Maja Vasiljević

Maja Vasiljevic (1980),  PhD sociologist and MA musicologist, working as Research Fellow at the Faculty of Philosophy in University of Belgrade, Department of History from 2011. As of 2003, active Music Critic and Broadcaster at the Radio Belgrade 2 and Expert consultant for history issues at the Department of Culture and Education Programme on National Radio Television of Serbia. She published papers on different topics: film music, SFRY, Cold War, Jewish community from Ottoman Empire to Holocaust, racism, gender and minority politics in occupied Belgrade in WWII, social movements, the Great War. Her PhD in sociology (2020) is focused on music and musicians in Belgrade during the WWII and relations between practices of music and discourse on biopolitics of Michel Foucault and studies of holocaust. From 2012 she is a secretary of scientific journal "Limes plus" for Social Sciences and Humanities, and from 2015 of journal "Acta historiae medicinae, stomatologiae, pharamaciae, veterinae". She is an active member and researcher in numerous institutions: New Balkans Institute (NBI), Centre for Popular Music Research and Scientific Society for History of Health Culture Belgrade. Her first book "Filmska muzika u SFRJ: Između politike i poetike" (Film music in SFRY: Between Politics and poetics) was published in 2016. Recently, she is also interested in writing of film scripts, and documentaries.