Conferences and Public Talks

2023

  • Concert Lecture “Vasilije Mokranjac and Young Pianists”, Belgrade, Gallery of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 14 December 2023.
  • Concert Lecture On the Centenary of Vasilije Mokranjac’s Birth, Festival A-FEST, Great Hall of the Academy of Arts, University of Novi Sad, Petrovaradin Fortress, 13 December 2023.
  • Invited Talk The Treatment of Folk Music among Serbian Modern Composers at the Seminar “Variations on the Music of Serbia”, project TRackeRS. Istanbul, Turkish Music State Conservatory, Istanbul Technical University 28 November 2023.
  • Plenary Talk “Teaching and Promotion of Minimal Music: Methodology, Impact, Benefit”, International Conference SCIENTIA et MUSICA – SEM, Rectorate of the University of Kragujevac, 25 November 2023.
  • “Applied musicology in Practice: On the Experience of Working for the Ministry of Culture and the Responsibility for Shaping the Cultural Scene in Serbia”, Tagung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Musikwissenschaft APPLIED MUSICOLOGY. Klagenfurt, Gustav Mahler Privatuniversität für Musik (Neuer Saal), 16-18 November 2023.
  • Workshops in composition and performance of minimal music, within the project NEMO, at Music School Mokranjac and the Association of Serbian Composers. Belgrade, 14 November 2023.
  • Public Lecture Sergei Rachmaninov, the last Romantic genius – In honour of the 150th anniversary of Rachmaninov’s birth”, Festival LEDAMUS, Leskovac, Center for Professional Advancement in Education, 7 November 2023.
  • Introductory talk at the concert “Intervowen with the music and dance of Burundi”, Belgrade, Konak kneginje Ljubice, 31 October 2023.
  • “Old Urban Music for New Performers and Listeners: Vera Milanković’s Works for Children’s Choir “Kolibri””, 26th Pedagogical Forum of Scenic Arts and 8th International Conference Bridging, Intertwining and Flowing Between Music Education, Performing and Composing – On the Example of Vera Milanković’s Musical Personality, in honour of her 70th birthday and 50th anniversary of professional activity. Belgrade, Rectorate of the University of Arts, 20-22 October 2023. Concert of the Piano Workshop by Prof. Milanka Mišević Piano Music by Vera Milanković. Belgrade, Museum of Theatrical Arts of Serbia, 21 October 2023.
  • International Conference and Workshop Beethoven and His Music in Nazi-Occupied European Countries, part of the eponymous project. Warsaw, German Historical Institute, 8-11 October 2023.
  • “Ludmila Frajt – A Quiet Avant-gardist”, International Musicological Symposium Centenary of the Musical (Trans)Avant-garde: Impulses and Contexts, ISCM Lithuanian Section. Vilnius, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, 6-7 October 2023.
  • Lecture-recital “Vasilije Mokranjac’s Piano Music – In Honour of the Centenary of his Birth”. Belgrade, Festive Hall of the Music School “Mokranjac”, 03 October 2023.
  • Round-table and concert “In Honour of Nadežda Mosusova 95th Birthday”. Belgrade, Gallery of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 02 October 2023.
  • Lecture-recital (with Dušan Panajotović and Igor Dražević) “Piano and Chamber Music by Vasilije Mokranjac”. Knjaževac, Festive Hall of the Music School “Predrag Milošević”, 28 September 2023.
  • Lecture-recital (with Sandra Brune-Mathar, Tamara Koročkin and Andreas Schoenhage) “Vasilije Mokranjac’s Piano Music”. Belgrade, Gallery of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 25 September 2023.
  • Lecture-recital (with Dušan Panajotović and Igor Dražević) “Piano and Chamber Music by Vasilije Mokranjac”. Šabac, Festive Hall of the Music School “Mihailo Vukdragović”, 22 September 2023.
  • Public lecture “Remembering Vasilije Mokranjac – On the Centenary of the Composer’s Birth”, 57th Festival Mokranjac’s Days. Negotin, The Birth House of Stevan Mokranjac, 14 September 2023.
  • “Cellist Jovan Mokranjac, father of Vasilije Mokranjac – a forgotten luminary of Serbian music”, Scientific Conference on the Centenary of Vasilije Mokranjac’s birth MUSIC & QUIETNESS. Belgrade, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 11 September 2023.
  • “Ludmila Frajt as an Embodiment of a Central European Identity”, International Scientific Conference Rethinking Central European Music, Bartók World Competition. Budapest, Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, 8-9 September 2023.
  • “Ljubiša Stojanović Louis and the Genesis of Serbian Gypsy Jazz”, Scientific Conference Music and Dance on East–West Axis: Correlations and Mobilities. Belgrade, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 4-6 September 2023.
  • Lecture-Recital on the Centenary of Composer Vasilije Mokranjac’s Birth. Summer Academy and Festival STRINGS. Leskovac, City Hall, 24 July 2023.
  • Interview with film director Bruno Monsaingeon. Summer Academy and Festival STRINGS. Leskovac, Great Hall of the Cultural Centre, 23 July 2023.
  • Introductory talk at the Promotion of the special double issue of the journal Contemporary Music Review on Serbian Musical Identity, eds. Laura Emmery and Ivana Medić. Belgrade, Great Hall of the Faculty of Music, 18 May 2023.
  • Introductory talk at the Awards Ceremony for the Annual Award “Stana Đurić-Klajn” for an Outstanding Contribution to Musicology, Belgrade, Josip Slavenski Museum, 12 May 2023.
  • Roundtable Music Festivals in Serbia Between Heritage and Industries, project Applied Musicology and Ethnomusicology in Serbia: Making a Difference in Contemporary Society. Belgrade, AVA Centre of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 29 April 2023.
  • “The ‘Newness’ of Quantum Music.” International Conference 2023 Musik-Diskurse nach 1970, based on the SNSF-funded project “Im Brennpunkt der Entwicklungen. Der Schweizerische Tonkünstlerverein 1975–2017”. Hochschule der Künste Bern, 23-25 March 2023.
  • Introductory talk for the Concert of Soloist and Chamber Music by Composer Vlastimir Trajković, Belgrade, Gallery of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2 February 2023.
  • 2022

    • Plenary talk “Seven Years of Quantum Music.” International Conference Seven Years of Quantum Music – And Beyond. Belgrade, AVA Center, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 15-16 December 2022.
    • Invited talk “The Challenges of Managing an European Cooperation Project”, Public debate “Classical Music and Cultural Policy”, Project #Synergy, Belgrade, Festive Hall of the Rectorate of the University of Arts, 23 November 2022.
    • Lecture-recital “Srpska muzicka imigracija i emigracija” [Serbian Musical Immigration and Emigration], Festival LEDAMUS 2022, Festive Hall of the City Municipality of Leskovac, 18 October 2022.
    • Invited lecture “Beyond Quantum Music”, 2022 European Researchers’ Night, programme “Researchers in Schools”, VIII Belgrade Grammar School, 15 October 2022.
    • “Scriabin’s and Schoenberg’s Approach to Total Artwork (Gesamtkunstwerk).” Scriabin @150. Conference and Celebration. Queen Anne’s, Caversham, 24-25 September 2022.
    • “BASEES/REEM Study Session in Memoriam Katy Romanou 1: On Serbian Music” (with Melita Milin and Biljana Milanović), IMS 2022. 21st Quinquennial Congress of the International Musicological Society, University of Athens, 22-26 August 2022.
    • “The Cicvarić Family as Pioneers of Cultural Entrepreneurship in Serbia and Yugoslavia”, Panel Traditional Music and Dance Industries in Serbia and Yugoslavia from the Mid-19th Century to the Present Day (with Biljana Milanović and Katarina Tomašević). 46th World Conference of the International Society for Traditional Music, Lisbon, NOVA University, 21-27 July 2022.
    • Keynote Address “The Soviet model of teaching music at universities and conservatories, and its implementation in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe”, International Conference Music and the University: Histories, Models, Prospects, City University of London, Great Hall, 8 July 2022.
    • Kompozitorska genealogija Vlastimira Trajkovića [The Compositional Genealogy of Vlastimir Trajković]. Scientific Conference Homo musicus. Homo poeticus. Stvaralački opus Vlastimira Trajkovića. Povodom 75. godišnjice rođenja i pete godišnjice smrti akademika Vlastimira Trajkovića (Beograd, 17. jun 1947 – Beograd, 4. januar 2017) [Homo musicus. Homo poeticus. The Creative Work of Vlastimir Trajković. On the occasion of the 75th birthday and the 5th year of death of the Academician Vlastimir Trajković (Belgrade, 17 June 1947 – Belgrade, 4 January 2017)]. Belgrade, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 17 June 2022.
    • Launch of the Special Issue of the journal Contemporary Music Review, dedicated to Serbian Musical Avant-Gardes. Belgrade, Great Hall of the Faculty of Music, 30 May 2022.
    • Conference WorldMinds, Belgrade, National Theatre, 26 May 2022.
    • Workshop “Serbian-Turkish Connections in Music and Dance”, Inaugural Event of the billateral Serbian-Turkish project TRackeRS of the European Minimal Music Festival, Istanbul, Davutpasa Campus, 16 May 2022.
    • Invited talk “European Minimal Music”, Inaugural Event of the European Minimal Music Festival AUFTAKT, Kassel, Hall of the free Waldorf School Kassel, 30 April 2022.

    2021

    • Commemorative Session: Remembering Academician Isidora Žebeljan, Tuesday, 21 December 2021, Great Hall of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
    • “The Constructive Engine of Music: Berislav Popović and the Cycle Musical Modernism Of the Third Program of Radio Belgrade”, Conference Difractions of Compositional, Music-theoretical, Pedagogical and Socio-cultural Work of Berislav Popović”, Faculty of Music, Belgrade, 30 November – 2 December 2021
    • “Uniformity Leads to Entropy: Dušan Radić in First Person”, Conference The Life and Work of Dušan Radić, Cultural Centre of Vojvodina “Miloš Crnjanski”, Novi Sad, 25-26 November 2021
    • Keynote Lecture “Muzičko prikazivanje čulnosti” [Musical Representations of Sensuality], XIV Conference on Traditional Aesthetic Culture Čulnost i kultura [Sensuality and Culture], Niš, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Faculty of Arts, University of Niš, 5 November 2021
    • “The Rise and Fall of Savamala: Audio-Visual Remnants of a Lost Cultural Hub”, International Conference in Honour of the Audio-Visual Heritage Day Sound Heritage in Ethnomusicology: Approaches and Perspectives, Belgrade, Institute of Musicology of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 27 October 2021
    • “Jesus Christ, Opera Superstar” (with Jelena Janković-Beguš), XV International Conference of the Department of Musicology Music – Musicology – Interpretation, Belgrade, Faculty of Music, University of Arts, 21-23 October 2021
    • Lecture-Recital: “Music of the Orthodox Church as a Source of Inspiration for Classical Composers” (moderator: Nebojša Todorović), Leskovac, Festival LEDAMUS, Festive Hall of the City Municipality of Leskovac, Saturday 16 October 2021
    • “Vasilije Mokranjac’s Symphonies Between Music Analysis and Historical Musicology”, 10th European Music Analysis Conference EuroMAC-10, Moscow, P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory, 20-24 September 2021
    • “Saodnos muzike, slike i drame u filmu Petrijin venac” [The Relationship between Music, Visuals and Drama in the film Petrija’s Wrath], International Conference Nine Decades of Dragoslav Mihailović, Belgrade, Institute of Literature and Arts, 8-10 September 2021
    • “Music Inspired by Serbian Orthodox Monasteries”, 9th ISOCM International Conference on Orthodox Church Music Church Music and Topography: City, Village, and Monastery, The International Society of Orthodox Church Music, School of Theology, University of Eastern Finland, 7–11 June 2021.
    • Invited Lecture by Ivana Medić as the laureate of the annual award “Stana Đurić-Klajn” for Outstanding Contribution to Musicology, entitled “Music of the Serbian Diaspora”. The Award Ceremony and Concert, Gallery of the Ilija M. Kolarac Endowment, Belgrade, 5 May 2021
    • Panel (with Laura Emmery, Stanimira Dermendzhieva and Galina Tsmyg) The Unpredictable Past and Uncertain Future of East European Music: the cases of Bulgaria and Serbia, organised by the REEM/BASEES Study Group. BASEES Regional Conference and EEGA Annual Conference Globalising Eastern Europe – New Perspectives on Transregional Entanglements, Leipzig, The Leibniz ScienceCampus EEGA, 20-24 April 2021

    2020

    • Public Lecture: “Why Are We Celebrating Ludwig van Beethoven’s 250th Birthday?”, Leskovac, Festival LEDAMUS, Centre for Professional Development in Education, Saturday 24 October 2020
    • Book Launch: Danijela Š. Beard and Ljerka V. Rasmussen (eds.), Made in Yugoslavia. Participants: Danijela Š. Beard, Jelka Vukobratović, Marko Zubak and Ivana Medić. Belgrade, Institute of Musicology SASA, Friday 25 September 2020
    • Opening Address: Conference Young Musicology Belgrade 2020 – Shaping the Present by the Future: Ethno/musicology and Contemporaneity, Belgrade, Institute of Musicology SASA, Thursday 24 September 2020

    2019

    2018

    2017

    • 2017 REEM Annual Conference Music and Revolutions
      Centre for Russian Music, Goldsmiths, University of London, 15 December 2017
    • “How Much Money, So Much Music: The Rise and Fall of Serbian Symphonic Music”, 2017 Biennial International Conference of the Institute of Musicology SASA The Future of Music History, Belgrade, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 28-30 September 2017
    • The Tide is High: Alfred Schnittke’s Passacaglia for large orchestra”, 10th Biennial ICMSN/SurreyMAC Conference, Society for Music Analysis and University of Surrey, Guildford, 11-14 September 2017
    • “Quantum Music”, 53rd RMA Annual Conference, The Royal Music Association and the Department of Music, University of Liverpool, 7-9 September 2017
    • “Violinista Jovan Frajt – osnivač izdavačke kuće Frajt i porodičnog orkestra u Beogradu početkom XX veka” [Violinist Jovan Frajt – the Founder of the Publishing House Frajt and a Family Orchestra in Belgrade in the Early 20th Century], public lecture, Summer School and Festival STRINGS, Leskovac, Cultural Centre, 16 August 2017
    • “Dega i muzika” [Degas and Music]”, public lecture, Exhibition Edgar Degas. Moments of Remembrance, Gallery of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts & National Museum of Serbia, 27 July 2017
    • “The Soundscape of Hope”, 44th ICTM World Conference, International Council for Traditional Music and the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, 13-19 
July 2017
    • “From Socialist Realism to Socialist Modernism: Vasilije Mokranjac’s Symphonies”, International Conference Music and Socialism, Department of Music, University of Nottingham, 7-8 July 2017
    • “Aesthetics of Music Videos in Yugoslav Pop and Rock Music”, 19th IASPM Biennial Conference, International Association for the Study of Popular Music and the University of Kassel, Germany, 26-30 June 2017
    • “The Politics of Youth Culture in Socialist Yugoslavia: The Case of Rock Music Videos”, 2017 BASEES Annual Conference, Fitzwilliam College-Churchill College, University of Cambridge, 31 March – 2 April 2017
    • “Simfonijsko stvaralaštvo Rudolfa Bručija između socijalističkog estetizma i umerenog modernizma” [Rudolf Brucci’s Symphonic Output Between Socialist Aesthetism and Moderated Modernism], International Conference Rudolf Brucci’s Life and Work: The Composer Between Aesthetics and Ideologies, Novi Sad, Academy of Arts and Matica Srpska, 30-31 March 2017
    • Schnittke Studies – Book Launch and Concert, with Gavin Dixon, Tamsin Alexander and Natalia Pavlutskaya, University of London, Goldsmiths – Centre for Russian Music (CRM), Council Chamber, Deptford Town Hall Building, 22 February 2017
    • “Prokofiev and Shostakovich: The Rivalry Reconsidered”, Durham University – Research Forum, 24 January 2017
    • “Parallel Histories: Serbian Music in Emigration”, International Conference After the Soviet Collapse – Transformations in the music and culture of the new post-Soviet states and Eastern Europe, University of Cambridge, CRASSH, 12-14 January 2017

    2016

    • “From ‘Father Figure’ to ‘Persona Non Grata’: Kosta Manojlović’s Final Years”, International Conference Kosta P. Manojlovic and the Idea of Slavic and Balkan Cultural Unification (1918–1941), Belgrade, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute of Musicology SASA, 28–29 November 2016
    • “Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich: A New Look at the Old Rivalry”, Forum of the Institute of Musicology SASA, Belgrade, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 14 November 2016.
    • “The Sights and Sounds of Belgrade Waterfront”, XIV Congreso de la Sociedad de Etnomusicologia Itinerarios, Espacos, Contextos, Madrid, Real Conservatorio Superior de Musica, 19-22 October 2016
    • “The Sights and Sounds of Belgrade Waterfront”, Panel “Soundscapes, Musicscapes, Landscapes: Towards Urban Sound Studies”, Transpositions: Music/Image
      XIII International Conference of the Department of Musicology
      , Belgrade, Faculty of Music, 12-15 October 2016
    • “Playing With Dances: Dmitri Shostakovich’s Fantastic Dances”, 2016 Balkan Art Forum, Faculty of Arts, University of Niš, 7-8 October 2016
    • “Soundscape of the Refugee Crisis: The Case of Savamala”, 2016 ICMHM Conference Music and Human Mobility: Redefining Communities in an Intercultural Context, Lisbon, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas – FCSH NOVA, 7-9 June 2016
    • “Pavle Stefanović and the Concert Series Music Today / Musical Modernism of Radio Belgrade 3″, Interdisciplinary conference Pavle Stefanović 1901-1985, Belgrade, Association of Serbian Composers, 20-21 May 2016
    • Roundtable discussion about the Serbian translation of the novel The Noise of Time [Šum vremena] by Julian Barnes, Novi Beograd, Cultural Centre Student City – Bookshop Magistrala, 18 May 2016
    • “Problems of Interpretation of Josip Slavenski’s Piano Works”, Conference, roundtable and concert in honour of 120th anniversary of Josip Slavenski, Belgrade, Institute of Musicology SASA and Festive Hall of the House of Serbian Army, 11 May 2016
    • Presentation of the books Beyond the East-West Divide and Radio and Serbian Music, Novi Beograd, Gallery-Atrium of Students’ Cultural Centre, 26 April 2016
    • Presentation of the project Quantum Music at 2016 Forum Creative Europe, Belgrade, Kolarac Hall, 25 April 2016
    • “The Frajt Family in the Musical Life of Belgrade”, Concert and promotion of reprints of Jovan Frajt’s editions of sheet music, Belgrade, The Embassy of Czech Republic, 19 April 2016
    • Roundtable discussion about the book Osećanja. O.Sećanja – In memoriam Margita Stefanović (1959-2002) by Lidija Nikolić, Novi Beograd, Cultural Centre Student City, 12 April 2016

    2015

    • “Serbian Language and Rock’n’roll: Lyrics and the Use of Language”, Novi Beograd, Gallery-Atrium of Students’ Cultural Centre, 22 October 2015.
    • “Italian Language and Opera”, XV Week of Italian Language Worldwide, Italian Cultural Centre, Belgrade, 20 October 2015.
    • Presentation of the monograph by Danijela Zdravić-Mihailović “The Phenomenon of Recapitulation in the First Movements of Haydn’s String Quartets”, Niš, Faculty of Arts, 10 October 2015.
    • Presentation of the project Quantum Music, International Book Fair, Belgrade, 30 September 2015.
    • “Opera and the End of Socialism: Alfred Schnittke’s Operas from the 1990s”, International Conference Musical Legacies of State Socialism: Revisiting Narratives About Post-World War II Europe, Belgrade, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 24–26 September 2015.
    • “Reculturalisation Projects in Savamala”, panel City Sonic Ecology (with Britta Sweers, Ana Hofman, Mojca Kovačić, Marija Dumnić and Srđan Atanasovski), International Symposium Music and Ecology, Mestni muzej Ljubljana, 28-29 August 2015
    • “Reculturalisation Projects in Savamala”, panel Urban Sonic Ecologies (with Britta Sweers, Mojca Kovačič and Marija Dumnić) 43rd ICTM World Conference, Kazakh National University of Arts, Astana, 16-22 July 2015
    • “Aesthetics of Music Videos in Serbian Rock and Pop Music”, Lectures at the Atrium, Novi Beograd, Student Cultural Centre, 30 June 2015
    • “But Whoever Listens To This Music Anyway? The Survival of Festivals of Classical and Contemporary Art Music in Transitional Serbia”, 2015 REEM Annual Conference Мusic and Crisis, University of Nottingham, 22 June 2015
    • Presentation of the project Quantum Music, Forum Creative Europe 2015, Kolarac Hall, Belgrade, 27-28 April 2015.
    • “I Want to be Bad! Horkestar Versus Transition”, Beyond the Crisis in Humanities, Faculty of Media and Communications, University Singidunum, Belgrade, 24-25 April 2015
    • A lecture and a recital-lecture at the Faculty of Art, University of Niš, 20-21 April 2015.
    • Lecture “At the Service of the Homeland: The Many-Sided Activities of Kosta Manojlović”, Festival Choirs Among Frescoes, 19 April 2015
    • “But Whoever Listens to This Music Anyway?! The Survival of Festivals of Classical Music in Transitional Serbia”, panel (with Katerina Levidou and Monika Zyla) Music, Politics and Economy at Festivals in Central and South-Eastern Europe, BASEES 2015 Annual Conference, Cambridge University, Fitzwilliam College, 28-30 March 2015
    • “The Impossible Avant-garde: The Curious Case of Vladan Radovanović”, International Conference Nationalism in Music in the Totalitarian State (1945-1989), Institute of Musicology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Budapest, 24-25 January 2015