NEW YUGOSLAV STUDIES AT
ASEEES 2026

Thursday, Nov 12 – Sunday, Nov 15
​New Yugoslav Studies will have 33 panels at ASEEES 2026. We are grateful to our colleagues and comrades who organized individual sessions and to all 156 participants joining us in Chicago this year. The full program is available on the ASEEES website.​


​THursDAY, Nov 12

12pm ◼ Floor 6, Millennium Parlor ◼ Yugoslav Political Thought I

Women, Labor, & Social Reproduction in (Ex-) Yugoslavia

  • Ana Hofman (ZRC-SAZU): “Eight Hours of Culture: Women, Emancipation, and Aesthetic Education at the Workplace”
  • Olivia Jenkins (U Chicago): “Producing Socialist Housewives: Domestic Education in Early Socialist Yugoslavia”
  • Helena Ratté (U Chicago): “‘What to put in the report’: Organizational Narratives of Women’s Empowerment in Bosnia and Herzegovina”
  • Romana Pozniak (IEF Zagreb): “Feminized Care and the Politics of Humanitarian Governance: Social Reproduction and Displacement in Croatia”
Discussant: Jelena Batinić (Stanford)
Chair: Landry Krebs (UC Berkeley)
Organizers: Olivia Jenkins (U Chicago) & Helena Ratté (U Chicago)
12pm ◼ Floor 6, Spire Parlor ◼ Yugoslavia after Empire I

TENSE STATES: WHEN REVOLUTION INHERITS EMPIRE

  • Olja Alvir (U Vienna): “Founding the Anti-State: Periphery and Power in Partisan Film”
  • Tamara Cvetković (CEU): “‘Everything goes back to the Ottoman Empire, doesn’t it? Sometimes I wonder: is it even dead?’ – on Lea Ypi’s novel Indignity”
  • Maja Jović (U Westminster) & Milena Jokanović (U Belgrade): “Tito’s Residences as Anti-Colonial Cabinets of Wonders”
  • Adrian Pelc (U Vienna): “A Self-Published Theory of Everything: Miroslav Feller’s Theory of Life, Consciousness, and Cognition”
Discussant: Slaven Crnić (U Rijeka)
Chair: Slaven Crnić (U Rijeka)
Organizer: Olja Alvir (U Vienna)
2pm ◼ Floor 6, Millennium Parlor ◼ Yugoslav Political Thought II

BACK TO CLASS! REVISITING THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF YUGOSLAV SOCIALISM

  • Mladen Zobec (IOS Regensburg): “‘Privatnici’ and the Question of Yugoslav Labour beyond the Factory: Private Sector Actors in Yugoslav Socialism”
  • Ivana Mihaela Žimbrek (CEU): “Scaling Down in the 1980s: ‘Mala privreda’ and the Future of the Yugoslav Retail Sector”
  • Grega Ulen (Tsinghua): “Classes or Strata? Dilemmas of Class Analysis in Socialist Yugoslavia”
  • Predrag Rajsic (U Waterloo): “The Structure of Production and the Limits of Sustainability: Evidence from the Yugoslav Economy”
Discussant: Katja Praznik (SUNY Buffalo)
Chair: Margaret Beissinger (Princeton)
Organizer: Grega Ulen (Tsinghua)
2pm ◼ Floor 6, Spire Parlor ◼ Yugoslavia after Empire II

THE ENTANGLED HISTORIES OF SOCIALISM & NATIONALISM IN THE 20TH CENTURY MACEDONIAN QUESTION

  • Doruntine Aliu (NYU): “Imagining Again, Otherwise: The Eastern Question and Balkan Federation in the Second International”
  • Jovana Lazić (Stanford): “Between Humanity and Nation: Balkan Socialist Responses to War, 1912-1919”
  • Tasos Kostopoulos (IMS-FORTH Crete): “From Relocation to Assimilation: State Policy Planning on Greece’s Internal Macedonian Question throughout the Cold War (1945-1990)”
  • Keith Brown (Arizona State U): “Devout, Devoted and Devoured: The Logic of Betrayal in Macedonia's Socialist History”
Discussant: Veljko Vujacic (Oberlin)
Chair: Victor Friedman (U Chicago)
Organizer: Jovana Lazić (Stanford)
4pm ◼ Floor 6, Millennium Parlor ◼ Yugoslav Political Thought III

YUGOSLAV PHILOSOPHY

  • ​Gregor Moder (U Ljubljana): “Reading Hegel in Yugoslavia”
  • Katie Coyne (UC Berkeley): “Self-Identity and Teleology in Kangrga”
  • Bara Kolenc (U Ljubljana): “Yugoslav Self-Management as a Marxist Idea and Political-Economic Practice”
  • Spencer Adams (LMU Munich): “Workers' Control and the Yugoslav Influence on Callenbach's Ecotopia”
Discussant: Djordje Popović (UC Berkeley)
Chair: Eliza Rose (UNC Chapel Hill)
Organizers: Gregor Moder (U Ljubljana), Katie Coyne (UC Berkeley), & Djordje Popović (UC Berkeley)
4pm ◼ Floor 6, Spire Parlor ◼ Yugoslavia after Empire III

THE SUBLIMINAL PORTE: SEPHARDI JEWS & THE OTTOMAN RESONANCES

  • Alex Pekov (Columbia): “‘Our Turkish Spirit’: Sephardi-Ottoman Entanglements in Hajim Davičo, Žak Konfino, and Elias Canetti”
  • Russell Scott Valentino (Indiana U Bloomington): “From Sublime to Serene: Sephardic Jews in the Adriatic Translation Zone”
  • Kevin Kenjar (U Rijeka) “A Sephardic Vision of Zion from the Ottoman-Habsburg Borderlands”
  • Makena Mezistrano (Stanford): “A Sephardi Historian in the Balkans: Salomon Rosanes and the Birth of Ottoman Jewish Historiography”
Discussant: Yaron Ayalon (Fairfield U)
Chair: Ben Hooyman (Columbia)
Organizer: Alex Pekov (Columbia)

FRIDAY, NOV 13

8am ◼ Floor 6, Millennium Parlor ◼ Yugoslav Film I

BETWEEN YUGOSLAV & CROATIAN CINEMA

  • Boris Petrović (Sorbonne): “Image of the people in the Veljko Bulajić's film Boom Town”
  • Sonja Leboš (UIII Zagreb): “How socialism was built: cinematic representations of one socialist city”
  • Justyna Gluba (Kazimierz Wielki): “From Zagreb to the World: Jadran Film as the ‘Yugoslav Hollywood’”
Discussants: Alice Lovejoy (U Minnesota) & Dijana Jelača (Brooklyn College)
Chair: Maša Kolanović (U Zagreb)
Organizer: Justyna Gluba (Kazimierz Wielki U)
8am ◼ Floor 6, Spire Parlor ◼ Yugoslavia after Empire IV

HUBS & NETWORKS ACROSS BORDERS IN SOUTHEAST EUROPE

  • Ehlimana Memišević (U Sarajevo)
  • Olivia Pape (UC Irvine)
  • Sandra Davidovic (CUNY)
  • Filip Galić (Cornell)
  • Emma Niewald (UT Austin)
Chair: Daniel Weiss (U Virginia)
Organizer: Daniel Weiss (U Virginia)
10am ◼ Floor 6, Millennium Parlor ◼ Yugoslav Film II
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REFRAMING YUGOSLAV CINEMATIC LANDSCAPE(S)

  • Mariana Hebling (Stanford): “Thought as Found Footage: Dušan Makavejev’s Innocence Unprotected and Gorilla Bathes at Noon”
  • Filip Šestan (UC Berkeley): “Landscape Montage, the Romantic Imaginary, and the Autonomy of Art in Ivica Matić’s Woman with a Landscape”
  • Nikola Radić (U Zurich): “Landscape De-Ossification in Ivan Salatić's We Are the Sons of Your Rocks (2018)”
  • Zdenko Mandušić (U Toronto): “Lazar Stojanović’s Anti-Nationalist Documentary Portraits and the Legacy of the Yugoslav Black Wave”
Discussant: Nace Zavrl (Harvard)
Chair: Clea Wanner (U Basel)
Organizer: Nikola Radić (U Zurich)
10am ◼ Floor 6, Spire Parlor ◼ Revolutionary Constellations I (Joint session with Black Sheep)

BOOK DISCUSSION: CURATING SOCIALISM: A HANDBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITIONS, 1947–1989

  • Christina Kiaer (Northwestern)
  • Sven Spieker (UC Santa Barbara)
  • Bojana Videkanić (U Waterloo)
  • Vladimir Kulić (Iowa State U)
  • Ana Miljački (MIT)
Chair: Alice Lovejoy  (U Minnesota)
Organizer: Bojana Videkanić (U Waterloo)
1:30pm ◼ Floor 6, Millennium Parlor ◼ Yugoslav Film III
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CRITICAL NEW APPROACHES TO YUGOSLAV & POST-YUGOSLAV CINEMA, PART I

  • Aida Vidan (Tufts)
  • Nikola Radić (U Zurich)
  • Amir Husak (New School)
  • Sima Kokotović (U Pennsylvania)
  • Pavle Levi (Stanford)
Chair: Justyna Gluba (Kazimierz Wielki U)​
Organizer: Dijana Jelača (Brooklyn College)
1:30pm ◼ Floor 6, Spire Parlor ◼ Revolutionary Constellations II (Joint session with Black Sheep)

POLITICAL STAKES OF TRANSLATING REVOLUTION

  • Olena Lyubchenko (York) and Zachary Hicks (UC Berkeley): “Translating the October Revolution and the Factory Committees: Worker Self Activity”
  • Ros Herling (UC Berkeley): “Translating Early Soviet Revolutionary History”
  • Rafael Khachaturian (U Pennsylvania): “Translating Early Soviet Legal Theory”
  • Leah Feldman (U Chicago): “Translating and Editing the Anti-colonial”
  • Elisa Purschke (Princeton) and Amirkhan Saifullin (U of Zurich): “Translating Georgy Safarov's Anti-Colonial Works”
  • Igor Shoikhedbrod  (St. Francis Xavier)
Chair: Sam Farmer (U Michigan)
Organizers: Zachary Hicks (UC Berkeley) & Olena Lyubchenko (York)
3:30pm ◼ Floor 6, Millennium Parlor ◼ Yugoslav Film IV
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CRITICAL NEW APPROACHES TO YUGOSLAV AND POST-YUGOSLAV CINEMA, PART II

  • antje postema (UC Berkeley)
  • Adnan Džumhur (UNC Chapel Hill)
  • Zdenko Mandušić (U Toronto)
  • Nace Zavrl (Harvard)
  • Dijana Jelača (Brooklyn College)
Chair: Filip Šestan (UC Berkeley)
Organizer: Dijana Jelača (Brooklyn College)
3:30pm ◼ Floor 6, Spire Parlor ◼ Revolutionary Constellations III (Joint session with Black Sheep)

CONFRONTING CAPITALIST PATRIARCHY: SOCIALIST FEMINISM FROM REVOLUTION TO SOCIAL REPRODUCTION

  • Anastasia Kalk (New School): “From Communes to Communalization: Soviet Feminist Theory of Family Abolition”
  • Olena Lyubchenko (York): “Reproduction or Distribution?: The Question of Soviet Distinction”
  • Katja Praznik (SUNY Buffalo): “Yugoslav Socialist Feminism and the Material Politics of Social Reproduction”
  • Jelena Batinić (Stanford): “Revisiting the AFŽ: Domestic Work, Institutional Groundwork, Legacy”
Discussant: Adela Hincu (INZ Ljubljana)
Chair: Doruntine Aliu (NYU)
Organizers: Katja Praznik (SUNY Buffalo) & Jelena Batinić (Stanford)

SATURDAY, NOV 14

8am ◼ Floor 6, Millennium Parlor ◼ Yugoslav Letters I

TRANSNATIONAL EXCHANGES: YUGOSLAVIA'S CULTURAL POSITION BETWEEN BLOCS

  • Sylvie Vidan (UCLA): “Writing in the Margins: Sergio Pitol’s Yugoslav-Mexican Novel”
  • Dejan Vasić (Stanford): “The Archival Lost: Art Criticism, Internationalism, and Post-Yugoslav Space”
  • Aleksandar Momčilović (Columbia): “Situating Alignments: Yugoslav Literary Scholarship in Transnational Perspective”
  • Boris Postnikov (SNV Zagreb): “Thomas Bernhard and the Post-Yugoslav Literary Field”
Discussant: Gordana Crnković (U Washington)
Chair: Mariana Hebling (Stanford)
Organizer: Sylvie Vidan (UCLA)
8am ◼ Floor 6, Spire Parlor ◼  Yugoslav Art I

ABSENCE & THE YUGOSLAV AVANT-GARDES

  • Marjana Krajač (Ohio State U): “Unknown Spaces of Feminist Modernism: Ana Maletić’s Early Dance Studios in 1930s Zagreb”
  • Aleksandar Bošković (Columbia): “Against Art: Goran Đorđević’s Invention of Copy and Turn to Anonymity”
  • Kaitlyn Sorenson (SUNY Binghampton): “OHO’s Exodus, and the Search for ‘An Avant-Garde Worthy of the Name’”
  • Ian MacMillen (Yake): “Laibach's Avant-Garde Rock and the Quiet Art of Remembrance in Yugoslavia”
Discussant: Nicoletta Rousseva (Indiana U Bloomington)
Chair: Connor Smith (New School)
Organizer: Kaitlyn Sorenson (SUNY Binghampton)
10am ◼ Floor 6, Millennium Parlor ◼ Yugoslav Letters II

YUGOSLAV LITERATURE IN THE CLASSROOM & BEYOND

  • Gordana Crnković (U Washington): “Yugoslav Literature as World Literature”
  • Boris Postnikov (SNV Zagreb): “(Post-)Yugoslav Literature Between World Literature and National Literatures”
  • Suzana Vuljevic (DePaul): “Public-Facing Writing, Translation, and Yugoslav Literature: Reference Points & Approaches”
  • Ena Selimović (Turkoslavia): “Another Task for the Translator: Teaching in the Literary Marketplace”
  • Ryan Hoaglund (U Michigan): “Yugoslav Cinema for Engineers”
  • Olja Alvir (U Vienna): “From Partizanka Mara to Mini Horror: Yugoslav Literature Between Campus and Kulturhaus”
  • Thomas McDonald (U Kansas): “Pedagogy in the Interstices: Teaching Language and Literature through Club Slovenia”
  • Djordje Popović (UC Berkeley): “The Berkeley-Stanford Experiment in New Yugoslav Studies”
Chair: Stella Webster (Georgetown)
Organizers: Gordana Crnković (U Washington), Dominick Lawton (Stanford) & Djordje Popović (UC Berkeley)
10am ◼ Floor 6, Spire Parlor ◼ Yugoslav Art II

CULTURE BETWEEN CAPITALISM & IMPERIALISM, PART I

  • Aleksa Nikolić (U Novi Sad): “Young Bosnia and Negritude: Anti-imperialist Literary Forms and Practices in the (Semi-)Periphery of the World-System”
  • Aleksandra Perišić (FMK Belgrade): “Documenting Liberation: Yugoslav Photography and the Algerian War of Independence”
  • Bojana Videkanić (U Waterloo): “Imperialism, Capitalism and History of Yugoslav Art”
  • Anamarija Batista (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna): “Cultural Strategies in the Post-Yugoslav Space: Production of Critical Voices and Dis-Continuities”
Discussant: Katja Perat (Iḷisaġvik College)
Chair: Elias Kleinbock (Stanford)
Organizer: Bojana Videkanić (U Waterloo)
12pm ◼ Floor 6, Millennium Parlor ◼
​Yugoslav Letters III

PREPARING FOR POETRY: DISPATCHES FROM YUGOSLAV PERFORMANCE ART

  • Adair Rounthwaite (U Washington)
  • Ainsley Morse (UC San Diego)
  • Branislav Jakovljević (Stanford)
  • Aleksandar Bošković (Columbia)
Chair: Snežana Žabić (U Illinois Chicago)
Organizer: Ainsley Morse (UC San Diego)
12pm ◼ Floor 6, Spire Parlor ◼ Yugoslav Art III

CULTURE BETWEEN CAPITALISM & IMPERIALISM, PART II

  • ​Owen Kohl (Grinnell): “Domestic, Post-Yugoslav, Balkan, etc.: Proliferated Social Categories and Hip-Hop in the Aftermath”
  • Ana Miljački (MIT): “Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Architecture and Capitalist Transition”
  • Ana Martina Bakić (U Zagreb): “Architecture in Transition: Croatia at the Crossroads of Socialism and Capitalism”
  • Brian Arnold (Independent): “The photographic avant-garde in Yugoslavia: 1928-1936”
Discussant: Anamarija Batista (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna)
Chair: Sonja Leboš (UIII Zagreb)
Organizer: Bojana Videkanić (U Waterloo)
12pm ◼ Floor 7, Montrose 4 ◼ Comparative Socialisms I (Joint session with Black Sheep)

SINO-SOVIET CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS

  • Edward Tyerman (UC Berkeley): “A Chinese Classic on the Soviet Stage: How The Story of the Western Wing Became The Spilt Cup”
  • Chutong Liu (U Oregon): “The Fountain of Bakhchisarai as a Case Study: On the Cultural Needs Behind the Aesthetic Exchange of Chinese and Soviet Ballet”
  • Yueling Ji (National U Singapore): “OPOJAZ in Macau: Viktor Vinogradov and the Study of Style in Chinese”
  • Jinyi Chu (Yale): “Start-up, Socialist style: Small-Business Comedies in the 1980s Soviet Union and China”
Discussant: Roy Chan (U Oregon)
Chair: Roy Chan (U Oregon)
Organizer: Yueling Ji (National U Singapore)
2pm ◼ Floor 6, Millennium Parlor ◼ 
​Yugoslav Letters IV

YUGOSLAV REIMAGININGS OF THE WORLD & GLOBAL ORDER: LITERARY & CULTURAL ARCHIVES

  • Maša Kolanović (U Zagreb): “Writing the World after Empire: Yugoslav Revolutionary Travelogues”
  • Iva Kosmos (U Zagreb): “Imagining Global Modernization in Yugoslav Travelogues of the Third World”
  • Nataša Kovačević (Eastern Michigan U): “Nonaligned Literary Aesthetics and Counterpublics: Grozdana Olujić and Amrita Pritam”
  • Tanja Petrović (ZRC-SAZU): “Through the Archive of the Non-Aligned Modernity: What We Can(not) See Looking Back”
Discussant: Grega Ulen (Tsinghua)
Chair: Milica Popović (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
​Organizer: Iva Kosmos (U Zagreb)
2pm ◼ Floor 6, Spire Parlor ◼ Yugoslav Art IV

SONIC INSCRIPTIONS OF (POST-)YUGOSLAV LIFE

  • Snežana Žabić (U  Illinois Chicago)
  • Landry Krebs (UC Berkeley)
  • Una Vulevic (Stanford)
  • Mat Muntz (UC Berkeley)
  • Andrew Dombrowski (Independent)
Chair: Ronelle Alexander (UC Berkeley)
Organizer: Landry Krebs (UC Berkeley)
2pm ◼ Floor 7, Montrose 4 ◼ Comparative Socialisms II (Joint session with Black Sheep)

CHINA & YUGOSLAVIA I: COLD WAR STRUGGLES THROUGH IMAGININGS, POLITICS, & IDEOLOGY

  • Yuguang Zhou (LMU Munich): “Mutual Mirroring: How China and Yugoslavia Learned from Each Other’s Socialist Revolution and Construction”
  • Luka Golež (U Ljubljana): “International Debates on Socialist Culture: The Chinese Reception of Yugoslav ‘Revisionist Josip Vidmar’”
  • Renjie Xiong (U Regensburg): “The Enemy Within and Without: The Anti-Rightist Campaign and Sino-Yugoslav Relations (1955–1958)”
  • Tao Xu (East China Normal U): “Beyond the Ideology: The Normalization of Relations between the Chinese Communist Party and the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, 1976-1978”
Discussant: Ivica Bakota (Capital Normal U)
Chair & Organizer: Zvonimir Stopić (Capital Normal U)
4pm ◼ Floor 6, Millennium Parlor ◼ Yugoslav Chronotopes I

MONUMENT IN TIME: YUGOSLAV COMMEMORATION AS PERFORMANCE

  • Branislav Jakovljević (Stanford): “The Ephemeral Memorial: Apotheosis to Jackson Pollock at Partisan Battleground”
  • Mechtild Widrich (SAIC): “Performing Indigeneity. Ivan Meštrović’s Transcultural Primitivism”
  • Will Edgar (Northwestern): “Curated Ruination: Partizansko Groblje u Mostaru”
  • Vladimir Kulić (Iowa State): “Palpable Time: Yugoslav Memorials as Performative Devices”
Discussant: Dejan Vasić (Stanford)
Chair: Srđan Tunić (Temple)
Organizer: Vladimir Kulić (Iowa State)
4pm ◼ Floor 6, Spire Parlor ◼ Yugoslav Counterpublics I

DESERTION, DISSENT, & TRANSITION: NARRATIVES ON THE YUGOSLAV WARS ACROSS MEDIA & ARCHIVES

  • Milica Popović (Austrian Academy of Sciences): “Discursive battles of war regimes: ‘good’ and ‘bad’ deserters in the media during the Yugoslav wars”
  • Goran Lazičić (U Graz): “A late postcard from Bratislava: Radivoj Vukić, anti-war activism, and draft evasion in Vojvodina”
  • Theodore Jefferies (U Toronto): “Transition reports: economies of war and post-war in 21st century Bosnian prose”
  • Clea Wanner (U Basel): “To and from BH: Circulations and Artistic Appropriations of War-Era VHS in Contemporary Filmmaking”
Discussant: Sima Kokotović (U Pennsylvania)
Chair: Iva Kosmos (U Zagreb)
Organizer: Milica Popović (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
4pm ◼ Floor 7, Montrose 4 ◼ Comparative Socialisms III (Joint session with Black Sheep)

CHINA & YUGOSLAVIA II: PARTNERSHIP & EXCHANGE THROUGH SOCIALISM, PEOPLE, ECONOMY, & CULTURE

  • Canying Ren (U Belgrade): “Politics and Media: Political Legitimization and the Expectation–Reality Gap in Sino-Yugoslav Relations (1977–1979)”
  • Sanja Radović (Independent): “Summit Diplomacy: The Historic Visits of Tito and Hua Guofeng and China’s ‘Discovery’ of Yugoslavia (1977–1978)”
  • Ruixuan Hao (U Belgrade): “A Study on PR China-SFR Yugoslavia Mixed Committee for Economic and Scientific-Technical Cooperation from 1978 to1989”
  • Ivica Bakota (Capital Normal U): “Hua Guofeng’s Interregnum: The Last Chance to Globalize Yugoslavia?”
Discussant: Yuguang Zhou (LMU Munich)
Chair & Organizer: Zvonimir Stopić (Capital Normal U)

sunday, Nov 15

8am ◼ Floor 6, Millennium Parlor ◼ Yugoslav Chronotopes II

REPOSITIONING THE BALKANS: NATIONAL & CULTURAL IDENTITY IN THE POST-1989 GLOBAL CULTURAL ECONOMY

  • Carol Silverman (U Oregon): “‘Balkan’ Music Branding in the 1990s: Cultural Politics of ‘Gypsy’ Images and Roma Exclusions”
  • Marija Grujić (IKUM Belgrade): “Serbian Arthouse Film as a Symbolic Negotiator of after-1989 Social and Cultural Shifts”
  • Julija Pešić (U Toronto): “Rebranding Radicality in the Global Art Market”
  • Genta Nishku (Independent): “‘Terra Incognita’: Framing Albanian Literature in the West after 1989”
Discussant: Nataša Kovačević (Eastern Michigan U)
Chair: Jasmina Tumbas (SUNY Buffalo)
Organizer: Julija Pešić (U Toronto)
8am ◼ Floor 6, Spire Parlor ◼ Yugoslav Counterpublics II

PUBLIC SPACE & ACTIVISM IN THE BALKANS

  • Ivana Polić (Florida State U): “‘United Against Fascism’: Youth, Antifascism and Communist Nostalgia in Contemporary Croatia”
  • Zala Pochat Križaj (King’s College London): “Legitimacy and reconciliation: enacting reconciliation in a context of distrust in political actors”
  • Alma Prelec (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama): “2026/1936: Murals and Spanish Civil War Commemoration in Rijeka”
  • Srđan Tunić (Temple):  “Activist Aesthetics: Graffiti, Street Art, and Art in Public Space’s Political Potentials”
Discussant: Ana Hofman (ZRC-SAZU)
Chair: Emma Niewald (UT Austin)
Organizer: Srđan Tunić (Temple)
10am ◼ Floor 6, Millennium Parlor ◼ Yugoslav Chronotopes III

MEMORY, MEDIATION, & METAMODERN SENSIBILITIES IN THE (POST-)YUGOSLAV SPACE

  • ​Jennifer Erickson (Ball State U): “Spatializing Affect: Public Space and Structures of Feeling in Sarajevo”
  • Katie Kasperian (U Michigan): “Mediating Memory Towards Non-Violent Aims: How Memory is Constructed Through/In Yugoslav Documentary”
  • Natalija Majsova (U Ljubljana): “Creativity, Computer Culture, and Computer Science from the Perspective of Pioneering Women Computer Scientists in the (Post-)Yugoslav Space”
  • Jernej Kaluža (U Ljubljana): “Modern, Postmodern, and Metamodern Structures of Feeling: Big-Data Analysis of Memories on Yugoslavia in the 21st Century”
Discussant: Mladen Zobec (IOS Regensburg)
Chair: Ana Marija Spasojević (JLU Giessen)
Organizer: Natalija Majsova (U Ljubljana)
10am ◼ Floor 6, Spire Parlor ◼ Yugoslav Counterpublics III

BOOK DISCUSSION: REALIGNING HUMANITARIANISM IN THE BALKANS: FROM COLD WAR POLITICS TO NEOLIBERAL ETHNICS, BY ČARNA BRKOVIĆ

  • Čarna Brković (U Mainz)
  • Tanja Petrović (ZRC-SAZU)
  • Siobhan Hearne (U Manchester)
  • Lauren Woodard (Syracuse)
Chair & Organizer: Romana Pozniak (IEF Zagreb)
12pm ◼ Floor 6, Millennium Parlor ◼ Yugoslav Chronotopes IV

VUKOVAR, MEMORY, SPATIAL POLITICS

  • Blaze Joel (UT Austin): “‘Football Victories Shape a Nation’s Identity as Much as Wars Do’: Soccer and Politics in Vukovar”
  • Lana Jurman (U Vienna): “Towering Over the Past: Reconstruction of the Vukovar Water Tower and the Consolidation of National Victimhood”
  • Dragana Prvulović (U Montréal): “‘I Love My Little Ghetto’: Serbs, Housing, and Post-War Spatial Politics in Vukovar, Croatia”
  • Daniel Rhea (Independent): “Death and Life on the Drina and Danube”
Discussant: Ivana Polić (Florida State U)
Chair: Andrew Dombrowski (UC Berkeley)
Organizer: Blaze Joel (UT Austin)
12pm ◼ Floor 6, Spire Parlor ◼ Yugoslav Counterpublics IV

QUEEROSLAVIA: QUEER MEMORY, LITERATURE, & BELONGING IN POST-YUGOSLAV CONTEXTS

  • Tijana Zderić (U Toronto): “Queering the Nation: Literary Disidentification and Queer Subjectivity in Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina”
  • Ana Milic (McGill): “Queer Refuge: Narrating Post-Yugoslav Queer Lives in Diaspora”
  • Brett Donohoe (Amherst): “The Ethics and Aesthetics of Cataloguing Queer Post-Yugoslav Literature”
  • Ana Marija Spasojević (JLU Giessen): “Queeroslavia: Queer Literary Counterspaces beyond Post-Yugoslav Nationhood”
Discussant: Natalija Majsova (U Ljubljana)
Chair: Jernej Kaluža (U Ljubljana)
Organizers: Ana Milic (McGill) and Natalija Majsova (U Ljuljana)
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