Prof. Dr. Maša Kolanović participated in a conference "Fiction as Memory Work" at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory of the University of Belgrade on 4 and 5 June 2026, presenting a paper titled "What Was Yugoslav Socialism and What Comes After? Dubravka Ugrešić and the Social Knowledge of Literature." The workshop brought together ten researchers from European research institutions and universities to discuss the study and critical pedagogy of fiction related to the wars in the former Yugoslavia, as well as its use in memory work and in the processing of war trauma.
From May 8 to 9 2026, Prof. Danijela Lugarić Vukas participated in the kick-off workshop “Affects & Effects: Comparing Post-Socialist Wars”, organized by Justus Liebig University Giessen and the Center for Cultural and Literary Research in Berlin. She delivered a presentation titled “Affects Without Closure: Documentary Literature and the Temporal Effects of the (Post-)Yugoslav Wars.” In her research, drawing on Brian Massumi’s affect theory and Lauren Berlant’s concept of “impasse,” she analyzed several contemporary war novels: Götz and Meyer (1988) by David Albahari, Beara: A Documentary Novel about the Srebrenica Genocide (2016) by Ivan Đikić, Underground Barbie (2008) by Maša Kolanović, and Cabbage Leafing (2023) by Igor Beleš. A total of 19 speakers from around ten countries participated in this interdisciplinary workshop.
Prof. Dr. Milka Car participated with a presentation at a scientific conference dedicated to the Austrian poet Ingeborg Bachmann. This year’s conference was the 16th in a series of international conferences devoted to the lyric poetry of the German-speaking area, with a particular focus on Austrian authors. It was held in the Blue Hall of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana on April 20 and 21, organized by Prof. Johann Lughofer and Prof. Irena Samide, under the full title 16th International Lyric Days of German Studies Ljubljana. On the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Ingeborg Bachmann. Milka Car delivered a presentation in German titled “The Wet Boundary Between Me and Myself… Water Motifs in Ingeborg Bachmann’s ‘Undine Goes’”, in which she documented various interpretative approaches to the motif of water, as well as shifts in research paradigms in the interpretation of a canonical text of postwar German-language literature.
Prof. Dr. Jasmina Vojvodić, together with her colleague from Sofia, Prof. Dr. Ljudmila Dimitrova, organized the online International Scientific Conference titled F. M. Dostoevsky in Southeast Europe. The conference was held on February 12, 2026. Jasmina Vojvodić presented a “play with the document,” which in the contemporary theatrical adaptation of the novel The Brothers Karamazov is reflected in the depiction of the city (the play’s poster as an urban vignette of Zagreb) and the stage (Balkan motifs within a classical text). The title of her presentation was The Brothers Karamazov on the Stage of the Zagreb Youth Theatre (dir. O. Frljić, 2022).
Prof. Dr. Danijela Lugarić Vukas attended the conference “Levkinskie chtenija. Kul'turnye transformacii v russkoyazychnom prostranstve v XXI veke” from 8 to 12 March 2026, co-organized by the Faculty of Humanities, University of Latvia, the University of Turin, and Roma Tre University. At the conference, she presented her research titled “Literatura i vlast' nad proshlym: sovetskij opyt v proze 2010-kh”. In addition, she presented the project and established new forms of future collaboration with international colleagues.