NEW YUGOSLAV STUDIES AT ASEEES 2024

Thursday, Nov 21 – Sunday, Nov 24
All events at Boston Marriott Copley Place unless otherwise noted

THURSDAY, NOV 21


12pm — Rethinking Yugoslav Revolution II
The Politics of Narratives and Images of Yugoslav People’s Liberation Struggle: Past for Future 
Panel / 4th Floor / Grand Ballroom Salon A
  • Maša Kolanović (U of Zagreb): “Images of Impossible, Poetics of Revolutionary: Vladimir Nazor’s Partisan Poems and Imagination of Yugoslav People’s Liberation Struggle”
  • Tanja Petrović (ZRC SAZU): “Liberation in Comic Strips: Curious Lives of Partisan Comics in Socialist Yugoslavia”
  • Marta Verginella (U of Ljubljana): “A Liberation That Was Not Quite Liberation: Partisan and Anti-fascist Women between the Center and the Periphery in the Northern Adriatic”
Chair: Dijana Jelača (Brooklyn College)
Discussant: Danijela Lugarić Vukas (U of Zagreb)​
Organizer: Maša Kolanović (U of Zagreb)

FRIDAY, NOV 22

10am — Rethinking Yugoslav Revolution III
The Revolution’s Liberation: Adjustments of Revolutionary Teleology within the Yugoslav Cultural Field 
Panel / 4th Floor / Grand Ballroom Salon A
  • Adrian Pelc (U of Vienna): “Nikoletina Bursać: The Revolution’s Vanishing Presence’
  • Željana Tunić (U of Jena): “Re-Involving in the Antifascist Struggle in the Work of Adela Jušić”
Chair: Marjana Krajač (Ohio State U)
Discussant and organizer: Miranda Jakiša (U of Vienna)


1:30pm — ASEEES Affiliate Group Meeting
New Yugoslav Studies Association
General meeting / 5th Floor / EDC
 

7pm — Special event at the Harvard Film Archive
Analytic Cinema: Makavejev on Bergman, Petrić on Moholy-Nagy
Film Screenings / 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA   
  • Bergman’s Non-Verbals: Directed by Dušan Makavejev (US 1978, 16mm, b/w, 30 min)
  • Light-Play: A Tribute to Moholy-Nagy: Directed by Vlada Petrić (US 1988, 16mm, b/w, 28 min)
Part of The Yugoslav Junction: Film and Internationalism in the SFRY, 1957-1988, program curated by Nace Zavrl (Harvard). Screening followed by a conversation with Pavle Levi (Stanford).
 
 
9pm — ​Special event at the Harvard Film Archive   
Intercepting the Flow: Experiments in Appropriation, Found Footage, and Homage
Film Screenings / 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
  • Erna: Directed by Erna Banovac (Yugoslavia 1963, digital video, b/w, 3 min)
  • Reindeer, Dear Reindeer: Directed by Ljubiša Grlić (Yugoslavia 1963, digital video, color, 3 min)
  • Straight Line (Stevens-Duke): Directed by Tomislav Gotovac (Yugoslavia 1964, 16mm, b/w, 7 min)
  • Nocturne: Directed by Vasko Pregelj (Yugoslavia 1965, digital video, b/w, 14 min)
  • Woman: Directed by Tatjana ‘Dunja’ Ivanišević (Yugoslavia 1968, digital video, color, 6 min)
  • Gerdy, the Wicked Witch: Directed by Ljubomir Šimunić (Yugoslavia 1976, digital video, color, 10 min)
  • Last Tango in Paris: Directed by Miodrag Miša Milošević (Yugoslavia 1983, digital video, b/w, 6 min)
  • Fear in the City (1181 Days Later or Smell of Rats): Directed by Davorin Marc (Yugoslavia 1984, 35mm, color, 21 min)
Part of The Yugoslav Junction: Film and Internationalism in the SFRY, 1957-1988, program curated by Nace Zavrl (Harvard).
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SATURDAY, NOV 23

8am — Rethinking Yugoslav Culture I
Documentary Practices in Yugoslav Film: Screening the Past, Present and Future 
Panel / 1st Floor / Columbus 2
  • Mariana Hebling (Stanford): “Everything that is filmed could also look otherwise: archives and actualization in post-Yugoslav documentaries"
  • Antje Postema (UC Berkeley): “Documentary Collectives, Wartime Publics, and the Creation of a Sarajevo Film”
  • Nace Zavrl (Harvard): “Landscapes of Fiction and the Inscription of War: Undergrounds after Yugoslavia”
Chair: Aida Vidan (Tufts)
Discussant and organizer: Dijana Jelača (Brooklyn College)
 
 
10am — Left Perspectives on Discipline I
Cultures of Comparison
Roundtable / 1st Floor / Columbus 1
  • Nataša Kovačević (Eastern Michigan U)
  • Claudia Sadowski-Smith (Arizona State U)
  • Bojana Videkanić (U of Waterloo)
Chair and organizer: Claudia Sadowski-Smith (Arizona State U)
Black Sheep roundtable cross-listed with NYSA.
 
 
10am — Rethinking Yugoslav Art I
The Catalyzing Dreamworlds of Late and Post Socialist Art
Panel / 3rd Floor / Simmons
  • Nadezhda Gribkova (U of Chicago): “Cardboard Hare and Gasoline: Conceptual Performance at the Time of Glasnost”
  • Nicoletta Rousseva (Indiana U Bloomington): “The (Post-)Socialist Futures of Jasmina Cibic”
  • Jasmina Tumbas (SUNY Buffalo): “Queering Yugoslav (Dis)integration: Diasporic Resistance in Contemporary Art”
Chair: Marijeta Bozovic (Yale)
Discussant: Amy Bryzgel (Northeastern)
Organizer: Nicoletta Rousseva (Indiana U Bloomington)
NYSA panel cross-listed with Black Sheep.
 
 
12pm — Rethinking Yugoslav Revolution IV 
Book Discussion: Utopia of the Uniform: Affective Afterlives of the Yugoslav Army, by Tanja Petrović
Roundtable / 5th Floor / EDC
  • Johanna Bockman (George Mason U)
  • Marko Dumančić (Western Kentucky U)
  • Kristen Ghodsee (U of Pennsylvania)
  • Maša Kolanović (U of Zagreb)
Chair: Maša Kolanović (U of Zagreb)
Organizer: Tanja Petrović (ZRC SAZU)
 
 
12pm — Rethinking Yugoslav Art II
Charting Liberation: Insights on Art from Yugoslav Socialism and Post-Socialism, Part One
Panel / 3rd Floor / Simmons
  • Mathew Muntz (UC Berkeley): “Free Jazz in the Age of Non-Alignment”
  • Katja Praznik (SUNY Buffalo): “How to Move Things with Unions?: Labor Organizing of Art Workers in Post-Yugoslav Context”
  • Nikola Radić (U of Zurich): “Voiceless Bodies, Bodiless Voices: Politics of Dissociation in Post-Yugoslav Documentary and Experimental Film”
  • Bojana Videkanić (U of Waterloo): “Art Is for Everyone: Why We Cannot Have Emancipatory Art without Emancipatory Understanding of It”
Chair: Vladimir Kulić (Iowa State U)
Discussant: Sima Kokotović (Concordia)
Organizer: Bojana Videkanić (U of Waterloo)
 
 
2pm — Rethinking Yugoslav Art III
Charting Emancipatory Spaces: Insights on Art from Yugoslav Socialism and Post-Socialism, Part Two
Panel / 3rd Floor / Simmons
  • Ana Martina Bakić (U of Zagreb): “The Emancipatory Potential of Exhibiting Croatia’s Architectural Pasts”
  • Anamarija Batista (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna): “Transforming the Adriatic Coast during and after the Yugoslav Period: Artistic and Architectural Reflections”
  • Marjana Krajač (Ohio State U): “Rethinking Structure—New Forms: Movement Spaces at the Workers and People’s University Moša Pijade in Zagreb”
  • Julija Pešić (U of Toronto): “Radical Art as A Commercial Product in Post-Socialist Context”
Chair: Nicoletta Rousseva (Indiana U Bloomington)
Discussant: Vlad Beronja (UT Austin)
Organizer: Bojana Videkanić (U of Waterloo)
 
 
4pm — Rethinking Yugoslav Revolution I
Remembering Liberation: Socialist Yugoslavia’s Memorial Complexes and Their Social Roles
Panel / 3rd Floor / Simmons
  • Jessy Bell (Northwestern U): “Embodying Liberation, Fleshing Vision: Corporeal Affective Strategies in Socialist Yugoslavia's Memorial Complexes”
  • Sanja Horvatinčić (Institut za povijest umjetnosti, Croatia): “Realms of Liberation: Monument-Making and Socialization of Revolutionary Heritage in Socialist Yugoslavia”
  • Vladimir Kulić (Iowa State U): “Chronotopes of Memory: Space, Time, and Narrative in the Monuments to the Yugoslav People’s Liberation Struggle”
Chair and organizer: Vladimir Kulić (Iowa State U)
Discussants: Katja Praznik (SUNY Buffalo) and Jasmina Tumbas (SUNY Buffalo)
 
 
4pm — Rethinking Yugoslav Culture III 
Formal Concerns and Documentary Claims in (Post-)Yugoslav Film
Panel / 1st Floor / Columbus 2
  • ​Zdenko Mandušić (U of Toronto): “What the Camera Knew: Late and Post-Yugoslav Docufictions”
  • Filip Šestan (UC Berkeley): “Flight of the Camera: Želimir Žilnik’s Cinema between Montage and Mise-en-Scene”
  • Aida Vidan (Tufts): “Factuality and Fictionality in Current Croatian Feature Film”
Chair: Nace Zavrl (Harvard)
Discussant: Antje Postema (UC Berkeley)
Organizer: Zdenko Mandušić (U of Toronto)


​8pm — ​New Yugoslav & Black Sheep Social
Two Saints Tavern, 52 Gainsborough St, Boston, MA 02115.
Light refreshments + cash bar; music by DJ BogetzB.
​Download poster here.

SUNDAY, NOV 24

8am — European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective 
Post-Yugoslav Literature(s) in Transnational Perspective 
Panel / 3rd Floor / Wellesley
  • Laura Bak (U of Oviedo): “The Other Side of the Map: Tamara Djermanovic’s Narrative of Return to the Former Yugoslavia”
  • Petra Bakos (Central European U): “‘Somehow We Are [from the Balkans]’: Embracing Stigmata in Melinda Nadj Abonji’s Prose”
  • Jasmina Lukic (Central European U): “Reading Transnationally: Away from Constraints of National Canons”
  • Dara Sljukic (Central European U): “Between Hope and Despair: Daša Drndić’s Literary Memory Narratives”
Chair and discussant: Ellen Elias-Bursac (American Literary Translators Association)
Organizer: Jasmina Lukic (Central European U)

 
10am — Rethinking Yugoslav Culture II 
Arrested Development in/and Contemporary Yugoslav Culture
Panel / 3rd Floor / Simmons
  • Sam Farmer (U of Michigan): “Genealogy and Ambivalent Attachments in the Works of Nora Verde and Marija Andrijašević”
  • Tatjana Rosić Ilić (Singidunum U): “The Figure of the Father in the Contemporary Post-Yugoslav Novel and Arrested Development as a New Symptom of Post-Yugoslav Times”
  • Katie Kasperian (U of Michigan): “Grappling with Victimhood Nationalism: Arrested Development on Screen in Post-Yugoslav Documentary”
  • Dejan Vasić (Stanford U): “Monumental Memories: Art, Politics, and Urban Change in Belgrade”
Chair: Gordana P. Crnković (U of Washington)
Organizer: Sam Farmer (U of Michigan)
 
 
12pm — Rethinking Yugoslav Culture IV 
What is Yugoslav Literature Today?
Roundtable / 3rd Floor / Wellesley
  • Vlad Beronja (UT Austin): “Specters of Yugoslavia”
  • Gordana P. Crnković (U of Washington; co-organizer): “In Search of the Lost Futures”
  • Samantha Farmer (U of Michigan): “Post-Yugoslav Literature as a Regional, Multilingual Literature”
  • Miranda Jakiša (U of Vienna): “Viennese Yugoslav Literature”
  • Genta Nishku (USHMM): “Kosovar Writing in Yugoslav Literature”
  • Djordje Popović (UC Berkeley; co-organizer): “Something’s Missing: Yugoslav Literature from the Standpoint of Redemption”
  • Ena Selimović (Turkoslavia Collective): "Yugoslav Literature in Translation"
Chair: Dominick Lawton (Stanford)
 
 
3pm — ​Special event at the Harvard Film Archive
​Drawn to Bits: The Zagreb School of Animation
Film Screenings / 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA      
  • Ersatz, AKA The Substitute: Directed by Dušan Vukotić (Yugoslavia, 1961, 35mm, color, 10 min)
  • The Play: Directed by Dušan Vukotić (Yugoslavia, 1962, 35mm, color, 12 min)
  • Everyday Chronicle, AKA A Little Story: Directed by Vatroslav Mimica (Yugoslavia, 1962, 35mm, color, 11 min)
  • Tamer of Wild Horses: Directed by Nedeljko Dragić (Yugoslavia, 1966, 16mm, color, 8 min)
  • The Fly: Directed by Aleksandar Marks and Vladimir Jutriša (Yugoslavia, 1966, 35mm, color, 8 min)
  • Of Holes and Corks: Directed by Ante Zaninović (Yugoslavia, 1967, 35mm, color, 9 min)
  • Passing Days: Directed by Nedeljko Dragić (Yugoslavia, 1969, 35mm, color, 9 min)
  • Dialogue: Directed by Dragutin Vunak (Yugoslavia, 1969, 16mm, color, 1 min)
  • The Masque of the Red Death: Directed by Pavao Štalter and Branko Ranitović (Yugoslavia, 1969, 35mm, color, 9 min)
  • Ars Gratia Artis: Directed by Dušan Vukotić (Yugoslavia, 1970, 16mm, color, 9 min)
Part of The Yugoslav Junction: Film and Internationalism in the SFRY, 1957-1988, program curated by Nace Zavrl (Harvard).
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