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New Yugoslav Studies is returning to Chicago for the 2026 ASEEES conference. This time we have 33 panels, 5 auxiliary events, and 156 participants – including 22 from Berkeley and Stanford. Also, our colleages at ISEEES and CREEES are hosting their annnual Berkeley-Stanford reception on Friday,...Read more about 22 Berkeley-Stanford NYS members heading to ASEEES 2026

Our next NYS meeting is held at Stanford and it promises to inspire the same high level of energy and discussion that we saw at the last two sessions. We'll be gathering on Thursday, October 1, at 6:00 pm at Stanford (Building 260, Room 252). Our topic this time will be the writings of Miroslav...Read more about First Stanford session this term: Krleža on Hegedušić, carpool from Berkeley

This past December, sitting alongside two of my classmates at UC Berkeley for a conversation with four students from the student protest movement in Serbia, I realized that we were seeing something theoretically familiar unfold in real time: a grassroots resistance campaign that had grown into a...Read more about "Solidarity’s Spark: Learning from Student Protesters in Serbia" (ASEEES NewsNet)

Welcome back from Berkeley-Stanford New Yugoslav Studies! We have an exciting Fall ahead of us with seven NYS events and seven South Slavic courses at our two institutions, and we hope you'll once again take full advantage of these opportunities. Please save the following dates, consider...Read more about A New Yugoslav Studies welcome: Fall events, classes, updates

Just four months after the ceremonial reopening of the Novi Sad railway station, the station’s canopy collapsed, killing sixteen people. The Serbian government flatly denied that any construction work had been done at all, much less that the renovations were responsible for the canopy disaster....Read more about "Chronicles of Repression, Chronicles of Resistance: Arts and Culture at the Forefront of State Capture in Serbia" (ArtMargins)

Looking back on this past academic year, we want to thank you all for being part of another monumental year for Berkeley-Stanford New Yugoslav Studies. It’s hard to wrap our heads around how much we were able to accomplish together — and how much we are already preparing for the next...Read more about Another NYS year to remember

We’re thrilled to announce that New Yugoslav Studies will be represented by 33 panels and 150+ participants at this year’s ASEEES convention in Chicago, Nov 12–15. Together with our sister organization, the Black Sheep Society, this brings us to...Read more about New Yugoslav sessions at ASEEES 2026

Jasmila Žbanić needs help fundraising for her new film, Quo Vadis, Aida? The Missing PartPlease help spread the word and, if you’re in a position to, pitch in at this link: ...Read more about Fundraising for "Quo Vadis, Aida? The Missing Part"

Qui parle: who speaks? For several generations, the theoretical humanities have disavowed the Enlightenment response to such a question: the free, rational subject. Such a figure has appeared hopelessly naïve and constitutively violent, a conceptually incoherent fantasy mobilized to...Read more about CFP: The Subject and its Estrangements (Qui Parle 36:1)

ASEEES NewsNet publishes an extensive interview with the New Yugoslav Studies Association board members, including Berkeley's Antje Postema and Djordje Popović.Read more about "New (Yugoslav) Kids on the Block" (ASEEES NewsNet)

Students at UC Berkeley have organized a panel with four representatives of the student movement in Serbia on Wednesday, December 10, at 11am (PT) / 8pm (CET). The discussion with students from Belgrade, Niš, Novi Pazar, and Novi Sad will be...Read more about Online Panel with Students Protesting in Serbia (12/10)

Berliner Gazette publishes a story on the 2025 Yugofuturism conference, "Neue jugoslawische Politik? Wie der Jugofuturismus die Geschichte reanimiert" (in German and English): "In light of the recent surge in academic and artistic interest in socialist Yugoslavia, its supranational...Read more about "Neue jugoslawische Politik?" (Berliner Gazette)

Nikola Radić's Novosti article transated in Le Courrier des Balkans (in French): "Du 20 au 23 novembre, la conférence des études slaves réunira à Washington plus de 2500 spécialistes, dont une centaine de membres de la New Yugoslav Studies Association. Un rendez-vous qui...Read more about "Nouvelles études yougoslaves : la Yougoslavie de l’avenir s’écrit au présent" (Courrier des Balkans)

It’s been great seeing so many students at our recent NYS events, especially the October 23rd reading group session. Having had the chance to read and discuss Faruk Šehić’s work together – and especially his poetry in Ena Selimović’s new translation – we’ve really prepared as a group for this...Read more about Talks by Faruk Šehić and Ena Selimović: the Kujachich Lecture at Berkeley (11/13) and bookstore reading at Clio's (11/15)

Zagreb-based Novosti publishes a story on New Yugoslav Studies by Nikola Radić (in BCS): "...Dvorane na Berkliju pune studenata koji uče bhs..."Read more about "Jugoslavija budućnosti" (Novosti)

One of today's best-known sevdalinka musicians, Damir Imamović, will perform at the Freight in Berkeley on Wednesday, Oct 15, at 8pm. Tickets are still available at the Freight....Read more about Damir Imamović in concert at The Freight (10/15)

Factories to the Workers? is a new digital exhibition of historical documents, created in collaboration with the Archives of Yugoslavia, to mark the 75th anniversary of the introduction of self-management in Yugoslavia. We...Read more about Exhibition on Yugoslav self-management

With our third year behind us – a year in which we’ve organized 15 more Berkeley-Stanford New Yugoslav Studies events and offered 9 South Slavic courses – we have reached a point in our development when we need to turn to our community and...Read more about New Yugoslav Studies needs your help