NEWS FROM ACADEMIC COMMUNITY

2024
December 2024
Dijana Mitrović with DAH Theater
One. Ispred svog vremena (see more https://en.dahteatarcentar.com/december-2/)

Within multimedia event, SHE. Ahead of Her Time produced by DAH Theatre (Belgrade) and performed on several occasions in 2024, Serbian Studies Associate Editor, Dijana Mitrović has presented her sound installation Wave (Val). This interactive installation invites the audience to “step into the shoes” of prominent women of Serbian past and, in relative isolation from the environment, hear their thoughts and “get into their heads.” The work questions the stereotypes that underlie common cultural patterns of what it means to be a woman, outlining the split between what we see and what a person really is.

Although the position of women in Serbian society has been significantly improved, many of the patterns that hindered heroines of this work are still ubiquitous and prevent today’s women from fully realizing their potential. That is why the Wave invites audience to remember the women who defied social pressures and in doing so indelibly wove their image and work into collective memory and social progress of Serbian society. Through that memory, this work wants to inspire new generations of women to dare to swim upstream, to embrace themselves in all their complexity and wholeness, to stir the stagnant waters of patriarchy, creating a new wave from which future generations will better see the world around them.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.

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.

2021
We are proud to announce that on February 11, 2021, Tomislav Z. Longinović, Professor of Slavic, Comparative Literature and Visual Culture, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was named winner of the prestigious Jovan Skerlić Award for 2020, for his novel entitled Fetiš Nulo (Belgrade: Dereta). Congratulations to Professor Longinović, our longtime member.