Dunja Jelenković

University Ca' Foscari, Venice

Dr. Dunja Jelenković is a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Venice, leading the research project CBA TRIESTE, about Italian and Yugoslav cinematic practices related to the Trieste Crisis and the struggle for the northern Adriatic borderland. A scholar working primarily on film festivals and relations between documentary images, history, and memory, she holds a PhD in cultural history from the University Paris Saclay (2017). She has published extensively on political aspects of cultural and film festival programming, most notably in the context of ongoing turbulence, conflict, and war.