NEW YUGOSLAV STUDIES AT ASEEES 2025

Thursday, Nov 20 – Sunday, Nov 23
All events at Washington Hilton unless otherwise noted

THURSDAY, NOV 20


1pm — Yugoslav Memories I
Book Discussion: Socialism Now: Singing Activism after Yugoslavia, by Ana Hofman
Roundtable / 1st Floor / Woodley
  • Walter Benn Michaels (U of Illinois Chicago)​
  • Piotr Goldstein (ZOiS Berlin) 
  • Carol Silverman (U of Oregon)
Chair: Alma Prelec (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama)
Organizers: Piotr Goldstein (ZOiS Berlin) and Ana Hofman (ZRC SAZU)


3pm — Yugoslav Memories II
Remembering after Yugoslavia: Archives, Feelings, and Anachronistic Memories
Panel / 1st Floor / Woodley
  • Maša Kolanović (U of Zagreb): "How Material Objects Remember Yugoslavia: An Inventory of Feelings through Things in the Post-Yugoslav Novel"
  • Ana Miljački (MIT): "The Political Value of Anachronism: On Affective Logics of Yugoslavia’s Socialist Architectural Heritage"
  • Tanja Petrović (ZRC SAZU): "Remembering the Inexplicable: Yugoslav Partisan Doctors and Their Memoirs and Memories"
Chair: Robert Niebuhr (Arizona State University)
Discussant: Nace Zavrl (Harvard)
Organizer: Tanja Petrović (ZRC SAZU)


5pm — Yugoslav Memories III
The Impact of Popular Cultural Memory Work in Post-Yugoslav Spaces
Panel / 1st Floor / Woodley
  • Jernej Kaluža (U of Ljubljana): "Market-Driven Memory Loss: Mainstream Trap in the Post-Yugoslav Region"
  • Owen Kohl (Grinnell): "Border Crossing, Contested Communication, and Solidarity in Domestic Hip Hop Documentary"
  • Natalija Majsova (U of Ljubljana): "Screening Memories, Implicating Subjects: Articulations of Solidarity in Post-Yugoslav Memory Film"
  • Vjeran Pavlaković (U of Rijeka): "Post-Yugoslav Commemorative Street Art: From Hegemonic Narratives to Slow Memory Activism"
Chair: Landry Krebs (UC Berkeley)
Discussant: Ivana Polić (Florida State U)
Organizer: Natalija Majsova (U of Ljubljana)
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FRIDAY, NOV 21

8am — Yugoslav Responsibility I
Disjunction and the Presence of War in (Post)Yugoslav Culture
Panel / 1st Floor / Woodley
  • Ian MacMillen (Yale): "Whose Burden, Whose Right to Forget?: Musical-Filmic Escapes into Sexual and Racial Plurality in Northern Serbia"
  • Katie Kasperian (U of Michigan): "Silenced Women and Victims on Film: Addressing the Failure of Legal Interventions in Contemporary Yugoslav Cinema"
  • Theodore Jefferies (U of Toronto): "Articulating Disjunction in Regional Bosnia: The (Post) War Writing of Darko Cvijetić and Stevo Grabovac"
Chair: Margaret Beissinger (Princeton)
Discussant: Ellen Elias-Bursać (American Literary Translators Association)
Organizer: Theodore Jefferies (U of Toronto)


10am — Yugoslav Responsibility II
Taking a Stand: Culture, Commitment, and Critique
Panel / 1st Floor / Woodley
  • Dominick Lawton (Stanford): "Socializing Naturalism in Krleža's Croatian God Mars"
  • Kathryn Coyne (UC Berkeley): "Ideology and Alienation: Perspectives From Milan Kangrga and Gajo Petrović"
  • Gregor Moder (U of Ljubljana): "War and Representation: On The Balkan Trilogy by Dušan Jovanović"
  • Djordje Popović (UC Berkeley): "The Ministry of Pain and the Theology of Hell"
Chair: Maša Kolanović (U of Zagreb)
Organizers: Dominick Lawton (Stanford) and Djordje Popović (UC Berkeley)


12pm — Art Performance
“Happy Peace”
* Live performance by Bojan Stojčić in Sarajevo (Goethe-Institut, Džidžikovac 5) and Bojana Videkanić in DC (Friends Meeting of Washington, 2111 Decatur NW)


​3:30pm — Yugoslav Responsibility III
Poetry and the Culture of Political Thinking 30 Years after Srebrenica
Panel / 1st Floor / Woodley
  • Faruk Šehić: "The Trauma of Loss as a Motif in Realist and Dystopian Literature"
  • Ana Miljanić (CZKD): "Art after Crime: Commemorative Constellations"
  • Antje Postema (Berkeley): "Poetry That Exhumes, Poetry That Indicts"
  • Pavle Levi (Stanford): "Cinema and Genocide"
  • Ena Selimović (Turkoslavia): "War and Literary Translation"
  • Selma Asotić (Amherst): "To Write Poetry during Gaza is…?"
Chair: Dijana Jelača (CUNY)
Organizers: Antje Postema (Berkeley) and Pavle Levi (Stanford)


​6pm — Affiliate Group Meeting
New Yugoslav Studies Association
Terrace / DuPont


8pm — Film Screening
When the Phone Rang / Kada je zazvonio telefon (Iva Radivojević, Serbia, 2024, 76 mins)
Terrace / Columbia 8
* Film screening followed by Q&A with Adnan Džumhur (UNC Chapel Hill) and Dijana Jelača (CUNY), with Iva Radivojević joining via Zoom

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SATURDAY, NOV 22

8am — Yugoslav Internationalisms I
Book Discussion: Yugoslavia, Nonalignment and Cold War Globalism, by Zvonimir Stopić, Robert Niebuhr & David Pickus
Roundtable / 1st Floor / Woodley
  • Filip Mitričević (Indiana U Bloomington)
  • Robert Niebuhr (Arizona State U)
  • Katja Praznik (SUNY Buffalo)
  • Zvonimir Stopić (Capital Normal U Beijing)
Chair: Mariana Hebling (Stanford)
Organizer: Grega Ulen (Tsinghua)


8am — Yugoslav Aesthetics I
October 75—Fifty Years On
Panel / 1st Floor / U Street
  • Jelena Vesić: "Student Cultural Centre (SKC, Belgrade) as a Site of Self-Production"
  • Dejan Vasić (Stanford): "From October 75 to October XXX: Art, Ideology, and Dialogues Across Time"
  • Zsuzsa László (Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest): "The Third Front: From Anti-Imperialist Internationalism to the Provincialization of the West"
  • Jelena Ćalić (University College London): "Reconfiguring the Apolitical in SKC of 2025: Self-Organization and the Promise of New Politics"
Chair: Ana Miljački (MIT)
Discussant: Ana Miljanić (CZKD)
Organizers: Dejan Vasić (Stanford) and Jelena Vesić


10am — Yugoslav Aesthetics II
Surrealism’s Uncharted Territory: The Belgrade 13, and counting
Panel / 1st Floor / U Street
  • Sanja Bahun (U of Essex): "Aktivitet: From an Active Concept to an Active Exhibition"
  • Branislav Jakovljević (Stanford): "The Surrealist Art of Partisan Warfare"
  • Ainsley Morse (UC San Diego): "Desires and Wishes: Aleksandar Vučo's Work for Adults and Children"
  • Pavle Levi (Stanford): "Mushroom: Irregulatory Traffic Signs"
Chair: Dejan Vasić (Stanford)
Discussant: Jelena Vesić
Organizer: Branislav Jakovljević (Stanford)


10am — Yugoslav Internationalisms II
Book discussion: Nonaligned Imagination: Yugoslavia, the Global South, and Literary Solidarities beyond the Cold War Blocs, by Nataša Kovačević
Roundtable / 1st Floor / Woodley
  • Sima Kokotović (U of Pennsylvania)
  • Anca Parvulescu (Washington U in Saint Louis)
  • Masha Salazkina (Concordia)
  • Bojana Videkanić (U of Waterloo)
Chair: Claudia Sadowski-Smith (Arizona State U
Organizer: Nataša Kovačević (Eastern Michigan U)


12pm — Yugoslav Internationalisms III
Domestic Recollections and International Gazes in Cinema after Yugoslavia
Panel / 1st Floor / Woodley
  • Nikola Radić (U of Zurich): "Reclaiming Community in Yugoslav Socialist Ruins: Dane Komljen’s 'All the Cities of the North'"
  • Nace Zavrl (Harvard): "In- and Ex-Yugoslavia: Films from Elsewhere"
  • Mariana Hebling (Stanford): "Dream, Memory, and Form: Mixed Media Recollections in Marko Grba Singh’s Rampart"
  • Dragana Obradović (U of Toronto): "Correspondence with History: Epistolary Forms in Srđan Keča’s A Letter to Dad"
Chair: Filip Sestan (UC Berkeley)
Discussant: Antje Postema (UC Berkeley)
Organizer: Nikola Radić (U of Zurich)


12pm — Yugoslav Aesthetics III
Book Discussion: Women and Partisan Art: Aesthetics and Practices of Resistance in Yugoslavia und Carinthia, by eds. Elena Messner, Cristina Beretta, Goran Lazičić & Markus Gönitzer
Roundtable / 1st Floor / U Street
  • Olja Alvir (U of Vienna)
  • Tatjana Rosić Ilić (Singidunum)
  • Katja Kobolt (ZRC SAZU)
  • Elena Messner (U of Vienna)
  • Katarzyna Taczyńska (Polish Academy of Sciences)
Chair: Kaitlyn Sorenson (SUNY Binghamton)
Organizer: Goran Lazičić (University of Graz)


2pm — Yugoslav Aesthetics IV
Yugoslav Partisan Film—Memories, Archives and Afterlives
Panel / 1st Floor / U Street
  • Zdenko Mandušić (U of Toronto): "'Ranjenici, pjesmu!': The Role of Songs in Yugoslav Partisan Films"
  • Boris Petrović (Sorbonne): "Partisan Films and the Role of the Individual in Collective Struggle"
  • Lora Maslenitsyna (Yale): "A Partisan in the Archives: Strategies of the Anti-Colonial Nonfiction Film"
  • Adrian Pelc (U of Vienna): "Remembering Chargers: Mića Popović's Delije and the Yugoslav War Neurosis"
Chair: Nikola Radić (U of Zurich)
Organizer and discussant: Dijana Jelača (Brooklyn College)


2pm — Yugoslav (Re)Visions I
Comparative anti-Yugoslavism
Roundtable / 1st Floor / Woodley
  • Sezgin Boynik (Rab-Rab): "Grassroots Yugoslavism"
  • Branislav Jakovljević (Stanford): "Serbian Standpoint v. 'Yugoslav Ideology'"
  • Victor Friedman (U Chicago): "Anti-Yugoslavism in Kosovo and Macedonia: A View from Outside"
  •  Kevin Kenjar (Rijeka): "Reflections on the Patchwork Anti-Yugoslavism of Bosnia-Herzegovina"
  • Gregor Moder (Ljubljana): "Between Anti-Yugoslavism and Yugo-Nostalgia in Slovenia in the 1990s"
  • Zvonimir Stopić (Capital Normal): "Anti-Yugoslavism and the politics in Contemporary Croatia"
  • Bojana Videkanić (Waterloo): "Anti-Yugoslavism from Afar"
Chair: Djordje Popović (UC Berkeley)
Organizers: Branislav Jakovljević (Stanford) and Djordje Popović (UC Berkeley)


4pm — Yugoslav (Re)Visions II
Bullies Flying into Oblivion: Art, Activism, and Direct Democracy in Student Protests in Serbia
Panel / 1st Floor / Woodley
  • Tatjana Aleksić (U of Michigan): "Pumping it Up: Serbian Student Protests Three Decades Apart"
  • Tatjana Rosić Ilić (Singidunum): "Plenum as Narrative (Structure): Student Protests in Serbia 2024-25"
  • Goran Lazičić (U of Graz): "Wake Up, Fight for Your Dreams: Škart’s Visual Poetry and Student Protests in Serbia 2025"
Chair: Julija Pešić (U of Toronto)
Discussant: Elena Messner (U of Vienna)
Organizer: Tatjana Aleksić (U of Michigan)


4pm — Yugoslav Configurations I
Close Encounters of the Third Way: Memory of Yugoslav Transnational Solidarity with the International Left
Panel / 1st Floor / U Street
  • Alma Prelec (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama): "From Madrid to Belgrade via Paris: Ibero-Yugoslav Connections in the 1950s"
  • Nikolina Židek (IE University Madrid): "'Tito was respected and loved. He was handsome and good-looking, not like Stalin': The Memory of Spanish Exiles in Yugoslavia during the Cold War"
  • Kevin Kenjar (U of Rijeka): "Remembering Yugoslavia’s Role in the UN Special Committee on Palestine"
  • Vladimir Unkovski-Korica (U of Glasgow): "In Search of a Third Way: The British Left and Yugoslavia in the 1960s and 1970s"
Chair: Nina Gopaldas (UC Berkeley)
Organizers: Alma Prelec (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama) and Vladimir Unkovski-Korica (U of Glasgow)


8pm — Party
New Yugoslav & Black Sheep Social
Roofers Union (2446 18th St NW, Washington, DC 20009)
* DJ BogetzB / light refreshments + cash bar


SUNDAY, NOV 23

8am — Yugoslav (Re)Visions III 
What is a People? Yugoslav Perspectives
Panel / 1st Floor / Woodley
  • Grega Ulen (Tsinghua): "Forms of Peoples: Yugoslavia and the Politics of Socialist Transition"
  • Ana Hofman (ZRC SAZU): "The Expertise of an Amateur: Building the Canon of Socialist Artistic Production during the Yugoslav Partisan Struggle"
  • Katja Praznik (SUNY Buffalo): "Are Artists Working People?: Labor, Art, and the People in Yugoslav Socialism"
Chair and discussant: Jovana Lazić (Stanford)
Organizers: Grega Ulen (Tsinghua) and Katja Praznik (SUNY Buffalo)


10am — Yugoslav Configurations II
Warped Time in the Balkans
Panel / 1st Floor / Woodley
  • Margarita Delcheva (Paperbag Journal): "Reenactment Machines: The Performance of Political Memory in Gospodinov’s Time Shelter"
  • Olja Alvir (U of Vienna): "Time-Machines in Post-Yugoslav Literature: Navigating Temporal Ruins"
  • Tamara Cvetković (Central European U): "Traveling through Memories, Space, and Time in Narratives on Migration from the Balkans"
Chair: Katie Kasperian (U of Michigan)
Discussant: Adrian Pelc (U of Vienna)
Organizers: Margarita Delcheva (Paperbag Journal) and Olja Alvir (U of Vienna)


12pm — Yugoslav Configurations III
Non-Aligned Ambivalence
Roundtable / 1st Floor / Woodley
  • Kaitlyn Sorenson (SUNY Binghamton) 
  • Damir Vučićević (U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
  • Peter Wright (U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Chair: Michaela Appeltova (Wake Forest)
Organizers: Kaitlyn Sorenson (SUNY Binghamton) and Peter Wright (U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
 
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