Lucija Balikić is a doctoral candidate at the Department of History, CEU. She is a graduate of University of Zagreb, CEU and was a visiting student at the Department of History at the University of Southampton, UK.
Most recently, she was a visiting research fellow at the Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Arts and Sciences (AY 2021/2022), became a WG4 member of COST Action Who Cares in Europe? (CA18119) and was awarded CEU Global Teaching Fellowship at the Corvinus University of Budapest (AY 2023/2024), where she is currently teaching at the International Relations MA and BA programs.
Research interests
• Intellectual history of East Central Europe in 19th and 20th centuries
• History of knowledge production and social movements in modern Europe
• History of Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hungary and Yugoslavia (1918-1991)
Teaching portfolio (AY 2020/2021-present)
Corvinus University of Budapest, Institute of Global Studies, Department of International Relations
GLOB069NABB - Research Methodology: Theories, Concepts and Research Design II
293NHISV445B - History of Modern Europe (with prof. Christopher Walsch)
GLOB041NAMB - Research Design and Academic Writing (with prof. Vassilis Petsinis, prof. Dániel Vékony, prof. Zoltán Kelemen)
CEU History Department
HIST5133 - Global History of Yugoslavia (with prof. Mate Nikola Tokić)
CEU Romani Studies Program
RSP5017 - Introduction to History and Cultural Heritage Studies
RSP5022 - Methodology of History and Cultural Heritage Studies
RSP5034 - Research Seminar: History and Cultural Heritage Studies
CEU Invisible University for Ukraine
IUFU4003 - Between Norms and Realities: Challenges to Europeanization, Democratization and the Rule of Law in a Transnational Context (seminar co-leader with PhD candidate Semir Džebo).
CEU Undergraduate Studies (Culture, Politics Society track)
UGST4011 - Sound and Vision: Communicating Through Image and Audio (with Prof. Klára Trencsényi)
UGST4026 - Mobility and Heritage (with Prof. Zsuzsanna Arendas)
Guest lectures at the Department of History, University of Ljubljana
“Feminism, Eugenics and Gymnastics in Interwar Yugoslavia” at Women's History course (by Prof. Irena Selišnik).
“Crisis of Dualism, Public Sphere and Integral Yugoslavism at the Turn of Century” at
Slovenian History in the 19th century course (by Prof. Irena Selišnik).
“Western Liberalism and the Creation of Yugoslavia” invited lecture at the Department of History, University of Ljubljana, organized and supported by the Center for Public History.
Publications
Balikić Lucija “Narratives of Rupture in the post-Habsburg Space: The Case of the Interwar Yugoslav Sokol” In: Negotiating Post-Imperial Transitions in East Central Europe, 1914-1930, vol. 4., eds. Elisabeth Haid-Lener, Cody J. Inglis. [forthcoming]
Balikić Lucija “Viktor Murnik, Culture and Physical Exercise, 1929” and “Josip Vilfan, The Congress of European Nationalities and the Peace Problem, 1932” In: Political Transformations in the Interwar Period: The Case of Slovenian Political Thought from Yugoslav and Transnational Perspectives, eds. Isidora Grubački, Marko Zajc. Ljubljana: Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino, 2024. [forthcoming]
Balikić Lucija, “Coming of Age with Crisis: Discourses on the 'National Body' in Youth Organizations of Interwar Hungary and Yugoslavia” In: A Neverending Story? Crisis Discourses in East Central Europe, 1918-2020, eds. Balázs Trencsényi, Lucija Balikić, Isidora Grubački, Una Blagojević. London: Routledge, 2024. [forthcoming]
Balikić, Lucija. “Depoliticizing the Modern Nation: Discourses of Organic Nationhood and Political Socialization in the Interwar Yugoslav Sokol”. Historical Studies on Central Europe, vol. 3, no. 2 (2023), pp. 90-105. https://doi.org/10.47074/HSCE.2023-2.06.
Balikić Lucija, Vojtěch Pojar “'Politics of Plastic Nationhood': Sokol Mass Gymnastics and Eugenics between the Empire and the Nation-States” East Central Europe vol. 50, no. 2-3 (2023), pp. 155-179.
Balikić Lucija, John Paul Newman, Vojtěch Pojar “Introduction: The Sokol Movement between State and Society in Interwar East Central and Southeastern Europe" East Central Europe, vol. 50, no. 2-3 (2023), pp. 143-154.
Balikić Lucija, “The Slavic ‘Other’: Social-Darwinist Portrayal of Germanness within the Interwar Yugoslav Sokol” Danubiana Carpathica. Jahrbuch für die Geschichte und Kultur in den deutschen Siedlungsgebieten Südosteuropas, vol. 60 (2023), pp. 245-272.
Balikić Lucija. Najbolje Namjere: Kako su britanski i francuski intelektualci stvarali Jugoslaviju, [Best Intentions: How the British and French Intellectuals Created Yugoslavia] Zagreb: Srednja Europa, 2022.
Balikić Lucija. “Between Historiographies of Finitude and Appropriation of the Annales School: The 'National Question' in Post-1945 Croatian Intellectual History” Forum Historiae: journal and portal for history and related disciplines, vol. 16, no. 1 (2022), pp. 88-104.
Balikić Lucija “Poletna šola o politični misli v času tranzicije (in o njej) v vzhodni Srednji Evropi, Ljubljana: Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino, 16. - 20. julij 2021” [Summer School about Political Thought at the Times of Transition in East Central Europe] The Contributions to Contemporary History, vol. 61, no. 2 (2021), pp. 235-238.
Balikić Lucija “Stvaranje Jugoslavije 1918. u svjetlu ispreplitanja europskih intelektualnih trendova početkom 20. stoljeća” [Creation of Yugoslavia in 1918. in the light of the European intellectual entanglements at the beginning of 20th century] Radovi Zavoda za hrvasku povijest Filozofskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, vol. 52, no. 1 (2021).
Balikić Lucija, Cristian Vasile. “Diana Mishkova. Beyond Balkanism: The Scholarly Politics of Region Making. London: Routledge, 2019” in East Central Europe, vol. 47, no. 2/3 (2020) 395-409.
Balikić Lucija “Jessie Labov, Transatlantic Central Europe: Contesting Geography and Redefining Culture beyond the Nation (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2019), 230 str.“ Časopis za suvremenu povijest, vol. 52 , no. 2 (2020) 659-663.
Balikić Lucija. “Jugoslavija u istorijskoj perspektivi [“Yugoslavia in the Historical Perspective”], ed. Latinka Perović et al. Belgrade: Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia, 2017”in Pro Tempore: journal of history students, vol. 13 (2019), pp. 197-200.
