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.
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.
NEW PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATIONS, AWARDS & HONORS
Zenithism (1921–1927)—A Yugoslav Avant-Garde Anthology, edited by Aleksandar Bošković and Steven Teref, is the first-ever English language anthology of zenithism, an eclectic avant-garde movement unique to the Yugoslav region that existed 1921–1927. Zenithism’s founder Ljubomir Micić envisioned the movement as a fusion of futurism, dada, constructivism, expressionism, and proto-surrealism, driven by what he called the “barbarogenius.” The zenithists promoted their ideas through their journal Zenit and press Biblioteka Zenit. 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. Forthcoming, Academic Studies Press, spring 2023.
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.
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. Forthcoming, 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!
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.
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