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
Oct 18-19 (Vienna): International Colloquium: 6th Viennese South Slavic Graduate Conference | U of Vienna
Nov 21-24 (Boston): ASEEES Annual Convention
Nov 21-24 (Boston): ASEEES Annual Convention
PAST EVENTS
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): Branko Sekulić: "Ethnoreligiosity in the Former Yugoslav Context"; for more information, see here
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): Paper workshop with Damjan Božinović, "Reading Post-Yugoslav Literature Translingually"
Apr 11, 2024 (Berkeley): Talk: Vjeran Pavlaković, U of Rijeka, "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 on 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" | Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room, 1219 International Affairs Building
Feb 22, 2024 (Stanford): Local reading group on Gerson Sher's Praxis: Marxist Criticism and Dissent in Socialist Yugoslavia
Feb 17, 2024 (Las Vegas): AATSEEL panel "New Approaches to Yugoslav Literature and Culture" (organized by Dominick Lawton, Stanford)
Feb 16, 2024 (Las Vegas): AATSEEL panel "The Legacy of Dubravka Ugrešić" (organized by Antje Postema, Berkeley)
Nov 30-Dec 3, 2023 (Philadelphia): ASEEES including NYSA-sponsored inaugural roundtable "Introducing New Yugoslav Studies"
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): Branko Sekulić: "Ethnoreligiosity in the Former Yugoslav Context"; for more information, see here
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): Paper workshop with Damjan Božinović, "Reading Post-Yugoslav Literature Translingually"
Apr 11, 2024 (Berkeley): Talk: Vjeran Pavlaković, U of Rijeka, "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 on 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" | Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room, 1219 International Affairs Building
Feb 22, 2024 (Stanford): Local reading group on Gerson Sher's Praxis: Marxist Criticism and Dissent in Socialist Yugoslavia
Feb 17, 2024 (Las Vegas): AATSEEL panel "New Approaches to Yugoslav Literature and Culture" (organized by Dominick Lawton, Stanford)
Feb 16, 2024 (Las Vegas): AATSEEL panel "The Legacy of Dubravka Ugrešić" (organized by Antje Postema, Berkeley)
Nov 30-Dec 3, 2023 (Philadelphia): ASEEES including NYSA-sponsored inaugural roundtable "Introducing New Yugoslav Studies"