Phone 0114 225 4037
E-mail v.milanovic@shu.ac.uk
After studying molecular biology and genetics at the University of Belgrade and School of Contemporary Dance, I moved to the United Kingdom following the political upheaval in Yugoslavia and completed an MA and MPhil/PhD in dance studies at the University of Surrey, before going on to complete a PhD at the School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies, University of East London.
After some 14 years at University of Surrey I took a new role at Sheffield Hallam University's Materials and Engineering Research Institute as a research fellow and research network co-ordinator for the EPSRC funded Bridging the Gap project, entitled Engineering for Life - Enhancing people's lives. To this role I bring my research experience in number of interdisciplinary projects as well as in international coordination and range of experiences on European Commission funded projects in order to reflect on the research networks and to focus on my original research into creative innovation strategies for research interactions across arts, science and engineering.
Research interests
My main areas of scholarly and artistic interest include interdisciplinary approaches to performance practice and theory, and psychoanalytical theory, volatile identities and bodies.
My own research, which would of course inform my practice, has focused on uncertainties of subjectivity and identity, bodies, belonging, otherness, drawing from feminist theories and contemporary performance practice, and theories of spectatorship. I have also studied and taught in the areas of women and 'resistance performance' (or political theatres of repressed groups), and in critical theory and performance practice using and creating new technologies.
Recent Publications
2012 Artists in War. Leonardo, the Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology. MIT Press
2011 Milanovic,V. Yates,S. Enhancing People’s Lives – Engineering For Life. International Journal of Arts & Sciences,CD-ROM. ISSN: 1944-6934 :: 4(11):143–157
2011 Enhancing People's Lives. International Journal of Arts and Sciences. October 2011
2011 Leonardo, the Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology. MIT Press. Cambridge, MA, USA, Volume 44, Issue 2.
2010 SDHS Dance and Spectacle conference. University of Surrey. 8-11 July (conference proceedings).
2006 Report on the International Committee on Research in Dance (CORD) Conference on Dance and Human Rights. Research in Dance Education. 7(1) Routledge, pp. 117-120.
2008 Extended body and the PORT: Performance Online in Real Time, Proceedings of TEMPUS FLERTUV Conference, Saratov, Russia, Published Print-Club Company, pp 115-122
2006 Baxaeva, N., Milanovic, V. Developing materials for e-learning. Proceedings of the conference Mainstreams of quality improvement in training specialists, Saratov, Russia, pp 72-77.
2005 Place, Memory and Exile, Proceedings of the Conference on Human Rights. Congress of Research on Dance (CORD). Montreal, University Of Quebec, November, pp.93-100
Conferences
2012, April Uncertainty in a framework of interdisciplinary projects. The First International "Science Art" Conference at Lomonosov, Moscow, Russia.
2012, April. On Her Own body as site of memory. HISTORY, MEMORY, PERFORMANCE. Memory, autobiography and testimony. University of Ottawa, Canada
2011 American Society For Theatre Research/ Theatre Library Association 2011 Conference. Economies of Theatre. Montreal, November.
2011 Engineering for Life. International Journal of Arts and Sciences, Harvard, USA, 28 May-2 June
2010 Joint Conference of the American Society For Theatre Research, the Theatre Library Association, and the Congress On Research In Dance. Seattle, USA 18-21 November (working session)
2009 Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics 7th Encuentro: Staging Citizenship in Bogotá, Colombia (August 21-30) (Paper accepted)
2009 SDHS Conference, 32nd annual SDHS conference: Topographies: Sites, Bodies, Technologies - Stanford University in Stanford, California. (Paper accepted)
2009 AHRC Diasporas, Migration and Identities Programme / CRONEM Conference Diasporas, Migration and Identities: Crossing Boundaries, New Directions
11-12 June, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK (Paper accepted)
Ankara. InASEA's 5th international congress on Migration to, from, and in Southeastern Europe: Intercultural Communication, Social Change and Transnational Ties. (Paper accepted)
2008 ASTR, Boston, USA, Re-embodying Exile. Unsettling theatre: migration, map, memory (Paper accepted) 5-6 November.
2008 CORD Conference, Global feminism, Hollins, Virginia (paper accepted) 14-16 November
2007 Re-Embodying the Alienation of Exile. CORD Conference on Dance and Migration, New York City, Columbia University, 8-11 November.
2007 National identity and performing practice in the post (Berlin) Wall Europe on the Balkans. CRONEM: Nationalism and National Identities Today: Multidisciplinary Perspectives 12 - 13 June, University of Surrey.
2006 Feminist Subjectivity: The role of the spectator and performer in dance research. CORD Conference, Arizona State University, USA.
2005 Performing Place and Memory, paper at the 3rd Conference on Urban Life and Culture in Southeast Europe, Belgrade: School of Philosophy. University of Belgrade and International Association for Southeast European Anthropology May.
2005 Place, Memory and Exile, Conference on Human Rights. Congress of Research on Dance CORD, Montreal, University Of Quebec, November, pp.93-111
2004 Body/Memory. Conference on Dance Under Construction Nomadic Spaces International Graduates in Dance. Riverside: University of California.