Yugoslavia’s violent breakup in the early 1990s was followed by a renewed attention for the history of the country that had disappeared from geographical maps. Scholarship has either emphasized the uniqueness of the Yugoslav political project or inserted it into a wider framework of Eastern European area studies. This presentation aims to challenge this view by re-positioning Yugoslavia in Southern Europe and arguing that historiography on Yugoslavia would benefit from a comparison with other Mediterranean countries. From the early 1960s on, Italy and Yugoslavia, two countries divided by conflicting territorial claims and the memory of traumatic events occurred in the … Continue reading “Tea party” with Francesca Rolandi: Pop culture and humanitarian aid as means of rapprochement