Speakers 

• Jun.-Prof. Dr. Željana Tunić (Slavic Cultural Studies, University Halle-Wittenberg)

• Prof. Dr. Jürgen Dinkel (A Global History of the Modern Era, 
  University Leipzig)

About

In 2024, the Indonesian embassy in Belgrade celebrated 70 years of diplomatic relations, yet official Serbian rhetoric framed this as a continuous "Serbian–Indonesian" friendship, 
retrospectively overwriting the Yugoslav framework. In the early 1960s, Yugoslavia and Indonesia co‑founded the Non‑Aligned Movement, with Tito and Sukarno 
embodying its decolonizing aspirations, even as early strategic divergences 
emerged. Despite the 1965 anti‑communist turn in Indonesia and the violent dissolution of Yugoslavia, bilateral state relations continued, revealing a pragmatism that often
superseded ideological kinship. Contemporary romanticization of this history serves to obscure ruptures—mass violence, regime changes, and secessions—while enabling selective 
political uses, from Bosnia to Kosovo.Nebojša Đorđević is is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the University of Belgrade. He holds a Magister Humaniora in Cultural Studies 
from Surakarta, Indonesia, as a recipient of the Indonesian government scholarship. His professional experience includes work at the National Gallery of Indonesia in Jakarta and the Indonesian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. His research focuses on Serbian–Indonesian relations, decolonization, and critical whiteness studies.