# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Dr. Iva Kosmos | Yugoslav travel writers in the Third World
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 20 Jan, 2026 at 01:00 pm
- **Event Description**: We cordially invite you to a lecture as part of the Cultural History module by dr. Iva Kosmos, on Tuesday, 20 January 2026 at 1:00 PM:

Yugoslav travel writers in the Third World: socialist contact zones and the anti-colonial production of knowledge.

In the first part of the lecture, I will provide a brief overview of my Marie Skłodowska-Curie ERA project at the University of Zagreb. I will present the project’s general rationale, scope, research questions and outputs, including a bibliography of Yugoslav travel writing on the Third World. The second part of the lecture will focus on one of the project’s central aims: to shed light on the anti-colonial – as Yugoslavs would have termed it – strategies in travel writing. Yugoslav travel writers were acutely aware that they inherited and naturalized imperial, colonial and orientalist imagery of Africa and Asia shaped by Western European literature, art, media and popular culture. As part of the broader Yugoslav project of establishing partnerships with post-colonial African and Asian states, travel writing emerged as the important discursive space for questioning and negotiating these relationships. Yugoslav travel writers sought to undo and unlearn their preconditioned reactions to and perceptions of Others by incorporating socio-historical education on the Third World countries, class and economic analysis, and constant self-reflection on one’s own production of knowledge. Considering the specific material conditions of Yugoslav travels and its distinct discursive orientation, I argue that these encounters unfolded within a specific socialist “contact zone” (cf. Pratt). Through a case study of travelogues and diary accounts by the Slovenian painter Jože Ciuha from Southeast Asia (Okameneli smehljaj (1963), Potovanje v deseto deželo (1966)) I will demonstrate the possibilities and limitations opened up by socialist contact zones and the perspective they produced.

The lecture will be held in English in the library of the Institute for Cultural and Memory Studies at ZRC SAZU, Trg francoske revolucije 7, 2nd floor, Ljubljana.
 
Iva Kosmos is a cultural studies scholar whose work brings together literary sociology, cultural and memory studies. Her research focuses on Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav literary and cultural production, examining it in relation to broader social, cultural, and political frameworks and contexts. In parallel, she explored the memory narratives of socialist industrial workers. She was a researcher at ZRC SAZU (2017-2024) and currently holds MSCA ERA Fellowship at the University of Zagreb. She has co-edited the monograph Social Impact in Arts and Culture. The Diverse Lives of a Concept (2022) and Stories from the Can: The History of Fish Processing and Canning in the Northeastern Adriatic (in Slovenian and Croatian, 2020).

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Vabimo vas na predavanje v okviru modula Kulturna zgodovina, ki ga bo imela predstavnica modula, dr. Iva Kosmos, v torek, 20. januarja 2026 ob 13. uri z naslovom:

Jugoslovanski potopisci v Tretjem svetu: socialistične kontaktne cone in antikolonialna produkcija znanja.

V prvem delu predavanja bom podala kratek pregled svojega projekta Marie Skłodowska-Curie ERA, ki ga izvajam na Univerzi v Zagrebu. Predstavila bom splošno utemeljitev projekta, raziskovalna vprašanja in rezultate, med drugim bibliografijo jugoslovanskega potopisja. Drugi del predavanja bo osredotočen na enega izmed ključnih ciljev projekta: osvetliti antikolonialne – kot bi rekli Jugoslovani – strategije v potopisnem pisanju. Jugoslovanski potopisci so se dobro zavedali, da so iz zahodnoevropske književnosti, umetnosti, medijev in popularne kulture podedovali in naturalizirali imperialne, kolonialne in orientalizirajoče podobe Afrike in Azije. Istočasno je Jugoslavija kot eno svojih temeljnih državnih usmeritev opredelila povezovanje s postkolonialnimi državami. V tem kontekstu se je potopisje uveljavilo kot pomemben diskurzivni prostor za prevpraševanje preteklih in artikulacijo novih odnosov do Azije in Afrike. Jugoslovanski potopisci so si prizadevali, da ozavestijo in se odučijo že obstoječih evropocentričnih predstav in reakcij, in sicer z nenehnim družbeno-zgodovinskim samo-izobraževanjem, z razredno in ekonomsko analizo ter nenehno samorefleksijo lastne produkcije znanja. Ob upoštevanju specifičnih materialnih pogojev jugoslovanskih potovanj in njihove posebne diskurzivne usmeritve zagovarjam tezo, da so se ta srečanja odvijala v specifični socialistični ”kontaktni coni” (prim. Pratt). Na podlagi študije primera potopisov in dnevniških zapisov slovenskega slikarja Jožeta Ciuhe iz jugovzhodne Azije (Okameneli smehljaj (1963), Potovanje v deseto deželo (1966)) bom pokazala možnosti in omejitve, ki so jih odpirale socialistične kontaktne cone in perspektive, ki so jih proizvajale.

Predavanje bo potekalo v angleškem jeziku v knjižnici Inštituta za kulturne in spominske študije ZRC SAZU, Trg francoske revolucije 7, 2. nadstropje, Ljubljana.

Iva Kosmos je kulturologinja, ki v svojem delu povezuje literarno sociologijo, kulturne in spominske študije. Njeno raziskovanje je usmerjeno v jugoslovansko in postjugoslovansko literarno in kulturno produkcijo, ki jo preučuje v razmerju do širših družbenih, kulturnih in političnih okvirov in kontekstov. Vzporedno se je ukvarjala s spominskimi narativi socialističnih industrijskih delavcev. Med letoma 2017 in 2024 je bila raziskovalka na ZRC SAZU, trenutno pa je nosilka štipendije MSCA ERA na Univerzi v Zagrebu. So-uredila je monografiji Social Impact in Arts and Culture. The Diverse Lives of a Concept (2022) ter Zgodbe iz konzerve: Zgodovine predelave in konzerviranja rib na severovzhodnem Jadranu (v slovenščini in hrvaščini, 2020).

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- **city**: Ljubljana
- **state**: LB
- **country**: Slovenia
- **location**: Trg francoske revolucije 7, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija
- **lat**: 46.04717
- **long**: 14.50367
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