Ger DUIJZINGS

Professor Ger Duijzings teaches at the College of Europe in Natolin a course titled "Flow and Friction along the Danube: Globalization and its Local Discontents".

He is Professor of Social Anthropology with special focus on Southeastern and Eastern Europe at the University of Regensburg. Between 1996 and 2014 he was affiliated with the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London. He has extensive fieldwork experience in Kosovo (1986-1992), Bosnia (1997-2002) and Romania (since 2009). He particularly did research on the wars and conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, as well as urban transformations in post-socialist cities. 

Between 1997 and 2002 he was part of the Srebrenica Research Team of the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam, preparing a report on the events in Srebrenica in July 1995 that led to the resignation of the Dutch government in 2002. He also worked for the Leadership Research Team of the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the Hague, between 2002 and 2004. 

His most well-known monograph is Religion and the politics of identity in Kosovo (2000), which was translated into Serbian (2005) and Albanian (2025). His second book History and memory in eastern Bosnia (2002), published in Dutch as part of the NIOD report, provides a local history of Srebrenica leading up to the July 1995 genocide (also available online in the English original). He published several edited and co-edited volumes on diverse topics such as post-war Bosnia (2007), rural and urban transformations in Bulgaria (2013), urban research methodologies (2016), historical trauma and pedagogies of resilience (2022), night shift labor (2022), and car mobility and street life in post-socialist cities (2023). For a list of publications see https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3711-4530

He also developed fruitful collaborations with artists, being interested in documentary film, performance art, sound and artistic research. He was curator of the first Cities Methodologies exhibition at UCL (2009), with input from artists and activists alongside academics. Together with artist Rastko Novaković he made the experimental movie Lebensraum | Living Space (2009), based on his fieldwork diary in the former Yugoslavia during 1992. Since 2022, he is project leader of seeFField, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. 

He taught seminars, summer schools, and documentary film workshops in Amsterdam, Batumi (Georgia), Belgrade, Budapest (CEU), Bucharest (University of Bucharest, USAMV, SNSPA, UNARTE), Câmpulung Muscel (Romania), Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Göttingen (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes), Istanbul (University of Marmara), Konica (Greece), Copenhagen, London (The UCL Urban Documentary Film Workshop), Moscow (Strelka), Munich (LMU, TU), Rijeka (Croatia), Sarajevo (CIPS), Sofia, Sozopol (Bulgaria), Tallinn (Estonia), Tirana and Lukova (Albania).