NEW YORK WORKING GROUP IN NEW YUGOSLAV STUDIES
2025
Feb 14 Dijana Jelača (Brooklyn College) and Olivera Jokić (John Jay College) participate 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.
Apr 23-26 Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival | SVA Theatre
Apr 26 Film screening co-sponsored by the New York working group: Jasmila Žbanić’s documentary Blum: Masters of Their Own Destiny. Programming part of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival. Roundtable discussion to follow, featuring Amir Husak, Isak Berbić, and Dijana Jelača.
July 18-21 Film screening: "Interceptions: Yugoslavia in the Image World," curated by Nace Zavrl | Anthology Film Archives
Oct 10 Film screening: "Walter Defends Sarajevo"
Oct 11 Inaugural symposium for New York Working Group in New Yugoslav Studies: Revolutionary Yugoslavia: Partisan Art, Archives and Film
Nov 13 Talk: Natalija Majsova, "Structures of feeling and post-Yugoslav memory work in popular culture" | New School
Nov 18 Unlearning History: Maša Kolanović and Monika Herceg in conversation with Dijana Jelača | Brief Histories Gallery
Apr 23-26 Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival | SVA Theatre
Apr 26 Film screening co-sponsored by the New York working group: Jasmila Žbanić’s documentary Blum: Masters of Their Own Destiny. Programming part of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival. Roundtable discussion to follow, featuring Amir Husak, Isak Berbić, and Dijana Jelača.
July 18-21 Film screening: "Interceptions: Yugoslavia in the Image World," curated by Nace Zavrl | Anthology Film Archives
Oct 10 Film screening: "Walter Defends Sarajevo"
Oct 11 Inaugural symposium for New York Working Group in New Yugoslav Studies: Revolutionary Yugoslavia: Partisan Art, Archives and Film
Nov 13 Talk: Natalija Majsova, "Structures of feeling and post-Yugoslav memory work in popular culture" | New School
Nov 18 Unlearning History: Maša Kolanović and Monika Herceg in conversation with Dijana Jelača | Brief Histories Gallery