While nationalism has mainly been recognized – and researched – as one of the most influential ideologies of modern times, its connection with morality and sexual norms started to receive attention relatively recently. In Europe, this phenomenon has taken root at different paces and scales, marking the continent's political cultures and multiple identities.   

How is a national discourse constructed? How does it intersect with human life's social, private and political dimensions?  

Focusing on the Western Balkans experience, Chiara Maria Murgia (IDM) discusses these with Elissa Helms, Associate Professor at the Central European University. 

Our guest recommendation:   

Maja Bajević's performance, Dressed Up, 1999  

Jasmila Žbanić's movies: Grbavica, 2006; For Those Who Can Tell No Tales, 2013; Quo Vadis, Aida? 2020  

References mentioned in the program:   

Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 1983  

Dubravka Zarkov, The Body of War: Media, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Break-up of Yugoslavia, 2007  

Elissa Helms, Innocence and Victimhood: Gender, Nation, and Women's Activism in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2013  

Guest: Dr Elissa Helms, Associate Professor at the Central European University.   

Host: Chiara Maria Murgia, Project Assistant at IDM  

Production and editing: Emma Hontebeyrie, Research Associate at IDM 

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