A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt

While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
- Woodrow Wilson

This newsletter will serve as a short report on the work of NASSS Committees, as well as a reminder of and guideline for forthcoming events.

The North American Society for Serbian Studies (NASSS) - Newsletter (PDF 220 KB)

Dr. Daniel Ivankovich has been named a 2015 Top 10 CNN Hero.

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Using Neglected Literary Texts to Understand the Evolution of Serbian Society
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
12:00 pm
Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room (1219 IAB, 420 West 118th St.)

Please join the Harriman Institute and the Njegoš Endowment for Serbian Language and Culture for a talk by Svetlana Tomić, Alfa University (Belgrade).

Tomić will discuss the historical, political, and literary value of four memoirs by Serbian women: Serbia’s Queen Natalia Obrenović, feminists Savka Subotić and Paulina Lebl Albala, and one of the first professional female teachers Stanka Gišićeva. Their autobiographical works came from different localities, social groups, and ethnicities. They focus on self-representation, women’s lives, and perceptions, and offer valuable insights into Serbian history and society.

Tomić argues that, although women’s memoirs have remained culturally marginalized in Serbia, studying the neglected writings of women opens the possibility for a better appreciation of society and its ability to transform. How do female memoirists contrast with male writers such as Đorđević, Milićević, and Žujović? Can we find contradictions in their confessional dramas and see the motives for their writing? What can we conclude by comparing the writings of men and women from the period when the Serbian nation was formed? How can we generalize the difference and use it as an instrument for a better understanding of social developments not only in Serbia but in the wider Western Balkans region?

Организација српских студената у иностранству повезује 8.000 академаца, промовише нашу земљу у свету, помаже дипломцима који желе да стечена знања примене у Србији и утиче на побољшање овдашњих просветних закона.

О њима се у домаћој јавности не зна много, иако окупљају око 8.000 наших студената који имају индексе универзитета широм света, а током протеклих година били су иницијатори промена у нашем високом образовању. Они су Организација српских студената у иностранству и права адреса за све који желе да се школују на иностраним универзитетима и да се са тамо стеченим дипломама запосле у Србији. ОССИ је ангажована и на промоцији наше земље у свету, а недавно је на основу њихових предлога за нострификацију диплома измењен и Закон о високом образовању.

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Председник Србиjе Tомислав Николић и генерални секретар УН Бан Kи-Мун сложили су се да би страдање српске културне баштине на Kосову и Mетохиjи био злочин и да се то не сме дозволити, а Николић jе затражио подршку како би се спречио приjем Kосова у Унеско и српска баштина заштитила.

ЊУJOРK - Председники Србиjе Tомислав Николић и генерални секретар УН Бан Kи-Мун сложили су се да би страдање српске културне баштине на Kосову и Mетохиjи био злочин и да се то не сме дозволити, а Николић jе затражио подршку како би се спречио приjем Kосова у Унеско и српска баштина заштитила.

"Велики злочин би био, ако би српска културна баштина на Kосову и Mетохиjи била уништена. Зато Србиjа улаже много напора да спречи приjем такозване Републике Kосово у Унеско. И зато очекуjемо подршку свих оних коjи поступаjу по савести, да би српска културна баштина, коjа jе и светска уjедно, остала заштићена", рекао jе Николић током сусрета са генералним секретаром УН у Њуjорку, саопштила jе данас Служба за сарадњу с медиjима председника.

The Njegos Foundation for Serbian Language and Culture presents EVAPORATING BORDERS a film by Iva Radivojević.

Friday, September 25, 2015, 6:00pm, Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room (1219 IAB, 420 West 118th St.)

Originally from Yugoslavia, a country that no longer exists except in books and films, Iva Radivojević’s family immigrated to Cyprus to escape political unrest. Raised in Cyprus, she is approaching the film as a personal exploration of what it means to have a hybrid existence in which one is always searching for an identity.

Дани Новак имао је непуне две године када се из Загреба одселио у Израел, а потом у САД. Ипак, није заборавио страдања чланова своје породице у усташким логорима на острву Паг.

Дани Новак, професор математике на Итака колеџу у Њујорку, доживео је током протеклог викенда непријатан инцидент. Хрватска полиција спречила je израелскo-америчку филмску екипу, с којом је био на Пагу, да сними делове овог острва, где се током 1941. године налазио усташки концентрациони логор.

Ко је њујоршки професор који се тренутно налази у родном Загребу и зашто је његов долазак са израелским и америчким сниматељима изазвао такву узбуну на Метајни, где се налазио логор смрти за српску, јеврејску и ромску жене и децу?

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Vladan Vuletić

Professor Vladan Vuletić (Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics Division Head, Atomic, Biological, Condensed Matter and Plasma Physics) was born in Peć, Yugoslavia, and educated in Germany. In 1992, he earned the Physics Diploma with highest honors from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and in 1997, a Ph.D. in Physics (summa cum laude) from the same institution.

While a postdoctoral researcher with the Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, Professor Vuletić accepted a Lynen Fellowship at Stanford University in 1997. In 2000, he was appointed an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Stanford and in June 2003 accepted an Assistant Professorship in Physics at MIT. He was promoted to Associate Professor in July 2004. He was promoted to Full Professor in July 2011.

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Emmanuel

The Only Begotten and Firstborn among Many Brethren

by Bishop Athanasius Yevtich

In Emmanuel, the second anthology of Bishop Athanasius' articles to appear in English, His Grace explores themes of Orthodox Christology, Soteriology, Ecclesiology, and Gnoseology. How can we know Who God is? How can we know who we are, as human persons created in His image and likeness? How can we become one with Him? Bishop Athanasius examines these and other foundational questions in depth in this volume, drawing from a wealth of Scriptural and patristic sources. In discussing diverse theological subjects, he always returns to his overarching theme: the communion that man can have with God through Jesus Christ the God-man, within Christ's Church and above all in the Holy Eucharist. His exquisite and unique way of engaging the reader in mutual dialogue, with the living Eucharistic experience permeating his every thought, instills in the reader a burning desire for that communion.

Soft-bound
Contemporary Christian Thought Series, No. 3 - First Edition
229 pages
ISBN 978-0-9719505-4-2