Presentations

2018

‘Queer insecurity and military belonging: the politics and limits of imagining queer futures’. European International Studies Association conference, Prague, 12–15 September 2018.
‘Two double eagles and a chequerboard: sport and nationalism in the social media age’. Keynote speech for British Society for Sports History annual conference, University of Westminster, 7–8 September 2018.
Contribution to ‘World Cup Russia 2018: reflections on football, nationalism, and national identity’ roundtable. Association for the Study of Nationalities Europe conference, University of Graz, 4–6 July 2018.
Book panel presenting Race and the Yugoslav Region: Postsocialist, Post-Conflict, Postcolonial?. Association for the Study of Nationalities Europe conference, University of Graz, 4–6 July 2018.
‘The affects of the gaze: feminist and queer approaches to spectatorship in Visual International Relations’. European Workshops in International Studies: Visual IR, Gröningen, 6–9 June 2018.
‘Integrating gender into historical research: tomorrow’s gender history today’, Integrating Gender into Historical Research: A Workshop for All Historians, LSE, 11 May 2018.
‘Feminist postcolonial perspectives on the racialised geopolitics of peacekeeping: where is the Yugoslav region?’. BISA Gendering International Relations Working Group conference, Newcastle University, 26–7 April 2018.
‘Is there a feminist way of waging war?’ University of Hull War Studies Society / Feminist Society joint lecture, 1 March 2018.

2017

‘Pleasure, desire and identification: feminist and queer media studies and Popular Culture and World Politics research’. Popular Culture and World Politics v. 10: Beyond Boundaries, Newcastle University, 23–5 November 2017.
‘Music, media and culture 25 years after Yugoslavia: do we still need “nostalgia”?’ Revisiting Yugoslavia in the Shadow of the Present: Continuities and Discontinuities, St Antony’s College, Oxford, 23 November 2017.
‘”Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic looking at things”: embodied militarism, public diplomacy and the gendered construction of celebrity political personas’. Militarization 2.0 research workshop, Stockholm University, 26-7 October 2017.
‘”Why does nobody talk about female military masculinities?”: assembling a queer aesthetic curiosity’. European International Studies Association conference, Barcelona, 13-16 September 2017.
‘Militarised masculinities, political violence and the “epic imagination”: an audiovisual aesthetic approach’. European International Studies Association conference, Barcelona, 13-16 September 2017.
‘Is Eurovision the biggest Pride parade in Europe?’ Pride in Hull Tea Time Talks, University of Hull, 27 July 2017.
‘”The place of penetration”: sublimating and revealing a queer Coriolanus on film’. ‘Show Thy Queere Substance’: the Queer, the Early Modern and the Now, University of Westminster, 8 July 2017.
‘Breaking the silence: gender and genocide in the Bosnian War’. Remembering Srebrenica workshop, Wiener Library, London, 6 July 2017.
‘Queer spectatorship, masculinities and the gaze’. Rethinking the Gaze: Feminism, Fashion and the Female Body, Chelsea College of Arts, 28-29 June 2017.
‘Tracing transnational imaginative circuits of popular militarism’. Men and Masculinities in Conflict and Society Research Network workshop, University of Bristol, 19 June 2017.
‘Militarised masculinities, political violence and the “epic imagination”‘. British International Studies Association conference, Brighton, 14-16 June 2017.
‘A queer aesthetic curiosity towards popular culture, peace and conflict: popular music and women’s identifications with post-war masculinities in Croatia’. Critical Peace and Conflict Studies: Feminist Interventions, British International Studies Association pre-conference workshop, Brighton, 13 June 2017.
‘Imaginative circuits of audiovisuality and the sensuous politics of war’. Feeling War workshop, University of Warwick, 10 May 2017.
”The queer geopolitics of Eurovision: LGBT politics, state homophobia and transnational spectatorship’. The Spectacle of an Expanded Europe: the Eurovision Song Contest as a Scene of Nation Branding, Cultural Frictions and European Unity, University of Copenhagen, 28 April 2017.
‘The queer geopolitics of Eurovision: LGBT politics, state homophobia and transnational spectatorship’. The Eurovision Song Contest in a Changing World: Culture, Geography and Politics, University of Maynooth, 11 April 2017.
‘The gendered experience of justice in Bosnia-Herzegovina’. Remembering Srebrenica conference, St Antony’s College, Oxford, 7 March 2017.
‘”Why don’t you put your voting shades on?”: the militarism-aesthetics-embodiment nexus after the US election’. International Studies Association conference, 22-5 February 2017.
‘How does “fake news” polarise the public?: myths, lies and truths before the Yugoslav wars’. Hull People’s Politics, 9 February 2017.
‘Translation, interpreting and peacebuilding after ethnopolitical conflict’. Translating in Danger Zones seminar series, University of Reading, 25 January 2017.

2016

‘Celebrating “Europe” in crisis?: the Eurovision Song Contest in 2016’. Guest lecture, University of Cincinnati, 22 November 2016.
‘Popular culture and global formations of race in eastern Europe’. Taft Research Center, University of Cincinnati, 21 November 2016.
‘Popular music and the “cultural archive”: the post-Yugoslav region in global racial formations’. Millennium Annual Conference, London School of Economics and Political Science, 22-3 October 2016 / Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies conference, Washington DC, 17-20 November 2016.
‘The Black Adriatic?: historicising Yugoslav internationalism and global racial formations’. (Re)Thinking Yugoslav Internationalism: Cold War Global Entanglements and Their Legacies, University of Graz, 29 September-1 October 2016.
‘”It’s a revolution, we’re gonna keep on fighting”: transnational aesthetics of militarisation and music video after the Cold War’. Transnational Screens Conference: Volatility and Compounding Transnational Traffic, De Montfort University, 15-16 September 2016.
‘”Couture military”: imagining dystopia, evoking war and regendering violence in post-Cold-War music video’. Nine Worlds COnvention academic track, 14 August 2016.
‘Contemporary histories of women, war and peace: the Yugoslav wars’. Talk accompanying Lee Karen Stow’s Poppies: Women, War, Peace exhibition, University of Hull, 9 August 2016.
‘”Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic looking at things”: embodied militarism, public diplomacy and the gendered construction of celebrity political personas’. British International Studies Association conference, 15-17 June 2016.
‘Teaching transgender histories: student perceptions of an “inclusive” curriculum’. British International Studies Association conference, 15-17 June 2016.
‘Yugoslav exceptionalism?: researching “race” and popular culture in the post-Yugoslav successor states’. School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures research seminar, University of Hull, 13 April 2016.
‘How do they militarise a music video?’ European Workshops in International Studies, Tubingen, 6-8 April 2016.
‘Teaching the Yugoslav wars, two decades on’. Roundtable organised at International Studies Association conference, Atlanta, 16-19 March 2016.
‘Does transitional justice translate? A critical perspective on transitional justice and peacebuilding discourse’. International Studies Association conference, Atlanta, 16-19 March 2016.
‘Trans and non-binary inclusive gender histories: do we have the readings we need, and is that enough?’. ‘What Is and How To Do LGBT History?: Methods, Subjects, Approaches’ conference, Manchester, 27-28 February 2016.
Presentation of The Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. Central European University, Budapest, 26 February 2016.
Workshop on ‘race’ and racialisation in south-east Europe. Central European University, 26 February 2016.
‘Gender and geopolitics in the Eurovision Song Contest’. Gender Studies public lecture, Central European University, 25 February 2016.
‘Are we unstoppable? Conchita Wurst and the politics of LGBT rights at the Eurovision Song Contest’. LGBT+ History Month, University of Hull, 18 February 2016.

2015

‘Political musical theatre: Marko Perković Thompson, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović and narratives of Croatian national unity twenty years after the Homeland War’. Association for Slavonic, East European and Eurasian Studies conference, Philadelphia, 19-22 November 2015.
‘The view from further down the corridor: other disciplines and the politics of (not) teaching and learning languages’. ‘SSEES @ 100: the Politics of Teaching and Learning Languages’ conference, UCL SSEES, 17-18 September 2015.
‘The language politics of peace-building’. ‘Rethinking Territoriality: Between Independence and Interdependence’ conference, University of Edinburgh, 16-18 September 2015.
‘Between democratisation and disempowerment: “the political” in oral histories of peace support operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina’. ‘Democratizing History in Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings Across Central and Eastern Europe’ workshop, University of Strathclyde, 12 September 2015.
‘Writing trans-inclusive gender histories of eastern Europe’. ‘Representation: Gender Minority Groups in Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro’ workshop, UCL SSEES, 3-4 September 2015.
‘Postsocialist international intervention in a postcolonial framework? “Balkanism”, peace operations and the former Yugoslavia’. ‘Narratives of Intervention: Reflections from North and South’ conference, University of Surrey, 22-3 July 2015.
‘”Second star to the right, and straight on till Sochi”: the Eurovision/Olympics convergence’. ‘Musical Diversity and Cultural Identities in the History of the Eurovision Song Contest’, University of Graz, 19-20 June 2015. Invited presentation.
‘Constructions of nationality, ethnicity and trust in language support for peace operations: the case of Bosnia-Herzegovina’, ‘Language, Security and Otherness’ colloquium, King’s College London, 1 June 2015.
‘Beyond peacekeeping masculinities?: accommodating language support within military masculinities in narratives of peace operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina’, ‘Masculinities at the Margins: Conceptualising War Beyond Hypermasculinity’ workshop, University of Newcastle, 23-24 April 2015.
‘Sounds of the borderland: popular music, war and nationalism in Croatia since 1991’, guest lecture at Centre for South-East European Studies, University of Graz, 25 March 2015.
‘The Black Adriatic: rethinking and researching race in the ex-Yugoslav region’, Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies research seminar, University of Nottingham, 4 March 2015. Invited talk.
‘Revisiting (and remixing?) the ‘image of the warrior’: translating, writing and recirculating militarised embodiment’, International Studies Association conference, New Orleans, 18-21 February 2015.

2014

‘Peacekeepers and their interpreters during and after the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina’, Hull and East Riding Historical Association, 18 October 2014.
‘Revisiting the ‘image of the warrior’: translation and the process of writing militarised embodiment’, ‘Embodying Militarism’ workshop, St Michael’s College, Cardiff, 27-28 September 2014.
‘”And it will be for everyone”: the London 2012 opening ceremony and the public history of immigration in the UK’, ‘Immigration, Nation and Public History’ symposium, King’s College London, 18 June 2014.
‘The end of nation-building? Eurovision and the global financial crisis’, ‘Visions of Europe in the Eurovision Song Contest’ conference, University of Copenhagen, 5-7 May 2014. Keynote speech.
‘The employable self and the ideal researcher: reflections on interviewing whilst queer’, International Studies Association conference, Toronto, 26-29 March 2014.
‘The Gay World Cup? LGBT equality and the Eurovision Song Contest’, University of Hull LGBT History Month, 27 February 2014. Invited lecture.
Address on the Bosnian Genocide to Hull Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration, 27 January 2014. Invited speech.
‘The local workforce of international intervention in the Yugoslav successor states: “precariat” or “projectariat”?’ LSEE: Research on South Eastern Europe research seminar, LSE, 21 January 2014. Invited lecture.

2013

‘Beyond the island story: the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games as public history’. Research seminar, Leeds Metropolitan University, 2 December 2013. Invited lecture.
‘The local workforce of international intervention in the Yugoslav successor states: “precariat” or “projectariat”?’. Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies annual convention, Boston, 21-24 November 2013.
‘The problem of knowing what we don’t know’. Closing speech, Huddersfield History Postgraduate Conference, University of Huddersfield, 11 October 2013. Invited lecture.
‘After building a new Jerusalem, where next? The London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony and British public history’, Unofficial Histories, Manchester, 13-14 June 2013.
‘Visualising masculinity and discipline in the Balkans: representations of space and contemporary conflict in Ralph Fiennes’s Coriolanus‘, International Feminist Journal of Politics conference, University of Sussex, 17-19 May 2013.
‘Gender, translation/interpreting, and the exercise of power in peace support operations’, International Studies Association conference, San Francisco, 3-6 April 2013.
Participant in ‘Critical Pedagogy in World Politics’ roundtable, International Studies Association conference, San Francisco, 3-6 April 2013.
‘Unpacking the ‘baggage’: citizenship, ethnicity and security in the employment of language intermediaries by foreign military forces’, University of Newcastle, 6 February 2013. Invited lecture.
‘Popular music and the break-up of Yugoslavia: making meaning from the Other after ethnopolitical violence and conflict’, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich and Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, 22/24 January 2013. Invited lectures.

2012

‘Subtitling “Balkan Voices” and “Croatian Memories”: perspectives from oral history and translation studies’, Balkan Voices/Croatian Memories workshop, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 20-21 December 2012.
‘The local workforce of international intervention in former Yugoslavia: ‘precariat’ or ‘projectariat’?’, ‘Bringing Class Back In: the Dynamics of Social Change in (Post) Yugoslavia’, Marija Bistrica, 7-9 December 2012.
‘Unpacking “baggage”: citizenship, ethnicity and security in the employment of language intermediaries by foreign military forces’, Humanitarianism: Past, Present and Future conference, University of Manchester, 8–10 November 2012.
‘Uncertainty and the undermining of working identities: insights from post-socialist precarity in Bosnia-Herzegovina’, Canadian Sociological Association annual meeting, Waterloo, ON, 26 May–2 June 2012.
“We interpreters were the first ones to cross the lines”: dealing with oral histories of language, conflict and work in 1990s Bosnia-Herzegovina’, Beyond Testimony and Trauma conference, Concordia University, Montreal, 22–25 March 2012.
‘Where is the seventh republic?: popular music and the memory of Yugoslavia’, Twenty Years of Memory: Prosecuting, Memorializing and Remembering the Wars of Yugoslav Succession, University of Aarhus (NEMMA), 30–31 January 2012. Invited presentation.
‘LGBT rights and nationalism in the Western Balkans’, Twenty Years after the Wars of Yugoslav Succession: the Path towards Europe, Danish Institute of International Studies, Copenhagen, 27 January 2012. Invited presentation.

2011

‘Becoming a conflict interpreter: the language learning life histories of local interpreters employed by peacekeeping forces in Bosnia-Herzegovina’, Portsmouth Translation Conference, University of Portsmouth, 5 November 2011.
‘English as the language of international intervention in Bosnia-Herzegovina since 1992’, State Traditions and Linguistic Regimes: State of the Art, University of Ottawa, 9–10 September 2011.
‘Popular music in the “Yugosphere” and “ethnosphere”: layers of musical belonging since the break-up of Yugoslavia’, Reinventing the Balkans, Sciences-Po, Paris, 27 June 2011. Invited presentation.
‘Zar učiš hrvatski? (Are you really learning Serbo-Croat?): politics, crisis and the demand for language knowledge in the British response to the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina’, New Ways of War?: Insurgencies, ‘Small Wars’ and the Past and Future of Conflict, University College Dublin, 1–2 June 2011.
‘Interviewing the protagonists: new evidence from oral history interviews with interpreters and their users’, Research Models in Translation Studies II, University of Manchester, 29 April–2 May 2011.
‘When Bosnia was a Commonwealth country: British forces and their interpreters in Republika Srpska, 1995-2007’, Languages at War Colloquium, Imperial War Museum, London, 7–9 April 2011.
‘‘What if I die tomorrow? At least I earned some money’: employment, risk and the situation of locally-employed interpreters in Bosnia-Herzegovina’, American Association for Applied Linguistics conference, Chicago, 26–29 March 2011.
‘Sympathy without policy: power, informality and language in the multi-national military force in Bosnia-Herzegovina’, Remaking Borders: EastBordNet Conference 2011, Catania, 20–22 January 2011.

2010

‘The music of the spheres: popular music in the “Yugosphere” and ethnospheres’, presented at launch of Sounds of the Borderland, UCL-SSEES, 14 December 2010.
‘The view from the back of the Warrior: mobility, privilege and power during the international intervention in Bosnia-Herzegovina’, Travelling Languages: Culture, Communication and Translation in a Mobile World, Leeds Metropolitan University, 3–5 December 2010.
Participant in roundtable ‘Beyond War, Nationalists, and Turbofolk: Challenging How We Research the Western Balkans’, American Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Convention, Los Angeles, 18–21 November 2010.
‘“Softening the situation”: the interpreting strategies of local interpreters employed by the multinational military force in Bosnia-Herzegovina since 1992’, Sociolinguistics Symposium 18, University of Southampton, 2–4 September 2010.
‘To arms with languages: making sense of distance in oral histories by peacekeepers in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia’, International Oral History Association conference, Prague, 7–11 July 2010.
‘“Don’t worry about your shoes, this isn’t Bosnia”: remembering and reproducing intimacy in narratives of international peacekeeping’, International Auto/Biography Association conference, University of Sussex, 28 June–1 July 2010.
‘Prosperity without security: locally employed interpreters in the Bosnian economy’, Languages at War 2nd Annual Workshop, 28 May 2010.
‘Peacekeepers’ narratives of language encounters in Bosnia-Herzegovina’, European Social Science History Conference, Ghent, 13–16 April 2010.
‘Have you ever been in Bosnia?: British military travellers in the Balkans since 1992’, From the Grand Tour to Mass Tourism: the Modern History of the British Abroad, Newcastle University, 1–3 April 2010.
‘“Turbo Serbo”: plurilingualism and military language instruction for peacekeeping missions to Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo’, Plurilingual and Pluricultural Education: Focus on ‘Languages of the Wider World’, SOAS, 19–20 February 2010.

2009

‘Oral histories of the multinational force and its interpreters in 1990s Bosnia-Herzegovina’, Centre for South-East European Studies seminar, UCL SSEES, 27 November 2009.
‘The inter-cultural encounters of peacekeepers in Bosnia-Herzegovina’, Centre for Life History and Life Writing seminar, University of Sussex, 10 November 2009.
‘“We don’t understand this letter”: “multilingual” document production and the international military force in Bosnia-Herzegovina’, Portsmouth Translation Conference, University of Portsmouth, 7 November 2009.
‘Second among equals?: the status of French during peacekeeping operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1995–2000)’, Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France conference, University of Portsmouth, 4 September 2009.
‘The care and feeding of linguists: the working environment of interpreters, translators and linguists during peacekeeping in Bosnia-Herzegovina’, Languages at War 1st Annual Workshop / Imperial War Museum History Group, 29 May 2009 / 24 June 2009.
‘Tuđman’s children?: youth, social change and popular music in contemporary Croatia’, Youth and Social Change across Borders: Emerging Identities and Divisions in Eastern and Western Europe, University of Cambridge, 27–28 March 2009.
‘It’s all the same, only he’s not here?: popular music and political change in post-Tuđman Croatia’, Croatia: Dealing with Consequences of Conflicts and Authoritarianisms, University of Stirling, 27 February 2009. Invited presentation.

2008

‘We know what we’re singing’ (‘Znamo kaj… pevamo’): language, politics and identity in Croatian popular music’, International Association for the Study of Popular Music (UK/Ireland) conference, University of Glasgow, 12–14 September 2008.
‘The truth about the Homeland War?: Croatian popular music and the Hague Tribunal protests’, Reconsidering Conflict, Terror and Resolution, University of Strathclyde, 11–12 September 2008.
‘Dismantling and reassembling the socialist past: Croatian popular music and the memory of Yugoslavia’, Memory, History, Morality: the Socialist Past Today, Newcastle University, 11–12 September 2008.
‘A public square, a stadium, a theatre: experiencing the nation through popular music in Croatia’, Experiencing Diversity and Mutuality: European Association of Social Anthropologists conference, Ljubljana, 26–29 August 2008.
‘Backwards and Balkan’ or ‘glamorous and global’: locating the ‘east’ in Croatian popular music’, Association for the Study of Nationalities Europe conference, Sciences-Po, Paris, 3–5 July 2008.
‘Popular music and the “soldier hero” in post-conflict Croatia’, Centuries of Celebrity conference, University of East London, 27 June 2008.
‘Dancing at the gates of Europe: statehood, boundaries, and Croatian participation in the Eurovision Song Contest’, Singing Europe: Spectacle and Politics in the Eurovision Song Contest, University of Thessaly, Volos, 29 February–2 March 2008.

2007

‘“They tore down our houses, we built them up again”: Croatian popular music and representations of Homeland War memory’, Modern European Ideologies, Conflict and Memory conference, Swansea University, 10–12 September 2007.

2006

‘The afterlife of Neda Ukraden: negotiating space and memory through popular music after the fall of Yugoslavia’, Identities: Negotiations in Contemporary Space(s), University of Warwick, 2 December 2006.
‘When Seve met Bregović: folklore, turbofolk and the boundaries of Croatian musical identity’, American Association for the Advancement of Slavonic Studies annual conference, Washington DC, 16–19 November 2006.
‘Wild dances and dying wolves: essentialised national heritage in the Eurovision Song Contest’, International Communications Association Annual Conference, Dresden, 19–23 June 2006.
‘From Thompson to turbofolk: contesting Croatian cultural boundaries through popular music’, Musical Culture and Memory, 8th Annual Symposium of the Department for Musicology and Ethnomusicology, University of Arts, Belgrade, 11–14 April 2006.
‘Once upon a time in Croatia: popular music and myths of Croatian nationhood’, UCL SSEES, 22 March 2006.
‘Politicised showbusiness in Croatia: constructing the nation through popular music and myth’, Inclusion/Exclusion: 7th International Postgraduate Conference on Central and Eastern Europe, UCL SSEES, 16–18 February 2006.

2005

‘Popular music in former Yugoslavia: crossing frontiers and creating borders’, Oxford Symposium on (Trans-)Nationalism in South-East Europe, St Antony’s College, Oxford, 17–19 June 2005.
‘Dajem ti srce, zemljo moja: popular music and nationalist ideology in post-Yugoslav Croatia’, British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Annual Conference, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, 2–4 April 2005.

2004

‘From Yugo-nostalgia to Seve trans/nazionale: transnationalism in former Yugoslavian popular music’, Transnationalism in the Balkans: the Emergence, Nature and Impact of Cross-National Linkages on an Enlarged and Enlarging Europe, London School of Economics and Political Science, 26–27 November 2004.
‘Showbusiness historiography in Croatia: myth, war memory and Marko Perković Thompson’, Historical Myths and Historical Narratives in the Yugoslav Successor States, Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik, 16–18 September 2004.

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