ACTIVITIES

2024:
NASSS is devoted to enhancing visibility of Serbian and Southeast European academic production in the area of humanities and social sciences. To that end it cooperates with Innovation Center (www.cisi.rs) in utilizing digital technologies to foster cooperation between regional and global production of knowledge. Vice President of NASSS Dr. Vladimir Petrović has been appointed Head of the Innovation Center (https://cisi.rs/) aimed at facilitating international scholarly exchange between Serbian, Southeast European and global academia in the area of humanities and social sciences. In June 2024, Petrovic took part in an annual Scholars at Risk Conference, held at the European Humanities University in Vilnius, where he presented the activity of the Invisible University for Ukraine and its emerging Balkan component.

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
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.