19 articles in this issue
Ewa Wróblewska-Trochimiuk
Performativity – Politics – CommunityThe paper is an introduction to 19th volume of “Slavia Meridionalis” which discusses the issue of performativity in the southern Slavic cultures. The author gives a review of the most important literature concerning th... see more
Barbora Chrzová
Performing a difficult past in a museum: The History Museum of Bosnia and HerzegovinaThis paper examines the case of the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo to explore the entanglements of the somewhat contradictory concept of a history m... see more
Suzana Marjanic
Performance of resistance in Croatia: A chronotopic review from the 1990s onwardsI follow the performance of resistance in performance art in Croatia from the 1990s – i.e. from the disintegration of Yugoslavia – in correlation with the visibility of the p... see more
Nelly Tincheva
Facebook posts as performatives in Bulgarian political life: A sociolinguistic investigationThe paper provides a snapshot of how the Bulgarian political public interprets the notion of ‘political action’. The paper argues there are two basic notions (‘per... see more
Angelika Kosieradzka
The performativity of protests: Artistic opposition to the Monument to the Soviet Army in Sofia as a way of modeling urban spaceThe main topic that the article deals with is the artistic initiatives of the Destructive Creation group: the manifestation of ... see more
Sabina Giergiel,Katarzyna Taczynska
Memory in action – Performative practices in a dispute about the past: Serbia and Croatia at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuryThe article is an attempt to combine in one reflection the elements of two directions of critical thinking: discursive and pe... see more
Mateo Žanic
Interpretation of memory and imagining communities in post-war rituals in Vukovar (1992-2015)Modern rituals are exceptionally complex events; the actors performing them have a narrative and imaginative connection with the space where the performance is ta... see more
Agata Rogos
Dynamics of the particular and the common: Monuments and patriotic tourism in socialist Yugoslavia – a case study of KosovoThis paper reflects on two case studies of monuments in Socialist Yugoslavia in Kosovo, commemorating World War II partisans in Mitr... see more
Magdalena Boguslawska
From icon to punk portrait: The iconicity of the ruler image in the context of the transformation of the idea of the Serbian stateThe article describes transformation in the iconographic forms of power representations in Serbian culture as determinants of... see more
Wawrzyniec Kowalski
Rupture – Integration – Renewal: The gathering in Dalma and the creation of a political community in the Chronicle of the Priest of DiocleaIn this paper I would like to discuss an excerpt from the Chronicle of the Priest of Dioclea that concerns a great g... see more
Leo Rafolt
Queer immanence in Who is? Woyzeck: The technocentric utopia of the master and the slaveMontažstroj’s Who is? Woyzeck is a performative history about individuals’ open wounds that will probably never heal, especially in the context of technodemocracy and ... see more
Angelika Zanki
The construction of a political community: Croatian political emigrants after 1945 as performative actorsThe article concerns Croatian political emigration in the period 1945–1990. The author describes the construction of a political community as a form o... see more
Agata Domachowska
“The yellow duck” attacks: An analysis of the activities of the “Ne da(vi)mo Beograd” initiative in the Serbian public spaceThe main aim of the paper is to present the performative dimension of activities undertaken by the “Ne da(vi)mo Beograd” Initiative... see more
Dominika Kaniecka
The people against Oliver Frljic, or Poland after The CurseIn the spring of 2017, the play entitled The Curse, directed by Oliver Frljic premiered at one of Warsaw theatres. It was not the first attempt to perform in Poland on the part of the Croatian dir... see more
Malgorzata Kasner
Vilnius archipelago: Performative walks around this performative cityThe present study deals with the performative memory of a city, namely modern Vilnius, the capital of the Republic of Lithuania. The difficult past of Vilnius that is shared by other eas... see more
Ana Kodric Gagro
Financing the theatre system in the Republic of CroatiaThis paper describes ways of financing culture in the Republic of Croatia using the example of theatre art, with an emphasis on the Ministry of Culture in the Republic of Croatia. The organizational m... see more
Antoni Cetnarowicz,Krzysztof Popek
The last twenty-five years of Polish humanities related to the history of the nations and countries of former Yugoslavia, their political and cultural relations with Poles, and unionism ideas in the second half of the 19th centuryThis paper presents an ov... see more
Bulgarian affairs in the second half of the 19th c. in Polish historiography since 1989In this article, we present an overview of research topics concerning the history of Bulgaria in the second half of the 19th c. and early 20th c. that have appeared in ... see more
Lech A. Suchomlynow
Castlings in the margins: A change of perspective (Ewa Wróblewska-Trochimiuk, Sztuka marginesów. Chorwacki plakat polityczny (The Art of Margins. The Croatian Political Poster), Warszawa–Kraków: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk – Libron, 2018, 3... see more