The first issue of Currents of History for 2024 has been released. The latest edition of the journal includes scholarly research on the comparative history of interwar housing policy, Cossack formations in the NDH, economic cooperation between developing countries, Yugoslav Trotskyists, Serbian Orthodox Church in Vojvodina, commemorative practices, and much more.

The complete contents of the new issue of Currents of History are available here:

https://tokovi.istorije.rs/eng/archives/23/2023/12/15/32023.html

Currents of History is a scholarly journal issued by the Institute for Recent History of Serbia, dedicated to publishing academic articles, essays, polemics, reviews, conference information, and historical sources pertaining to the modern history of Serbia, Yugoslavia, and the Balkans.

The Institute for Recent History of Serbia is organizing, from October 16 to 18, 2024, in Belgrade,

scientific meeting "History of Yugoslavia: perspectives of young researchers from the post-Yugoslav space".

Younger generations of historians dealing with the 20th century in the territory of the former Yugoslav republics are not sufficiently connected, despite the common subject of research - the history of Yugoslavia. One of the goals of this meeting is precisely to encourage the acquaintance of young historians, the exchange of information, experiences, opinions and ideas, to see the space for joint projects and cooperation in the research process. The participants will present the history of Yugoslavia through the prism of their research, and the scientific and general public will see the perspectives of young historians during this meeting. Accordingly, the goals of the meeting are to present the scientific achievements of young historians in the post-Yugoslav area, to open up new topics and research opportunities, as well as to look at the history of Yugoslavia from different angles. The meeting is intended for young researchers in accordance with the usual propositions that in the European academic community apply to this category of researchers - doctoral students and doctors of historical sciences who have defended their dissertations in the last three years, from Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and North Macedonia.

The working languages of the meeting will be Serbian and the native languages of the region.

As a result of the meeting, it is planned to publish an international collection of papers published by the Institute for Recent History of Serbia.

The organizer of the meeting will cover the accommodation costs for the young researchers.

PDF file of the invitation

Program and organization committee of the conference

On Thursday and Friday, March 21-22, 2024, the following will take place:
International scientific conference "Serbian/Yugoslav-Romanian relations and interactions in the 20th century".

The conference will be held in the ceremonial hall of the Institute for Recent History of Serbia.

You can download the detailed program of the conference here.

INIS was visited by Arik Burakovsky, Assistant Director for the Russian and Eurasian Program of the famous Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Boston. In the conversation with Dr. Milet Bjelajc, director of INIS, and Dr. Jovan Čavoški, they discussed possible modes of cooperation between the two institutions. On that occasion, the personnel potential of INIS was also presented.

The Institute for Recent History of Serbia was visited and participated in a conversation with Dr. Milet Bjelajc, scientific advisor and director of INIS and Dr. Jovan Čavoski, senior research associate of our Institute, Li Jianjun and Jiang Lu, professors Center for Study of Civilizations, Capital Normal University in Beijing.

Professors Li Jianjun and Zhang Lu will be guests of the Institute during 2024 as part of the exchange program based on the cooperation agreement signed in 2023.

The latest edition of the 2023 release of Currents of History is currently accessible. This issue encompasses scholarly contributions covering various disciplines such as the history of pharmacy, music, diplomacy, the women's labor movement, industry, military justice, modern historiography, and an array of other subjects.

The complete contents of this edition of Currents of History can be accessed here:
https://tokovi.istorije.rs/eng/archives/23/2023/12/15/32023.html

Currents of History is a scholarly journal issued by the Institute for Recent History of Serbia, dedicated to publishing academic articles, essays, polemics, reviews, conference information, and historical sources pertaining to the modern history of Serbia, Yugoslavia, and the Balkans.

"At the end of November 2023, our colleague Dr. Jovan Čavoški, senior research associate, was on an official visit to East China Normal University in Shanghai. On that occasion, Dr. Čavoški gave a lecture in Chinese to colleagues present about the historical significance of the Non-Aligned Movement during the decades of the Cold War, and at the same time, he was declared an honorary researcher of the Academy of History and Documentation of Socialism at the same university. By the way, East China Normal University is the center of the most serious center for research into the Cold War and China's relations with the world, primarily with socialist countries and countries in its vicinity, on the territory Peoples Republic of China During this visit, Dr. Čavoški held detailed discussions with his Chinese colleagues about the establishment of official cooperation between the two scientific institutions, which will be realized in the near future, thereby opening up further opportunities for very fruitful bilateral cooperation in the field of historical research. The Institute for Recent History of Serbia becomes a domestic scientific institution with the most extensive network of academic contacts in the Peoples Republic of China, both in Beijing (Capital Normal University, Peking University, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) and in Shanghai (East China Normal University), with already one cooperation agreement, and others will follow, all of which was achieved thanks to the personal efforts and connections of Dr. Čavoški, and that network, through his further contacts with Chinese colleagues, will continue to expand and thus contribute to greater international recognition of our Institute."

Foto source - East China Normal University in Shanghai:
The attached photo is the moment when Professor Dr. Yao Yu (Yao Yu), the director of the aforementioned Academy of History and Documentation of Socialism, hands me a plaque declaring me as their honorary researcher.

The guest of the Rubicon on the occasion of Victory Day in the First World War was Dr. Mile Bjelajac, Serbian political scientist, doctor of historical sciences, university professor and director of the Institute for Recent History of Serbia

Why is the West revising history?
Who accuses Serbia of causing the First World War?
How ultimatum to Srbia was made in order not to be accepted?
How is Germany trying to remove the stigma of two world wars by attacking Serbia?
How did the Serbs win great victories in the First World War?
What distinguished the famous Serbian officers?
Russia's influence on the Great War?
Why did Apis try to prevent Princip from being assassinated?
What is the importance of the Thessaloniki front on the outcome of the war?
Who was disturbed by the Black Hand?
How is history falsified and used for the sake of politics?

source: Rubikon Press

Dear associates and friends of INIS,  

we invite you to visit us this week at the 66th International Book Fair in Belgrade.  

We are located in the old place in HALL 1, gallery, stand 1507 opposite the entrance to HALL 1.

WELLCOME!!!

On September 1, 2023 our colleague from the Institute for Recent History of Serbia Natalija
Dimić Lompar defended her PhD thesis entitled “Divided Germany and Yugoslavia
(1945–1966): Political Relations during the Cold War“ at the History Department of the Faculty
of Philosophy in Novi Sad.

The thesis defense committee members were:

Prof. Biljana Šimunović Bešlin,
Prof. Slobodan Bjelica,
Dr. Mile Bjelajac and
the thesis supervisor Prof. Đorđe Đurić.

The second issue of Currents of History for 2023 has been published. It consists of scholarly papers dealing with the interwar business elite and diplomacy, Yugoslav-Bulgarian issues, the Trepča mine, “Young Muslims”, rivalry in the Non-Aligned Movement and much more.

The latest issue of Currents of History is accessible on the Journal’s website: https://tokovi.istorije.rs/eng/archives/23/2023/08/29/22023.html

Currents of History is an academic journal of the Institute for Recent History of Serbia, that publishes academic articles, essays, polemics, reviews, information on conferences, and historical sources related to the contemporary history of Serbia, Yugoslavia, and the Balkans.

Colleague Jovan Čavoški, Ph.D., was in Beijing during July, and on that occasion a cooperation agreement was signed with the Center for the Study of Civilizations from Beijing (Center for Study of Civilizations, Capital Normal University).  It is one of the leading Chinese scientific institutions dedicated to the study of the contemporary Balkans.

The contract was signed by Jovan Čavoški from the side of Institute for Recent History of Serbia and the Director of the Center Professor Liang Zhanjun.

During his stay, colleague Čavoški had numerous meetings with various members of the Chinese academic community. These are colleagues from several academic and scientific institutions from Beijing and Shanghai. During the meetings, colleague Jovan discussed the possibilities of further cooperation, as well as the possible signing of a contract on cooperation between the Institute for Recent History of Serbia and Chinese academic and scientific institutions.

Colleague Čavoški received his doctorate in 2014 at the University of Beijing, and in 2022 he published the capital book "Non-Aligned Movement Summits" at Bloomsbury Academic.

Photo: Jovan Čavoški

On Tuesday, May 10, 2023, in the ceremonial hall (434) on the 4th floor of the Faculty of Philosophy in Niš, there will be a promotion of the publications of the Institute for the Recent History of Serbia.

Dr. Mile Bjelajac, director of INIS, Dr. Bojan Simić, editor of the "studies and monographs" edition, Dr. Zoran Janjetović, president of the scientific council of INIS, Dr. Dmitar Tasić, Dr. Sanja Petrović Todosijević and Dr. Aleksadnar R. Miletic.

The promotion will be opened at 11:30 a.m. by Dr. Dejan Antić, associate professor of the history at the department of the Faculty of Philosophy in Niš.

U utorak 9. maja 2023. u Holu Narodnog muzeja u Leskovcu održaće se promocija izdanja Instituta za noviju istoriju Srbije iz Beograda.

Na promociji će govoriti dr Mile Bjelajac, direktor INIS-a, dr Bojan Simić, urednik edicije "studije i monografije", dr Zoran Janjetović, predsednik naučnog veća INIS-a, dr Dmitar Tasić, dr Sanja Petrović Todosijević, dr Aleksadnar R. Miletić.

Promociju će u 13:30č će otvoriti Nebojša Dimitrijević, direktor Narodnog muzeja u Leskovcu i dr Dejan Antić, predsednik Upravnog odbora Narodnog muzeja u Leskovcu.

The first issue of Currents of History for 2023 has just been released.

It consists of scholarly papers on Russian energy policy in the Balkans, social insurance and diplomatic service in the Yugoslav kingdom, ideological collaboration, industrial development, Tito's diplomacy, emigration and subversive propaganda in socialism, the breakup of SFRY and much more.

The latest issue of the Currents of History is accessible on the Journal’s website:

https://tokovi.istorije.rs/eng/archives/23/2023/04/26/12023.html

Currents of History is an academic peer-reviewed journal of the Institute for Recent History of Serbia that publishes original scholarly articles, essays, polemics, reviews, information on conferences, and historical sources related to the contemporary history of Serbia, Yugoslavia, and the Balkans.

On April 25, 2023, the Institute for Recent History of Serbia had the opportunity to organize a promotion and discussion about the Edited Volume (video):

"China, Yugoslavia and Socialist Worldmaking: Convergences and Divergences" (Koper: Science and Research Center, Annales ZSR, 2023).

 The anthology was prepared by Zvonimir Stopić, Jure Ramšak, Liang Zandzun and Jože Pirjevec.

 The promotion was opened and the participants were introduced by Dr. Božica Slavković-Mirić. Dr. Zvonimir Stopić spoke about the project itself, its significance, challenges in making the Volume, while Dr. Jovan Čavoški spoke about the content of the collection itself and new knowledge about the importance of China and Yugoslavia in the Cold War and their bilateral relations.

Below you can see the content of the Edited Volume

The Australian Embassy and the Institute for Recent History of Serbia are organizing the promotion of the book Australians with Serbs in the First World War.  

The promotion will be held at the Historical Museum of Serbia on Wednesday, April 26 at 6 p.m. (Trg Nikole Pašića 11).  

Author of the book, Mr Bojan Pajić, is Australian military historian of Serbian descent. The book represents up until now unknown study of about 1500 Australians and New Zealanders in the battles on the Serbian battlefield during the First World War, a topic that has rarely been a subject of a research until now, either in Anglo-Saxon or Serbian historiography.

The book represents a wonderful testimony of the long-term friendship between Serbia and Australia.

At the promotion speakers will be:

-          Daniel Emery - His excellency Ambassador of Australia to Serbia

-          Bojan Pajić– author of the book

-          Mile Bjelajac – Director of the Institute for the new history of Serbia and

-          Katie Hancock and Richard Cook – descendants of Australians who participated in the First World War in Serbia

The book has been translated and printed by the Australian Embassy in 1000 copies, and with the help of the Institute for the Recent History of Serbia, it will be distributed to libraries throughout Serbia.

The new book by professor PhD. Aleksej Timofeev deals with the analysis of the disappearance of the Russian emigration in Yugoslavia from the beginning of the Second World War to 1954. The book deals with the study of Russian emigration during two turbulent periods - the Second World War and the post-war conflict of Yugoslavia with the USSR and its allies.

The content of the book you can see here.

The third issue of Currents of History for 2022 has been published. It consists of scholarly papers in English dealing with the Roma Holocaust, ethnic migrations during the 1950s, informal practices in Southeast Europe, historiography on capitalism and many more.

The latest issue of Currents of History is accessible on the Journal’s website: https://tokovi.istorije.rs/eng/archives/23/2022/12/20/32022.html

Currents of History is an academic journal of the Institute for Recent History of Serbia, that publishes academic articles, essays, polemics, reviews, information on conferences, and historical sources related to the contemporary history of Serbia, Yugoslavia, and the Balkans.

The commemoration of our dear colleague Dr. Latinka Perović, a retired scientific advisor of the Institute for the Recent History of Serbia, will be held on Tuesday, December 20, 2022, starting at 12 noon at the Institute for the Recent History of Serbia, Trg Nikola Pašića 11, fourth floor, room 136.

Photo: Latina Perović in May 1991, Goranka Matić