Appendix 8

 

COUNTRY REPORT – SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO

 

April 2003 – October 2003

 

1. New courses and new centres

 

University of Novi Sad

 

-  La littérature au féminin (Ljiljana Matic)

-  La littérature migrante (Ljiljana Matic) 

 

2.  Conferences, conference participation

 

Littérature et médias” – International conference, 25-27 September, Novi Sad

-  Ljiljana Matic(University of Novi Sad): Gaëtan Brulotte, un des auteurs

     favorits des médias

 

“Other Language: Otherness in Canadian Culture” – 1st International Conference

   of Canadian Studies, 18-20 October, Belgrade

- Ljiljana Matic (University of Novi Sad), Rapports entre la mère et la fille

     dans L’ingratitude de Ying Chen, le défi du transculturel et    

     l’enrichissement de la littérature québécoise contemporine

- Vladimir Gvozden (University of Novi Sad), “The Image of Canada in

     Contemporary Serbian Novel: David Albahari’s Snow Man and Vladimir

       Tasic’s Leaving Gift

- Vesna Lopicic (University of Nis): “‘From molten lead to liquid light’: The

     Language of Imagination in Life of Pi

- Snezana Moretic-Micic (University of Belgrade): “Recent Canadian Novels in

     Serbia”     

- Tanja Cvetkovic (University of Nis): “Repudiation of Otherness: The Orphic

     and Narcissistic Motifs in Robert Kroetsch’s Badlands

- Radojka Vukcecic (University of Montenegro): “Margaret Atwood’s

     Understanding  of the Other”

- Milena Kostic (University of Nis): “To Eat or be Eaten (Margaret Atwood’s

     Edible Woman)”

- Milica Zivkovic (University of Nis): “Gender and Genre in Margaret Atwood’s

     Dystopia The Handmaid’s Tale

- Radivoje Konstantinovic (University of Belgrade): “Les Identités de Négovan

     Rajic”

- Jelena Novakovic (University of Belgrade): Le Moi et les Autres dans les

     Œuvres de Négovan Rajic: Aspects Intertextuels

- Ramila Nastic (University of Pale): “Phenomenology of Otherness in Margaret

     Atwood’s Writing”

 

4. Visiting lecturers

Naïm Kattan (UQAM) lectured at the Universities of Novi Sad and Belgrade, October 2003

Ljubica Milicevic, a writer from Montréal, lectured at the Universities of Novi Sad and Belgrade, October 2003

Maurice Lemire (Laval University), lectured at the Universities of Novi Sad and Belgrade, October 2003.

 

7. Cultural activities related to Canada

 

In May, as part of the Canada Days in Serbia :

            - Exhibition of Canadian books

- Canadian books translated into Serbian and published by Clio publishers of Belgrade (G. Brulotte, Y. Chen, A. Shimazaki) were presented in the cities of Cacak, Nis, Loznica and Vrsac.

 

Belgrade International Book Fair, October 2003, with Canada as the featured country; many Canadian authors present.

 

8. Translations and special issues of journals

Ljubica Milicevic: Le Chemin des pierres, translated by Ljiljana Matic

   Naïm Kattan: Farida, translated by Ljiljana Matic