Visit of Professor Dr. Jenet Steele from the School of Media and Public Affairs at the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, George Washington University, Washington D.C.

On Friday, July 26, 2024, Professor Dr. Jenet Steele from the School of Media and Public Affairs at the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, George Washington University in Washington, D.C., visited the Archives of Yugoslavia.

Dr. Steele, who holds a PhD in History from Johns Hopkins University, specializes in the study of how culture is communicated through mass media, with a particular focus on Indonesia and Southeast Asia. She is a recipient of three Fulbright scholarships (two for Indonesia and one for Serbia). Her research has focused on Yugoslav-Indonesian relations and the Non-Aligned Movement.

During her visit to the Archives of Yugoslavia, Dr. Steele was accompanied by Mr. Joseph Arjono, a retired official from the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia, and Ms. Pien Astuti Rahayu Đorđević, a retired director of a flight attendant school in Jakarta.

At the Archives of Yugoslavia, they were welcomed by the director, Dr. Milan Terzić, and Dragan Teodosić, head of the Department for Publishing Archival Material and Inter-Archive Cooperation. Dr. Steele familiarized herself with the activities of the Archives of Yugoslavia, particularly concerning the archival material related to Yugoslav-Indonesian relations, as well as the archival exhibitions and publishing activities in that regard, along with collaboration with the National Archives of the Republic of Indonesia.