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About Iva Glisic
Iva Glisic is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Australian National University. Her work explores the history of radical ideas and the relationship between art and politics, with a particular focus on historical and contemporary forms of artistic activism in Russia and Eastern Europe. She is the author of the award-winning book The Futurist Files: Avant-Garde, Politics, and Ideology in Russia, 1905-1930 (Northern Illinois University Press, 2018).Iva Glisic is a historian and art historian specialising in modern Russia and the Balkans.
NBN Episodes hosted by Iva:
March 24, 2026
Contemporary Art in the Post-Yugoslav Space
Contemporary Art in the Post-Yugoslav Space explores the production, discussion, and consumption of contemporary art across the post-Yugoslav region. …
February 7, 2026
Soviet Samizdat
Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society (Cornell UP, 2022) traces the emergence and development of samizdat, a significant and distinctive phenomenon…
January 30, 2026
The Youngest Yugoslavs
The Youngest Yugoslavs: An Oral History of Post-Socialist Memory (Indiana UP, 2025) gathers interviews with members of the last generation to experien…
December 31, 2025
A Concise History of Serbia
Dejan Djokić's book A Concise History of Serbia (Cambridge UP, 2023) covers the full span of Serbia's history – from the sixth-century Slav migrations…
November 19, 2025
An Imaginary Cinema
An Imaginary Cinema: Sergei Eisenstein and the Unrealized Film (Cornell UP, 2024) explores the unfinished cinematic projects developed and abandoned b…
October 29, 2025
This Is Not My World
This Is Not My World: Art and Public Spaces in Socialist Zagreb (U Minnesota Press, 2024) examines the Group of Six Authors—a collective of young arti…
August 10, 2025
Remembering Suffering and Resistance
Remembering Suffering and Resistance investigates the role of the Serbian Orthodox Church in shaping memory politics in Serbia following the fall of S…
December 18, 2024
Writing in Red
Writing in Red: Literature and Revolution Across Turkey and the Soviet Union (Columbia UP, 2024) examines political relations and literary translat…
November 18, 2024
Balkan Cyberia
Balkan Cyberia: Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernisation, and the Information Age Behind the Iron Curtain (MIT Press, 2023) examines the history of…
May 5, 2024
Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists
In 1935, two Soviet satirists, Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, undertook a 10,000-mile American road trip from New York to Hollywood and back. They immort…
March 29, 2024
Zenithism (1921-1927)
Zenithism (1921-1927): A Yugoslav Avant-Garde Anthology (Academic Studies Press, 2023) is the first-ever English language anthology of zenithism – an …
January 7, 2024
Taking the Soviet Union Apart Room by Room
In Taking the Soviet Union Apart Room by Room: Domestic Architecture Before and After 1991 (Northern Illinois UP, 2023) Kateryna Malaia examines the t…
October 27, 2023
Thieves: A Novel
Thieves (Fence Books, 2023) is an autofictional account of a gallery girl named Valerie – an art worker in the big city, a product of an American chil…
September 3, 2023
Art of Transition
Art of Transition: The Field of Art in Post-Soviet Russia (Routledge, 2021) investigates contemporary art in Russia since the end of the Soviet Union.…
July 22, 2023
Post-Yugoslav Metamuseums
Nataša Jagdhuhn's Post-Yugoslav Metamuseums: Reframing Second World War Heritage in Postconflict Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia (Palgrave…
May 11, 2023
Writing Fear
Writing Fear: Russian Realism and the Gothic (U Toronto Press, 2022) argues that nineteenth-century Russian writers actively engaged with narrative m…
March 13, 2023
Serbian Paramilitaries and the Breakup of Yugoslavia
Serbian Paramilitaries and the Breakup of Yugoslavia: State Connections and Patterns of Violence (Routledge, 2022) examines the nature and functions o…
December 21, 2022
Art Judgements
Since the turn of the millennium, there has been an unusually large number of court cases against artists and curators in Russia. Focusing on prominen…
November 30, 2022
Digital Activism in Russia
Digital Activism in Russia: The Communication Tactics of Political Outsiders (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022) examines various forms of Russian online anti-…
November 2, 2022
Design in Motion
Design in Motion: Film Experiments at the Bauhaus (MIT Press, 2022) provides the first comprehensive history of film experiments at the Bauhaus, the f…
October 19, 2022
Memory Activism and Digital Practices After Conflict
With Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict: Unwanted Memories (Amsterdam UP, 2022), Orli Fridman traces the emergence of memory activis…
August 19, 2022
Russian Utopia
It has long been a cliché to argue that Russian revolutionary movements have been inspired by varieties of 'utopian dreaming' – claims which, although…
July 1, 2022
I Am Jugoslovenka!
With I Am Jugoslovenka!: Feminist Performance Politics During and After Yugoslav Socialism (Manchester UP, 2022), Jasmina Tumbas examines forms of fem…
March 15, 2022
Debates on Stalinism
Debates on Stalinism (Manchester University Press, 2020) considers some of the major debates about Stalinism during and after the Cold War. Was ‘Stali…