140 years of establishment of diplomatic relations between Italy and Serbia
On the occasion of the 140th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Serbia and Italy, a two day international scientific conference, dedicated to diplomatic, economic and cultural relations between the two countries, wаs opened at the SASA Grand Hall, on Friday, 31 May, at 9 a.m.
Historians from universities in Rome, Milano, Perugia, Trieste and Cassino and their Serbian counterparts from the Faculty of Philosophy, Faculty of Political Science, SASA Institute for Balkan Studies and the Institute for Recent History delivered lectures at the conference.
Among other things, what was discussed were the political relations between the two states in the context of various historical events, from the launching of the Italian mission in Belgrade in 1879 until today, including the Italian themes in the Serbian literature (1903-1914) and Italy in Slobodan Jovanović’s works, as well as cultural and trade ties between the two countries.
The organizers of the event are the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in cooperation with the Italian Institute for Culture in Belgrade (Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Belgrado). SASA President Vladimir Kostić and H.E. Mr. Carlo Lo Cascio, Ambassador of Italy gave the welcoming addresses.
Scientific conference "The End of the Great War in the Balkans 1918-1923"
The Institute for Balkan Studies of SASA, in cooperation with the French State Foundation for the Centennial of the Great War, organized the scientific conference "The End of the Great War in the Balkans 1918-1923".
The meeting started with welcoming speeches by the President of SASA, Vladimir S. Kostic, PhD, the Ambassador of France, His Excellency Frederic Mondolini, Assistant Minister of Education, Science and Technological Development for Science Tibor Sabo, PhD, and Director of the Institute for Balkan Studies of SASA Vojislav G. Pavlović, PhD. There were 16 participants from Serbia, Romania, Greece, France, Italy, Germany and Great Britain. Within the gathering, three round tables were held in Belgrade ("Comparison of the war experience on the Western and Balkan fronts"), Novi Sad ("End of Austro-Hungary") and Niš ("Breakthrough of the Thessaloniki front and liberation of Serbia"). The organization of the gathering was helped by the branch of SASA in Niš, the French Institute, the Italian Institute of Culture, the Goethe Institute, the Hellenic Foundation for Culture and the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad. The gathering was held from 12th to 14th September 2018.
Methodology of Transcription, Corpus Planning and Annotation
Workshop „Methodology of Transcription, Corpus Planning and Annotation“ took place at the Institute for Balkan Studies SASA in Belgrade, on 6th and 7th July 2015. It is carried out within the Bilateral cooperation between the Institute for Balkan Studies SASA (Belgrade, Serbia) and the Slavic Department of the Humboldt University (Berlin, Germany). The bilateral project is entitled “Towards a Social Construction Grammar: A New Approach to Narrative Methodology and Theory”; it is supported by the Ministry for Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia and the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD. The working language of the workshop was English.
FUTURE IN THE PAST: BULGARIAN HISTORY GROWING ONLINE
Within the ENArC project the activities of linking neighbourhoods – that is continuously expanding its network of institutions – holds a special position as it is one of the maxims of ICARUS. As ENArC project partner from Serbia, the Institute for Balkan Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts cooperates with the Institute for Literature of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences as their neighbours for this conference. The conference was held in Sofia and it served two purposes:
1. Showing intermediate results of the mentioned cooperation, with a highlight in presenting the online archives of preserved medieval Bulgarian charters, and
2. Giving colleagues with respective research interests and expertise as well as archival and cultural institutions from Bulgaria the opportunity to present and exchange their own experiences and results in digital processing of historical, especially medieval sources.
An atypical alliance: Franco-Serbian relations 1878–1940
The Institute for Balkan Studies continues the tradition of bilateral scholarly conferences with the University of Paris IV Sorbonne. The conference held in Paris in 2006 dealt with political relations in the interwar period. The one organized in Belgrade in December 2007 addressed the issues of influence and exchange in the domain of culture and ideas from the Congress of Berlin to the Second World War.
The international linguistic Conference “The Romance Balkans”
Venue: Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA), Belgrade Organizer: Institute for Balkan Studies, Belgrade Hall 2, 1st Floor Languages: English, French
