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Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd)

@natasaphd.bsky.social
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Literature prof, Eastern Michigan U // Anticolonial internationalisms, Cold War, and migration studies // Author, Narrating Post/Communism; Uncommon Alliances; Nonaligned Imagination. www.emich.academia.edu/NatasaKovacevic

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Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Happy to share that 'Nonaligned Imagination,' published by @nupress.bsky.social received an Honorable Mention for the 2026 University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies, awarded by ASEEES, The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
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Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Nonaligned Imagination" has been out in the world for one year already!
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Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
On June 17 I had the honor of discussing nonaligned literary solidarities and collaborations with a very engaged audience at Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije/Institute for the Recent History of Serbia. B/C/S speakers can check out INIS's YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNDO...
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inisbeograd on Instagram: "PROMIŠLJANJE DEKOLONIZACIJE KROZ NESVRSTANOST ❤️🔍📚👉 Dr Nataša Kovačević, redovna profesorka za postkolonijalnu i svetsku književ…"
PROMIŠLJANJE DEKOLONIZACIJE KROZ NESVRSTANOST ❤️🔍📚👉 Dr Nataša Kovačević, redovna profesorka za postkolonijalnu i svetsku književnost na Univerzitetu Istočni Mičigen, održala je danas (17. jun 2026), u okviru tribinskog programa INIS-a, predavanje pod naslovom ,,Promišljanje dekolonizacije kroz nesvrstanost: jugoslovenski književni susreti sa Globalnim jugom". ❤️🔍📚👉 Tribinom, koju je obeležila lepa posećenost i više učesnika u diskusiji, je moderirao dr Davor Stipić, naučni saradnik INIS-a. ❤️🔍📚👉 Snimak predavanja možete pronaći na Jutjub kanalu INIS-a. ❤️🔍📚
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Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Grateful to Ivana Perica for such a comprehensive, generous, and enthusiastic endorsement!
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Internationalist Sensibilities of Literature: A Review of Nataša Kovačević’s Nonaligned Imagination | PWD
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Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
After Zagreb, onward to Ljubljana, where, on June 12, I will give a book talk on #Nonaligned Imagination at the Institute for Contemporary History. You are warmly invited! @nupress.bsky.social
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BOOK PRESENTATION: NONALIGNED IMAGINATION: YUGOSLAVIA, THE GLOBAL SOUTH, AND LITERARY SOLIDARITIES BEYOND THE COLD WAR BLOCS
You are warmly invited to the presentation of Nonaligned Imagination: Yugoslavia, the Global South, and Literary Solidarities Beyond the Cold War Blocs, presented by Nataša Kovačević. The book explore...
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Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I look forward to presenting at the Antikolonijalni putopisi / Anticolonial Travel Writing workshop in Zagreb on June 11. I will be expanding on research in my book #Nonaligned Imagination. Please join us if you are in Zagreb -- event link is in the comments. All presentations will be in BCS.
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Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Humbled by such a warm and generous review of 'Nonaligned Imagination'!
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Nonaligned imagination: Yugoslavia, the global south, and literary solidarities beyond the Cold War blocs
Published in The Global Sixties: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
On April 9, starting at 6 pm, I will join the Berkeley-Stanford New Yugoslav Studies reading group for a discussion of several chapters from "Nonaligned Imagination." The event is at Berkeley and open to the public! events.berkeley.edu/Slavic/event...
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Natasa Kovacevic: Nonaligned Imagination (NYS reading group w/ author)
Nataša Kovačević is joining the Berkeley-Stanford New Yugoslav Studies research group for a seminar-style discussion of her latest monograph, No...
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Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
If you are in the Bay Area, come to my lecture at Stanford University's Slavic Colloquium on April 8, 4.30-6pm! @nupress.bsky.social
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Slavic Colloquium: Nataša Kovačević - Imagining Decolonization through Nonalignment: Yugoslav Literary Encounters with the Global South
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Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Grateful to @rekakrizmanics.bsky.social for this thoughtful review!
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Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Excited to present on my new book at Columbia's Harriman Institute this Thursday, Feb. 26, 6-7.30 pm. Please note that advance registration is required to attend.
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Book Talk. "Nonaligned Imagination: Yugoslavia, the Global South, and Literary Solidarities Beyond the Cold War Blocs"
Please join the East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute for a book talk by Nataša Kovačević. Moderated by Aleksandar Bošković.
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Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Join us tomorrow for a conversation about nonaligned literary networks, engaged travel writing, and anticolonial scholarship. ii.umich.edu/crees/news-e...
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Events | U-M LSA Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREES)
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Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Looking forward to sharing my work with @umich.edu faculty and students next Wednesday, Feb. 18. Thank you to the Center for East European and Eurasian Studies for inviting me!
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Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
If you are in the Toronto area, come hear me speak about nonalignment and decolonial imagination on January 12, 4-6 pm. @nupress.bsky.social
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ASEEES Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies @aseees.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Slavic Review Fall 2025 is out now. This issue includes "Critical Forum: Blackness in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Societies." Read "Introduction: On Black Life and Blackness in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Societies" by Nana Osei-Opare and Sunnie Rucker-Chang.
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Introduction: On Black Life and Blackness in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Societies | Slavic Review | Cambridge Core
Introduction: On Black Life and Blackness in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Societies - Volume 84 Issue 3
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Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Latin American Federation of Writers’ Associations' Caracas Declaration, 1985, forwarded to the Yugoslav Writers’ Union. It condemns US “aggressive imperialism” in Nicaragua, as well as the “de facto occupation” of Honduras, Costa Rica, and Panama, and supports the independence of Puerto Rico.
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Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
I was recently interviewed about my research on nonaligned literary solidarities for one of my favorite podcasts, Yugoblok. Check it out! @nupress.bsky.social
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Nonaligned Literature (Part 2) ⋆ Yugoblok
Yugoslavia cultivated extensive literary connections with its nonaligned friends. Many authors and culture workers fostered literary networks with fellow nonaligned countries.
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Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
NUP books are 50% off until January 3!
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Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Thrilled to have been able to give Zoran Minderović a copy of Nonaligned Imagination--he contributed to its writing by sharing the 1950s diary that his father, writer Čedomir Minderović, kept in India. In the photo: Čedomir and Amrita Pritam, Indian writer who visited Yugoslavia on three occasions.
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Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
In honor of #ASEEES, @nupress.bsky.social is offering a 40% discount on select titles until Dec. 1. You can get your discounted copy of 'Nonaligned Imagination' by entering code ASEEES2025! nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014884...
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Nonaligned Imagination - Northwestern University Press
Recovering the literary and intellectual history of anticolonial collaborations   Preoccupied with developing a multiethnic, postcolonial culture and seekin...
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Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
And check out the amazing lineup of #ASEEES panels sponsored by the New Yugoslav Studies Association: newyugoslavstudies.org/aseees-2025....
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ASEEES 2025
Thursday, Nov 20 – Sunday, Nov 23 All events at Washington Hilton unless otherwise noted
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Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
If you will be at #ASEEES, come to the book panel on "Nonaligned Imagination," at 10 am on Saturday! Later that day, at 4 pm, I'll participating in a book panel on James Robertson's wonderful "Mediating Spaces."
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Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Wonderful book launch of 'Nonaligned Imagination' yesterday! Grateful to all the colleagues, students, and friends who helped me celebrate this book and asked great questions during Q&A! Hope to announce more events soon. @nupress.bsky.social
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Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Looking forward to sharing my research with Eastern Michigan University colleagues and students. Book launch coming up on October 23!
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Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Delighted and humbled to learn that my book 'Nonaligned Imagination' was included in the display at the 'Non-Aligned Visions' film installation at U of Pennsylvania, on contemporary artistic explorations of 1960s-70s transnational solidarities. #nonaligned publictrust.org/non-aligned-...
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Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
The hard copies are here! @nupress.bsky.social designed a gorgeous cover.
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Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
I am thrilled to announce that my book has been published! Thank you to @nupress.bsky.social and my incredible editor for her guidance and support. I hope to share my work with as many of you as possible! Enter code NUP2025 for a 25% discount at nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014884....
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Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Dara Janeković, one of the few Yugoslav women correspondents reporting from Asia and Africa. The French paramilitary OAS tried to assassinate her because of her reporting on the Algerian War. She interviewed a range of prominent politicians, from Ahmed Ben Bella to Indira Gandhi.
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Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
My favorite archival find when writing 'Nonaligned Imagination' was a report by Petar Guberina about the 1959 Congress of Black Writers and Artists in Rome, which he attended as a Yugoslav observer. He discusses a controversial speech by a Dr Omar, Fanon’s code name at several conferences.
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Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Hi new folks! I'm a historian of French Empire, Algeria, decolonization, warfare, and migration, and I've just published a book. Check it out here (and use the code 09BCARD for 30% off if you're thinking of ordering): www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Image of a book cover. Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency, by Terrence G. Peterson. The cover depicts a map of Europe and North Africa. Large red and black arrows sweep from the Soviet Union, through Egypt, and into Algeria. A blue arrow springs from France and slices the points off the arrows entering Algeria.
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Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Dragan Savić, Yugoslav caricaturist and illustrator, traveled to Algeria in 1961, where the National Liberation Front (FLN) commissioned him to create a series of drawings documenting the Algerian struggle for independence.
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
In "Indigenomicon," @arsavium.bsky.social examines the differences between settler colonial studies and Indigenous studies by bringing video game studies into conversation with Black studies, queer studies, and Indigenous feminist critique. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/RM90jF8
Cover of Indigenomicon: American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession by Jodi Byrd. The cover art features a stylized, pixelated landscape that transitions into a painted forest scene. A river runs along the bottom, where a figure sits in a canoe. In the background, a wooden palisade, tall trees, and two stork-like birds in flight are depicted.
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Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
My book is available for pre-order from @nupress.bsky.social. 25% discount with code NUP2025 at nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014884... Only a few more weeks until it comes out!
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Nonaligned Imagination - Northwestern University Press
Recovering the literary and intellectual history of anticolonial collaborations   Preoccupied with developing a multiethnic, postcolonial culture and seekin...
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Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
We have the book cover! Thank you to @nupress.bsky.social for gorgeous design and to Museum of Yugoslavia for the permission to feature Petar Lubarda's painting 'Buđenje Afrike' / 'The Awakening of Africa' on the cover. Link to NUP's book page and more info about the painting in comments.
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José M. Palacios @josempalacios.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
It's publication day! TRANSNATIONAL CINEMA SOLIDARITY is now officially out by @ucpress.bsky.social. Use code UCPSCMS at checkout and save 40% www.ucpress.edu/books/transn...
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Transnational Cinema Solidarity by José Palacios - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Save 30% #NewBook "Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen," edited by Neda Atanasoski & @nassimparvin.bsky.social , which captures the ambivalence of new and emerging technologies that provoke a sense of creep. #TechnologyStudies #CulturalStudies buff.ly/gCDoq6G
Cover of Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen edited by Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin. The cover has a contemporary art installation with black-and-white images projected onto cylindrical surfaces. The title is in bold pink letters and the subtitle is in white. The background has a modern aesthetic, with shadows and light adding depth to the image.
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Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Out this month: The Nehru Years: An International History of Indian Non-Alignment www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
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Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Excited to be presenting at Yugofuturisms conference, which takes place April 10-13 in person, at U of Waterloo, and on Zoom (follow the link to pre-register). 4 days of panels, film screenings, and art performances! Full program in comments. www.eventbrite.ca/e/yugofuturi...
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YUGOFUTURISM CONFERENCE
A four day hybrid conference dedicated to Yugoslavia, its history, and its possible futures.
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Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The Documentary "Not in My Country" Denies Voice and Agency to Broad Grassroots Opposition to Lithium Mining in Serbia--my article now available at lefteast.org/not-in-my-co...
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The Documentary "Not in My Country" Denies Voice and Agency to Broad Grassroots Opposition to Lithium Mining in Serbia - Lefteast
“The European Parliament is the same as the Serbian Parliament: they are not interested in dialogue,” said Zlatko Kokanović, activist from the environmental association Ne damo Jadar (We Will not Give...
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