Registration REQUIRED by 4pm on November 19, 2026 in order to attend this event.
Please join the New York Chapter of New Yugoslav Studies Association, the Njegoš Endowment for Serbian Language and Culture, the East Central European Center, and the Harriman Institute for a workshop-symposium on (Post)Yugoslav Screens: Cinema, Memory, and Cultural Transformation.
Bringing together scholars of Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav cinema, media, and popular culture, this workshop-symposium explores how audiovisual practices shape, contest, and reimagine social and historical realities. Spanning socialist Yugoslavia and its post-socialist aftermath, the presentations examine how moving images both reflect and intervene in the social conditions of their production and circulation, negotiating questions of class, gender, labor, migration, and technological progress. Particular attention is given to the interplay between cultural representation, collective memory, and political struggle, and to the ways cinema and popular culture reproduce or challenge dominant historical narratives. Taken together, the workshop-symposium invites a reconsideration of the relationship between socialism and post-socialism not simply as a historical rupture, but as an ongoing process in which the meanings of the Yugoslav past—and the futures once associated with it—remain open to negotiation.
The symposium is free and open to everyone, including students, scholars, and the general public.
Program
10:30am | Panel 1
Moderator: Amir Husak
- Justyna Gluba, Vladek’s Table: The Zagreb Film Circle of the 1970s and 1980s
- Aleksandar Momčilović, The State That Was Swept Away: The Class War Against Custodians in Late Socialist Cinema
12:30pm | Panel 2
Moderator: Dijana Jelača
- Clea Wanner, Dreams of a Better Life: Reusing Video Letters in Post-Socialist Film and Videoart
- Sima Kokotovic, Cinema of the Post-Yugoslav New Left: Filmmakers’ Commitments in Times of Transition
- Natalija Majsova, Remembering Yugoslav Technological Futures: Technostalgia in (Post)Yugoslav Popular Culture
2:30pm | The Steps of InterdependAnce!
An intimate conversation with Slavko Ðurić, a multidisciplinary artist
Please follow the hyperlinks above for speakers’ abstracts and biographies.
Image:
Katalin Ladik: YU HYMN, 1973, paper collage, 28 x 20 cm.
Courtesy of Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art,Budapest
Photo: József Rosta / Ludwig Museum – MoCA.
