Here is the list of sessions from the preliminary program in which the members of our Society participate and/or which are relevant to our mission. We hope this will help you finalize your schedule for planned activities.
Session 1 – Saturday – 12:00-1:45 pm
“From Monarchy to Consumerism: Transformation of Public Spaces in Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Framework” - Salon 5, LB2Chair: Marko Icev, UCLA
Papers:
Tatjana Rosic Ilic, Singidunum U (Serbia) "An Unfinished Yugoslav Project in Post-Yugoslav Times: Church of St. Anthony of Padua by Jože Plečnik"
Jelena Zugic, U Nova de Lisboa (Portugal) "'Come Yesterday': A Building of an Abandoned Cinema in Belgrade and the Transformation of Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Cultural Spaces"
Ana Stojanovic, UCLA "Performing Memory: Transformation of Sokol Public Spaces in Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Period"
Disc.: Aleksandar Boskovic, Columbia U
Session 2 – Saturday – 2:00-3:45 pm 2-01
Book Discussion "Amoral Communities: Collective Crimes in Time of War"
Mila Dragojevic - (Roundtable) - Foothill A,
Chair: Pellumb Kelmendi, Auburn U
Part.: Dominique Arel, U of Ottawa (Canada)
Mila Dragojevic, Sewanee: The U of the South
Chip Gagnon, Ithaca College
Vjeran Ivan Pavlakovic, U of Rijeka (Croatia)
Maximizing Effectiveness, Appeal and Outreach for Teaching Smaller and Not So Small Slavic Languages: BCMS, Czech, Polish, Slovene and Ukrainian- (Roundtable)
- Foothill G1, 2Sponsored by: Society for Slovene Studies
Chair: Timothy Pogacar, Bowling Green State U
Part.: Ljiljana Duraskovic, U of Pittsburgh
Svitlana Rogovyk, U of Michigan
Mojca Nidorfer Šiškovič, U of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Izolda Wolski-Moskoff, Ohio State U
Luka Zibelnik, Cleveland State U
Repackaging the City: Urban Design and Planning in post-Socialist Volgograd, Tallinn and Prague- Salon 5, LB2
Chair: Vladimir Kulic, Iowa State U
Papers: Matthew Cotton, McPherson College "Reconstructing Stalingrad: The Struggle to Rebuild and Redefine the "Hero City" in the Aftermath of 1943"
Marie-Alice L'Heureux, U of Kansas "Repackaging the City: Urban Design in Estonia under Socialism and Capitalism (1985-2000)"
Petr Roubal, Institute of Contemporary History CAS (Czech Republic) "Self-Destruction of Urbanistic Expertise: Prague Urban Planning 1985-1995”"
Disc.: Vladimir Kulic, Iowa State U
Session 3 – Saturday – 4:00-5:45 pm
Gender, Sexuality and Queerness in Contemporary Pop Culture - Pacific J, 4
Chair: Nick Mayhew, Stanford U
Papers: Sarah Vitali, Harvard U "Music for the Muzhik?: Making Room for Women’s Voices in the Band Leningrad"
Marija Grujic, Institute for Literature and Art (Belgrade) "'Reality Has Never Heard of Us': An Introduction to Representations of Non-Heteronormative Lifestyles in TV Series and Popular Music in Serbia"
Nick Mayhew, Stanford U "Same-Sex Desire in Russian Pop After the 'Gay Propaganda' Law"
Disc.: Julie Anne Cassiday, Williams C
Session 4 – Sunday – 8:00-9:45 am
Geographies of Power in Interwar Yugoslavia- Golden Gate C3, B2
Chair: Jovana Babovic, SUNY Geneseo
Papers: Emil Kerenji, US Holocaust Memorial Museum "Balkan Geopolitics and Yugoslavia as Territory, 1908-1945"
Suzana Vuljevic, Columbia U "From the Balkan Conferences to the Balkan Institute: Yugoslav Contributions to Pan-Balkanism in Interwar Southeast Europe"
James MacEwan Robertson, UC Irvine "From Groundless Community to Fragile Borders: Territoriality in Miloš Crnjanski’s Nationalist Modernism"
Disc.: Jovana Babovic, SUNY Geneseo
Session 5 – Sunday – 10:00-11:45 am
Session 6 – Sunday – 12:30-2:15 p
Yugoslav Self-Management in a Municipality: Political, Economic and Social Insights - Golden Gate C3, B2
Chair: Robin Elizabeth Smith, Leiden U (Netherlands)
Papers: Ana Kladnik, Dresden U of Technology (Germany)"Local Self-Governance in (Post-)Socialist Slovenia"
Igor Duda, Juraj Dobrila U of Pula (Croatia) "Local Communities and Yugoslav Self-Management: Everyday Practices in Croatia in the 1980s"
Saša Vejzagic, European U Institute (Italy), "Central Management in Time of Atomization: Transformation of Company Organization in Socialist Yugoslavia during the 1970s"
Disc.: Patrick H. Patterson, UC San Diego
Book Discussion: "Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism" by Jelena Subotic - (Roundtable) - Salon 3, LB2
Chair: Mila Dragojevic, Sewanee: The U of the South
Part.: Dovile Budryte, Georgia Gwinnett College
Emil Kerenji, US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Jelena Subotic, Georgia State U
Medicating Society: Public Health, Medicine, and the State in the Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia- Sierra K, 5
Chair: Alison K. Smith, U of Toronto (Canada)
Papers: Mat Savelli, McMaster U (Canada)"Self-Management within Self-Management: Psychoactivity in Tito's Yugoslavia"Natalya Aleksandrovna Mitsyuk, RAS (Russia)"Right for Abortion and Contraception: Women's Movement for the Reproductive Rights in Russia (19th-20th Centuries)"
Ala Creciun, U of Maryland, College Park "Print Workers’ Mutual Aid Societies: Pension, Healthcare, Loans in Late Imperial Russia"
Pavel Vasilyev, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (Israel)"Urine for the New Soviet Man: Revisiting the Miracle Drug Gravidan"
Disc.: Alison K. Smith, U of Toronto (Canada)
YU-phoria: How Literature Believes in Yugoslavia- Pacific D, 4
Chair: Kaitlyn Tucker Sorenson, U of Chicago
Papers: Antje Postema, UC Berkeley "Grounded Attachments: Re-Inhabiting Yugoslav Spaces in Post-Yugoslav Fiction and Film"
Cristina Beretta, U of Klagenfurt (Austria) "Post-Yugoslav War Literature and the Paradox of Division in the Name of Unity"
Miranda Jakisa, U of Vienna (Austria)" YU-forija in South Slavic Literature"
Disc.: Vladislav Beronja, U of Texas at Austin
The Vision of Belief in Serbian Culture - Salon 14, LB2
Chair: Ida Sinkevic, Lafayette College
Papers: Ljubica D Popovich, Vanderbilt U "'Instrumenta Martyrii' Used on Believers in Fresco Menologion in Dečani"
Vasilije Vranic, Catholic U of America, "New Believers of Old Beliefs: The Controversy"
Svetlana Tomic, Alfa BK U (Serbia)"Women Intellectuals in the Serbian 19th Century Culture and Their Beliefs: The Importance of Discontinuity"
Disc.: Zivojin Jakovljevic, St. Sava Cathedral, New York City
Session 8 – Sunday – 4:30-6:15 pm
Film Screening 3 - (Film) - Salon 8, LB28-01 Whither Kosovo- Foothill A, 2
Chair: Steven E Meyer, Daniel Morgan Graduate School of National Security
Papers: Obrad Kesic, Republika Srpska Office for Cooperation, Trade & Investment (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
"The Kosovo Effect: Will An Agreement Between Belgrade and Pristina Destabilize the Balkans?"
Elez Biberaj, Voice of America "Kosovo: Consolidating Statehood"
David B. Kanin, Johns Hopkins U "Determining the Future of Kosovo"
Steven E Meyer, Daniel Morgan Graduate School of National Security "Kosovo: A Peaceful Way Forward"
Disc.: A Ross Johnson, Woodrow Wilson Center
Session 9 – Monday – 8:00-9:45 am
Session 13 – Tuesday – 8:00-9:45 am
Nation and Classification: What Hides Behind Science and Belief - Pacific D, 4
Chair: Dragana Obradovic, U of Toronto (Canada)
Papers: Dunja Dusanic, U of Belgrade (Serbia) "Literary Genre and Volksgeist: The Role of Generic Classification in Yugoslav Literary Historiography"
Vladimir Zoric, U of Nottingham (UK) "South Slavs between Yugoslavia and Central Europe: The Rise of a Regional Antagonism"
Adrijana Marcetic, U of Belgrade (Serbia) "Post-Yugoslav Literature(s) in Postnational and Transnational Context"
Disc.: Dragana Obradovic, U of Toronto (Canada)
Art Workers and Art's Working Conditions in the Labor Context of Socialist Yugoslavia- Pacific A, 4
Chair: Bojana Videkanic, U of Waterloo (Canada)
Papers: Bojana Videkanic, U of Waterloo (Canada) "Between the Art Studio and the Factory Floor: Cooperation, Production, and Creativity"
Deirdre Madeleine Smith, U of Texas at Austin "'The Conditions of Work Were Very Difficult...': The Yugoslav Art World as a Frame for Studying Self-Management"
Katja Praznik, SUNY Buffalo"Art Workers in Yugoslavia and the Paradox of Unpaid Artistic Labor"
Disc.: Eliza Rose, Columbia U