-management and direct democracy. The impact of different forms of governance on social, cultural and economic life will also be considered, highlighting interactions between ruling structures on one side and local communities or the workplace on the other. By focusing on the dynamics of historical processes, we are interested in all stages of different systems of governance: from initial ideas to implementation, including possible crises, reforms, transitions and dissolutions.
So far, the Workshop has focused on various topics in contemporary history, the history of socialist Yugoslavia and wider European context: The History of Everyday Life in Socialist Yugoslavia (2015); Yugoslav Socialism: Similarities and Exceptionalities (2016); A New Man for the Socialist Society (2017); Yugoslavia and the Global 1968: Contexts, Perspectives, Echoes (2018); Industrial Societies of Late Socialism: European Comparisons (2019); Cooperation, Exchange and Solidarity in Europe 1945-1990 (2020); Microhistories of Socialism (2021); Microhistories of Socialism and Postsocialism (2022); What Was Europe? Perception, Division and Integration, 1940s-2010s (2023); Why Socialism Matters? Approaches to Research of the Political Idea and the Historical Period (2024). The themes were often connected to the research projects at CKPIS or with the cooperation network around the Chair for South-East European History at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Over the past years, the Workshop has received an excellent response, with PhD students and lecturers coming from various universities and other institutions (Basel, Belgrade, Berlin, Bielefeld, Birmingham, Bochum, Bologna, Budapest, Cologne, Cork, Duisburg-Essen, Durham, Florence, Frankfurt, Genoa, Ghent, Giessen, Glasgow, Graz, Halle, Hamburg, Iaşi, Konstanz, Koper, Lisbon, Ljubljana, Montreal, Munich, North Carolina – Chapel Hill, Nottingham, Oxford, Paris, Potsdam, Prague, Princeton, Regensburg, Rome, San Diego, Sarajevo, Skopje, Sofia, Split, Tübingen, Turku, Vienna, Warsaw, Warwick, Zadar, Zagreb and Pula). Information on past workshops is available on our website.
CALL FOR PAPERS (March 14, 2025)
APPLICATION FORM (Deadline: May 15, 2025)
PROGRAMME (available in June)
Invited lecturers
Mike Tyldesley, PhD, senior lecturer (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Ana Kladnik, PhD (University of Graz)
Marko Zajc, PhD (Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana)
Prof. Igor Duda, PhD (Juraj Dobrila University of Pula)
Organising Committee
Prof. Igor Duda, PhD (Juraj Dobrila University of Pula)
Anita Buhin, PhD (IHC – NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST, NOVA University Lisbon)
Tina Filipović (EUI Florence / University of Zagreb)
Sara Žerić Đulović (IOS Regensburg)
We thank for support
Juraj Dobrila University of Pula
Faculty of Humanities, Pula
We thank for cooperation
Historical and Maritime Museum of Istria, Pula
https://www.unipu.hr/ckpis/en/doctoral_workshop/2025
https://www.unipu.hr/ckpis/doktorska_radionica/2025
