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Professor Jo Shaw - UACES Lifetime Achievement Award in European Studies

UACES: The academic association for contemporary European Studies The Lifetime Achievement Award is presented to individuals who have made a substantial contribution to the development of European Studies as a discipline.

The Economist explains: Is Serbo-Croatian a language? | The Economist Or is it actually four distinct tongues?

Post-Yugoslav ‘Common Language’ Declaration Challenges Nationalism :: Balkan Insight A declaration that Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian are all variations of the same language has annoyed conservatives, but received a warmer welcome from the people who speak it.

We can't wait to see this book published! CITSEE researcher and author Ljubica Spaskovska wrote a book on 'The Last Yugoslav Generation'!

The Last Yugoslav Generation: The Rethinking of Youth Politics and Cultures in Late Socialism The Last Yugoslav Generation: The Rethinking of Youth Politics and Cultures in Late Socialism

New journal article on Romani migrants as semi-citizens by a former CITSEE researcher Julija Sardelic available at the Politics journal: http://pol.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/09/13/0263395716668537.full

The position and agency of the ‘irregularized’: Romani migrants as European semi-citizens SAGE Publications

Friends of CITSEE may be interested in some posts available in a project at the University of Zagreb: http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/index.cfm/jobs/jobDetails/34104736

Full-time position for Research Assistant on the project Disobedient Democracy financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation European Commission - EURAXESS Jobs Portal - Home page of the EURAXESS Jobs Portal

Ed Vuliammy about that feeling...: "On the slipstream of empire, I’ve always thought – to the point of treason – of my British passport as a “burden of shame” as UB40 so eloquently put it, “a British subject, not proud of it”. Now, trying to cling on in “the continent”, it is just a downright embarrassment – not only a badge of shame, but also, worse in a way, of pointless, bellicose imbecility."

It feels like my British passport is now a badge of shame | Ed Vulliamy My friends across a continent, from Paris to Warsaw, are baffled, sombre and angry

Lessons for the UK from Yugoslavia? "If there is one lesson the UK should take from Yugoslavia it is this: referendums are terrible. These brief exercises in direct democracy not only fail to solve existential societal questions, but they bring to the fore societal divisions that had previously been channeled into civil political discourse (like in the UK) or, yes, been politically repressed (like in the case of Yugoslavia)."

Brexit: A Lesson from Yugoslavia The EU Referendum was supposed to let the people speak. In the 1990s, Yugoslavs went to their referendums. The result was bloodshed and the fragmentation of Yugoslavia.

Jo Shaw on the assassination of Jo Cox MP (1974-2016)

Power, violence and voice - Dangerous Women Project Jo Shaw reflects on the murder of Jo Cox MP - an event that has sent shockwaves across the UK and beyond.

Another former CITSEE researcher contributes to the Dangerous Women Project - Julija Sardelic and Angela Kocze on Romani Women in Europe

Romani Women – Dangerous Women? - Dangerous Women Project Romani women in Europe today: beyond the myths and stereotypes, Angéla Kóczé and Julija Sardelic discover smart and reflexive women.