SEIM Academic Research (PhD/Dr. Phil.)
SEIM ACADEMIC - a know-how consultancy for innovative interdisciplinary academic research, publishing, and lecturing about politics and contemporary history of the Western Balkans.
Seim received the Dr.Phil. title with the doctoral dissertation “The Road to War in the Bosnian Municipality of Kotor Varoš in 1992 – A Microhistory,” at the University of Vienna in 2023.
Read more about this dissertation and its good peer reviews HERE.
Research profile: Dr. Seim’s interdisciplinary profile and focus on the transformation of Eastern Europe both from wars and from authoritarianism align well with the RECET manifest, as Seim “takes a long-durée perspective on transformations,” put “emphasis on the interdisciplinary connections,” work on “social history,” the impact of multiple temporalities, and “on the connection between macro- and micro-level research.”
See manifest: Research | Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET) [en
SEIM Academic: Lectures, teaching, and research
- SEIM Analytics seeks to transfer interdisciplinary research knowledge to its stakeholders in society and in media, and to advice decision makers, MFAs, organizations/institutions, and regional actors in Southeast and Eastern Europe. This imperative is fostered through participation in academic and political debate both nationally and internationally. It is also supported through the academic and political advisory services offered by SEIM Analytics. To enhance research, SEIM Analytics offers research partnerships and to join academic research consortiums.
Learn about SEIM Analytics' innovative interdisciplinary academic research on Southeast Europe's contemporary history, ethnic conflicts, and post-communist transformations, with lectures and expert advisory services.
SEIM gives lectures and briefings related to the following interdisciplinary research profile and main academic competences:
19th century Habsburg studies: the Military Border (Militärgrenze) in Croatia-Slavonia
19th and 20th century nationalism in Eastern Europe
Communist Yugoslavia and the dissolution processes of Yugoslavia in the 1980-90s
Military history and conflict studies: World War 2, Yugoslavia in the 1990s, Syria in the 2010s, Ukraine from 2014, and ethnic conflict in Myanmar and Sri Lanka
Contemporary politics and transformation processes in South Eastern Europe
Election observation and election analysis, especially in the eastern OSCE area
Oral history, memory studies, microhistory, historical anthropology, political history
Memory politics of the Western Balkans
Research on-demand for clients on any other areas of competence in Eastern Europe and beyond
Examples of public lectures and presentations:
- Presentation of doctoral dissertation (in English) - “The Road to War in the Bosnian Municipality of Kotor Varoš in 1992: A Microhistory. - Research tasks, methodology, challenges, and conclusions” (Center for Southeast European Studies, (CSEES), University of Graz, 26 November 2024).
- Presentation of doctoral dissertation (in Serbian) – “Put ka ratu u bosanskoj opštini Kotor Varoš 1992: Mikroistorija. - Istraživački zadaci, metodologija, izazovi, zaključci i rezime doktorske odbrane” (Philosophical Faculty, University of Banja Luka, 11 June 2024).
- Paper presentation: The muted and stigmatized: A case study of ethnic cleansing of Bosnian Serbs in Herzegovina in 1992. At the “Balkan Express” conference 1-2 December 2017 (Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague).
- Paper presentation: The Bosnian civil war as a constitutive identity event. At the “Balkan Express” conference of the Charles University (Prague, 3-4 June 2016).
-Paper presentation: The Yugoslav Case: Federalism and Nationalism in Kardelj’s Yugoslavia at the CONSIRT-conference "Nationalism and Identity in Cross-national Perspective” (Warsaw, 10-12 December 2012).
- The Historical background to the Kosovo conflict. Holocaust Centre in Oslo, 3 March 2011.
- A two-hour lecture "China and post-communism in Eastern Europe" at East China Normal University in Shanghai on 26 October 2010.
- Croatia and EU: A two-hour paid lecture for a Swedish governmental institution related to Riksdagen, 24 April 2010, Stockholm.
- The Ukrainian presidential elections 2009-10, Case Study Crimea. Presentation for about 30 EU parliamentarians and OSCE/ODIHR (Simferopol, Ukraine, 16 January 2010).
- Der serbische und kroatische Nationalismus in der Geschichte Ungarns des 19. Jahrhunderts. Seminar at Europa Institut in Budapest on 28 February 2003.
Ongoing or future research projects:
For institutions, research consortiums, organization, and individuals: SEIM Analytics seeks cooperation partners and donations/support for conducting further academic research on ex-Yugoslavia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Ukraine through the following research projects:
1. The entity- and “state-building” of Republika Srpska
2. Memory Politics in Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina
3. Rural-urban dimensions of social inequality and cultural-ideological marginalization in pre-war Bosnia and Herzegovina: Exploring the political consequences for the 1990 elections and pre-war nationalist mobilization
4. Improving the analysis of pre-war demographic composition and distribution patterns in Bosnia: Lessons for the territorial concepts applied during the Cutileiro and Dayton negotiations
5. The first multi-party elections in Bosnia in 1990: How it came to the nationalist election victory
6. The ethnic contest for Bosnia in 1991
7. Reassessing the missed opportunities to avoid war in Bosnia: The 1991-92 negotiations
8. Publishing the revised version of the doctoral dissertation (Publication contract signed)
9. Revisiting Anti-Maidan in Donetsk March-May 2014: Before the Storm
10. Anthony Smith’s Theories on Nationalism and The Road to War in Bosnia in 1992.
