My upcoming monograph examines theatrical exchange between Spain and the former Yugoslavia, with primary focus on voyage plays. Looking closely at travelling actors, characters, productions (tours), and translations, I demonstrate that there is a connection between on-stage depictions of travel and off-stage memory politics. This work dialogues with what is known as the ‘travelling turn’ in Memory Studies.
Examining works in Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Catalan, Galician, and Slovenian, the book charts thirty years of cultural and mnemonic exchange between the regions, situating these theatrical productions within a long, though often underground, history of collaboration.* Hermes/Mercury, the Greco-Roman traveller god — also on the front page of this website — acts as my guide in connecting these productions, informing what I call the ‘travelling player’.
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My doctorate formed part of the large-scale ARHC-project, ‘Staging Difficult Pasts: Of Narratives, Objects and Public Memory’ led by Bryce Lease (PI), Michal Kobialka (Co-I), and Maria Delgado (Co-I). Through case studies in the UK, Poland, Argentina, Spain, and the Balkans, the project examined how theatres and museums shape public memory of difficult pasts through their staging of narratives and objects. Alongside academic institutions, we collaborated with: Centre for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor (Kraków), Lluís Pasqual and El Solar (Spain), ESMA Museum and Teatro Cervantes (Buenos Aires), Holocaust Research Institute, Jewish Museum London and the Imperial War Museum.
Further details about the project can be found here.
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Founded in North America in 2022 and led by Djordje Popovic (Berkeley) and Bojana Videkanic (Waterloo), the New Yugoslav Studies Association is an ASEEES-affiliated academic organisation that seeks to examine the Yugoslav project, its history, and its culture beyond the lens of the 1990s wars of dissolution.
The NYSA 2025 conference stream at ASEEES in Washington DC featured over 20+ panels and a range of events. The full programme, and further details about the organisation, can be found here.
I am one of the coordinators of the UK branch, which launched in January 2026.
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