{"id":45455,"date":"2025-03-25T21:53:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T21:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=45455"},"modified":"2025-03-25T21:54:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T21:54:40","slug":"online-discussion-understanding-the-march-15-protests-and-state-repression-in-serbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=45455","title":{"rendered":"Online Discussion: Understanding the March 15 Protests and State Repression in Serbia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Saturday, March 15, 2025, Serbia witnessed the largest anti-government protest in its history, with several hundred thousand people rallying in support of a student-led movement that has persisted for nearly four months. The demonstration took a dramatic turn when a 15-minute silent vigilwas disrupted by an unusual and alarming noise, triggering abriet stampede.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many protesters and independent observers suspect the use of a sonic weapon\u00a0to\u00a0disperse\u00a0the crowd\u00a0 -an\u00a0allegation\u00a0the\u00a0authorities\u00a0have\u00a0denied while announcing legal action against\u00a0those accused of spreading\u00a0&#8220;disinformation.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Marko&nbsp;Kmezi\u0107 <\/strong>(CSEES,&nbsp;University&nbsp;of&nbsp;Graz)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jelena&nbsp;Kleut&nbsp;<\/strong>(Faculty of Philosophy,&nbsp;University of Novi&nbsp;Sad)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jelena&nbsp;Lon\u010dar&nbsp;<\/strong>(Faculty&nbsp;of&nbsp;Political Sciences, University of&nbsp;Belgrade)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Luka&nbsp;Glu\u0161ac&nbsp;<\/strong>(IFDT, University of Belgrade)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Moderated&nbsp;by&nbsp;Vedran&nbsp;D\u017eihi\u0107 <\/strong>(OIIP\u00ad&nbsp;Austrian Institute&nbsp;for&nbsp;International&nbsp;Affairs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"860\" height=\"632\" data-attachment-id=\"45456\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?attachment_id=45456\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/csm_Marko_Event.jpg?fit=1000%2C735&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1000,735\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"csm_Marko_Event\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/csm_Marko_Event.jpg?fit=860%2C632&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/csm_Marko_Event.jpg?resize=860%2C632&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/csm_Marko_Event.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/csm_Marko_Event.jpg?resize=300%2C221&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/csm_Marko_Event.jpg?resize=768%2C564&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>26.03.2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18:00 &#8211; 22:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OIIP\u00ad Austrian Institute for International Affairs &amp; Zentrum f\u00fcr S\u00fcdosteuropastudien<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zoom<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/suedosteuropa.uni-graz.at\/de\/veranstaltungen\/online-discussion-understanding-the-march-15-protests-and-state-repression-in-serbia\">https:\/\/suedosteuropa.uni-graz.at\/de\/veranstaltungen\/online-discussion-understanding-the-march-15-protests-and-state-repression-in-serbia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/csm_Marko_Event.jpg?fit=1000%2C735&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45458,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45455\/revisions\/45458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}