The Centre is home to Irish Research Council scholar Sven Milekic whose work focuses on Croatia and the Balkans. Sven’s recent contributions to public conversations on the history of modern Europe include a piece for RTE Brainstorm examining historical revisionism within Croatia’s mainstream media https://www.rte.ie/eile/brainstorm/2019/0115/1023355-croatias-media-and-the-problem-with-historical-revisionism/ and another for Balkan Insight on the same theme https://balkaninsight.com/2018/10/30/why-does-croatian-media-give-revisionists-a-platform-10-29-2018/
Sven has also published a conversation with Max Bergholz on the topic of violence as a generative force in the Balkans https://balkaninsight.com/2019/01/16/wwii-massacres-in-bosnia-how-violence-transforms-communities-01-11-20191/ and a personal reflection on his grandfather’s experience of the Holocaust https://balkaninsight.com/2018/11/02/my-grandfather-s-holocaust-survival-defined-him-and-me-10-31-2018/
Sven’s work on Croatian veterans of the 1990s Balkan wars is supervised by Dr. John Paul Newman (Department of History).
