We hope this page will serve as an informational hub for relevant events in the field of New Yugoslav Studies. Please note that the events listed below are not sponsored by the New Yugoslav Studies Association, unless stated otherwise. If you would like to publicize an event, consider posting it on the NEWYU listserv.
UPCOMING
Jan 23 (Zürich) | Talk: Pavle Levi, “Dušan Makavejev’s 'Murderers on the Yugoslavia Express' (Speculative Archival Reconstruction of a Latent Film)”
Feb 5 (Stanford) | Talk: Pavle Levi, “Dušan Makavejev’s 'Murderers on the Yugoslavia Express' (Speculative Archival Reconstruction of a Latent Film)”
Feb 19 (Stanford) | Local reading group: Svetozar Vukmanović-Tempo and Tsola Dragoicheva on the “Macedonian Question”
Apr 8 (Stanford) | Book talk: Nataša Kovačević, Nonaligned Imagination: Yugoslavia, the Global South, and Literary Solidarities Beyond the Cold War Blocs
April 9 (Berkeley) | Local reading group with author: Nataša Kovačević, Nonaligned Imagination: Yugoslavia, the Global South, and Literary Solidarities Beyond the Cold War Blocs
Feb 5 (Stanford) | Talk: Pavle Levi, “Dušan Makavejev’s 'Murderers on the Yugoslavia Express' (Speculative Archival Reconstruction of a Latent Film)”
Feb 19 (Stanford) | Local reading group: Svetozar Vukmanović-Tempo and Tsola Dragoicheva on the “Macedonian Question”
Apr 8 (Stanford) | Book talk: Nataša Kovačević, Nonaligned Imagination: Yugoslavia, the Global South, and Literary Solidarities Beyond the Cold War Blocs
April 9 (Berkeley) | Local reading group with author: Nataša Kovačević, Nonaligned Imagination: Yugoslavia, the Global South, and Literary Solidarities Beyond the Cold War Blocs
PAST
Dec 4, 2025 (Berkeley) | Local reading group: Asja Makarević, Post-Yugoslav Cinema and the Shadows of War: A Study of Non-Representation in Film
Nov 20-23, 2025 (Washington DC) | Conference: New Yugoslav Studies at ASEEES 2025
Nov 18, 2025 (New York) | Unlearning History: Maša Kolanović and Monika Herceg in conversation with Dijana Jelača | Brief Histories Gallery
Nov 18, 2025 (Stanford) | Talk: Jelena Vesić, "Trajectories of Solidarity in Time: The Week of Latin America, Student Cultural Centre, Belgrade, 1977"
Nov 15, 2025 (Oakland) | Bookstore reading and panel | Writing Against Genocide: Faruk Šehić in conversation with Ena Selimović and Antje Postema
Nov 14, 2025 (Vienna) | Exhibition of research literature on the Srebrenica Genocide, curated by Miranda Jakiša and Barbara Retschnig | U of Vienna, East European History and Slavonic Studies Library
Nov 13, 2025 (New York) | Talk: Natalija Majsova, "Structures of feeling and post-Yugoslav memory work in popular culture" | New School
Nov 13, 2025 (Berkeley) | Kujachich Lecture: Faruk Šehić in conversation with Antje Postema and Ena Selimović
Nov 11, 2025 (Vienna) | Book presentation: Women and Partisan Art: Aesthetics and Practices of Resistance in Yugoslavia and Carinthia, with Elena Messner and Miranda Jakiša
Nov 10, 2025 (Vienna) | Talk: Anita Buhin, "The Eroticization of the Adriatic: Sex, Tourism, and Masculinities in Socialist Yugoslavia" | CEU Vienna
Nov 7, 2025 (San Francisco) | Yugowave: A night of Yugoslav Punk and New Wave with DJ Zlaya and DJ Kaos Kaos
Nov 6, 2025 (Stanford) | Reading group with author: Bojana Videkanić, Nonaligned Modernism: Socialist Postcolonial Aesthetics in Yugoslavia, 1945-1985
Nov 6, 2025 (Vienna) | Film screening: Sjećaš li se Dolly Bell? | U of Vienna
Oct 30, 2025 (Toronto) | Reading group: Jasmina Tumbas, "I am Jugoslovenka!" Feminist Performance Politics During and After Yugoslavia Socialism
Oct 23, 2025 (Berkeley) | Reading group: Selections from Faruk Šehić
Oct 17-18, 2025 (Vienna) | International Colloquium: 7th Viennese South Slavic Graduate Conference | U of Vienna, CEU
Oct 15, 2025 (Berkeley) | Concert: Damir Imamović
Oct 11, 2025 (New York) | Inaugural symposium for New York Working Group in New Yugoslav Studies: Revolutionary Yugoslavia: Partisan Art, Archives and Film
Oct 10, 2025 (New York) | Film screening: "Walter Defends Sarajevo"
Sept 11, 2025 (Berkeley) | Local reading group: Paul Stubbs, “Socialist Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement: Contradictions and Contestations”; Chiara Bonfiglioli, “Representing Women’s Non-Aligned Encounters: A View from Yugoslavia”; and Peter Willetts, “The Foundations of the Non-Aligned Movement: The Trouble with History Is That It Is All in the Past”
Jun 10, 2025 (Vienna) | Roundtable: Maja Pan and Clara Lhullier, “Thinking, Writing, Living Lesbian Activist Struggles” | U of Vienna
Jun 4, 2025 (Vienna) | Podium Discussion: “Gastarbajt in Arts in Vienna” | U of Vienna
Jun 5, 2025 (Vienna) | Film screening with introduction by Olja Alvir: Most by Hajrudin Krvavac, 1969 | U of Vienna
May 27, 2025 (Vienna) | Lecture: YugoslaWomen+ Collective, “The Post-Yugoslav Space in IR and Collective (Un)learning” | U of Vienna
May 8, 2025 (Vienna) | Film screening: Skupljači perja by Aleksandar Petrović, 1967 | U of Vienna
May 6, 2025 (Vienna) | Lecture: Danijela Majstorović, “Peripheral Intersections: Rethinking Gender, Race, and Coloniality in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina” | U of Vienna
May 1, 2025 (Stanford) | Local reading group: Vladimir Unkovski-Korica, The Economic Struggle for Power in Tito's Yugoslavia: From World War II to Non-Alignment
Apr 26, 2025 (New York) | Film screening co-sponsored by New York working group: Jasmila Žbanić’s documentary Blum: Masters of Their Own Destiny. Roundtable discussion to follow, featuring Amir Husak, Isak Berbić, and Dijana Jelača
Apr 23-26, 2025 (New York) | Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival
Apr 19, 2025 (San Francisco) | Yugowave: A night of Yugoslav Punk and New Wave with DJ Zlaya and DJ Kaos Kaos
Apr 17, 2025 (Berkeley) | Local reading group: Ivo Banac, With Stalin against Tito: Cominformist Splits in Yugoslav Communism
Apr 10-13, 2025 (Waterloo) | Yugofuturisms conference hosted by the University of Waterloo
Apr 8, 2025 (Vienna) | Lecture: Martin Gramc, “Visibilizing Intersex Persons in Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia”
Apr 4, 2025 (Vienna) | Film screening with Introduction by Adrian Pelc: Nacionalna klasa by Goran Marković, 1978
Apr 3, 2025 (Berkeley) | Local reading group and film screening with director: Srdjan Keča, Flotel Europa and Generation Loss
Mar 20, 2025 (Vienna) | Second meeting of the New Yugoslav Studies Association Vienna Chapter
Mar 20, 2025 (Berkeley) | Local reading group: Ivana Bodrožić, Hotel Tito, tr. Ellen Elias-Bursać
Mar 18, 2025 (Vienna) | Lecture: Aleksa Milanović, “The Movement Whose Time Has Come: Trans activism in the Post-Yugoslav Space” | U of Vienna
Feb 27, 2025 (Stanford) | Local reading group: Rastko Močnik and Miklavž Komelj, “The Močnik-Komelj Debate,” and Gal Kirn, "Towards the Partisan Counter-archive" (The Yugoslav Partisan Art); and Pavle Levi, "Pivo"
Oct 24, 2024-Feb 23, 2025 (Istanbul) | Exhibition: Translated into Socialism, programmed by Sezgin Boynik, Tevfik Rada, and Merve Elveren and realized in collaboration with the Lumbardhi Foundation (Kosovo) | Salt Galata
Feb 14, 2025 | Dijana Jelača (Brooklyn College) and Olivera Jokić (John Jay College) participated in CUNY's "Indoor Voices" podcast to discuss the book Past: An Introduction to the Problem—Želimir Žilnik and Boris Buden, which Jokić translated into English. The English translation of the book has been made available free of charge.
Feb 6, 2025 (Berkeley) | Local reading group: Jozo Tomasevich, “Yugoslavia During the Second World War”; Hrvoje Klasić, “Why Did They Resist?” ; and the seven-part documentary serial Partizani, produced by Hrvoje Klasić
Jan 30, 2025 (Vienna) | Meeting of the New Yugoslav Studies Association Vienna Chapter | U of Vienna
Jan 28, 2025 (Vienna) | Lecture: Čarna Brković, “Socialist Modernist Worldmaking: Yugoslav Interventions in the International Humanitarian Debates in the 1970s” | Austrian Academy of Sciences
Jan 21, 2025 (Vienna) | Lecture: Tanja Petrović, “Of Men, Feelings, and Forms: The Affective Afterlives of the Yugoslav People's Army” | U of Vienna
Jan 21, 2025 (Vienna) | Discussion: “The Road Ahead: The European Commission's Agenda for the Western Balkans and Beyond,” with Dr. Jovana Marović, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of European Affairs of Montenegro | CEU, YURG
Dec 13, 2024 (Zagreb) | Symposium | The Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Zagreb celebrate Dubravka Ugrešić with a day of panels organized around her work.
Dec 13, 2024 (San Francisco) | Yugowave: A night of Yugoslav Punk and New Wave with DJ Zlaya and DJ Kaos Kaos
Dec 8, 2024 (Cleveland) | Yugo Rock Party: Stanislav Žabić (The Little Lighthouse) and Berislav Sabolić (Ill in the Head Records, DJ BogetzB)
Nov 9-Dec 4, 2024 (Cambridge) | Film Screening: The Yugoslav Junction: Film and Internationalism in the SFRY, 1957—1988 | Harvard Film Archive
Nov 30, 2024 (Waterloo) | Why Yugofuturisms Now? | University of Waterloo Art Gallery
Nov 21-24, 2024 (Boston) |Conference: New Yugoslav Studies at ASEEES 2024
Nov 18-19, 2024 (Berkeley) | Reading group with author and translator | Maša Kolanović and Ena Selimović, Underground Barbie
Nov 16, 2024 (Basel) | International Symposium: Cinema by Other Means
Nov 16, 2024 (Basel) | Film Screening: Cinema by Other Means: Experiments Around the Idea of Film in Yugoslavia Stadtkino Basel
Nov 16, 2024 (Oakland) | Women in translation: Author Maša Kolanović in conversation with translator Ena Selimović | Clio's Bookstore and Bar
Nov 12, 2024 (Stanford): Screening Dušan Makavejev's Innocence Unprotected (Nevinost bez zaštite, 1968)
Nov 6, 2024 (Berkeley) | Adair Rounthwaite, This Is Not My World: Art and Public Space in Socialist Zagreb
Oct 28, 2024 (New York) | Sezgin Boynik, "Sickle of Syntax & Hammer of Tautology: Concrete and Visual Poetry in Yugoslavia, 1968-1983" | Columbia U
Oct 24, 2024 (Berkeley) | Local reading group: Srećko Horvat and Igor Štiks' Welcome to the Desert of Post-Socialism: Radical Politics After Yugoslavia
Oct 18-19, 2024 (Vienna) | 6th Viennese South Slavic Graduate Conference | U of Vienna
Oct 17-19, 2024 (New York) | Landscape Cinema | Anthology Film Archives
Oct 10, 2024 (Stanford) | Local reading group: Andrew Wachtel's Making a Nation, Breaking a Nation: Literature and Cultural Politics in Yugoslavia
Sept 19, 2024 (Berkeley) | Local reading group: Andrew Wachtel's Making a Nation, Breaking a Nation: Literature and Cultural Politics in Yugoslavia
Sept 12-13, 2024 (Ljubljana) | War and Theatre: A Backward Glance
Jun 20, 2024 (Vienna) | Reading and talk with author Alem Grabovac | U of Vienna
Jun 13-14, 2024 (Vienna) | "Visions of Discipine on the (Post)Yugoslav Screen" Workshop with Dina Iordanova, Dijana Jelača, Nikica Gilić, & others | U of Vienna
June 4-9, 2024 (Belgrade) | Program of talks, lectures, and film screenings: "Non-Aligned Cultural Connections" | Museum of Yugoslavia
Jun 4, 2024 (Vienna) | Reading and talk with author Barbi Marković
May 31, 2024 (San Francisco) | Women in Translation: Stories from Croatia and Kazakhstan
May 21, 2024 (Vienna) | Milana Čergić: "A City Full of Supermarkets: Analyzing 'Economic Success' in Tuzla"
May 17, 2024 (Stanford) | Talk: Branko Sekulić, "Ethnoreligiosity in the Former Yugoslav Context"
May 15-17, 2024 (Rijeka) | Conference: "Postcolonial, Decolonial, Postimperial, Deimperial"; full program
May 2, 2024 (Stanford) | Program of experimental films curated by Milan Milosavljević, AFC Belgrade: “The New Yugoslav Film Experiment (Academic Film Center edition)”
Apr 18, 2024 (Berkeley) | Dissertation workshop: Damjan Božinović, "Reading Post-Yugoslav Literature Translingually"
Apr 11, 2024 (Berkeley) | Talk: Vjeran Pavlaković, "The Muralization of War: Graffiti, Murals, and Memory Politics in the former Yugoslavia"
Apr 5, 2024 (Stanford) | Talk: Gregor Moder and Bara Kolenc, “The Trouble with Ideology”
Apr 4, 2024 (Berkeley) | Local reading group with Gregor Moder and Bara Kolenc: Mladen Dolar, “Beyond Interpellation”; Slavoj Žižek, The Sublime Object of Ideology; and Louis Althusser, “Ideological State Apparatuses”
Apr 3, 2024 (Berkeley) | Workshop with Andreja Novakovic and Gregor Moder: "Hegel's Antigone"
Mar 15, 2024 (Vienna and online) | Book launch: Harte Währung Beton: Eine Kulturgeschichte des Massenwohnungsbaus im sozialistischen Jugoslawien und seinen Nachfolgestaaten, by Lea Horvat. With Ivana Mihaela Žimbrek (CEU), Aleksandar Ranković (U of Vienna), and Lea Horvat (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
Mar 14, 2024 (Online) | Book launch: Affect's Social Lives: Post-Yugoslav Reflections, by Tanja Petrović. With Catherine Baker (U of Hull), Stef Jansen (Faculty of Philosophy, Sarajevo), Mojca Piškor (Music Academy, Zagreb), Tanja Petrović and Ana Hofman (Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts)
Mar 14, 2024 (Berkeley) | Local reading group: Gajo Petrović's “Why Praxis” and Marx in the Mid-Twentieth Century; and Herbert Marcuse, “The Foundations of Historical Materialism”
Mar 4, 2024 (New York) | Talk: Jelena Vesić, "Solidarity in Time: The Week of Latin America in Belgrade in 1977" | Columbia
Feb 22, 2024 (Stanford) | Local reading group: Gerson Sher, Praxis: Marxist Criticism and Dissent in Socialist Yugoslavia
Feb 16-17, 2024 (Las Vegas)| AATSEEL panels: "New Approaches to Yugoslav Literature and Culture" (organized by Dominick Lawton, Stanford), and "The Legacy of Dubravka Ugrešić" (organized by Antje Postema, Berkeley)
Feb 1, 2024 (Stanford) | Talk: Joshua Malitsky, “Yugoslav Documentary Imaginaries of the Post-WWII Era”
Nov 30-Dec 3, 2023 (Philadelphia) | Conference: New Yugoslav Studies at ASEEES 2023, including NYSA-sponsored inaugural roundtable "Introducing New Yugoslav Studies"
Nov 15, 2023 (Berkeley) | Paper workshop: Mathew Muntz, “Untempered Revolution: Folklore, Antifascism, and People’s Art in Istria,” and Jacob Smiley, “Crisis and Social Ownership in Yugoslavia”
Oct 27, 2023 (Stanford) | Roundtable: Vladimir Kulić in “Monuments to Nostalgia”
Oct 25, 2023 (Stanford) | Local reading group: Vladimir Kulić, Bogdanović by Bogdanović: Yugoslav Memorials through the Eyes of Their Architect, and “The Scope of Socialist Modernism: Architecture and State Representation in Postwar Yugoslavia”
Oct 11, 2023 (Berkeley) | Local reading group: Brigitte Le Normand, Designing Tito’s Capital: Urban Planning, Modernism, and Socialism
Sept 28-9, 2023 (Berkeley) Film screening with Želimir Žilnik | “The People Are Present: Films of Želimir Žilnik” | BAMPFA
Sept 27, 2023 (Berkeley) | Local reading group with authors: Želimir Žilnik and Pavle Levi, “Europe’s Internal Exiles: Sound, Image, and Performance of Identity in Želimir Žilnik's Films”; and WHW, Shadow Citizens: Želimir Žilnik
Sept 13, 2023 (Berkeley) | Local reading group: Daniel Goulding, Liberated Cinema: The Yugoslav Experience, 1945-2001
Aug 30, 2023 (Berkeley) | Local reading group: Gal Kirn, Partisan Ruptures: Self-Management, Market Reform, and the Spectre of Socialist Yugoslavia
Apr 24, 2023 (Berkeley) | Manuscript workshop | Patrick Patterson, “The Products of Choice: Branding, Trademarks, and the Packaging of Socialist Prosperity”
Apr 3, 2023 (Stanford) | Local reading group with author: Jelena Batinić, Women and Yugoslav Partisans: A History of World War II Resistance
Mar 13, 2023 (Berkeley) | Local reading group: Susan Woodward, Socialist Unemployment: The Political Economy of Yugoslavia, 1945-1990
Mar 3, 2023 (Berkeley) | Panel |The Berkeley-Stanford Conference on Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies: Branislav Jakovljević, Blaze Joel, and Djordje Popović
Feb 14, 2023 (Stanford) | Film screening with director" Srdjan Keča, Museum of the Revolution
Feb 9, 2023 (San Francisco) | Talk: Katja Praznik: “When Art Workers Organize” | CIIS
Feb 7, 2023 (Stanford) | Local reading group with author: Katja Praznik, Art Work: Invisible Labour and the Legacy of Yugoslav Socialism
Feb 6, 2023 (Berkeley) | Talk: Bojana Videkanić: “Yugoslav People’s Art: Alternative Artistic Practices in Socialism”
Jan 30, 2023 (Berkeley) | Local reading group: Miroslav Krleža, “Speech at the Writers' Congress in Ljubljana”
Dec 1, 2022 (Berkeley) | Local reading group: Branko Horvat, “Yugoslav Economic Policy in the Post-War Period: Problems, Ideas, Institutional Developments”
Nov 17, 2022 (Berkeley) | Local reading group | Branislav Jakovljević, Alienation Effects: Performance and Self-Management in Yugoslavia, 1945-1991
Nov 10-3, 2022 (Chicago) | Conference: New Yugoslav Studies at ASEEES 2022
Oct 20, 2022 (Berkeley) | Local reading group: Branislav Jakovljević, Alienation Effects: Performance and Self-Management in Yugoslavia, 1945-1991
Oct 17, 2022 (Berkeley) | Talk and film screening: Filip Sestan and Zach Hicks, “Politics and Praxis in New Yugoslav Film: Early Works by Želimir Žilnik”
Oct 13-4, 2022 (Stanford) | Film screenings with Jelena Maksimović, Ognjen Glavonić, and Marko Grba Singh: “Cinematic Homelands”
Oct 6, 2022 (Berkeley) | Local reading group: Pavle Levi, Disintegration in Frames: Aesthetics and Ideology in the Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Cinema
Sept 8 & 22, 2022 (Berkeley) | Local reading group: Darko Suvin, Splendour, Misery, and Possibilities: An X-Ray of Socialist Yugoslavia
Nov 20-23, 2025 (Washington DC) | Conference: New Yugoslav Studies at ASEEES 2025
Nov 18, 2025 (New York) | Unlearning History: Maša Kolanović and Monika Herceg in conversation with Dijana Jelača | Brief Histories Gallery
Nov 18, 2025 (Stanford) | Talk: Jelena Vesić, "Trajectories of Solidarity in Time: The Week of Latin America, Student Cultural Centre, Belgrade, 1977"
Nov 15, 2025 (Oakland) | Bookstore reading and panel | Writing Against Genocide: Faruk Šehić in conversation with Ena Selimović and Antje Postema
Nov 14, 2025 (Vienna) | Exhibition of research literature on the Srebrenica Genocide, curated by Miranda Jakiša and Barbara Retschnig | U of Vienna, East European History and Slavonic Studies Library
Nov 13, 2025 (New York) | Talk: Natalija Majsova, "Structures of feeling and post-Yugoslav memory work in popular culture" | New School
Nov 13, 2025 (Berkeley) | Kujachich Lecture: Faruk Šehić in conversation with Antje Postema and Ena Selimović
Nov 11, 2025 (Vienna) | Book presentation: Women and Partisan Art: Aesthetics and Practices of Resistance in Yugoslavia and Carinthia, with Elena Messner and Miranda Jakiša
Nov 10, 2025 (Vienna) | Talk: Anita Buhin, "The Eroticization of the Adriatic: Sex, Tourism, and Masculinities in Socialist Yugoslavia" | CEU Vienna
Nov 7, 2025 (San Francisco) | Yugowave: A night of Yugoslav Punk and New Wave with DJ Zlaya and DJ Kaos Kaos
Nov 6, 2025 (Stanford) | Reading group with author: Bojana Videkanić, Nonaligned Modernism: Socialist Postcolonial Aesthetics in Yugoslavia, 1945-1985
Nov 6, 2025 (Vienna) | Film screening: Sjećaš li se Dolly Bell? | U of Vienna
Oct 30, 2025 (Toronto) | Reading group: Jasmina Tumbas, "I am Jugoslovenka!" Feminist Performance Politics During and After Yugoslavia Socialism
Oct 23, 2025 (Berkeley) | Reading group: Selections from Faruk Šehić
Oct 17-18, 2025 (Vienna) | International Colloquium: 7th Viennese South Slavic Graduate Conference | U of Vienna, CEU
Oct 15, 2025 (Berkeley) | Concert: Damir Imamović
Oct 11, 2025 (New York) | Inaugural symposium for New York Working Group in New Yugoslav Studies: Revolutionary Yugoslavia: Partisan Art, Archives and Film
Oct 10, 2025 (New York) | Film screening: "Walter Defends Sarajevo"
Sept 11, 2025 (Berkeley) | Local reading group: Paul Stubbs, “Socialist Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement: Contradictions and Contestations”; Chiara Bonfiglioli, “Representing Women’s Non-Aligned Encounters: A View from Yugoslavia”; and Peter Willetts, “The Foundations of the Non-Aligned Movement: The Trouble with History Is That It Is All in the Past”
Jun 10, 2025 (Vienna) | Roundtable: Maja Pan and Clara Lhullier, “Thinking, Writing, Living Lesbian Activist Struggles” | U of Vienna
Jun 4, 2025 (Vienna) | Podium Discussion: “Gastarbajt in Arts in Vienna” | U of Vienna
Jun 5, 2025 (Vienna) | Film screening with introduction by Olja Alvir: Most by Hajrudin Krvavac, 1969 | U of Vienna
May 27, 2025 (Vienna) | Lecture: YugoslaWomen+ Collective, “The Post-Yugoslav Space in IR and Collective (Un)learning” | U of Vienna
May 8, 2025 (Vienna) | Film screening: Skupljači perja by Aleksandar Petrović, 1967 | U of Vienna
May 6, 2025 (Vienna) | Lecture: Danijela Majstorović, “Peripheral Intersections: Rethinking Gender, Race, and Coloniality in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina” | U of Vienna
May 1, 2025 (Stanford) | Local reading group: Vladimir Unkovski-Korica, The Economic Struggle for Power in Tito's Yugoslavia: From World War II to Non-Alignment
Apr 26, 2025 (New York) | Film screening co-sponsored by New York working group: Jasmila Žbanić’s documentary Blum: Masters of Their Own Destiny. Roundtable discussion to follow, featuring Amir Husak, Isak Berbić, and Dijana Jelača
Apr 23-26, 2025 (New York) | Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival
Apr 19, 2025 (San Francisco) | Yugowave: A night of Yugoslav Punk and New Wave with DJ Zlaya and DJ Kaos Kaos
Apr 17, 2025 (Berkeley) | Local reading group: Ivo Banac, With Stalin against Tito: Cominformist Splits in Yugoslav Communism
Apr 10-13, 2025 (Waterloo) | Yugofuturisms conference hosted by the University of Waterloo
Apr 8, 2025 (Vienna) | Lecture: Martin Gramc, “Visibilizing Intersex Persons in Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia”
Apr 4, 2025 (Vienna) | Film screening with Introduction by Adrian Pelc: Nacionalna klasa by Goran Marković, 1978
Apr 3, 2025 (Berkeley) | Local reading group and film screening with director: Srdjan Keča, Flotel Europa and Generation Loss
Mar 20, 2025 (Vienna) | Second meeting of the New Yugoslav Studies Association Vienna Chapter
Mar 20, 2025 (Berkeley) | Local reading group: Ivana Bodrožić, Hotel Tito, tr. Ellen Elias-Bursać
Mar 18, 2025 (Vienna) | Lecture: Aleksa Milanović, “The Movement Whose Time Has Come: Trans activism in the Post-Yugoslav Space” | U of Vienna
Feb 27, 2025 (Stanford) | Local reading group: Rastko Močnik and Miklavž Komelj, “The Močnik-Komelj Debate,” and Gal Kirn, "Towards the Partisan Counter-archive" (The Yugoslav Partisan Art); and Pavle Levi, "Pivo"
Oct 24, 2024-Feb 23, 2025 (Istanbul) | Exhibition: Translated into Socialism, programmed by Sezgin Boynik, Tevfik Rada, and Merve Elveren and realized in collaboration with the Lumbardhi Foundation (Kosovo) | Salt Galata
Feb 14, 2025 | Dijana Jelača (Brooklyn College) and Olivera Jokić (John Jay College) participated in CUNY's "Indoor Voices" podcast to discuss the book Past: An Introduction to the Problem—Želimir Žilnik and Boris Buden, which Jokić translated into English. The English translation of the book has been made available free of charge.
Feb 6, 2025 (Berkeley) | Local reading group: Jozo Tomasevich, “Yugoslavia During the Second World War”; Hrvoje Klasić, “Why Did They Resist?” ; and the seven-part documentary serial Partizani, produced by Hrvoje Klasić
Jan 30, 2025 (Vienna) | Meeting of the New Yugoslav Studies Association Vienna Chapter | U of Vienna
Jan 28, 2025 (Vienna) | Lecture: Čarna Brković, “Socialist Modernist Worldmaking: Yugoslav Interventions in the International Humanitarian Debates in the 1970s” | Austrian Academy of Sciences
Jan 21, 2025 (Vienna) | Lecture: Tanja Petrović, “Of Men, Feelings, and Forms: The Affective Afterlives of the Yugoslav People's Army” | U of Vienna
Jan 21, 2025 (Vienna) | Discussion: “The Road Ahead: The European Commission's Agenda for the Western Balkans and Beyond,” with Dr. Jovana Marović, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of European Affairs of Montenegro | CEU, YURG
Dec 13, 2024 (Zagreb) | Symposium | The Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Zagreb celebrate Dubravka Ugrešić with a day of panels organized around her work.
Dec 13, 2024 (San Francisco) | Yugowave: A night of Yugoslav Punk and New Wave with DJ Zlaya and DJ Kaos Kaos
Dec 8, 2024 (Cleveland) | Yugo Rock Party: Stanislav Žabić (The Little Lighthouse) and Berislav Sabolić (Ill in the Head Records, DJ BogetzB)
Nov 9-Dec 4, 2024 (Cambridge) | Film Screening: The Yugoslav Junction: Film and Internationalism in the SFRY, 1957—1988 | Harvard Film Archive
Nov 30, 2024 (Waterloo) | Why Yugofuturisms Now? | University of Waterloo Art Gallery
Nov 21-24, 2024 (Boston) |Conference: New Yugoslav Studies at ASEEES 2024
Nov 18-19, 2024 (Berkeley) | Reading group with author and translator | Maša Kolanović and Ena Selimović, Underground Barbie
Nov 16, 2024 (Basel) | International Symposium: Cinema by Other Means
Nov 16, 2024 (Basel) | Film Screening: Cinema by Other Means: Experiments Around the Idea of Film in Yugoslavia Stadtkino Basel
Nov 16, 2024 (Oakland) | Women in translation: Author Maša Kolanović in conversation with translator Ena Selimović | Clio's Bookstore and Bar
Nov 12, 2024 (Stanford): Screening Dušan Makavejev's Innocence Unprotected (Nevinost bez zaštite, 1968)
Nov 6, 2024 (Berkeley) | Adair Rounthwaite, This Is Not My World: Art and Public Space in Socialist Zagreb
Oct 28, 2024 (New York) | Sezgin Boynik, "Sickle of Syntax & Hammer of Tautology: Concrete and Visual Poetry in Yugoslavia, 1968-1983" | Columbia U
Oct 24, 2024 (Berkeley) | Local reading group: Srećko Horvat and Igor Štiks' Welcome to the Desert of Post-Socialism: Radical Politics After Yugoslavia
Oct 18-19, 2024 (Vienna) | 6th Viennese South Slavic Graduate Conference | U of Vienna
Oct 17-19, 2024 (New York) | Landscape Cinema | Anthology Film Archives
Oct 10, 2024 (Stanford) | Local reading group: Andrew Wachtel's Making a Nation, Breaking a Nation: Literature and Cultural Politics in Yugoslavia
Sept 19, 2024 (Berkeley) | Local reading group: Andrew Wachtel's Making a Nation, Breaking a Nation: Literature and Cultural Politics in Yugoslavia
Sept 12-13, 2024 (Ljubljana) | War and Theatre: A Backward Glance
Jun 20, 2024 (Vienna) | Reading and talk with author Alem Grabovac | U of Vienna
Jun 13-14, 2024 (Vienna) | "Visions of Discipine on the (Post)Yugoslav Screen" Workshop with Dina Iordanova, Dijana Jelača, Nikica Gilić, & others | U of Vienna
June 4-9, 2024 (Belgrade) | Program of talks, lectures, and film screenings: "Non-Aligned Cultural Connections" | Museum of Yugoslavia
Jun 4, 2024 (Vienna) | Reading and talk with author Barbi Marković
May 31, 2024 (San Francisco) | Women in Translation: Stories from Croatia and Kazakhstan
May 21, 2024 (Vienna) | Milana Čergić: "A City Full of Supermarkets: Analyzing 'Economic Success' in Tuzla"
May 17, 2024 (Stanford) | Talk: Branko Sekulić, "Ethnoreligiosity in the Former Yugoslav Context"
May 15-17, 2024 (Rijeka) | Conference: "Postcolonial, Decolonial, Postimperial, Deimperial"; full program
May 2, 2024 (Stanford) | Program of experimental films curated by Milan Milosavljević, AFC Belgrade: “The New Yugoslav Film Experiment (Academic Film Center edition)”
Apr 18, 2024 (Berkeley) | Dissertation workshop: Damjan Božinović, "Reading Post-Yugoslav Literature Translingually"
Apr 11, 2024 (Berkeley) | Talk: Vjeran Pavlaković, "The Muralization of War: Graffiti, Murals, and Memory Politics in the former Yugoslavia"
Apr 5, 2024 (Stanford) | Talk: Gregor Moder and Bara Kolenc, “The Trouble with Ideology”
Apr 4, 2024 (Berkeley) | Local reading group with Gregor Moder and Bara Kolenc: Mladen Dolar, “Beyond Interpellation”; Slavoj Žižek, The Sublime Object of Ideology; and Louis Althusser, “Ideological State Apparatuses”
Apr 3, 2024 (Berkeley) | Workshop with Andreja Novakovic and Gregor Moder: "Hegel's Antigone"
Mar 15, 2024 (Vienna and online) | Book launch: Harte Währung Beton: Eine Kulturgeschichte des Massenwohnungsbaus im sozialistischen Jugoslawien und seinen Nachfolgestaaten, by Lea Horvat. With Ivana Mihaela Žimbrek (CEU), Aleksandar Ranković (U of Vienna), and Lea Horvat (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
Mar 14, 2024 (Online) | Book launch: Affect's Social Lives: Post-Yugoslav Reflections, by Tanja Petrović. With Catherine Baker (U of Hull), Stef Jansen (Faculty of Philosophy, Sarajevo), Mojca Piškor (Music Academy, Zagreb), Tanja Petrović and Ana Hofman (Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts)
Mar 14, 2024 (Berkeley) | Local reading group: Gajo Petrović's “Why Praxis” and Marx in the Mid-Twentieth Century; and Herbert Marcuse, “The Foundations of Historical Materialism”
Mar 4, 2024 (New York) | Talk: Jelena Vesić, "Solidarity in Time: The Week of Latin America in Belgrade in 1977" | Columbia
Feb 22, 2024 (Stanford) | Local reading group: Gerson Sher, Praxis: Marxist Criticism and Dissent in Socialist Yugoslavia
Feb 16-17, 2024 (Las Vegas)| AATSEEL panels: "New Approaches to Yugoslav Literature and Culture" (organized by Dominick Lawton, Stanford), and "The Legacy of Dubravka Ugrešić" (organized by Antje Postema, Berkeley)
Feb 1, 2024 (Stanford) | Talk: Joshua Malitsky, “Yugoslav Documentary Imaginaries of the Post-WWII Era”
Nov 30-Dec 3, 2023 (Philadelphia) | Conference: New Yugoslav Studies at ASEEES 2023, including NYSA-sponsored inaugural roundtable "Introducing New Yugoslav Studies"
Nov 15, 2023 (Berkeley) | Paper workshop: Mathew Muntz, “Untempered Revolution: Folklore, Antifascism, and People’s Art in Istria,” and Jacob Smiley, “Crisis and Social Ownership in Yugoslavia”
Oct 27, 2023 (Stanford) | Roundtable: Vladimir Kulić in “Monuments to Nostalgia”
Oct 25, 2023 (Stanford) | Local reading group: Vladimir Kulić, Bogdanović by Bogdanović: Yugoslav Memorials through the Eyes of Their Architect, and “The Scope of Socialist Modernism: Architecture and State Representation in Postwar Yugoslavia”
Oct 11, 2023 (Berkeley) | Local reading group: Brigitte Le Normand, Designing Tito’s Capital: Urban Planning, Modernism, and Socialism
Sept 28-9, 2023 (Berkeley) Film screening with Želimir Žilnik | “The People Are Present: Films of Želimir Žilnik” | BAMPFA
Sept 27, 2023 (Berkeley) | Local reading group with authors: Želimir Žilnik and Pavle Levi, “Europe’s Internal Exiles: Sound, Image, and Performance of Identity in Želimir Žilnik's Films”; and WHW, Shadow Citizens: Želimir Žilnik
Sept 13, 2023 (Berkeley) | Local reading group: Daniel Goulding, Liberated Cinema: The Yugoslav Experience, 1945-2001
Aug 30, 2023 (Berkeley) | Local reading group: Gal Kirn, Partisan Ruptures: Self-Management, Market Reform, and the Spectre of Socialist Yugoslavia
Apr 24, 2023 (Berkeley) | Manuscript workshop | Patrick Patterson, “The Products of Choice: Branding, Trademarks, and the Packaging of Socialist Prosperity”
Apr 3, 2023 (Stanford) | Local reading group with author: Jelena Batinić, Women and Yugoslav Partisans: A History of World War II Resistance
Mar 13, 2023 (Berkeley) | Local reading group: Susan Woodward, Socialist Unemployment: The Political Economy of Yugoslavia, 1945-1990
Mar 3, 2023 (Berkeley) | Panel |The Berkeley-Stanford Conference on Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies: Branislav Jakovljević, Blaze Joel, and Djordje Popović
Feb 14, 2023 (Stanford) | Film screening with director" Srdjan Keča, Museum of the Revolution
Feb 9, 2023 (San Francisco) | Talk: Katja Praznik: “When Art Workers Organize” | CIIS
Feb 7, 2023 (Stanford) | Local reading group with author: Katja Praznik, Art Work: Invisible Labour and the Legacy of Yugoslav Socialism
Feb 6, 2023 (Berkeley) | Talk: Bojana Videkanić: “Yugoslav People’s Art: Alternative Artistic Practices in Socialism”
Jan 30, 2023 (Berkeley) | Local reading group: Miroslav Krleža, “Speech at the Writers' Congress in Ljubljana”
Dec 1, 2022 (Berkeley) | Local reading group: Branko Horvat, “Yugoslav Economic Policy in the Post-War Period: Problems, Ideas, Institutional Developments”
Nov 17, 2022 (Berkeley) | Local reading group | Branislav Jakovljević, Alienation Effects: Performance and Self-Management in Yugoslavia, 1945-1991
Nov 10-3, 2022 (Chicago) | Conference: New Yugoslav Studies at ASEEES 2022
Oct 20, 2022 (Berkeley) | Local reading group: Branislav Jakovljević, Alienation Effects: Performance and Self-Management in Yugoslavia, 1945-1991
Oct 17, 2022 (Berkeley) | Talk and film screening: Filip Sestan and Zach Hicks, “Politics and Praxis in New Yugoslav Film: Early Works by Želimir Žilnik”
Oct 13-4, 2022 (Stanford) | Film screenings with Jelena Maksimović, Ognjen Glavonić, and Marko Grba Singh: “Cinematic Homelands”
Oct 6, 2022 (Berkeley) | Local reading group: Pavle Levi, Disintegration in Frames: Aesthetics and Ideology in the Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Cinema
Sept 8 & 22, 2022 (Berkeley) | Local reading group: Darko Suvin, Splendour, Misery, and Possibilities: An X-Ray of Socialist Yugoslavia