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.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Iva:

Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, "Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists: Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

May 5, 2024

Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists

Lisa A. Kirschenbaum
Hosted by Iva Glisic

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…

Aleksandar Bosković and Steven Teref, "Zenithism (1921-1927): A Yugoslav Avant-Garde Anthology" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)

March 29, 2024

Zenithism (1921-1927)

Aleksandar Bosković and Steven Teref
Hosted by Iva Glisic

Zenithism (1921-1927): A Yugoslav Avant-Garde Anthology (Academic Studies Press, 2023) is the first-ever English language anthology of zenithism – an …

Kateryna Malaia, "Taking the Soviet Union Apart Room by Room: Domestic Architecture before and after 1991" (Northern Illinois UP, 2023)

January 7, 2024

Taking the Soviet Union Apart Room by Room

Kateryna Malaia
Hosted by Iva Glisic

In Taking the Soviet Union Apart Room by Room: Domestic Architecture Before and After 1991 (Northern Illinois UP, 2023) Kateryna Malaia examines the t…

Valerie Werder, "Thieves: A Novel" (Fence Books, 2023)

October 27, 2023

Thieves: A Novel

Valerie Werder
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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…

Elise Herrala, "Art of Transition: The Field of Art in Post-Soviet Russia" (Routledge, 2021)

September 3, 2023

Art of Transition

Elise Herrala
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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.…

Nataša Jagdhuhn, "Post-Yugoslav Metamuseums: Reframing Second World War Heritage in Postconflict Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

July 22, 2023

Post-Yugoslav Metamuseums

Nataša Jagdhuhn
Hosted by Iva Glisic

Nataša Jagdhuhn's Post-Yugoslav Metamuseums: Reframing Second World War Heritage in Postconflict Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia (Palgrave…

Ann Komaromi, "Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society" (Cornell UP, 2022)

June 8, 2023

Soviet Samizdat

Ann Komaromi
Hosted by Iva Glisic
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Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society (Cornell UP, 2022) traces the emergence and development of samizdat, a significant and distinctive phenomenon…

Katherine Bowers, "Writing Fear: Russian Realism and the Gothic" (U Toronto Press, 2022)

May 11, 2023

Writing Fear

Katherine Bowers
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Writing Fear: Russian Realism and the Gothic (U Toronto Press, 2022) argues that nineteenth-century Russian writers actively engaged with narrative m…

Dejan Djokić, "A Concise History of Serbia" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

April 25, 2023

A Concise History of Serbia

Dejan Djokić
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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…

Iva Vukušić, "Serbian Paramilitaries and the Breakup of Yugoslavia" (Routledge, 2022)

March 13, 2023

Serbian Paramilitaries and the Breakup of Yugoslavia

Iva Vukušić
Hosted by Iva Glisic

Serbian Paramilitaries and the Breakup of Yugoslavia: State Connections and Patterns of Violence (Routledge, 2022) examines the nature and functions o…

Sandra Frimmel, "Art Judgements: Art on Trial in Russia After Perestroika" (Vernon Press, 2021)

December 21, 2022

Art Judgements

Sandra Frimmel
Hosted by Iva Glisic

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…

Sofya Glazunova, "Digital Activism in Russia: The Communication Tactics of Political Outsiders" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

November 30, 2022

Digital Activism in Russia

Sofya Glazunova
Hosted by Iva Glisic

Digital Activism in Russia: The Communication Tactics of Political Outsiders (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022) examines various forms of Russian online anti-…

Laura A. Frahm, "Design in Motion: Film Experiments at the Bauhaus" (MIT Press, 2022)

November 2, 2022

Design in Motion

Laura A. Frahm
Hosted by Iva Glisic

Design in Motion: Film Experiments at the Bauhaus (MIT Press, 2022) provides the first comprehensive history of film experiments at the Bauhaus, the f…

Orli Fridman, "Memory Activism and Digital Practices After Conflict: Unwanted Memories" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)

October 19, 2022

Memory Activism and Digital Practices After Conflict

Orli Fridman
Hosted by Iva Glisic

With Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict: Unwanted Memories (Amsterdam UP, 2022), Orli Fridman traces the emergence of memory activis…

Mark D. Steinberg, "Russian Utopia: A Century of Revolutionary Possibilities" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

August 19, 2022

Russian Utopia

Mark D. Steinberg
Hosted by Iva Glisic

It has long been a cliché to argue that Russian revolutionary movements have been inspired by varieties of 'utopian dreaming' – claims which, although…

Jasmina Tumbas, "I Am Jugoslovenka!: Feminist Performance Politics During and After Yugoslav Socialism" (Manchester UP, 2022)

July 1, 2022

I Am Jugoslovenka!

Jasmina Tumbas
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With I Am Jugoslovenka!: Feminist Performance Politics During and After Yugoslav Socialism (Manchester UP, 2022), Jasmina Tumbas examines forms of fem…

Mark Edele, "Debates on Stalinism" (Manchester UP, 2020)

March 15, 2022

Debates on Stalinism

Mark Edele
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Debates on Stalinism (Manchester University Press, 2020) considers some of the major debates about Stalinism during and after the Cold War. Was ‘Stali…

Anna Bokov, "Avant-Garde as Method: Vkhutemas and the Pedagogy of Space, 1920-1930" (Park Books, 2020)

December 29, 2021

Avant-Garde as Method

Anna Bokov
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In Avant-Garde as Method: Vkhutemas and the Pedagogy of Space, 1920-1930 (Park Books, 2020), Anna Bokov examines the history of the Higher Art and Tec…

Barbara Martin, "Dissident Histories in the Soviet Union: From De-Stalinization to Perestroika" (Bloomsbury, 2019)

December 3, 2021

Dissident Histories in the Soviet Union

Barbara Martin
Hosted by Iva Glisic

In Dissident Histories in the Soviet Union: From De-Stalinization to Perestroika (Bloomsbury,, 2019), Barbara Martin traces the careers of four promin…

Katja Praznik, "Art Work: Invisible Labour and the Legacy of Yugoslav Socialism" (U Toronto Press, 2021)

November 11, 2021

Art Work

Katja Praznik
Hosted by Iva Glisic

In Art Work: Invisible Labour and the Legacy of Yugoslav Socialism (U Toronto Press, 2021), Katja Praznik counters the Western understanding of art – …