Meet the people behind the project

Learn more about how the Resistance project came to life

Guido van Hengel

Author of the Resistance project


is a historian, teacher, and writer of literary non-fiction. He is an editor at The Dutch Review of Books, the magazine Donau (focused on Central and Eastern Europe), and Drawing the Times (which covers graphic journalism and comics).


Guido van Hengel studied in Groningen, Jena, and Belgrade. In 2016, he earned his PhD (with distinction) from the University of Groningen with a dissertation on Bosnian students in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Today, he prefers to work at the intersection of various fields, particularly historiography and non-fiction, academia, literary essays, journalism, and graphic storytelling. Between 2022 and 2024, he worked on Remix Comix, a pan-European project focused on comics, illustration, and research.

Bojan Milosavljević 

Project Coordinator


graduated theatre and radio production at the Faculty of Drama Art, University of Arts in Belgrade. He finished three-year master programme for contemporary performing arts of the MAPA Academy from Amsterdam (Mobile Academy of Performing Arts). He is a student of politicology master programme at the module Public Administration, Local Self-Government and Public Policies at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade. He is also a student of the alternative programme in the Women’s Studies Center.


He wrote and coordinated projects, and participated in projects within the following programmes: Erasmus+, Creative Europe, Europe for Citizens. He participated at numerous international conferences and trainings. He implemented more than 20 professional productions on stages in Serbia and the region, as well as several radio productions for the Radio Belgrade. For three years, he was director of the Grocka Cultural Centre.