ACTIVITIES
RECENT PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATION, AWARDS & HONORS
2024:
A Book Promotion at the University of Chicago, March 29, 2024
On behalf of the University of Chicago Slavic Department, Nada Petkovic organized a book promotion for the recently published volume Zenithism (1921–1927)—A Yugoslav Avant-Garde Anthology Academic Studies Press, 2023., edited by Aleksandar Bošković and Steven Teref. The book is the first-ever English language anthology of zenithism, an eclectic avant-garde movement unique to the Yugoslav region that spanned the period of 1921–1927. Reaching American readers for the first time, this anthology sheds light on an untapped chapter in European modernism, ideal for the general and academic reader alike.
2023
Milica Bakić-Hayden. 2023. Ex-Orientalism Lux: A Reflection on Differing Legacies of a Concept. In Re-Imagining the Balkans, How to Think and Teach a Region (Festschrift in Honor of Maria Todorova), ed. by Augusta Dimou, et al. 97-107. De Gruyter Oldenbourg.
A Book Talk at the University of Chicago, February 2023
Nada Petković hosted a book preсеntation at the University of Chicago Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures with Ainsley Morse (Dartmouth College) and Aleksandar Bošković (Columbia University). Morse and Bošković presented their collaborative work on translation and critical edition of The Fine Feats of the Five Cockerels Gang: A Yugoslav Marxist-Surrealist Epic Poem for Children, authored by Aleksander Vučo and accompanied by Dušan Matić’s photo collage illustrations and captions (Brill, 2022). Over sixty people attended the event and showed interest in obtaining and reading the book. 2022|
2022
A roundtable at the ASEEES Convention in Chicago, November 2022
President of NASSS Nada Petković (University of Chicago) organized and hosted a roundtable devoted to Precarity and Disenhantment in the Literary Production of Southeast Europe. Participants were also Vladislav Beronja (U of Texas at Austin), Aleksandar Bošković (Columbia U), Dunja Dušanić, (U of Belgrade (Serbia) and Adrijana Marcetić, (U of Belgrade, Serbia). A number of important topics related to the contemporary literature and other forms of cultural production in the region were raised and productively discussed. The occasion was also used for consideration of the future NASSS activities.
Stories from Around the World, an English translation of a popular short story collection by Vladimir Pištalo, was released by Agora, September 2023. The translator is our President, Nada Petkovic, University of Chicago.
2021
Milica Bakić-Hayden. “Doubly Neglected: Histories of Women Monastics in the Serbian Orthodox Church,” in Women and Religiosity in Orthodox Christian Contexts, ed. by Ina Merdjanova. 2021. New York: Fordham University Press.We are proud to announce that on
2020
Belgrade Noir, edited by Milorad Ivanović, continues Akashic Books’s award-winning series of original noir anthologies of literary fiction, mysteries and crime launched in 2004. The book is comprised of new stories written by well-known writers, Vladimir Arsenijević, Aleksandar Gatalica, Misha Glenny, Muharem Bazdulj, Miljenko Jergović, Vesna Goldsworthy, among others. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city. December 2020, New York: Akashic Books.
A New English Version of Aska and the Wolf by Ivo Andrić
ACKNOWLEDGMEN: Courtesy of The Ivo Andrić Foundation | Задужбина Иве Андрића, Београд, Србија
Editing and adaptation: Željka Cvjetan Gortinski and Roderick Menzies, Narration: Željka Cvjetan Gortinski, Translation: Felicity Rosslyn
Music: Aleksa Janković, llustration: Mijat Babić, Audio mastering: Aleksandar Saša Panić, Audio recording: Samir Beširević, Introduction: Charles Robertson, Producer: Željka Cvjetan Gortinski
Slobodanka Millicent Vladiv-Glover, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University participated in the webinar: 75 Years since the end of World War II: Commemoration and historical understanding at Griffit University, Queensland, Australia, hosted by The Australasian Association for Communist and Post-Communist Studies (AACaPS) on September 24, 2020. Her topic is: Narratives of the Victors and the Losers about WWII in the Balkans (Former Yugoslavia).
Vladimir Pištalo, writer, professor and long-time member of our society, received the prestigious "Meša Selimović" award for his book Joker. Congratulations to the author!
Tanja D. Conley. 2019. Urban Architecture in Interwar Yugoslavia. New York, London: Routledge, Research in Architectural History.
Milica Bakić-Hayden. 2019. “The Cross at the Crossroads: The Feast of Slava between Faith and Custom,” in Everyday Life in the Balkans, ed. by David W. Montgomery. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 289-299.
Jovana Babović. 2018. Metropolitan Belgrade: Culture and Class in Interwar Yugoslavia. University of Pittsburgh Press