27 articles in this issue
Scholarship – Engagement – ActivismEditorial of the volume. Badania naukowe – zaangazowanie – aktywizmArtykul wstepny do tomu.
Ana Kolaric,Katarzyna Taczynska
Pedagogy of Care: Building a Teaching and Learning CommunityThe COVID-19 pandemic shook the educational system to the core. Teaching moved from the classroom to the private space of teachers and students. The unexpected move to digital teaching and learni... see more
Teodora Todoric Milicevic
The Humanities at a Crossroads: Challenges and Prospects in the (Post-)COVID-19 WorldThe widespread social and political changes at the end of the 20th century influenced and reshaped higher education and, consequently, research in and... see more
Yuliya Stodolinska,Halyna Zaporozhets
From Campus Closure to Campus Reopening: Strategies of American Universities to Avoid Social Crisis in COVID-19 CommunicationThis paper examines how the universities used their institutional websites as one of the key channels of COVID-19 communication an... see more
Rastislav Dinic
Not Buying It: Opting out, Vaccination and MoralityThe paper starts with describing the problem of “naive” or “freshman” relativism that is typically encountered by ethics teachers in introductory ethics classes. I then go on to show that this well-known ... see more
Ewelina Drzewiecka
The Lexicon of Migrating Ideas in the Slavic Balkans and the Risk of Knowledge: Some Considerations Regarding Two Promotional Events for This BookThe text is an account of two events that promoted the extensive (ten-volume) monograph by Pol... see more
Julia Mazurkiewicz-Sulkowska
Some Linguistic Phenomena in Belarusian Cities during the 2020 Mass Protests in BelarusFollowing the results of the rigged presidential election in Belarus in August 2020, mass protests broke out in the country. These events completely changed the life of... see more
Katica Kulavkova
Panoptic Vision of the World: Can a State of Emergency Become a Regular One?The object of interpretation of this text is several social aspects of the Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 pandemic which have equivocal and contradictory meanings: state of emergency... see more
Malgorzata Stepnik
“Let the Sirens Roar”: The Women’s Protests in Poland and the Artistic Response to the BacklashThe ruling of the Constitutional Tribunal of 22 October 2020, which tightened the restrictions on reproductive rights in Poland and was adopted in the mids... see more
Jelena Milinkovic
Lessons from the Past: The Right to Abortion in Three PicturesThe starting point in this paper is the current situation in several countries regarding the prohibition or permission of abortion. In parallel with the pandemic, i.e., the COVID-19 c... see more
Stanislava Barac
Desanka Maksimovic’s Engaged Medical Novel The Open Window (1954): Tuberculosis as a Social(ist) Issue The Open Window (1954) is a novel written by the critically acclaimed and renowned poet Desanka Maksimovic and continues in the... see more
The Narcissism of Minor Differences in the Context of Post-Imperial Macedonian NeighbouringThe conflicting relations among neighbouring nations in the Balkans may very accurately be explained by S. Freud’s theory of the Narcissism of Minor Diffe... see more
Ganka Cvetanova
Reflections on Krste Misirkov’s Theory: From Ethnocultural Entity to Politically Legitimate Nation In order to present some of the aspects that created the preconditions for the Macedonian nation-building process and its political legitimacy, this pa... see more
Boshko Karadjov
The Portrayal of the Neighbour and the Neighbourhood in Macedonian Graphic Literature and Comic Book CultureIn this article we analyze the portrayal of the neighbour and the neighbourhood in the Macedonian graphic stories of the Nikad ... see more
Marija Gjorgjieva Dimova
The Role of Literature in the Processes of Destereotyping (Through Examples from Macedonian Literature)Considering the imagological conceptions of the Other by Daniel-Henri Pageau and Gordana Ðeric, this text analyses the role of literature in the de... see more
Dorota Gil
Reflections of the Anti-Occidentalism Idea in Serbian Cultural Texts of the 20th CenturyThe article presents the most representative texts of culture and opinions of Serbian intellectuals of the 20th century, which formed the trend of anti-Occidentalism (... see more
Grazyna Szwat-Gylybowa
The Dead Female Body and Necropolitics. The Topos of a Walled-up Woman in Bulgarian Modernist PlaysIn Bulgarian folk tradition, the topos of a woman entombed in a wall is a remnant of a dead myth that is still commemorated in the canon of that culture. In... see more
Patrycjusz Pajak
Violence and Sex and Violence again: The Sexual Revolution in the Films of the Yugoslav Black WaveThe sexual revolution, regarded as one of the main hallmarks of the 1968 revolution, left a distinct mark in four Serbian films of the Yugoslav Black Wave: E... see more
Elena Azmanova-Rudarska
Epidemic and Social Isolation: Research on the Tuberculosis Epidemic until the Middle of the 20th Century and Patients’ Social Problems, Treatment and AdaptationThis article is a review of a study entitled ?????????? ??????. ????????????? ? ???????? ???? ... see more
Radojka Jevtic
What is Wrong with Our System? Right at the very beginning of the pandemic, Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek published a monograph about his thoughts on the first few weeks of the new situation. In it, he presents both his personal experience of th... see more
Milica Pupavac
I Think, I Feel, I Decide: The Polish Struggle for Reproductive RightsIn the monograph Gender, Voice, and Violence in Poland: Women’s Protests during the Pandemic, editors Adrianna Zabrzewska and Joshua K. Dubrow have compiled a variety of voices to creat... see more
Jelena Veselinovic
Women Intellectual Mentors This review studies the book Mistrzynie myslenia. Serbski esej feministyczny (XIX–XXI wiek) [Women Intellectual Mentors: The Serbian Feminist Essay (From 19th to the 20th Century), 2019], written by the Polish author and profess... see more
Zorana Simic
(With) Women Scholars and ScientistsThis article is a review of the study entitled Naucnice u društvu / Women Scholars and Scientists in Society, edited by Lada Stevanovic, Mladena Prelic, and Miroslava Lukic Krstanovic (Belgrade: Institute of Ethnog... see more
Vladimir Zoric
The Moral Witness: The Poetics of Testimony in Modern Serbian PoetryThis essay reviews Dunja Dušanic’s book Sa silama nemerljivim: Pesnici kao svedoci modernog terora [Immeasurable Forces: Poets as Witnesses to Modern Terror, 2021], outlining the methodol... see more
Dara Šljukic
From (Neo-)Avant-garde to Post-Yugoslav LiteratureThis text is a review of Tijana Matijevic’s book, entitled From Post-Yugoslavia to the Female Continent. A Feminist Reading of Post-Yugoslav Literature (2020). I situate the book primarily in the field of ... see more
Kenneth Hanshew
Seeing Croatian Islands as Something Other than Paradise This article is a review of the study entitled Zycie na wyspach. Chorwacka wspólczesna proza insularna [Life on Islands: Contemporary Croatian Insular Fiction], authored by Anna Boguska (Warszawa: I... see more
Paulina Dominik
Between the White Eagle and the Crescent: Polish Go-Betweens in the Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern and Modern ErasThis article is a review of the study entitled Ludzie dwóch kultur. Wybrane przypadki transgresji kulturowej Polaków w Imperium Osman´ski... see more