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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

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 Part. Please 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

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)

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)

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

The next meeting of the Berkeley-Stanford New Yugoslav Studies group will double as a session of the course "Yugoslavia and the Literature of Freedom," currently being taught at Stanford. We'll gather next Tuesday, October 12, at our usual time of 6pm-8pm, at Stanford, for our first film...Read more about Makavejev screening and other NYS programming in November

The May 2 NYS session on "The New Yugoslav Studies Film Experiment: Academic Film Center Edition" closed out an almost unimaginably rich and varied string of NYS-BS events this academic year. It’s fitting to finish our year precisely with experimental films, given that we essentially started...Read more about NYS end of year recap: 2023-24

Our next session of the New Yugoslav Studies-Berkeley/Stanford reading group on Thursday, April 11th in Berkeley will feature a talk by Vjeran Pavlaković (University of Rijeka) entitled "The Muralization of War: Graffiti, Murals, and Memory Politics in the former Yugoslavia." The meeting is at...Read more about Vjeran Pavlaković at NYS on "The Muralization of War: Graffiti, Murals, and Memory Politics in the former Yugoslavia"

Congratulations to folks on both campuses for making it to our respective spring breaks! Looking ahead after the break, the Berkeley-Stanford working group in New Yugoslav Studies will reconvene in April for a week of exciting events hosted by our guests from Ljubljana, the philosophers Gregor...Read more about Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis at NYS in April

Our chapter's parent organization, the international New Yugoslav Studies Association, now has a website and a listserv! Check out what other...Read more about The New Yugoslav Studies Association website is live!

On February 1, 20204, Joshua Malitsky will be speaking at New Yugoslav Studies on “Yugoslav Documentary Imaginaries of the Post-WWII Era.” Malitsky is an Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies and Director of the Center for Documentary Research and Practice at Indiana University. He...Read more about Joshua Malitsky at NYS on "Yugoslav Documentary Imaginaries of the Post-WWII Era"

Greetings from the New Yugoslav Studies Association! We're writing to introduce our new ASEEES-affiliated Yugoslav organization and to invite you to a series of inaugural events at the upcoming ASEEES convention in Philadelphia, Nov. 30 - Dec. 3. You're receiving this announcement...Read more about Announcing the New Yugoslav Studies Association

This academic year saw the inauguration of the New Yugoslav Studies Reading Group, an interdisciplinary group of Bay Area students and scholars interested in the study of the socialist Yugoslavia. Bringing together faculty, students and affiliated scholars from UC Berkeley and Stanford, the...Read more about "New Yugoslav Studies" (CREEES Chronicle)