{"id":278389,"date":"2025-06-16T06:01:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T06:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/16\/the-students-who-inspired-a-nation\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:08:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:08:06","slug":"the-students-who-inspired-a-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/16\/the-students-who-inspired-a-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"The students who inspired a nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"main-text\">\n<p><iframe title=\"Will autocracy break in Serbia? I Standard Time talk show S2E19\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7Gb5FY0QAX4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For those not too familiar with the internal affairs of Serbia, let me introduce two key players from today\u2019s conversation:<\/p>\n<p>Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107 is a recurring character here. He has been in power in Serbia since 2012 in varying capacities, first as prime minister, later as president, and seems to have concentrated power very effectively. Vu\u010di\u0107 is not only a current-day autocrat, but a great survivor of a previous autocracy: his first major political appointment was as minister of information in 1998, under the Milosevic regime as it waged its genocidal war against its neighbors, known colloquially as the Yugoslav wars.<\/p>\n<p>Vu\u010di\u0107\u2019s current reign has courted controversy from the get-go, and has been a subject of protests practically all along. The violent repression of free speech and political activities are not far from this government, and ballot fraud has been well documented in the country\u2019s previous elections.<\/p>\n<p>Now, crucially, Serbia is not a member of the European Union but has been a candidate for membership since 2012, a process that doesn\u2019t seem to be going anywhere recently, but interestingly, also hasn\u2019t deteriorated, despite the clear democratic erosion. Serbia\u2019s sizable lithium deposits may play a role in this process.<\/p>\n<p>But Serbia also has a strong recent history of protest: famously the Otpor! movement, literally meaning \u2019Resistance\u2019. This movement formed at the same time as Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107 served as minister of information and gradually, incrementally organized political resistance against an even more violent regime in wartime. Today we discuss the legacy of Otpor! and the recent protest movements in Serbia today.<\/p>\n<p>Our guests of today are:<\/p>\n<p><b>Branka \u0106ur\u010di\u0107<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a longtime cultural activist and co-founder of the Group for Conceptual Politics in Novi Sad. She edits the activist platform <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TENANT<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and has led numerous publishing and translation projects in critical theory and contemporary art.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Student protester <\/span><b>Vi\u0161nja Vukajlovi\u0107<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a third-year student of Scene Architecture, Technology, and Design at the Faculty of Technical Sciences in Novi Sad. She is currently one of the students participating in the blockade and strives to stay grounded and maintain a clear perspective throughout it all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Aleksandar Relji\u0107<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a journalist and filmmaker born in Belgrade in 1974, works in the Documentary Department at Radio-Television of Vojvodina. Over his 20-year career, he has focused on documentaries about xenophobia, nationalism, war crimes, and inter-ethnic relations in the former Yugoslavia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Dejan Tomka<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an audio producer, activist, and media creator based in Belgrade, actively participating in the ongoing student-led protests across Serbia\u2014both on the streets and through her online presence. He uses social media and sound to amplify voices calling for truth, justice, and democratic change<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thank you to the Foto Storm Media Podcast Studio for hosting us!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"35mFhkdIT6\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cba.media\/712199\">Standard Time talk show S2E19: The world beyond institutions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201eStandard Time talk show S2E19: The world beyond institutions\u201c \u2013 cba - cultural broadcasting archive\" src=\"https:\/\/cba.media\/712199\/embed#?secret=yiyvburrHJ#?secret=35mFhkdIT6\" data-secret=\"35mFhkdIT6\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"main-text\" class=\"md-h5 copy lh5 serif color-black-80\">\n<h2>Creative team<\/h2>\n<p>R\u00e9ka Kinga Papp anchor<br \/>Daniela Univazo writer-editor<br \/>Merve Akyel\u00a0 art director, Eurozine<br \/>Szilvia Pint\u00e9r producer<br \/>Julia Sobota captions and translations<br \/>Zs\u00f3fia Gabriella Papp digital producer<\/p>\n<h2>Management<\/h2>\n<p>Priyanka Hutschenreiter project manager<br \/>Judit Csik\u00f3s\u00a0 head of finance<br \/>R\u00e9ka Kinga Papp\u00a0 editor-in-chief<br \/>Csilla Nagyn\u00e9 Kardos office administration<\/p>\n<h2>Video Crew<\/h2>\n<p>Gergely \u00c1ron P\u00e1pai DoP<br \/>Bence Bodoky camera<br \/>Istv\u00e1n Nagy sound<\/p>\n<h2>Postproduction<\/h2>\n<p>N\u00f3ra Ruszkai video editor<br \/>Istv\u00e1n Nagy lead video editor<br \/>Mil\u00e1n Golovics dialogue editor<br \/>D\u00e1niel Nagy dialogue editor<\/p>\n<h2>Art<\/h2>\n<p>Victor Maria Lima animation<br \/>Crypt-of-Insomnia theme music<\/p>\n<p><b>Disclosure<\/b><\/p>\n<div id=\"main-text\" class=\"md-h5 copy lh5 serif color-black-80\">\n<p>This talk show is a Display Europe production: a ground-breaking media platform anchored in public values.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31201 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/displaylogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"205\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This programme is co-funded by the European Commission and the European Cultural Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Importantly, the views and opinions expressed here are those of the authors and speakers only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the EACEA can be held responsible for them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30258 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/eu_Ecf_logos-300x74.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/eu_Ecf_logos-300x74.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/eu_Ecf_logos.jpg 437w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"74\"\/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/the-students-who-inspired-a-nation\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-students-who-inspired-a-nation\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] For those not too familiar with the internal affairs of Serbia, let me introduce two key players from today\u2019s conversation: Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107 is a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":278390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}