Dr Milijana Pavlović
Deputy Director of the Institute
+43 512 507-33010
milijana.pavlovic@uibk.ac.at
Research Areas
- Music and violence
- Music and the Holocaust, anti-Semitism
- Gender studies
- Music and literature, Shakespeare

Das ist Milijana Pavlović.
- 1980 born in Mrkonjić Grad, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 1999 Matura in Mrkonjić Grad (BiH)
- 2000 - 2005 Musical studies with Jean-Yves Malmasson
- Studied English language and literature, Banja Luka (BiH),
- 2009 Doctorate in Music Studies, Università degli Studi di Ferrara
- 2013-2015 FWF Lise Meitner Fellow, project management Gustav Mahler's Third Symphony: Sketches and Compositional Process, project no. M 1494-G21, Department of Music Studies, University of Innsbruck
- Since 2015 Teaching at the Department of Music Studies, University of Innsbruck
- 2016 - 2017 Project collaborator, FWF project "Tirolerei" in Switzerland
- 2016-2022 Member of the research group Auto_Biography - De_Rekonstructions, Interfaculty Research Platform Gender Studies, University of Innsbruck
- 2017 - 2018, Project Manager TWF Project Gustav Mahler's Tyrol
- Since March 2018 Senior Scientist, Department of Music Studies, University of Innsbruck
- Since 2021 Member of IMS Study Group Music and Violence
- Since 2021 Deputy Head of the Gustav Mahler Research Centre Innsbruck/Toblach
- 2022 Promotion Prize of the Province of Tyrol for Science 2022
Published journals
(with Maria Heidegger and Marina Hilber) VIRUS. Contributions to the social history of medicine. Volume 21, specialising in music and medicine, in preparation (2023). https://www.austriaca.at/VIRUS_collection?frames=yes
Articles in journals
Before Pan Awoke: A Quiet Beginning for Mahler's Third Symphony, in: Journal of the Royal Musicological Association 147/1, 2022, pp. 193-220. https://www.doi.org/10.1017/rma.2022.2
Guido Adler and Rudolf Ficker between professional collegiality and friendship, in: Mitteilungen aus dem Brenner-Archiv 38-39, 2019, pp. 197 - 206. http://dx.doi.org/10.15203/1027-5649-383920192020
Lost And Found - Mahler's Fifth in Trieste, in: Studies in Music Studies. Supplements to the Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich 57, 2013, pp. 275 - 297.
Return to Steinbach: An Unknown Sketch of Mahler's Third Symphony', in: Il saggiatore musicale, 17, 2010, pp. 43-52.
Tragedija iskrenosti Gustava Malera, in: Putevi, XLI, No. 2-3, 2007, pp. 55-64.
Smaller journal articles
(with Maria Heidegger) Music Meets Medicine. A Conference Report, in: INSAM. Journal of Contemporary Music, Art and Technology 7/2, 2021, pp. 91 - 94. https://insam-institute.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/11.-INSAM-Journal-7-Heidegger-and-Pavlovic-1.pdf
Mahler in Italy, in: News on Mahler Research 59, International Gustav Mahler Society, Autumn 2009, pp. 63-64.
Contributions to edited volumes
Alma Rosé and the Lagerkapelle Auschwitz, in: du Closel, A.; Conseil de l'Europe: Colloque "Musique et camps de concentration" Conseil de l'Europe - 7 et 8 novembre 2013. Strasbourg:
Council of Europe Publishing, 2016, pp. 22 - 38.
The Curious Case of Mahler's Reception in Italy, in: After Mahler's Death, Gerold Gruber, Morten Solvik and Jan Vičar, eds, Olomouc: Palacky University 2013, pp. 32-44.
Lectures (selection)
The Anti-Jewish Musical Othering in "The Merchant of Venice". Lecture series Our Own Shakespeare, Department of English, University of Innsbruck, 8 June 2022.
Empathy and Violence in Medieval Representations of the Mocking of Christ. Workshop Pain and (Com)passion, University of Innsbruck, 1-2 June 2022.
Yugoslav Spanish Fighters in the Conflict between West and East. Myth, cult and music.
Workshop Teilungen Europas - Ideen, Politik, Praktiken, Doktoratskolleg "Austrian Studies", FZ "Europakonzeptionen", Department of Music Studies, Toblach 5-7 May 2022.
(with Christian Thomas Leitmeir) On the digital cataloguing and edition of Music Studies correspondence: A preliminary report.
Unknown pages in the history of musicology and art history. The Fifth International Scientific and Practical Conference, Russian Institute of Art History, Saint Petersburg, 11-13 November 2021.
November 2021.
Positive Perception of Music as a Weapon of Genocide. isa science - International Summer Academy, Reichenau an der Rax, 11 August 2021.
Cinema in a Concert Hall: Claudio Abbado, Shakespeare and Shostakovich. Shakespeare in Music: New Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Manchester-Huddersfield, 10.12.2020.
En el Frente de Jarama: The Musical Cult of the Spanish Fighters in Yugoslavia. International Conference: Music and the Spanish Civil War, Berlin, 08.10.2020.
Gustav Mahler's Mountain Soundscapes. 46th Annual Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies, Innsbruck, 22 November 2019.
(with Michaela Krucsay) Complex Personae. Portraits of musicians as a site of negotiation of artistic identity and genius. Symposium Künstler Komplex. Artist images in photography, Berlin, 05.10.2018.
Mahler's Musical Mountains: Why Toblach? Zweiter Internationaler Gustav Mahler Workshop / The Second International Gustav Mahler Workshop, 3-4 July 2018.
(With Michaela Krucsay) Visual Stagings of Musical Femininity between Convention and Subversion.
7th Study Day of the Research Group Auto_Biography - De_Rekonstructions of the Interfaculty Research Platform Gender Studies: Photography - Staging - Narrative, Innsbruck, 18 May 2018.
Describing the Indescribable: Music in the English Literature. Department of English, University of Banja Luka, 27 December 2017.
(with Michaela Krucsay) Two Birthdays - "Beginnings of Life" of Female Musicians during the Holocaust.
6th Study Day of the Research Group Auto_Biography - De_Rekonstructions of the Interfaculty Research Platform Gender Studies: Beginnings of Life, Innsbruck, 2 June 2017.
The Sleeping Pan and the Introduction That Refused to Behave: A Missing Link. Erster Internationaler Gustav Mahler Workshop / The First International Gustav Mahler Workshop, Toblach, 24.06.2016.