Academics: Regional Studies
Serbian Studies Event Archive
2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999
Calendar year 2006
Referendum, Status, and Loss? State and Nation Building in Serbia, Kosovo and Montenegro
September 18th, 12-1:30pm
1219 International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street (corner of Amsterdam) New York, NY 10027
Florian Bieber, University of Kent, and Senior Research Associated, European Centre for Minority Issues
The Myth of Ethnic War: Serbia and Croatia in the 1990s
October 25th, 12-1:30pm,
1219 International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street (corner of Amsterdam) New York, NY 10027
V.P. ("Chip") Gagnon, Ithaca College, NY
The status of Kosovi and the Preservation of Serbian Patronimy
November 3rd, 6pm
1219 International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street (corner of Amsterdam) New York, NY 10027
James G. Jatras, American Council on Kosovo and Nebojsa Milic, Internet commentator
EUrosis: An Analysis of EU Discourse in Slovenia
November 8th, 12-1:30pm
1302 International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street (corner of Amsterdam) New York, NY 10027
Mitja Velikonja, University of Ljubljana
Independent Again: Montenegro and the Challenges Ahead
November 8th, 6:30pm
Harriman Institute Forum, 420 West 118th Street (corner of Amsterdam) New York, NY 10027
Ambassador Branislav Srdanovic, Former Permanent Representative of the FRY to the UN and Alex Grigor'ev Roinishvili, Director of the Western Balkans Program Project on Ethnic Relations, Princeton, NJ
On Cannibals and Europeans: What a Serb Learned in Africa
November 13th, 12-1:30pm
Room 1219 International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street (corner of Amsterdam) New York, NY 10027
Zoran Milutinovic, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London
Rationality and Emotion in the Reconstruction of Balkan States
December 5th, 12-1:30pm
Room 1219 International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street (corner of Amsterdam) New York, NY 10027
Roger Petersen, M.I.T.
Calendar year 2005
The Destruction of the Orthodox Patrimony in Kosovo, 1999-2004
March 4, 6:30 p.m.
1219 International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street (corner of Amsterdam) New York, NY 10027
Slobodan Curcic, Princeton University, and Ninoslav Randjelovic, documentary producer
Mount Athos: History and Culture of a Byzantine Monastic Colony
March 11, 4:00 p.m.
Kellogg Conference Center, 15th Floor, International Affairs Building, 420 W. 118th Street, New York, NY 10027
Prof. John McGuckin, Columbia University; Fr. George Zugravu, Columbia University; A.E. Siecinski, Fordham University
[Title TBA]
April 8, 6:30 p.m.
1219 International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street (corner of Amsterdam) New York, NY 10027
Robert Hayden, University of Pittsburgh
Whose Myth? Which Nation? The Kosovo Myth Reassessed
April 22, 6:30 p.m.
1219 International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street (corner of Amsterdam) New York, NY 10027
Dejan Djokic, University of Nottingham.
Calendar year 2004
Read the Fall, 2004 Njegos Endowment for Serbian Studies newsletter (PDF)
Cultural Destruction During the Balkan Wars
March 5, 6:30 pm
1219 International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street (corner of Amsterdam) New York, NY 10027
Sava Pejic, British Library
Language and the Breakup of Yugoslavia
April 19, 12-1:30 pm
1219 International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street (corner of Amsterdam) New York, NY 10027
Ranko Bugarski, University of Belgrade
Milosevic: The Economic Mechanisms of Political Power
September 24, 6:30 pm
1219 International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street (corner of Amsterdam) New York, NY 10027
A documentary presentation with Tanja Jakobi, Journalist, Belgrade
Tito's Promised Land
October
8, 6:30 pm
1219 International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street (corner of Amsterdam) New York, NY 10027
A Book Presentation with Alex Dragnich
The 1804 Serbian Uprising: Political, Social and Cultural Legacies
November 13, 9:30 a.m.- 2 p.m.
Kellogg Conference Center, International Affairs Building, 420 W. 118th Street, New York, NY 10027
A Conference sponsored by the Harriman Institute, the East Central Europe Institute
and the Njegos Endowment for Serbian Language & Culture at Columbia
University.
Gala Banquet/Fundraiser to benefit the Njegos Endowment for Serbian Language and Culture at Columbia University
November 13, 7 p.m.
The Princeton Club, 15 West 43rd Street, New York, NY
Seats are available for $250. Guest of Honor: H.R.H. Princess Elizabeth Karadjordjevic. For more information or to reserve seats please call 212.854.8487.
Calendar year 2003
Read the Spring, 2003 Njegos Endowment for Serbian Studies newsletter (PDF)
Milosevic, War Crimes and the Hague Tribunal
January 28
Fred Abrahams, author
Fixing National Subjects in the 1920s Southern Balkans
March 3
Jane K. Cowan, Sussex University
Primetime Crime: The Balkan News Media in War and Peace
March 6
Kemal Kurspahic, author
Flares and Flickers: Visible Evidence of Resistance in 1990s Belgrade
March 10
Ana Miljacki (Harvard University)
Orthodox Christianity and American Culture: Conflict or Transformation?
March 28
Albert Raboteau, Princeton University
The Greek EU Presidency and the Balkans
April 7
Dimitri Avramopoulos, Former Mayor of Athens
On a Spiritual Quest: The Art of the Serbian American Painter Alexander Markovich
May 2
Svetlana Rakic, Franklin College
Concert: The D'Ivaz present 12 Short Pieces
May 16
Serbia After the Djindjic Assasination
May 29
Vukasin Pavlovic (University of Belgrade)
Exhibit: The Caricatures and Films of Zoran Jovanovic
June 6
Southeastern European Leaders Forum
September 24
A roundtable discussion featuring the heads of delegation to the U.N. General Assembly of the countries of southeastern Europe.
The Icon And Modernity: Mystery, Meaning, Means
October 17-19
A three-day event bringing scholars and artists together to exchange views on
the exhibition, exposition, and use of the Orthodox icon since its
rediscovery in nineteenth-century Russia and Eastern Europe. Interdisciplinary
panels will explore problems of the icon's status as cult object,
art object, political object, artifact, image, and text in the modern
period.
Workshop on Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian Language Instruction
October 24-25
Film Showing: "Kosovo 1998-2003, Between Fear and Hope
October 28
Documentaries by Ninoslav Randjelovic, Author and Producer, Belgrade. Exclusive footage on the life of ethnic minorities and the state of interethnic relations in Kosovo over the past five years.
The Current State of U.S.-Serbia-Montenegro Relations
December 12
Ivan Vujacic, Ambassador of Serbia-Montenegro to the United States
Calendar year 2002
Montenegro: On the Road to Independence?
January 31
Aleksandr Djurisic, Montenegrin Parliament
Increasing Yugoslavia's Capacity for the Effective Adoption of European Human Rights Standards
February 20
Mihailo Colak, Public Interest Law Initiative
The New Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
March 8
Dejan Sahovic, Yugoslav Ambassador to the UN
Balkan Islam After Communism: A Decade of Changes
March 11
Xavier Bougarel, National Scientific Research Council, Paris
Bosnia's Dayton Democracy: Party-System Formation, Federalism, Consociation, and Electoral Integration
April 3
Sumantra Bose, London School of Economics
When War and Law Collide: Rwanda, Somalia, Kosovo and the Challenges of International Humanitarian Law
April 5
Francois Bouchet-Saulnier, Doctors Without Borders
Minority Politics in Southeastern Europe
April 22
Milorad Pupovac, University of Zagreb
The Balkans as a Transition Zone in Medieval European Culture
April 25
Dubravko Lovrenovic, University of Sarajevo
An American Serbian Publisher's Perspective on the Balkans
May 9
Alex Machaskee, Cleveland Plain Dealer
Faith-based Institution Building in Serbia and Montenegro
June 19
Metropolitan Amfilohije, Serbian Orthodox Church
Dr. Vojislav Kosunica, President of Yugoslavia
September 13
The Future of the Balkans
September 30
Andrew Baruch Wachtel, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures,
Northwestern University
Serbia and its Neighbors: Facing the Recent Past
October 7
Dr. Vojin Dimitrijevic Director, Belgrade Center for Human Rights
Film Showing: Crimes and Punishment (re: Srebrenica)
October 9
United Nations Peacekeeping in the Balkans: The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina
October 28
Jacques Paul Klein, Representative of the Secretary General of the
United Nations to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
After the 2002 Macedonian and Yugoslav Elections: Prospects for New Balkan Arrangements
November 7
Robert Greenberg, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Honor and Heroism
November 8
Marko Miljanov. Lecture and photography exhibit.
Film Showing: Calling the Ghosts
November 20
Calendar year 2001
The Future of the Ex-Yugoslav Area
February 19
A symposium featuring 20 leading intellectuals and human rights activists from
throughout the ex-Yugoslav republics and organized in cooperation
with Yale University.
The Future of the U.S. Presence in the Balkans
February 26 & 27
An international
conference organized by The Harriman Institute, the East Central
European Center, and the Institute for War and Peace Studies at
Columbia and the U.S. Army War College. The proceedings are being
published.
The Destruction of the Serbian Patrimony in Kosovo
March 4
St. Sava Cathedral Parish Hall on 25th Street
Marina Hodge (National Gallery)
The Democratic Revolution in Serbia: One Year Later
September 18
Svetozar Stojanovic, University of Belgrade
Morphing the Curriculum:Adding New Perspectives
October 19
Educators' Conference, Raritan Valley Community College
Neither Civic nor Ethnic: The New National Question in Bosnia, Macedonia and Serbia
October 23
Susan Woodward, CUNY Graduate Center
Orthodoxy and Democracy: Challenges After the Cold War
October 26-27
A conference cosponsored by the Harriman Institute
and the East Central European Center at Columbia University, in
cooperation with Union Theological Seminary and the J.M. Dawson
Center for Church-State Studies at Baylor University. The Keynote
Address was given by Bishop Kallistos of Diocleia (Timothy Ware),
a Fellow at Pembroke College, University of Oxford.
September 11: Implications for US Policy in the Balkans
November
2
Dr. Srdja Trifkovic (Rockford Institute)
Balkan Film: Emir Kusturica, Director. Underground
November 12
Croatia as a Stabilizing Factor for Peace in Southeastern Europe
November
19
Ivo Sanader, President, Croatian Democratic Union
Serbia: An Unfinished Revolution
December
7
Miroslav Filipovic, Civic Alliance, Belgrad
Calendar year 2000
A concert featuring the music of Xenia G.B. Zetchevitch and Milos Raickovich
February
4
Miller Theater.
Politics and Human Rights in Kosovo
February 29
Fred Abrahams and
Fron Nazi, Human Rights Watch.
Retreat from Ecumenism in Post-Communist Russia and Eastern Europe?
April
7
Professor John H. Erickson from St. Vladimir's Orthodox
Theological Seminary.
George Bogdanich's award-winning film, Yugoslavia: The Avoidable War
April 7
Conflict Resolution in Kosovo
April
21
Gary Shapiro, Founder
and Executive Director of Conflict Resolution Catalysts. Co-sponsored
by the International Conflict Resolution Program and the Center
for the Study of Human Rights.
Orthodoxy in an Embattled Land: The Church and Democratization in Today's Serbia
September
15
Father Irinej
Dobrijevic, Executive Director of the External Affairs Office of
the Serbian Orthodox Church in the USA and Canada. Part of the Harriman
Institute's Seminar Series on Orthodox Christianity.
The Economic Reconstruction of the Yugoslav Successor States
October 12
Mr. Peter Dubsky, RZB Finance, Vienna.
Symbiosis in the Balkans
October
13
David Binder, The New York
Times.
State, Nation and Contemporary Orthodoxy: A Comparative Perspective
November 3
Fr. Leonid Kishkovsky, Orthodox Church in America.
Part of the Harriman Institute's Seminar Series on Orthodox Christianity
An auction of art at the Greeley Square Gallery, 32 West 31st St., second floor
November
15
Proceeds benefited the
Njegos Fund.
The Current State of Greco-Serbian Relations: The View from Athens
December 8
Prof. Theodore A. Couloumbis, Director-General, Hellenic
Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), Athens.
Calendar Year 1999
Evaluation of Recent Diplomacy in Kosovo
February 9
David L. Phillips, International Conflict Resolution Program
The Macedonian Question: The Liberation Movement in Macedonia
February 12
Nadine Akhund, Freelance Researcher
The Collective Guilt Complex of the Serbian People
February 26
Dragan Simeunovic, Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade
The Brcko Arbitration Award: Prospects for Enhancing Cooperation in Bosnia-Herzegovina
March 25
Stuart Seldowitz, US Department of State
Dangerous Liaisons: Minority Rights Advocacy in Croatia
March 30e
Carmen Butler, MIA Candidate, SIPA
The Death of the University: Education, Politics, and the Media in Serbia
March
31
Zoran Milutinovic, Visiting Professor, Wesleyan University
Teacher Training Workshop on Kosovo and Serbia for New York City Educators, with Ph.D. Candidates Christian Nielsen and Shinasi Rama
September 8
Misunderstanding the Balkans: International Policy in Southeastern Europe from Dayton to Kosovo
November
8
Gordon N. Bardos, Harriman Institute
NATO Enlargement and the Kosovo Crisis
April 22
A teleconference for the New York City Board of Education, with Gordon N. Bardos
and John Micgiel, Columbia University
The War That Wouldn't Go Away: The Balkans
May
11
Maria Todorova,
Florida State University, David Stark, Columbia University, Richard
Betts, Columbia University, Stephen Holmes, Princeton, and Victoria
de Grazia, Columbia University
Kosovo War: Causes and Consequences
September
28
with Dr. Aleksa
Djilas, Belgrade
2000 Years of Orthodox Christianity: Is there an Orthodox Civilization?
October
19
Conference
From Dayton to Kosovo: The Domestic and International Aspects of the Balkans' Crises
November 13
Conference