Maja Vodopivec
Assistant Professor
- Name
- Dr. M. Vodopivec
- Telephone
- +31 70 800 9472
- m.vodopivec@luc.leidenuniv.nl
Maja Vodopivec teaches several courses in Peace and Conflict Studies track of the World Politics major, and a course in Global History track of the Human Diversity major. Her research interest lies in postwar Japanese intellectual history and peace and conflict studies. Extension number: 8372
Biography
Maja Vodopivec has been trained in an interdisciplinary way in Peace and Conflict Studies and Japanese Studies. She received a PhD in Global Studies (Peace and Conflict Studies) from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in 2012, with degrees from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (MA Peace and Conflict Studies) and University of Belgrade (BS in Economics and BA in Japanese Language and Literature). She was a postdoctoral fellow in Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) in 2012-2013. Her research interest lies in postwar Japanese intellectual history and peace and conflict studies. Since 2013 she teaches several courses in Peace and Conflict Studies track of the World Politics major, and a course in Global History track of the Human Diversity major. She convened Global Challenges: Peace and Justice course in the period 2014/15-2016/17.
Academic Expertise
- Peace and Conflict Studies
- Collective Memory
- Systems Thinking
- Japanese intellectual history
Courses
- Global Challenges: Peace and Justice
- Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies
- Conflict and Democracy
- Systems Approaches to Conflict Analysis
- The Politics of Memory
- (In the past: Introduction to Area Studies)
Assistant Professor
- Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
- Leiden University College
Work address
Anna van BuerenpleinAnna van Buerenplein 301
2595 DG The Hague
Room number 4.07
Contact
- Vodopivec M. (2023), The ambiguous status of Eastern Europe and the criminalization of communism in Europe. In: Sakai N., Solomon J. & Button P. (Eds.), Knowledge production and epistemic decolonization at the end of Pax Americana. Oxon: Routledge.
- Vodopivec M. (2022), The colonial origins of the conflicts in Ireland and Korea. In: Kim D.J. & Mitchell D. (Eds.), Reconciling divided states: peace processes in Ireland and Korea. Oxon: Routledge.
- Vodopivec M. (2022), The colonial origins of the conflicts in Ireland and Korea. In: Dong Jin K. & David M. (Eds.), Reconciling divided states: peace processes in Ireland and Korea. Oxon: Routledge. 21-41.
- Vodopivec M. (2021), Women, war and violence in international relations: on exclusive narrative of victimhood in case studies of South Korean “Comfort women” and Bosnian “Mothers of Srebrenica”, Quadrante 23: 87-100.
- Vodopivec M. (2020), How do the Past, Present, and Future Interact in post-3.11 Japan? Examining Urban Utopia in the SF Manga Coppelion. In: Bagchi B. (Ed.), Urban Utopias: Memory, Rights and Speculation: Jadavpur University Press.
- Vodopivec M. (2020), How do the Past, Present, and Future Interact in post-3.11 Japan? Examining Urban Utopia in the SF Manga Coppelion. In: Bagchi B. (Ed.), Urban Utopias: Memory, Rights and Speculation: Jadavpur University Press.
- Vodopivec M. (2020), Decision needed at a historic crossroads. In: Kim H. & Yi K. (Eds.), The April revolution and the power of Civili Society. Seoul: Ganbuk-gu. 171-178.
- Vodopivec M. (2013), “The Pacific War” in Global Challenges: Peace and War,, ed. Lucie Cerna and Yih-Jye Hwan,. Brill-Nijhoff Writing Institute, Leiden University, The Hague.
- Vodopivec M. (2013), "Remembering Bruce Lee in Post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina". Revue de la pensée d'aujourd'hui (Gendai Shisou). Vol. 41-13 (October). 150-154, : .
- Vodopivec M. (2012), “On Possibility of the Postwar Knowledge – Continuities and Discontinuities in the Thought of Kato Shuichi”, Quadrante 14: 101-138.
- Vodopivec M. (2012), “View of Islam in Japanese Post-war Thought”. In Transcending borders, Networks and Identities in the Middle East and Muslim Societies, Organized and Sponsored by:“Conflict, Collapsed State and Social Movements in the Contemporary Asia and Middle East”, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for Promotion of Science. “Global COE Program: “In Search of Sustainable Humanosphere in Asia and Africa”Center for Islamic Area Studies at Kyoto University (KIAS). [design].
- Vodopivec M. (2012), Rereading Katō Shūichi: Japan's Modernity from 'Honyaku-' to 'Zasshu-bunka' and the Possibility of the Postwar Enlightenment Thought, Proceedings of the Papers CAAS 3rd International Conference at SOAS. CAAS 3rd International Conference at SOAS. Tokyo: Consortium for Asian and African Stusies. 145-160.
- Vodopivec M. (2011), “Rereading Shuichi Kato’s Travelogue from Uzbekistan, Croatia and Kerala”, Quadrante Vol.12/13, Institute of Foreign Affairs, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, : .
- Vodopivec M. (2011) “Future of Nostalgia” by Svetlana Boym and “Balkan Blues” by Dubravka Ugresic, Pieria, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies . Review of: .
- Vodopivec M. (2011), “Rereading Kato Shuichi – Travel as Unfinished Modernity Site”, Gengo-chiiki bunka kenkyu Vol.17, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, : .
- Vodopivec M. (2009) Edward SAID Continuing the Conversation by Homi K.BHABBA, W.J.T.Mitchell (Ed.), Trans.by UEMURA Tadao, YAGI Kumiko, AWAYA Toshie, Trans-Cultural Studies (Sogo bunka kenkyu) Vol 13, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Institute for trans-cultural studies 174~5,Tokyo. Review of: .
- Vodopivec M. (2009) Edward SAID Continuing the Conversation by Homi K.BHABBA, W.J.T.Mitchell (Ed.), Trans.by UEMURA Tadao, YAGI Kumiko, AWAYA Toshie, Trans-Cultural Studies (Sogo bunka kenkyu) Vol 13, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Institute for trans-cultural studies 174~5,Tokyo. Review of: .