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Vesna Drapač is an Australian of Croatian background. She was an undergraduate at the University of Adelaide and undertook postgraduate studies as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford where she completed her Doctorate. Her research interests include modern French religious and cultural history, the history of Yugoslavia and the social history of the Second World War. She has a secondary research interest in Australian immigration history. Her publications include the books War and Religion: Catholics in the Churches of Occupied Paris, Constructing Yugoslavia: A Transnational History and, with Gareth Pritchard, Resistance and Collaboration in Hitler's Empire. She is Associate Professor of History at the University of Adelaide.
2017 Drapac, V. (2017). Croatian anti-fascism in the Second World War: an Australian perspective. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 63(2), 163-186.
2015 Drapac, V. (2015). Catholic attitudes to peace and war at the time of the Munich Agreement. French History and Civilization: papers from the George Rude Seminar, 6, 253-266.
2014 Drapac, V. (2014). The devotion of French prisoners of war and requisitioned workers to Thérèse of Lisieux: transcending the ‘Diocese behind Barbed Wire’. Journal of War & Culture Studies, 7(3), 283-296.
2013 Drapac, V. (2013). Recasting the heroic resistance ideal: Robert Bresson’s Un condamné à mort s’est échappé. French Cultural Studies, 24(4), 376-397.
2011 Drapac, V. (2011). Thérèse of Lisieux: the appeal of a French saint at a time of international crisis. French History and Civilization: papers from the George Rude Seminar, 4, 118-132.
2009 Drapac, V. (2009). Women, resistance and the politics of daily life in Hitler's Europe: The case of Yugoslavia in a comparative perspective. Aspasia, 3(1), 55-78.
2009 Drapac, V. (2009). Active citizenship in multicultural Australia: the Croation experience. Humanities Research, 15(1), 49-76.
2005 Drapac, V. (2005). The memory of war and the history of the first Yugoslavia. War & Society, 23(1), 23-41.
2005 Drapac, V. (2005). A king is killed in Marseille: France and Yugoslavia in 1934. French History and Civilization, 1, 226-235.
2005 Drapac, V. (2005). Perceptions of Post-WWII Croatian immigrants: The South Australian case. Croatian Studies Review, 3-4, 27-39.
2003 Drapac, V. (2003). Catholicism, politics and society in twentieth-century France. Journal of Religious History, 27(1), 113-115.
2001 Drapac, V. (2001). The end of Yugoslavia. Contemporary European History, 10(2), 317-331.
1999 Drapac, V. (1999). Bresson's Les Anges du Peche: a Film of No Interest to Historians?. Australian Journal of French Studies, 36(1), 89-100.
1996 Drapac, V. (1996). Religion in a dechristianised world: French Catholic responses to war and occupation. Journal of European Studies, 26(4), 389-416.
2010 Drapac, V. (2010). Constructing Yugoslavia: A transnational history. United Kingdom: Palgrave MacMillan.
1998 Drapac, V. (1998). War and Religion: Catholics in the Churches of Occupied Paris. The Catholic University of America Press.
2017 Drapac, V. (2017). Reimagining the Yugoslav Partisan Epic. In P. Dwyer (Ed.), War Stories: The War Memoir in History and Literature (pp. 168-192). New York: Berghahn.
2014 Drapac, V. (2014). Lessons of History?. In W. Prest (Ed.), Pasts Present: History at Australia's Third University (1 ed., pp. 231-243). Australia: Wakefield Press.
2014 Drapac, V. (2014). Catholic resistance and collaboration in the Second World War: From master narrative to practical application. In Rutar, S (Ed.), Beyond the Balkans: Towards an Inclusive History of Southeastern Europe (1 ed., pp. 279-322). Zurich and Berlin: Lit Verlag.
2011 Drapac, V. (2011). Yugoslav Studies and the East-West Dichotomy. In A. Maxwell (Ed.), The East-West Discourse: Symbolic Geography and its Consequences (1 ed., pp. 93-125). Switzerland: Peter Lang Publishing.
2006 Drapac, V. (2006). Marshal Petain. In Encyclopedia of Modern Christian Politics. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
2006 Drapac, V. (2006). Cardinal Saliege. In Encyclopedia of Modern Christian Politics (pp. 483-484). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
2006 Drapac, V. (2006). Cardinal Baudrillart. In Encyclopedia of Modern Christian Politics (pp. 39). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
2001 Drapac, V. (2001). Croatian Australians Today. In The Australian People: An Encyclopedia of the Nation, Its People and Their Origins (pp. 246-249). Cambridge University Press.
1998 Drapac, V. (1998). British perceptions of "Savage Europe" and the invention of Yugoslavia. In Modern Europe: Histories and Identities (pp. 15-24). Australian Humanities Press.
2007 Drapac, V. (2007). Whatever happened to 'resistance'? Speculation on the demise of the resistance ideal. In P. Aldrich (Ed.), Proceedings of AAEH Sydney 2007 (pp. 313-330). Sydney: University of Sydney.
2004 Drapac, V. (2004). Religion, captivity and the 'resistance myth' in three early films of Robert Bresson. In G. Burgess (Ed.), Revolution, Nation and Memory: Papers from the George Rude Seminar in French History 2002 (pp. 250-263). Tasmania, Hobart: University of Tasmania.
2018 Drapac, V., Dzino, A., Heruc, M., Hrstic, I., Klaric, K., & Sullivan, N. (2018). 'Croatians in South Australia: Community and Identity Since 1945' (No. Of Pieces: Six months) [Curation of an exhibition]. Migration Museum Adelaide.
The undergraduate courses I have developed and convene include Fascism and Natonal Socialism, Reel History: World War II in film, Ethnic Cleansing and Genoicde in World History, and Modern France: From Revolution to Resistance.
Extreme right wing ideologies of the twentieth century and European social movements or parties that claimed to be based on them provide the focus of this course. Broadly, it covers the period 1900-1945. Major themes discussed in lectures and seminars include the intellectual and cultural origins of fascism; political and social dislocation following World War I; Italian fascism, its nature, its appeal and its leaders; the distinguishing features of National Socialism in Germany (notably anti-Semitism and policies of exclusion and repression); social and cultural life in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany (with particular emphasis on young people, women and the Churches); and degrees of cooperation, collaboration and resistance in occupied Europe. We will also discuss the changing perceptions of Fascism over time and current debates on its nature.
The aim of this course is to explore the relationship between the past and its representation on film with particular emphasis on World War II. It takes various themes in the history of the war to examine how film has represented, reconstructed and interpreted the mid-twentieth century crisis. The course compares feature and documentary films with more traditional historical texts and sources in order to chart how filmmakers have approached the war. Why did some aspects of the war draw more attention than others? How did different people address the same subjects? Who has been responsible for shaping our understanding of the war and why was so much invested in its recreation on the screen? Students will address such questions and should complete the course with an understanding of the influence of film on popular perceptions of the war and an awareness of the dynamic process of remembering and forgetting history that is inherent in the production of historical films.
This course will explore the nature of ethnic cleansing and genocide and seek to discover the common historical, political and sociological threads that unite these tragedies. Students will analyse and discuss a series of case studies including, among others: the near extermination of First Nations people by colonisers of the New World, the Armenian genocide, the man-made famine in Ukraine, the Holocaust, the displacement of peoples in the aftermath of the Second World War in Europe and Africa, the Cambodian genocide and the case of ethnic cleansing and genocide during the wars of Yugoslav succession.
The Honours courses I convene include, Resistance and Collaboration in World War II and Living the Second World War in Europe.

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