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About Vladislav Lilic

Vladislav Lilic (https://as.vanderbilt.edu/hist...) is a fifth-year graduate student in Modern European History at Vanderbilt University. His doctoral project traces how imperial legal reform and everyday encounters with the law molded state and nation formation in late Ottoman Balkans (c. 1830-1912). Supported by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), the Central European History Society (CEHS), and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), Vladislav has conducted dissertation research in a dozen archives in Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Montenegro, and Serbia. His advisor is Professor Emily Greble, with whom Vladislav has co-authored an historiographical essay forthcoming in The American Historical Review (summer 2023). You can reach him at vladislav.lilic@vanderbilt.edu.

Vladislav Lilic is a doctoral candidate in Modern European History at Vanderbilt University.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Vladislav:

Eastern European Studies November 12, 2023

The Life and Death of States

Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty

Natasha Wheatley

Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
Natasha Wheatley is an Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University. Her bold and riveting debut monograph, The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty …
Middle Eastern Studies June 6, 2023

Bedouin Bureaucrats

Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire

Nora Barakat

Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
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In the late nineteenth century, Ottoman statesmen sought to fill landscapes they legally defined as "empty." Both land and people were incorporated into territorially bounded grids of administrative law.  Nora …
Eastern European Studies April 2, 2023

Rain of Ash

Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust

Ari Joskowicz

Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
Dr. Ari Joskowicz, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History at Vanderbilt University, is the author of Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust (Princeton University Press, 2023). Jews and Roma …
Law March 31, 2023

The Process of International Legal Reproduction

Inequality, Historiography, Resistance

Rose Parfitt

Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
Rose Parfitt is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Kent and the author of The Process of International Legal Reproduction: Inequality, Historiography, Resistance (Cambridge University Press, 2019). That all states …
Law March 14, 2023

Reckoning with Empire

Self-Determination in International Law

Miriam Bak Mckenna

Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
Miriam Bak McKenna is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Sciences and Business at Roskilde University (Denmark). Her first monograph, Reckoning with Empire: Self-Determination in International Law (Brill, 2023), adopts a …
Eastern European Studies December 10, 2022

Creolizing the Modern

Transylvania across Empires

Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă

Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
The episode features Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatca, co-authors of an extraordinary, field-shifting new book – Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires (Cornell University Press, 2022). Dr. Boatca is a Professor …
World Affairs November 29, 2022

Planet in Peril

Humanity's Four Greatest Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them

Michael Bess

Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
Michael Bess is the Chancellor's Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. His fifth and most recent book is Planet in Peril: Humanity’s Four Greatest Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them …
General History September 9, 2022

The Imperial Nation

Citizens and Subjects in the British, French, Spanish, and American Empires

Josep M. Fradera

Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
How the legacy of monarchical empires shaped Britain, France, Spain, and the United States as they became liberal entities? Historians view the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as a …
General History August 2, 2022

The King's Peace

Law and Order in the British Empire

Lisa Ford

Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
Dr. Lisa Ford, Professor of History at the University of New South Wales, is the author of prize-winning monographs and a luminary in the field of global legal history. Her new …
General History March 29, 2022

Before the West

The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders

Ayşe Zarakol

Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
Ayse Zarakol, Professor of International Relations at the University of Cambridge, is the author of Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders (Cambridge University Press, 2022). Before the West …
Eastern European Studies March 9, 2022

The End of Ottoman Rule in Bosnia

Conflicting Agencies and Imperial Appropriations

Hannes Grandits

Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
Dr. Hannes Grandits, Chair in Southeast European History at Humboldt University in Berlin, is among the very few most prominent historians of the Balkans in Central European academia and the author of …
Eastern European Studies December 17, 2021

Bauman

A Biography

Izabela Wagner

Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
Global thinker, public intellectual, and world-famous theorist of ‘liquid modernity’, Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was a scholar who, despite forced migration, built a very successful academic career and, after retirement, became …
General History October 25, 2021

Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe

Emily Greble

Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
Dr. Emily Greble, Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, is the author of Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe (Oxford University Press, 2021). Focusing on the Muslim inhabitants of …
General History October 20, 2021

Piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean

Maritime Marauders in the Greek and Ottoman Aegean

Leonidas Mylonakis

Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
Dr. Leonidas Mylonakis (PhD in History from the University of California, San Diego) is the author of Piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean: Maritime Marauders in the Greek and Ottoman Aegean (Bloomsbury …
General History September 27, 2021

Yugoslavia in the British Imagination

Peace, War and Peasants Before Tito

Samuel Foster

Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
Despite Britain's entering the 20th century as the dominant world power, its public discourses were imbued with cultural pessimism and rising social anxiety. Samuel Foster is a Visiting Academic at the …
General History May 26, 2021

The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen

Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World

Linda Colley

Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
Linda Colley is a luminary in the fields of British and imperial history, and the Shelby M. C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University. Her captivating new book The …
General History April 26, 2021

Worldmaking After Empire

The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination

Adom Getachew

Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
Adom Getachew, the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, is the author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (Princeton University Press …
Eastern European Studies March 26, 2021

Sovereignty Suspended

Political Life in a So-Called State

Rebecca Bryant and Mete Hatay

Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
Rebecca Bryant, Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University, and Mete Hatay, the Senior Research Consultant at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, co-authored Sovereignty Suspended: Building the So-Called State (University …
General History February 2, 2021

Rogue Empires

Contracts and Conmen in Europe's Scramble for Africa

Steven Press

Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
Steven Press is an Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University. His marvelous first book, Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe’s Scramble for Africa (Harvard University Press, 2017), is …
Eastern European Studies December 14, 2020

Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean, 1800-1850

Stammering the Nation

Konstantina Zanou

Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
Konstantina Zanou is an Assistant Professor of Italian and Mediterranean Studies at Columbia University. Her captivating book Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean, 1800-1850: Stammering the Nation (Oxford University Press, 2018) …
Eastern European Studies October 22, 2020

Useful Enemies

Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750

Noel Malcolm

Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
Sir Noel Malcolm’s captivating new book, Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750 (Oxford University Press, 2019), tells the story of Western European fascination with …
Eastern European Studies September 30, 2020

From Peoples into Nations

A History of Eastern Europe

John Connelly

Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
John Connelly’s new book – From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe (Princeton University Press, 2020) – is an encyclopedic but lively narrative that captivates both those familiar …
Eastern European Studies September 3, 2020

Metropolitan Belgrade

Culture and Class in Interwar Yugoslavia

Jovana Babović

Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
Jovana Babović’s Metropolitan Belgrade: Culture and Class in Interwar Yugoslavia (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018) examines the ways in which middle-class Belgraders negotiated metropolitan modernity in the interwar era. Defying …
Eastern European Studies August 24, 2020

Enterprising Empires

Russia and Britain in Eighteenth-Century Eurasia

Matthew Romaniello

Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
In his new book Enterprising Empires: Russia and Britain in Eighteenth-Century Eurasia (Cambridge University Press), Matthew Romaniello examines the workings of the British Russia Company and the commercial entanglements of …