Distinguished Historian Ivo Banac speaks at AUK
The latest speaker on the series of History Seminars at AUK was Dr. Ivo Banac, a renowned historian of the former Yugoslavia.
The title of his lecture held at the AUK History Seminar was titled “The Evolution of Yugoslav Communist Ideology on Matters of Federal Structure and National Identity” where he elaborated about some of the concepts he has covered in his previous publications and also mirrored them with the current events in the Balkans.
Dr. Banac’s academic work includes writing on nations and nationalism in the former Yugoslavia and Eastern Europe, relations between former Yugoslavia and the USSR, national question in the former Yugoslavia, History of Croatia, and History of Bosnia etc. Among numerous authored and co-authored work, some of the most important books of Dr. Ivo Banac include:
- With Stalin against Tito: Cominformist splits in Yugoslav Communism-1988
- The national question in Yugoslavia’s formative period, 1918-1921-1979
- The national question in Yugoslavia-1994
- Post-Yugoslav realities: state and ethnicity-1996
- The weight of false history
- Multikulturalni identitet Bosne i Hercegovine 8. Raspad Jugoslavije: eseji o nacionalizmu i nacionalnim sukobima
He has recently returned to Croatia after serving as Bradford Durfee Professor of History and Director of the Council on European Studies at Yale University. Currently, he teaches at the Department of History of the University of Zagreb.
