Petar Ćurčić, MA

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Petar Ćurčić, MA

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Biography

Petar S. Ćurčić, MA, research associate, graduate and master historian. He is currently a
doctoral student at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. As an excellent student
(with an average grade of 9.97/10.00 in undergraduate studies and 10.00/10.00 in master’s
studies), he was a long-term scholarship holder of the Ministry of Education, Science and
Technological Development and the Ministry of Istrian Sports. Fund for young talents
(“Dositeja” scholarship).


In 2021, Petar Ćurčić started working as a research trainee at the Institute for European
Studies, and in 2023 he was promoted to the position of research associate. His main research
interests are: political history of Germany and Central Europe, foreign and security policy of FR
Germany, political system of FR Germany, international relations, geoeconomics, studies of
capitalism, history of ideas, theory and phenomenology of historiography. He is the author of
several works on these topics. His articles have been published in scientific journals and book
chapters.

Also, he was a participant in several different seminars at the Petnica Research Station,
where he attended the History Seminar (from 2012 to 2016), and as an external associate he was
engaged in the activities of the Mihajlo Pupin Regional Talent Center from Pancevo.

 

Employment

  • 2020-today PhD studies, Modern History, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade (ongoing)
  • 2019-2020 – Master of Arts, Modern History, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia (M.A. thesis: “Josip Frank – political biography (1880-1911)”)
  • 2015-2019 – Bachelor of Arts, History, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia

Education

2020-today PhD studies, Modern History, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
(ongoing)
2019-2020 – Master of Arts, Modern History, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade,
Serbia (M.A. thesis: “Josip Frank – political biography (1880-1911)”)
2015-2019 – Bachelor of Arts, History, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia

Current Research and Research Ambition

  • Political history of Germany and Central Europe
  • Foreign and security policy of the SR of Germany
  • Political system of FR Germany
  • International relations
  • Geoeconomics
  • Capitalism Studies
  • History of ideas
  • Theory and phenomenology of historiography

Complete List of Publications of Petar S. Ćurčić

А) Journal Articles

  • Petar S. Ćurčić, ,, Sombart’s History of Capitalism and Contemporary World, Global and Transnational History: Similarities and Differences’’, Matica Srpska Social Sciences Quarterly LXXV 189-1 (2024), pp. 1-13. https://doi.org/10.2298/ZMSDN2489001C (Written in Serbian)
  • Goran Nikolić, Jelena Zvezdanović Lobanova, Petar S. Ćurčić, ,, Are The West and China moving towards Mutually Assured Economic Destruction?’’, European Legislation 23/85 (2024), pp. 34-51. https://doi.org/10.18485/iipe_ez.2024.23.85.2 (Written in Serbian)
  • Petar S. Ćurčić, ,, World and Global History”, Culture 180 (2023), 27-52. https://doi.org/10.5937/kultura2380027c (Written in Serbian)
  • Mihael T. Antolović, Petar S. Ćurčić, ,, The Serbian and Yugoslav Reception of Werner Sombart (1895-2022)”, Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology 18-1 (2023), pp. 285–304. https://doi.org/10.21301/eap.v18i1.12 (Written in Serbian)
  • Goran Nikolić, Petar S. Ćurčić, „Prospects of the EU Economy in the Circumstances of the Termination of Economic Connections with Russia and the Beginning of the Decoupling of the West and China“, European Legislation 22/81-82 (2023), pp. 61-79. https://doi.org/10.18485/iipe_ez.2023.22.81_82.4 (Written in Serbian)
  • Goran Nikolić, Petar Ćurčić, „What will decide the Winner of the New Cold War?“, Nacionalni interes 2 (2022), pp. 149-169. https://doi.org/10.22182/ni.4222022.8 (Written in Serbian)
  • Petar S. Ćurčić, Goran Nikolić, „Violence as Social Phenomenon“, Culture of Polis Vol. 19 No. 2 (2022), pp. 1-18. https://doi.org/10.51738/Kpolisa2022.19.2p.1cn (Written both in Serbian and English)
  • Petar Ćurčić, „Germany in Multipolar World and Serbia’s Strategic Options“, Vojno delo 4 (2022), pp. I/1- 14. https://doi.org/10.5937/vojdelo2204001C (Written both in Serbian and English)
  • Petar S. Ćurčić, „Slika Josipa Franka u hrvatskoj istoriografiji i publicistici: pregled dosadašnjih interpretacija“, Istorija XX veka XL-1 (2022), pp. 213-232. https://doi.org/10.29362/ist20veka.2022.1.cur.213-232 (Written in Serbian)
  • Petar Ćurčić, „Contribution to the study of the problems of foreign trade of companies in the area of ​​today’s Vojvodina during the thirties and forties of the XX century based on the structure of the Association of Industrialists from Novi Sad“, Yearbook of the Historical Archive of the City of Novi Sad 13 (2019), pp. 128-139. (Written in Serbian)
  • Petar Ćurčić, „Agrarian cooperatives on the territory of the Novi Sad County between the two World Wars“, Yearbook of the Historical Archive of the City of Novi Sad 9 (2015), pp. 189-205. (Written in Serbian)

B) Book Chapters

  • Petar S. Ćurčić, ,,Historiography and woke: between a possible emancipatory function and one of the fronts of the cultural wars’’, in: Mihael Antolović, Slobodan Sadžakov (ed.), ,, What can [change] the social sciences in the 21st century?’’, Sombor: Faculty of Education, 2024, pp. 151-166. (Written in Serbian)
  • Petar S. Ćurčić, ,, The German Left and the 2024 elections: continuation of the decline or the beginning of the rise?’’, in: Nenad Spasojević, Andrea Matijević (ed.), ,, Perspectives of political sciences in Contemporary Society II’’, Beograd: Institute for Political Studies, 2024, pp. 299-321.
  • https://doi.org/10.18485/ppnsd.2024.2.ch13 (Written in Serbian)
  • Petar S. Ćurčić, ,,Yugoslavia, the Weimar Republic and Spain – a simultaneous path in the decline of democracy (similarities and differences)”, in: Rajko Petrović (ed.), ,,Yugoslav-Spanish Parallels”, Belgrade: Institute of European Studies, 2023, pp. 149-175. (Written in Serbian)
  • Petar S. Ćurčić, ,, Travel writers from German countries about the Principality and Kingdom of Serbia ”, in: Slobodan G. Marković (ed.), ,, Cultural Transfer between Europe and Serbia in the 19th century”, Belgrade: Institute of European Studies, Dosije studio, 2023, pp. 239-271. https://doi.org/10.18485/fpn_ctes_xix.2023.ch8 (Written in Serbian)
  • Sofija Skuban, Petar Ćurčić, „Totalitarianism in Harold Pinter’s Early Plays: Literary and Social Theoretical Aspects“, in: Paunović, Zoran, Milanović Željko (ed.), ,,Sixth International Interdisciplinary Conference of Young Scientists of Social Sciences and Humanities Contexts’’, Novi Sad: University of Novi Sad, 2023, pp. 29-43. (Written in Serbian)
  • Petar Ćurčić, ,,Virtual Clio: Historical Culture in the Digital Age“, in: Štrangarić, Snežana, Cvijetić, Marija, Šumonja, Miloš (ed.), ,,Digital media, culture and education: contexts, meanings, application’’, Sombor: Faculty of Education, 2022, pp. 51-65. (Written in Serbian)

Book Reviews

  • Petar S. Ćurčić, ,,Are conservatism and capitalism on friendly terms? Dušan Dostanić and Aleksandar Novaković, eds. 2022. Conservatism and Capitalism. An Unease Dialogue? Belgrade: Institute for Political Studies, 135 p.’’, Serbian Political Thought 3 (2024), pp. 199-205. https://doi.org/10.5937/spm85-49260 (Written in Serbian)
  • Petar S. Ćurčić, ,, Freud, Eros and Thanatos, One Hundred Years Later. Slobodan G. Marković & Žarko Trebješanin, ed. ΨA and Culture ΙΙI, Eros and Thanatos, Belgrade: Faculty of Political Sciences and Institute for European Studies, 2023.’’, Political Life 26 (2024), pp. 121-126. (Written in Serbian)
  • Petar S. Ćurčić, ,,How important is the French Revolution to us today?? (Dušan Dostanić and Aleksandar Novaković /ed./ The Never-Ending Revolution, Philosophical and Historiographic Reflections on the French Revolution and its Legacy. Institute for Political Studies, Belgrade 2023; 249 p.) “, Matica srpska Social Sciences Quarterly LXXV 189-1 (2024), pp. 117-120. (Written in Serbian)
  • Petar S. Ćurčić, ,,Europe in Discord: Social Conflict and Political Upheaval in Europe’s Past and Present.Jürgen Neyer, Europa im Unfrieden. Soziale konflikte und politische Umwälzungen in der europäischen Geschichte und Gegenwart, Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2023. ISBN 978-3-8376-6506-2“ , Serbian Review of European Studies II-3 (2023), pp. 77–88. https://doi.org/10.18485/sres.2023.2.3.4 (Written both in Serbian and English)
  • Petar S. Ćurčić, „Cultural Transfer Europe-Serbia: Methodological Issues and Challenges, ed. Slobodan G. Markovich. Belgrade: FPN – Dosije Studio, 2023, 276.”. Tokovi istorije XXXI-3 (2023), 333-337.
  • Petar S. Ćurčić, „Jirgen Osterhamel, Preobražaj sveta, Novi Sad, Akademska knjiga, 2022, 1165.”, Istorija XX veka 41-2 (2023), str. 542-544.
  • Petar S. Ćurčić, „Frank Biess. Republik der Angst. Eine andere Geschichte der Bundesrepublik. Rowohlt: Reinbek bei Hamburg, 2019, 624.”, Tokovi istorije XXX-2 (2022), str. 361-364.
  • Petar S. Ćurčić, „Veljko Blagojević: Moć i sila – Srbija i vojni faktor u međunarodnoj politici Institut za strategijska istraživanja, 2021”, Kultura polisa 19-3 (2022), str. 225–230.
  • Petar S. Ćurčić, „Freemasonry in Southeast Europe from the 19th to the 21st Centuries, Ed., Slobodan G. Markovich. Belgrade: Institute of European Studies and Zepter Book World, 2020, 315 p.”, Balcanica LIII (2022), 348-350.
  • Petar S. Ćurčić, „Georg G. Iggers, Od istorizma do postmodernizma: Izabrani istoriografski ogledi, Novi Sad, Akademska knjiga, 2019.“, Istorija XX veka 40-1 (2022), str. 253-255.
  • Petar S. Ćurčić, „U traganju za istorijom Homo academicus-a. Mihael Antolović, Čedomir Popov: intelektualna biografija, Novi Sad: Matica srpska 2021.“, Zbornik Matice srpske za društvene nauke 182-2 (2022), str. 339-341.
  • Petar S. Ćurčić, „Nebojša Vladisavlјević. Antibirokratska revolucija. Beograd: Arhipelag, 2020, 297.“, Tokovi istorije XXIX-2 (2021), str. 298-301.
  • Petar S. Ćurčić, ,,Suočavanje Evrope sa njenom kolonijalnom prošlošću, ur. Danilo Babić, Rajko Petrović, Jelena Vićentić, Beograd: Institut za evropske studije, 2021”, Zbornik MS za društvene nauke 179-3 (2021), str. 491-494.
  • Petar Ćurčić, „Predrag Vajagić, Banovi Dunavske banovine, Akademska knjiga Novi Sad – Društvo nastavnika istorije Bačke Palanke, Novi Sad 2016, 361 str.“ Godišnjak Istorijskog arhiva grada Novog Sada 12 (2018), str. 239-244.
  • Petar S. Ćurčić, ,,Hazoni, Joram. 2021. Vrlina nacionalizma. Beograd: Clio – Institut za evropske studije, 273 str.” Srpska politička misao 3 (2021), str. 252-256.

Conferences

  • ,,The economy of Portugal and economic relations with Germany in the 21st century: chances for development in the age of crisis“, Portugal today – views from Serbia, Institute for European Studies, Belgrade, Serbia 27. June 2024.
  • My Hero Your Enemy: Historical Narratives in National Identity Building in the CEE and SEE Region, International Visegrad Fund & Institute for Modern Development, Prague, Czech Republic, 18-20. June 2024.
  • ,,Conservative Political Realism in Historical Practice: Leopold von Ranke’s Interpretation of Nation-Building in Serbian and Brandenburg-Prussian Case“, Nations and Nationalisms 2.0: Theories, Practices and Methods International Postgraduate Conference, Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom, 5-6. June 2024.
  • ,,Jews, the Modern State and the Capitalism: Re-examination of Werner Sombart’s theory“, Religion State and Nationality in Modern Jewish Intellectual History and Herzl’s Political Thought, Országos Rabbiképző – Zsidó Egyetem & Ludovika University of Public Service-Nemzeti Közszolgálati Egyetem, Budapest, Hungary 3. June 2024.
  • ,,State, national interest and understanding of international relations in the magazine Nedeljni pregled (1908–1910): Conservative view“, Concepts of nationalism and patriotism in the Serbian political discourse – the middle ages, the new century, the modern era, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, 30-31. May 2024.
  • My Hero Your Enemy: Historical Narratives in National Identity Building in the CEE and SEE Region, International Visegrad Fund & Institute for Modern Development, Ohrid, North Macedonia, 16-18. April 2024.
  • ,,Homo modernus in Fritz Lang’s film Metropolis: analysis from the point of view of Werner Sombart’s theory of capitalism”, Conference Anthropology of Literature, Art and Media, Department of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade, 22-23. December 2023.
  • ,,The German Left (Die Linkspartei) and the 2024 elections: continuation of the decline or the beginning of the rise? ”, Conference Perspectives of Political Sciences in Contemporary Society II, Institute for Political Studies, Belgrade, 07-08 December 2023.
  • ,,World War II, Christianity and the Culture of Remembrance: a comparative overview of the European experience”, Conference on the occasion of 80 years of war crime in Ležimir Ležimir – Glina – Prebilovci, Serbian Orthodox Church – Diocese of Srem, Sremska Mitrovica, 18-19. November 2023
  • ,,Historiography and woke: between a possible emancipatory function and one of the fronts of cultural wars”, Conference What can [change] social sciences in the 21st century?, Faculty of Pedagogy University of Novi Sad, Sombor, 23.9.2023.
  • ,,German influences on interwar sociological and economic thought”, Conference Cultural transfer of Europe-Serbia in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade, Belgrade, 30.6.2023. (Conference Presentation)
  • ,,Yugoslavia, the Weimar Republic and Spain – a simultaneous path in the decline of democracy (similarities and differences) ”, Conference Yugoslav-Spanish Parallels: Between Misconceptions and Reality, Institute of European Studies, Belgrade, 29 June 2023 (Conference Presentation)
  • ,,Economic Aspects of the coming multilateral Order”, Conference Multipolarism and/or Great Confusion: Flows Transformation of the Modern International System, Institute of European Studies- University of Belgrade, Faculty of Security Studies, Belgrade, 1.12.2022. (Conference Presentation, Co-autorship with Goran Nikolić)
  • ,,Travel writers from German countries about the Principality and Kingdom of Serbia”, Conference Cultural Transfer Europe-Serbia from the 19th to the 21st Century – CTES, Institute of European Studies, Belgrade, 30.11.2022. (Conference Presentation)
  • ,,Virtual Clio: Historical Culture in the Digital Age”, Conference Digital Media, Culture and Education: Contexts, Meanings, Application, University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Education, Sombor, 24.9.2022. (Conference Presentation)
  • ,,Germany in the Multipolar World and Serbia’s Strategic Options’’, Conference Neutrality and Deterrence, University of Defence, Belgrade, Serbia, 6.4.2022. (Conference Presentation)
  • ,,Totalitarianism in Harold Pinter’s Early Plays: Literary and Social Theoretical Aspects ”, Conference Konteksti 2021: International Interdisciplinary Conference for Young Scholars in Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Philosophy, Novi Sad, 1.12.2021. (Conference Presentation, Co-autorship with Sofija Skuban)

Round Tables, Seminars, Lectures

  • ,,Kajica Milanov, Calculation. Principles and reasons”, Institute for European Studies, Belgrade, Serbia, 20.6.2024. (seminar presentation)
  • “The Truth about the Economic Basis of the Croatian Question by Rudolf Bićanić” (edited by Boško Mijatović)”, Institut za evropske studije – Akademska knjiga, Belgrade, Serbia, 16.1.2023. (Book Promotion)
  • ,,Seminar-discussion on the occasion of the project “Rediscovering New Europe”: On-Wheels Summer School for Balkan/Central and Eastern European trans-border history and politics (ReNewEurope)”, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Political Sciences, 28.12.2022. (Seminar)
  • ,,Jürgen Osterhammel, The Transformation of the World”, Matica srpska – Akademska knjiga, Novi Sad, Srbija, 24.11.2022. (Book Promotion)
  • ,,Aleksandar Gajić The Cross and the Circle”,Institute of European Studies, Belgrade, 1.11.2022. (Book Promotion)
  • ,,Study after Bologna – Focus on the topic of environmental protection”, Institute of European Studies- University of Osjek, Faculty of Law- Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung, Belgrade, 27. 9. 2022. (Round Table Speech)
  • ,,Presentation of the journal Serbian Review for European Studies”, Institute of European Studies, Belgrade, 12.9.2022. (Presentation)
  • ,,Čedomir Popov – Intellectual Biography”, Institute of European Studies, Belgrade, 26.4.2022. (Book Promotion)
  • ,,Contemporary challenges in international relations. From the Ukrainian to the Iranian crisis”, Institute of European Studies- Gymnasium Smederevo, Smederevo, 14.10.2022. (Round Table)
  • ,,Federal Elections in Germany”, Belgrade Open School, Belgrade, Serbia, 29.10.2021. (Round Table Speech)
  • ,,Election campaign for the 20th convocation of the Bundestag of the FR Germany ”, Institute of European Studies, Belgrade, 23.9.2021. (Round Table Speech)
  • ,,Croatia and Slavonia in the second half of 19th and first decade of 20th century: society and politics”, Petnica Science Center, Department of Social Sciences, Petnica-Valjevo, 23-25. 8.2021. (Lecture and Seminar)
  • ,,Belle Époque: Lights and shadows”, Regional Centre for Talents, Pančevo, 23.3. 2019. (Lecture)

Professional Engagement

  • from 2022: Serbian Review of European Studies (ISSN 2955-9286) – editorial secretary

Membership in Scientific Organizations

  • from 2024 – Matica srpska (associate member)
  • from 2023: International Political Science Association (IPSA), Montreal (Canada)

Language Skills

  • Mother tongue: Serbian
  • Fluent: English, German
  • Intermediate: Chinese
  • Beginner: French