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CSEES Graduate Student Lecture: Belgrade Becomes Paradise for Foreign Entrepreneurs
The Center for Slavic and East European Studies (CSEES)
is pleased to announce
Budimka Uskokovic
PhD candidate and Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in
East European and Eurasian Studies,
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
will present the first of our 2021 Spring Semester Graduate Student Lectures
In this lecture, Budimka will explore how Serbia, in particular Belgrade, has recently become a tourist paradise for many foreigners, even though its turbulent past can still be traced in everyday life of its citizens. During her lecture she will consider the following questions: why are foreign people attracted to this city? What does the capital of Serbia have to offer? Her lecture will be based on ethnographic narratives of young people in social media who decided to either move to Serbia or to visit it for a prolonged period of time and will show how they create a new image of Serbia in the world. She will also show what improvements have been made by the government to guarantee young entrepreneurs a stable future and how goals are being met amid COVID-19.