FORUM OF SLAVIC CULTURES SPECIAL PROGRAMME GUEST

14-16 NOVEMBER 2019 2 CONTENT

4 Foreword by Andreja Rihter

5 FSC as Special Programme Guest 2019

6 About the FSC

8 Our reach

10 Our Network

12 FSC Programme

19 FSC delegation

38 FSC Speakers in the Programme of the St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum

42 Partnerships

3 FOREWORD

Dear friends,

The Forum of Slavic Cultures is an international foundation, a non-prof- it and non-government organization, whose idea emerged in the cultural circles at the turn of the 21st centu- ry. The FSC was officially founded in 2004, and today it brings together more than 300 million Slavs.

For fifteen years, the foundation has been equally and democratically con- necting its 13 member countries while taking utmost care to renew, expand and strengthen the cultural ties be- tween our nations. Andreja Rihter, PhD, I firmly believe that cultural liaisons Director of the and cooperation are the key to nerv- Forum of Slavic Cultures ing Slavic creativity, strengthening our identity and reviving the cultural dia- logue in both the European and wider global arena.

It makes me very happy that over the 15 years of our cooperation through joint projects and collaborations we have succeeded in forging strong friendships across the network of Slavic countries, and have fortified the cultural bridges across diverse Europe. Our work is guided by the principles of mutual respect of our diversity, equality of all cultural and artistic ex- pressions and active intercultural di- alogue. We believe these are the key postulates for a respectful and toler- ant coexistence in a world that is be- coming more complex by the minute. When we first started with the Fo- rum of Slavic Cultures there was a great deal of work to be done. Fifteen years later, I can affirm that we have achieved a lot, but many challenges remain to be tackled. Nevertheless, I am looking forward to the future, knowing that we are a big and closely connected family that has much more to offer still.

Good luck and all the best! 4 FSC AS SPECIAL PROGRAMME GUEST 2019 (40) professionals / experts (11) (10) Slavic countries different sections (11) customized events in 4 days

I’ve been involved with the FSC ever since I started my career as a curator. I really like the approach that they introduced in con- necting the Slavic cultures in a contemporary way. I have parti- cipated in conferences and events organised by the FSC, I have made great professional contacts and gained new knowledge, which was more than useful in my career. INTERMUSEUM 2018 in , where my institution participated and where I par- ticipated in a panel discussion, was one of the highlights of my career so far. I can hardly wait for more beautiful things to happen in magical St. Petersburg and it will be great honour to participate in the forthcoming event.

Mladen Banjac, curator in the of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina

5 ABOUT THE FSC

The Forum of Slavic Cultures is an international foundation, a non-prof- it and non-government organization whose idea emerged in the cultural circles at the turn of the 21st century. It was officially founded in 2004 and today unites more than 300 million Slavs in 13 Slavic countries: , Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the , Montenegro, Croatia, North Macedonia, , the Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, and .

The central commitment of the Foun- dation is the implementation of joint cultural, educational and research projects that promote Slavic cultural heritage and creativity. The Forum of Slavic Cultures is more and more ref- erential global platform of intercultur- al dialogue as well as taking over the role of a key hub of Slavic countries in the fields of art and culture, education and science and cultural tourism.

North 6 OUR REACH

Reach (visitors of fairs, conferences, festivals, live-streaming audience, etc.) (1,000,000) (67,000) Visitors and Participants

Participants (22,000) (45,000) Visitors (1,000) Partners

* annual figures OUR NETWORK

I have been working with the Forum of Slavic culture for more than 10 years, taking part in all activities connected with cultural heritage and . My museum ‒ Gallery of Matica Srpska ‒ won the first Živa award for the best museum in Slavic countries in 2014, so I am very aware how important the acti- vities such as international conferences and the Živa Award are for museums in our region, and how they CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS bring new knowledge and examples of best practices to help museums to improve their work and connect (archives, libraries, societies, with other Slavic museums. galleries, museums, )

Tijana Palkovljević Bugarski, Director of the Gallery of Matica Srpska, Serbia (500)

Ministries of Culture, Foreign Affairs, Economy, Tourism Authors, translators, distributors, publishers (25) (210) UNESCO, Council of Europe

Museums (200)

Centres of Slavic Cultures (Moscow, Radlje ob Dravi, ) Educational institutions

(30) Local communities

(32)

8 9 10 11 PROGRAMME

OF FORUM OF SLAVIC CULTURES AT THE VIII ST. PETERSBURG INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL FORUM the Programme may be subject to change

“In the turbulent age of rapid political, economic, social and environmental transformation, cultural dialogue seems to be more important than ever befo- re. Art is becoming an important arena of transnational discourse and its role in the building of national identities has never been more important. In this context we can only welcome events such as the International Cultural Forum, which brings together those who produce culture today, those who are engaged in the reproduction of culture and the public discourse (media) as well as deci- sion makers. With its events and activities the Slovenia-based Forum of Slavic Cultures tries to reconnect the unique space of Slavic cultures that was lost 30 years ago, after the fall of the Berlin wall. Our participation in the context of a broader audience is therefore of great importance.”

Saša Šavel Burkart, Editor of the Cultural Programme at the Slovenian National TV, Slovenia

12 13 November, 18:00 – 20:00 Živa after Živa Award handing and reception for the FSC delegation

Venue: The State Museum of Political History of Address: 2-4 Kuibysheva St, St. Petersburg

Press Scrum

14 November, 09:45 – 10:15 The official opening of the VIII International Cultural Forum*

Venue: The Hermitage headquarters Address: Dvortsovaya square, 6-10, St. Petersburg Inaugural address on behalf of FSC by Andreja Rihter, Director of the Forum of Slavic Cultures

14 November, 10:30 – 11:00 Reading corner «100 Slavic Novels»

Venue: The Hermitage headquarters Catering zone Address: Dvortsovaya square, 6-10, St. Petersburg Speakers: • Dubravka Đurić Nemec, FSC Editorial Board and Chief Adviser to the Minister of Culture (Croatia) • , Writer (Serbia) • Janez Virk, Writer (Slovenia)

Visitors will be able to meet closer the compositions of the best modern Slavic novelists.

14 November, 12:00 – 13:00 Exhibition opening «100 Slavic Novels» and Live readings

Venue: V. V. Mayakovsky Central City Public Library, Address: Nevskiy prospekt, 20, St. Petersburg Speakers: • Vladan Vukosavljević, Chairman of the FSC Board and Minister of Culture and Media of the Republic of Serbia (Serbia) • Vadim V. Duda, Director General, Russian State Library (Russia) • Andreja Rihter, Director, Forum of Slavic Cultures (Slovenia) Moderator: • Mateja Jančar, Project Manager, Forum of Slavic Cultures (Slovenia) Translators: • Yulia Anatolyevna Sozina (Russia) • Marianna Bershadskaia (Russia)

Live readings: • Aleksandar Gatalica (Serbia) • Janez Virk (Slovenia) • Evgeniy Germanovich Vodolazkin (Russia)

The book series “100 Slavic Novels” published under the auspices of the Forum of Slavic Cultures is an international literary project to promote modern Slavic literature created after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Carefully selected for the project novels by authors of

13 the FSC member states - Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Rus- sia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia - fill the gaps of modern Slavic literature and breathe new life into it. The series includes more than 75 publications of 108 Slavic authors. The Forum of Slavic Cultures and its partners pay special attention not only to the publication of new novels, but also to the establishment of strong ties between authors, translators, members of the professional community and readers. Through the exhibi- tion “100 Slavic Novels”, which will feature autographs and photographs, viewers will be able to get acquainted with the best contemporary writers of the Slavic countries.

14 November, 14:00 – 17:00 3rd International Conference “Cultural Routes of the Slavic world on the map of Europe”

Venue: State Academic Chapel of St. Petersburg Address : Moika embankment, 20, St. Petersburg

Moderators: • Alla Manilova, Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation (Russia) • Andreja Rihter, Director, Forum of Slavic Cultures (Slovenia) Inaugural addresses: • Zoran Poznič, Minister of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia (Slovenia) • Ivan Sečík, State Secretary of the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic Speakers: • Andreja Rihter, Director, Forum of Slavic Cultures (Slovenia) • Biljana Dojčinović, Professor, Faculty of Philology, (Serbia) • Ankica Puškarić, Director, Ivana’s House of Fairy Tales (Croatia) • Yulia Anatolyevna Sozina, Director, Center for Slavic Cultures in Moscow (Russia) • Mateja Jančar, Project Manager, Forum of Slavic Cultures (Slovenia)

The Forum of Slavic Cultures is in the process of establishing a new cultural route ded- icated to women writers at the turn of the 19th and 20th century. The main goal of a new cultural route that has so far managed to bring together experts, memorial points, museums, and other stakeholders from 6 different countries is to enhance visibility of women writers and their contribution to European culture and history of human rights and democracy as well as to encourage constructive thought, to initiate public debate and to strengthen democratic practice.

I see the November Forum of Slavic Cultures in St. Petersburg, whose central theme is Culture Codes in the Global World, as an opportunity for a redefinition of the given codes in the world to which we belong and in the jointly inherited culture. The location of this year’s reunion of the representatives of Slavic cultures is one of the most beautiful Slavic cities and one of the most beautiful museums – the Hermitage – a source of constant de- light. Apart from providing opportunities for meetings and socializing, the Forum is also a platform for sharing experience with other related institutions and, in the context of Slavic cultures, to shape and create new platforms for improvements in all areas of our activity. I would place a special emphasis on innovative approaches in museum activity, which would suitably articulate the attitude that museums are not founded solely with the purpose of preserving museum material and artefacts from the past and the present, but also in view of the awareness of their role and impact on the formation of the identity of the present. Establishing, (re)defining and raising awareness of the “culture codes in the global world” requires the existence and operation of museums, not only as “cathedrals and temples” of art and culture, but also as “new schools” offering fast and high-quality mass education.

Anastazija Miranović, Director of the National Museum of Montenegro, Montenegro

14 It seems it has never been easier, and at the same time harder, to make oneself visible in the global world. Thus, one’s literature (and culture in general) is a carte blanche for any nation, it is a door opener, a bridge; it offers an insight into those outside as well as a mirror view to the ones inside. Culture and literature are of utmost importance for small and big countries, lesser and wider used languages alike, and encounters like the Cultural Forum offer precious network opportunities.

Renata Zamida, Director of the Slovenian Book Agency, Slovenia

Presentation session “Development of cooperation between the Forum of Slavic Cultures and the Russian regions”

Venue : State Academic Chapel of St. Petersburg Languages: Russian and English Moderator: • Andreja Rihter, Director, Forum of Slavic Cultures (Slovenia). The main duty of the International Foundation “Forum of Slavic Cultures” is implementa- tion of joint cultural, educational and scientific projects aimed at disseminating knowl- edge about the Slavic cultural heritage and creativity. In addition, FSC is a platform for the presentation of Slavic cultural heritage in the international arena. FSC will present major projects and opportunities for fruitful cooperation with various cultural, educational and tourist organizations of the regions of Russia. After a short presentation, participants will be able to ask questions of interest and discuss specific proposals.

14 November, 17:00 – 18:30 Dinner for the Heads of official delegations of the Slavic countries on behalf of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation*

Venue: Kempinski Hotel Address: Moika embankment, 22, St. Petersburg

14 November, 20:30 – 22:00 Transformations FROM the Slavic Tradition TO Contemporary Designs The fashion presentation within the framework of the reception for the Ministers of Foreign Countries – participant of the Forum*

Venue: Russian Ethnographic Museum Address: Inzhinernaya street, 4/1, St. Petersburg Inaugural address on behalf of FSC by Andreja Rihter, Director of the Forum of Slavic Cultures

The project of the Forum of Slavic Cultures identifies the typical elements of the cul- tural heritage of Slavic nations in unique collections by flirting with esprit and specific sensibility of the fashion designers of the younger and middle generations. Besides the five different design collections the result of flirting with rich heritage of the traditional elements of cultural backgrounds from which the creators (Bulgaria, the Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia and Serbia) come from, placing them in the con- temporary cultural and global fashion context, is the book and the exhibition of the same name. 15 This is a unique opportunity for a professional dialogue that can be very useful to exchange information about the content and the quality of stage art in the Slavic cultural arena. My experience as an artistic leader of the International MESS Fe- stival will benefit from exchange of ideas and comparison with other institutions and professionals in the domain of theatrical art.

Dino Mustafić, Art Director of the MESS Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina

15 November, 10:45 – 11:15 Press Conference of the Forum of Slavic Cultures

Venue: The General Staff Building – Press Centre, St. Petersburg, Dvortsovaya Square, 6/8

15 November, 11:30 - 12:00 Memorandum signing Ceremony

Venue: Russian Ethnographic Museum – Marble Hall Address: Inzhinernaya street, 4/1, St. Petersburg

• Memorandum of Cooperation between the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Archi- val Affairs of the Komi Republic and the International Foundation Forum of Slavic Cultures • Memorandum of Cooperation between the Russian State Library and the Interna- tional Foundation Forum of Slavic Cultures • Memorandum of Cooperation between the All-Russian State Library for foreign literature – Rudomino and International Foundation Forum of Slavic Cultures

15 November, 12:00 – 13:30 Round table “Your Heritage is Our Heritage”

Venue: The General Staff Building - Hermitage (Kabakov Hall), St. Petersburg, Dvortsovaya Square, 6/8

Event moderator: • Mikhail Arkadyevich Bryzgalov, General Director, Russian National Museum of (Russia)

Event Speakers: • Tijana Palkovljević Bugarski, Director, Matica Srpska Gallery (Serbia) • Saša Mesec, Curator, Slovenian Alpine Museum (Slovenia) • Andreja Rihter, Director, Forum of Slavic Cultures (Slovenia) • Sarita Vujković, Director, and Žana Vukičević, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina) • Pavel Douša, Director, Czech Countryside Museum (Czech Republic) • Elena Lyashkovich, Director, State Literary Museum of (Belarus)

16 Slavic heritage is an important and rich cornerstone of the European as well as world heritage. Often it is unduly put aside or even ignored. The panelists will talk about the importance of the Slavic heritage in the global context and share the examples of mu- tual cooperation in the field of museology within the Slavic world and beyond its bor- ders. They will also discuss how to strengthen cooperation and increase the influence of cultural institutions and what is the role of the Forum of Slavic Cultures and its Živa Award for the best Slavic museum in disseminating knowledge about the tangible and intangible cultural heritage of Slavic countries around the world.

15 November, 14:30 – 16:00 Panel discussion “National Media – Television of the Slavic Countries”

Venue: The General Staff Building, Palace Square (Lecture Hall), St. Petersburg, Dvortsovaya Square, 6/8

Event Moderator: • Mikhail Efimovich Shvydkoi, Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for International Cultural Cooperation (Russia)

Event Speakers: • Zoran Poznič, Minister of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia (Slovenia) • Hysni Ismaili, Minister of Culture of North Macedonia (North Macedonia) • Sergey Shumakov, Editor-In-Chief of the Russia Culture TV Channel (Russia) • Janez Virk, writer and editor of the film program, National Television of Slovenia (Slovenia) • Aleksandar Gatalica, journalist, editor and writer, Radio Televison of Serbia (Serbia) • Ivana Kocelj, Head of Music Department, Croatian Radio Television (Croatia)

The key topics to be discussed will be: TV production of the cultural programmes, pro- motion of the Slavic cultures, exchange of TV production between the institutions, an- nual meetings of the editors of the TV cultural programs, etc. The speakers will point out getting to know each other through cultures, traditions, tangible and intangible cultural heritage is necessary and essential. And the role of the media in this is crucial.

15 November, 19:00 – 21:00 Grand opening ceremony of The VIII St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum*

Venue: The New Stage of Mariinski Decabristov st., 34, St. Petersburg

16 November, 10:00 – 11:30 Round table “The Universe of Slavic Literature: the importance of communication between authors and translators as exemplified by the project “One Hundred Slavic Novels”

Venue: General Staff Building (Blue Hall) Address: Palace square, 6/8, St. Petersburg

Event moderators: • Anna Starominskaya, Sputnik Radio observer (Russia) and • Gojko Božović, Director and Editor-in-Chief, Archipelago Publishing House (Serbia)

17 Event Speakers: • Dubravka Djurić Nemec, editor-in-chief of the series “100 Slavic Novels”, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia (Croatia); • Renata Zamida, Director, Slovenian Book Agency (Slovenia); • Andreja Rihter, Director, Forum of Slavic Cultures (Slovenia); • Yulia Anatolyevna Sozina, Director, Center for Slavic Cultures in Moscow (Russia); • Aleksandar Gatalica, writer (Serbia); • Marianna Bershadskaia, professor and translator, St. Petersburg State University (Russia); • Silvia Stasselová, Director General, University Library in Bratislava (Slovak Republic).

The participants in the round table will discuss the present and future of the Slavic novel, the place of the Slavic novel in the international market, the experience and new possibilities in translation, the features of translation from Slavic into Slavic, the place of Slavic languages in the world language system.

16 November, 11:30 – 11:45 Press Scrum

Venue: The General Staff Building (Blue Hall), St. Petersburg, Dvortsovaya Square, 6/8

16 November, 14:30 – 16:00 Closing Ceremony of the Forum - Award named after Anatoliy Lunacharskiy*

Venue: General Staff Building Palace sq., 6/8, St. Petersburg

*official event by special invitation only

16 November, 15:00 SPECIAL FSC PROGRAMME Film Screening: My Sister’s Silence (2018, dir. by Kiran Kolarov) NEW BULGARIAN CINEMA Q&A Session with Kiril Kolarov, Director and Galina Toneva, Producer Film Screenings accompanied by the Venue: Film Theatre Dom Kino Q&A Sessions with the directors, Address: Karavannaya st, 12, St. Petersburg actors and producers 16 November, 19:30 14 November, 19:30 Film Screening: Father (2019, dir. by Petar Lecture by Christina Stojanova Valchanov and Kristina Grozeva) “Cautious Revival of New Bulgarian Cinema” Q&A Session with Ivan Savov, Actor Venue: Film Theatre Dom Kino Film Screening: Aga (dir. by Milko Lazarov) Address: Karavannaya st, 12, St. Petersburg Venue: Word Order bookshop, St. Petersburg Address: Fontanka river Embankment, 15, St. 17 November, 17:00 Petersburg Film Screening: ¾ (2017, dir. by Ilian Metev) Venue: Word Order bookshop, St. Petersburg Address: Fontanka river Embankment, 15, St. Petersburg

18 FORUM OF SLAVIC CULTURES DELEGATION

In these turbulent and in somewhat dramatic times of Eu- ropean and World history communication between different cultures about different topics remains a key ingredient for a better future. In this sense the St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum is a very important event. It can bring together good ideas and new ways for better cooperation between di- fferent cultures. At the cultural forum I will participate at the round table on national media and television in Slavic countries. I will speak about AV production in Slovenia as well as program sharing and the role of Slavic cultures in the programs of TV Slovenia. I also cooperate with the Forum of Slavic countries as a writer and am one of the authors repre- sented in the 100 Slavic novels collection.

Janez Virk, Writer and Editor of Film Programme of the Slovenian National TV, Slovenia

I am very honored to be member of the FSC delegation and have the opportunity to attend the VIII St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum. With Ivana’s House of Fairy Tales part of the future European cultural route Women Writers’ Route, the emi- nent St. Petersburg Cultural Forum serves as a great opportunity to promote not only the Route, but also the cultural products of Ivana’s House of Fairy Tales. This will be the focus of my presentation. The fair is also a wonderful opportunity to meet experts in various fields of culture and tangible and intangible cultural heritage, to make contacts for future cooperation and international exchange.

Ankica Puškarić, Director of the Ivana's House of Fairy Tales, Croatia

19 Name and Surname: Mladen Banjac Country: Bosnia and Hercegovina Institution: Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska Position: Curator Section: Fine Arts

Mladen Banjac was born in Banja Luka, where he lives and works. He is employed as a curator for programme activities at the Museum of Con- temporary Art of . He graduated in 2010 at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, Department of . From 2012 to 2015 he worked at the Republic Institute for Preservation of Cultural, Historical and Natural Heritage of Re- publika Srpska. Since May 2015 he has been em- ployed at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Re- publika Srpska. As a programme curator his goal is to explore and implement contemporary curatorial practices inside the Museum. An active member of Bosnia’s ICOM National Committee since 2012 he has served as its secretary since 2016. Since May 2017 he has been a member of Banjaluka’s Euro- pean Capital of Culture team. He has curated many group and solo contemporary art exhibitions.

Name and Surname: Marianna Bershadskaia Country: Russian Federation Institution: St. Petersburg State University Position: Professor Section: Literature and Reading

Marianna L. Bershadskaya (Cand. Sci in Philology) is a specialist in and prominent transla- tor. In 1967-2019, she was a professor of the histo- ry of South Slavic literatures, Serbian, Croatian, and Slovenian languages at the Department of Slavic Philology at Saint Petersburg State University. She is an author of numerous literature studies on his- torical and cultural ties between the Slavic peoples. She took part in production of such works, as The History of World Literature and The History of Litera- tures of West and South Slavs. Over 60 years, she has been a translator of fiction and created by the South Slavic, mainly Slovenian writers. In 1993- 2003, she was a vice chairperson and chairperson of the Saint Petersburg Society of Slovenia Friends “Triglav”. For achievements in Slovenistics, she was awarded with the Order of Honour of Freedom of the Republic of Slovenia. She is an honorary mem- ber of the Society “Slovenia-Russia.”

20 Name and Surname: Galina and Nikolay Biryukov Country: Russian Federation Institution: KGB Position: Fashion Designer Section: Special Programme Guest

Galina Biryukova and Nikolay Biryukov are the cre- ators of the brand KGB.

Galina Biryukova graduated from the Moscow Sla- va Zaitsev Fashion Laboratory led by Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Zaitsev, the doyen of Russian fashion creativity. In 2016 she received the Lamanova Prize for professional fashion designers. Biryukova has participated at several art exhibitions and instal- lations in Russia, Great Britain and Europe, and col- laborated with the acclaimed Russian troupe of ice dancers Imperial Ice Stars at their European tour.

Nikolay Biryukov is a painter, graphic artist, photog- rapher and fashion designer as well as a graduate of the St. Petersburg (then Leningrad) School of Restoration, and once even served as a restoration specialist at the Hermitage Museum. In 1995 he graduated from the arts department at the state pedagogical university in St. Petersburg and later taught art history. Since 1985 he has participat- ed in regional, national and international art and photography exhibitions. His photographs have received a place in the contemporary photography collection of the State Russian Museum in Sankt Petersburg.

Fascinated by the Russian symbolist movement in the period between and Modernism Galina and Nikolay Biryukov with their KGB proj- ects explore the possibilities of siting Russian his- tory of art into a contemporary context. 21 Name and Surname: Gojko Božović Country: Republic of Serbia Institution: Arhipelag Publishing House Position: Director and Editor in Chief Section: Literature and Reading

Gojko Božović is a poet, essayist, literary critic, edi- tor and publisher. He has written 7 volumes of po- etry: Underground Cinema, Soul of the Beast, Poems of Things, Archipelago, Elements, Nearby deities, Map; and 2 books of essays: Poetry in Time: On the Serbian Poet- ry of the Second Half of the 20th Century, Place We Love: On the Contemporary , Literature and Days. His works appeared in many anthologies. His poems and essays are translated into English, French, Italian, German, Russian, Czech, Portuguese, Hungari- an, Dutch, Danish, Slovenian, Norwegian, Polish, Bul- garian, Romanian, Slovak, Bulgarian, Greek and Mace- donian. He received „Dušan Matić”, „Brana Cvetković”, „Djura Jakšić”, „Branko Ćopić” awards and „Europa Giovani International Poetry Prize” (Italy) for poetry, and „Borislav Pekić Fund Award” for essays. He is the founder and editor-in-chief the Arhipelag Publishing and the Belgrade Festival of European Literature. He lives in Belgrade (Serbia).

Name and Surname: Tanja Djaković Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina Institution: Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Srpska Position: Deputy Minister of Culture Section: Education

Tanja Đaković graduated at the Faculty of Po- litical Science of the University in Belgrade, she obtained her MA in Political Theory, Political Sociology and Institutions at the same faculty. Since 2016 she is Deputy Minister of Culture at the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Srpska. Before that she was Head of Department for Higher Education Student Standard and advisor at the same ministry. Between 2011 and 2013 she worked as an advisor to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Srpska. She was also public relation officer and journalist. She is a member of the National Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina for the cooperation with UNESCO, and a member of Advisory Boards of “Banjaluka 2024” – candida- cy for the European Capital of Culture, and for the BiH participation at the Venice Biennale.

22 Name and Surname: Biljana Dojčinović Country: Republic of Serbia Institution: Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade Position: Professor Section: Cultural Routes

Biljana Dojčinović, PhD, teaches at the Department of Comparative Literature and Theory of Literature, Faculty of Philology, Belgrade University in Serbia. She was one of the founders of the Women’s Studies Center in Belgrade, as well as the Indoc Center in the Association for Wom- en’s Initiative. Between 2002 and 2008, she was the edi- tor-in-chief of Genero, a Serbian journal of feminist theory. She has been a member of the Management Committee of the COST (European Cooperation in the field of Science and Technical Research) Action IS 0901 “Women Writers in History: Toward a New Understanding of European Lit- erary Culture” since 2009 and a member of its core group (www.costwwih.net) since 2011. She is the director of the national project Кnjiženstvo – Theory and History of Women’s Writing in Serbian until 1915 (www.knjizenstvo.rs) and the editor-in-chief of Knjiženstvo, A Journal in Literature, Gender and Culture. She has also been a member of John Updike Society since its founding, one of the editors of John Updike Review since 2010, and one of the JUS directors since 2015. She has published seven academic books.

Name and Surname: Pavel Douša Country: Czech Republic Institution: National Museum of Agriculture, Museum of Czech Rural Life Position: Deputy Director and Director Section: Museums and Exhibition Projects

Pavel Douša, PhD, is a Deputy Director General of the Na- tional Museum of Agriculture, , a director of Kačina Chateau – Museum of Rural Life in Bohemia. He is an expe- rienced manager and scientist in the field of marketing, cul- tural heritage, history and museum studies. He has worked as a collection manager at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, a deputy director of communications, marketing and customer strategy at Prague Zoo, a deputy for busi- ness development at the National Museum, as a director of the Historical Museum and as a research secretary at the National Museum. He has worked or works as an external lecturer of the Universities. His professional work extends to management, marketing and presentation of cultural heritage, collections management, management of digital content and museum studies. He is a member of several scientific, expert or advisory boards and he participates or has participated in developing solutions for museum proj- ects. Member of ŽIVA Award Jury (president in 2015-2016).

23 Name and Surname: Dubravka Đurić Nemec Country: Republic of Croatia Institution: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia Position: Chief Adviser to the Minister Section: Literature and Reading

Dubravka Đurić Nemec holds an MA in English Language and Literature and German Language and Literature. She worked as translator, interpreter, language editor, and has experience in the fields of corporate identity design & management, communications management, compliance and corporate responsibility, international literature and reading promotion, and organization of cultural events. She has worked at the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia where she has held various positions: Head of the Literature Promotion Department, Director of Direc- torate for Literature, Publishing and Libraries, Chief ad- visor to the minister and currently as an Acting Director of Directorate for Cultural and Artistic Development and International Cultural Cooperation. Her responsibilities comprise: international networking, national and inter- national cultural projects of special interest, publishing etc. She is also a member of a number of international organizations and joint committees.

Name and Surname: Aleksandar Gatalica Country: Republic of Serbia Position: writer and journalist Section: Literature and Reading & Mass Communication

Aleksandar Gatalica is one of the most influential writ- ers in Serbia and winner of several prestigious awards, namely the Ivo Andric Award (for Cen- tury, One Hundred and One Histories of a Century), Meša Selimović Award and NIN Award (Serbian equivalent of Booker, both awards for The Great War). He graduated at the Belgrade University of Philology, majoring in World Literature. He is an active translator from Ancient Greek and also well known for his reviews of classical music in a Serbian daily newspaper. As a music critic he has ph: Dušan Stojančević written two books on the history of pianism, The Golden Age of Pianism, and Rubinstein vs Horowitz and Vice Versa. Aleksandar Gatalica is one of the most translated Serbi- an writers in the last decade. His books and stories have been translated into all major European languages. His novel The Great War has been translated into six languag- es (English, French, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Hungarian and Greek) and is also the Serbian representative in the 100 Slavic Novels collection. Aleksandar Gatalica is a member of the Serbian PEN Centre and Serbian Literary Associ- ation. He lives in Belgrade and works as a professional writer. 24 Name and Surname: Tina Huremovič Country: Republic of Slovenia Institution: International foundation Forum of Slavic Cultures Position: Project Manager Section: Special Programme Guest

Tina Huremovič born in Celje in Slove- nia, BA degress in Cultural Studies at the University of Ljubljana. She worked as a journalist, writer, editor, and in the field of PR, marketing, creative writ- ing, preparation and organization of events, project management, cultural management, web management. As a project manager she is working for Fo- rum of Slavic Cultures since 2012. She is charge of the heritage programme, website, social networks managing and PR.

Name and Surname: Mateja Jančar Country: Republic of Slovenia Institution: International foundation Forum of Slavic Cultures Position: Project Manager Section: Special Programme Guest

Mateja Jančar graduated in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory and English Language and Literature at the University of Ljubljana. She worked as translator, ed- itor, script writer, PR officer, manager and dramaturg. So far she has translated nine books and numerous articles, short sto- ries, essays and films. She has experience in project and programme management, organization, publishing and internation- al co-operation. Currently she works as a project manager at the Forum of Slav- ic Cultures; her chief responsibility is the foundation’s literary programmes. She is also the co-ordinator and Slovenian editor of the 100 Slavic novels series and co-or- dinates the establishment of the new cul- tural route – Women Writers Route.

25 Name and Surname: Ivana Kocelj Country: Republic of Croatia Institution: Croatian Radio Television Position: Head of Music Department Section: Mass Communication

Ivana Kocelj was born in Zadar. She graduated in musicol- ogy at the Music Academy in Zagreb. She first entered the world of public radio and television while still a student, working as a producer of reportages for a cultural pro- gramme on Croatian television and as an author and pre- senter of numerous classical music programmes at radio station HR3. In 1999 she became a full-time employee of the Croatian Radio Television, working for the TV Classical Music Department. She has produced hundreds of TV con- cert recordings and live events, and written scenarios and produced seven TV music documentaries. Since 2013 she has been the commentator of the television broadcast of the Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Concert. For 17 years she has been responsible for the Croatian participation at the Eurovision Young Musicians competition, organizing the national selections and taking the role of the HRT’s Head of Delegation. She is the project manager of the Eu- rovision Young Musicians, which will take place in Zagreb in June 2020. For the past seven years she has served as the Head of Music Department managing four radio en- sembles at HRT.

Name and Surname: Matija Kovač Country: Republic of Slovenia Institution: House of Culture Celje Position: Programme board member Section: Festivals of Festivals

Practicing in the fields of architecture, scenography, graphic, interior and ex- hibition design Matija Kovač has re- ceived his education at the Ljubljana Faculty of Architecture, IUAV Venezia and Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts London. He is a co-founder and a programme team member of the House of Culture in Celje, Slovenia, an NGO focused primarily on music and musical theatre production. As a co-owner of Zgradbazamisli, studio for design and architecutre, he is the author of more than one hundred vi- sual identities for cultural events, ex- hibitions, publications and many other projects.

26 Name and Surname: Janez Koželj Country: Republic of Slovenia Institution: City of Ljubljana Position: Professor, Deputy Mayor and Architect Section: Creative Industry & Urban Science

Janez Koželj was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Hav- ing taught urban design at the Faculty of Archi- tecture in Ljubljana, he has been the protagonist of the contextual approach to town planning for a number of years. Since 1995 his interest has shift- ed to the strategic issues of contemporary urban design. Focusing his research on the contempo- rary city, he relates analytical results to his built projects. His urban studies and outlines of archi- tecture have been published in several books and his work has won him many national and interna- tional awards for architecture. Since 2006 he has served as Deputy Mayor of Ljubljana Municipali- ty, responsible for urban planning, urban design and environmental protection. The main task of his office is to implement policies for sustainable urban development.

Name and Surname: Miloš Latinović Country: Republic of Serbia Institution: BITEF festival Position: Director Section: Theatre

Miloš Latinović was born in Kikinda. He graduated from primary and secondary school in Kikinda, and from the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade, where he defended his master on the subject of Sterijino pozorje and theatre life of Serbia. He is currently a PhD student. From 1999 to 2001 he served as director of the Na- tional Library Jovan Popović in Kikinda, and from 2003 to 2008 as director of the National Theatre in Kikinda. As a member of the municipal council SO Kikinda he was in charge of the culture, education and media department from 2008 until 2013. He is the author of six short story collections, eight novels, two essay books, two monographs and ten dramatic texts. He has published over a hundred literary articles in periodicals, weekly and daily newspapers. Many of his prose texts have been translated to English, Hungarian, Slovenian, Slova- kian, Russian and Macedonian. He is the editor-in-chief of the magazine Sce- na, published by Sterijino pozorje in Novi Sad. He is currently the director of Bitef Theatre and Bitef Festival. 27 »Taking part at the VIII St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum is important to me because of the possibility of the networking in the first place. I appreciate the opportunity to meet people from the same milieu to which I belong professi- onaly and to discuss the matter of the production of cultural content in public media service, especially position of classi- cal music in the media context of 21 century.«

Ivana Kocelj, Croatia

“My approach towards work in culture is interdisciplinary. On the one hand I am active as an architect, graphic and set desi- gner in our studio Zgradbazamisli, which takes care of the visual identity of the Forum of Slavic Cultures, and on the other as a producer in the non-governmental House of Culture Celje, which is committeed to pursuing excellence in art and aims to protect the public interest in the fields of music and performing arts in our local community.”

Matija Kovač, Slovenia

NERVING THE CREATIVITY OF SLAVIC CULTURES

28 At the Slovenian Alpine Museum we are very honoured to be invited as guests to the Cultural Forum 2019. As the 2017 Živa Award Winners we are happy to be able to share our good practice and will take this opportunity to foster collaboration with other members and follow the cultural flow of the event to soak in the experience that will take us to the next level of safekeeping and promoting cultural heritage.

Saša Mesec, Slovenian Alpine Museum

The International Forum of Slavic Cultures participates in the VIII St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum with the Women Writers’ Route Project. This project means mapping a route of women authors from Slavic countries in order to weave them into a unique path which would include both famous and lesser known important women authors. From Russia’s Ana Akhmatova, Marina Tzvetaeva and Zinaida Gippius via Serbian Isidora Sekulić, Desanka Maksimović and Jelena Dimitrijević, all the way to Croatia presenting Ivana Brllić Mažuranić and Zagorka, ending with Slovenia and Zofka Kveder, the cultural route is bound to stir up a lot of interest. The aim of the FSC in taking part in this Festival is to gain more attention of the international audience and to invite other experts from Slavic countries to join our project. I will participate with a presentation of Serbian women writers, with the focus on Jelena Dimitrijević (1862-1945), whose works had been translated to Russian and Czech in the first decades of the 20th century. This author was a seasoned traveller who connected many cultu- ral routes and brought them all to Serbia through her travelogu- es, prose works and poems. She described the critical moments in her country, as well as in distant destinations such as America or India. The aim of my presentation at this Forum is to talk about the very idea of Women Writers’ Route embodied in the works of Jelena J. Dimitrijević, as well as to learn about and try to adopt the strategies of other Festival’s participants.

Prof. Biljana Dojčinović, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, Serbia

29 Name and Surname: Polona Lovšin Country: Republic of Slovenia Institution: Riko company Position: Head of Public Relations Section: Business flow

Polona Lovšin graduated in 2003 from the Department of Art His- tory at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. Since 2003 she has been working for the company Riko as a corporate commu- nications manager, where she focuses particularly on integrating arts and culture into corporate business. She is credited for the direction of the Škrabec Homestead, which she is continuously developing into an internationally renowned cultural venue with many intertwined programmes; she curates the Riko Art Collec- tion, as the general secretary she manages a scholarship fund for students of Slovene and Slavic studies (Škrabec Foundation) and works to multiply the effects of investments in culture. She also lectures and publishes texts for various publications. She has prepared several exhibitions of contemporary art in Slo- venia. From 2005 to 2010 she served as a member of the Expert Commission for Visual Arts in the City of Ljubljana, from 2015 to 2019 as a member of the Council of the Museum of Architecture and Design (Slovenia); she is a member of the board of the Mik- lova House Gallery and a member of TIAMSA.

Name and Surname: Elena Lyashkovich Country: Republic of Belarus Institution: Yanka Kupala State Literary Museum Position: Director Section: Museums and Exhibition Projects

Elena Lyashkovich graduated from the Belarusian State Univer- sity, Faculty of History. From 1992 to 2007 she worked as a re- searcher at the Laboratory of Museology of the Belarusian Insti- tute for Cultural Issues. Since May 2007 she has served as director of the State Literary Museum of Yanka Kupala. She is an expert in the field of museology and museum management. She is the au- thor of a number of articles on museology studies as well as the compiler of a series of catalogues on Yanka Kupala’s literary her- itage, including the book of one poem And, say, who goes there? in 100 languages of the world and Yanka Kupala’s book of sonnets in 16 languages. Lyashovich is also the author of the new per- manent exhibition in the State Literary Museum of Yanka Kupala and curator of international museum projects, scientific confer- ences and seminars. She is the chair of the Belarusian Council of Museum Directors and a member of the Republican Scientific and Methodological Council on Museum Affairs. She has received a number of awards, including the Francisk Skaryna Medal, the Appreciation of the President of the Republic of Belarus and the badge of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Belarus for contribution to the development of the .

30 Name and Surname: Mladen Vesković Country: Serbia Institution: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Serbia Position: Senior Adviser Section: Literature and Reading

Mladen Vesković was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1971. He obtained his Master Degree in the Serbian Literature and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Philology, Uni- versity of Belgrade. He worked as a teacher of literature, professional editor in publishing houses, literary critic, and author. Since 2005 he is a Senior Adviser in the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Serbia in charge for cooperation in the field of literature and translations and cultural cooperation with Serbs in diaspora. His aca- demic interests are focused on the Serbian literature and language, comparative literature, history and theory of lit- erature. He is an author of five books of literary criticism, essays and anthologies of Serbian literature. He was a member of the organization boards of International Book Fairs in Belgrade and Novi Sad. He represents Serbia in the Steering Committee of the International Literature Network “Traduki” and of the Programme Council of the Forum of Slavic Cultures.

Name and Surname: Saša Mesec Country: Republic of Slovenia Institution: Slovenian Alpine Museum Position: Curator Section: Museums and Exhibition Projects

Saša Mesec is a curator at the Slovenian Alpine Museum. Since 2008 she has worked on various projects connected with rural areas and cultural heritage protection. She has worked as a project concept development consultant in the field of culture, tourism, agriculture and entrepreneur- ship at the local, regional and international levels. She was a member of project development teams in different EU projects such as SY_CULTour (Synergy of Culture and Tourism), Danube GeoTour and DiStory (Digital Stories of Small Historic Towns). Since 2017 she has been employed at the Slovenian Alpine Museum in Mojstrana where she has been working on tangible and intangible mountain- eering heritage. She was the author of Female Courage, an exhibition about Slovene women alpine climbers. She is also involved in the Alpine Convention projects and works on linking cultural and natural heritage with other insti- tutions and countries through cooperation projects.

31 Name and Surname: Nemanja Mićević Country: Bosnia and Hercegovina Institution: Museum of Contemporary Art of the Re- public of Srpska Position: Designer and photographer Section: Fine Arts

Nemanja Mićević finished the Academy of Arts of the University of Banja Luka in 2007 and achieved a mas- ter degree in Theory of Art and Media on Interdisciplin- ary studies of University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia 2009. He has worked at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska since 2008 as a graphic design- er. He is responsible for exhibitions, design, catalogues, photo-documentation and web-administration. In 2013 and 2017 he was in charge of the visual identity of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Pavilion at the Venice Bien- nale. He was the Board Member of the ICOM BiH Na- tional Committee from 2010 to 2016.

Name and Surname: Anastazija Miranović Country: Montenegro Institution: National Museum of Montenegro Position: Director Section: Museums and Exhibition Projects

Anastazija Miranović, PhD, an art historian, art critic and fashion designer, was born in Kotor. She grad- uated from the Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade, where she received a master’s and a doctor’s de- gree in the field of cultural tourism. A museum ad- visor, she has worked as the director of the Nikola Đurković Cultural Centre, Kotor, as the manager of the Velimir A. Leković gallery of the Cultural Centre of Bar, at the same time teaching at the state Fac- ulty of Tourism and Hotel Management. Since July 2013, she has served as director of the Directorate for the Protection of Cultural Property of Montene- gro and since May 2018 she has been working as the director of the National Museum of Montene- gro. As an art critic she collaborates with journals in the field of fine arts and cultural heritage. She has curated many important exhibitions in Montenegro and abroad (2015 – curator and commissioner of the national pavilion at the Venice Biennale); she has been the president or member of respectable professional juries and commissions in the field of fine arts and cultural and historical heritage. Since 2008 she has been actively involved in the Monte- negrin fashion scene.

32 Name and Surname: Edin Mustafić ph: Velija Hasanbegović Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina Institution: MESS festival Position: Art Director Section: Theatre

Dino Mustafić was born in Sarajevo. He graduated from the Depart- ment of Directing at the Academy of Performing Arts Sarajevo, and from the Department of Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy Sa- rajevo. He worked as director in theaters in , Belgrade, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Rijeka, Trieste, Split, Maribor, Nova Gorica, Skopje, Prišti- na, Podgorica, Paris and elsewhere. His plays have been staged and awarded at numerous festivals across the world, includeing Cairo, Roma, Firenze, Madrid, Bogota, Guadalajara, Paris, London, Stockholm, Istanbul, Varna, Vratsa, San Jose, Budva, Rijeka, Venice, Zagreb, Novi Sad, Subotica, Nikšić, Belgrade, Ljubljana, Skopje, Bursa and Modena. Having won 23 international awards, his play Helver’s Night has gone down in the history of the Bosnian theater as the most awarded play. He has staged over 90 texts by classic and contemporary writers. He has made several documentaries and the feature Remake, which has screened at more than 40 international festivals and was awarded in Munich and San Francisco. He is a lecturer at the Academy of Per- forming Arts in Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Film Academy. He served as Head of the International Theater Festival MESS from 1997 till 2015.

Name and Surname: Massimo Negri Country: Italy Institution: European Museum Academy Position: Scientific Director Section: Museums and Exhibition Projects & Cultural Heritage Preservation

Massimo Negri is a Scientific Director of the Euro- pean Museum Academy. He was a European Muse- um Forum Director from 2000 to 2009 and a mem- ber of the Jury of the European Museum of the Year Award from 1983 to 2009. He was a Fulbrighter twice – at the Pennsylvania State University and at the Smithsonian Institution. Negri is an indepen- dent temporary exhibition specialist and an active lecturer on industrial archaeology, he has also writ- ten several publications in this field as well as on museological matters in general. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Museum of the Cathedral (Museo del Duomo) of Milan and a Sci- entific Director of the Executive Master Course in European Museology at the IULM University, Milan. He also teaches museology at the State University of Padua. In 1993 he was awarded the Cross of Officer of the Orden de Isabel la Catòlica by the King of Spain. 33 Name and Surname: Ivan Savov Country: Bulgaria Position: Actor Section: Cinema

Ivan Savov was born in Sofia. He graduated at the Nation- al Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in acting in 1982. After graduating he became an actor in the troupe of the Dimitrovgrad Theatre. He played in the Haskovo Theatre, in the strongest period of its history, at the time of Ivan Dobchev. In 2010 he has returned as a director and set “Woman on Us” by Alexei Slapovski. In the theatre, he was engaged in more than 40 produc- tions, such as Uncle Vanya, Hamlet, Blackbird, Romeo and Juliet, Thessaloniki Conspirators, Platonov. He played part in many Bulgarian Films. He had leading roles in the movies From Nothing Something, Auricularia Iron, The Lover, Love Summer of One Lyohman, All Zero, East-West, Emigrants, Fate as a Rat, Friends Call Me Uncle, The Goat and The Lesson.

Name and Surname: Tijana Palkovljević Bugarski Country: Republic of Serbia Institution: Gallery of Matica Srpska Position: Director Section: Fine Arts & Museums and Exhibition Projects

Tijana Palkovljević Bugarski, PhD, graduated from the Fac- ulty of Philosophy, Department of Art History in Belgrade, and completed her master studies at the same Faculty. Her research field involves the study of international and national 20th-century art and issues concerning education, management and marketing in museums. Since 2001, she has been employed in the Gallery of Matica srpska in Novi Sad and was appointed its director in 2010. She is also en- gaged in creating and publishing programs and editions of the Gallery, and works on developing educational pro- grams for children. She has set up numerous exhibitions and written several books, catalogues and articles in pro- fessional journals. She is also a lecturer at the University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Department of Architecture and Urban planning. In 2017 she was elected president of the Board of Directors of the Foundation Novi Sad - European Capital of Culture 2021. She is also a mem- ber of the Forum of Slavic Cultures, the European Museum Academy, the Executive Board of ICOM Serbia, the Advisory Board of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia for Creative Industries, and the Network of European Museum Organizations NEMO.

34 Name and Surname: Ankica Puškarić Country: Croatia Institution: Ivana’s House of Fairy Tales Position: Director Section: Cultural Routes & Museums and Exhibition Projects

Ankica Puškarić is the director of Iva- na’s House of Fairytales’ visitor centre in Ogulin, a unique multimedia inter- active visitor center celebrating fairy tales and fairytale creativity funded by the European Fund for Regional Devel- opment. For over 20 years she was the director of the Tourist Board of the city of Ogulin, where she conducted numer- ous projects for the sustainable devel- opment of tourism products and events, branding Ogulin’s fairy tale homeland, promotion and marketing. She served as director of the Ogulin Fairytale Fes- tival for 11 years.

Name and Surname: Andreja Rihter Country: Republic of Slovenia Institution: International foundation Forum of Slavic Cultures Position: Director Section: Special Programme Guest

In the course of the last twenty years and more she has strongly supported cultural heritage projects and activi- ties at the national, regional and international level – as the Minister of Culture in the Government of Slovenia during her term of office (2000–2004), former Director of the Museum of Recent History Celje ( 1986–2000) and through other assignments, functions and positions in different National and European cultural organizations such as: the European Museum Forum (national corre- spondent since 1987); the Association of the Museums of Slovenia (President, 1998–2001); the Museology School of Celje, Slovenia (Initiator and Head, 2006-); ICOM – IC- TOP (Board member (2007 -, vice-chair 2010 -); the Forum of Slavic Cultures (Founding member and initiator, 2002 -, President 2002–05, 2009-). More recently the Council of Europe – Parliamentary Assembly (Chairperson of the Sub-Committee on Cultural Heritage, 2010–2011); the European Museum Academy (President, 2009 -); Hands On! – the International association for Children’s Museum (Vice-President, 2009 – 2011, 2011 Member of the Board) and a Member of Parliament of Slovenia (2008 – 2012); Director of the Forum of Slavic Cultures (2012 – ).

35 Name and Surname: Saša Šavel Burkart Country: Republic of Slovenia Institution: Slovenian National TV Position: Editor of the Cultural Programme Section: Mass Communication

Saša Šavel Burkart is a professional culture journalist, critic and editor with more than 20 years’ experience in television and print media. She completed a masters degree in Antropology and has a diploma in journalism. She studied at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Uni- versity of Ljubljana and at the Postgraduate School of Humanities, Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis.

In 2008 she was awarded the prestigious European Jour- nalist Fellowship and spent a year in Berlin, studying at the Freie Universität Berlin, where she completed re- search on Turkish-German cinema as a reflection of in- tegration.

Today, Saša is Head of Culture Department at the Slo- venia’s national public broadcasting organization, RTV Slovenia. She edits and produces different television programmes on daily culture and arts news, weekly magazine programmes, talk shows, live broadcasts and documentary features. Saša Šavel Burkart is also the au- thor of theoretical texts in the field of contemporary art, cinema and media studies.

Name and Surname: Julia Sozina Country: Russian Federation Institution: Centre of Slavic Cultures Moscow Position: Director Section: Literature and Reading

Yulia Sozina, PhD in Philology, is a senior research fel- low of the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, author of numerous scientific papers on literary and cultural studies, including the monograph ‘The Slovenian novel of the last third of the 20th century as a study of man and his arena of life’. Literary links between the South Slavs and Rus- sia, analysis of Slovenian prose and poems, the per- ception of Russian literature in Slovenian literature are among the central topics of her research. Yulia Sozina is also the Head of the Centre of Slavic cul- tures, member of the Programme Council of the Fo- rum of Slavic Cultures, coordinator of the 100 Slavic novels project in Russia, and a translator and editor who has led various projects, two of which won the international Ugra literary award and the Dositej Ob- radović award. 36 Name and Surname: Silvia Stasselová Country: Slovak Republic Institution: University Library in Bratislava Position: Director General Section: Literature and Reading

Silvia Stasselová is a Director General of the University Li- brary in Bratislava (since 2015) and the 1st woman to hold this post during the 100 years long history of this oldest research Slovak library. She was Head of the Academic Li- brary at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (1992–2015) and elected president of the Slovak Librari- ans and Libraries Association (1999– 2018). She is active standing committee member of the International Feder- ation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA): Man- agement of Library Associations Section (2007–2017), Ac- ademic and Research Libraries Section (since 2017). Since 2018 she is the Chair the Slovak Committee for the UN- ESCO Memory of the World, member of the Slovak Com- mission for UNESCO. She is also President of the Slovak Arts Council (art activities, culture and creative industry) since 2019. She supports the international cooperation in Central Europe and worldwide and she organized the 8th International Colloquium of Library and Information Ex- perts of the V4+ countries.

Name and Surname: Janez Virk Country: Republic of Slovenia Institution: Slovenian National TV Position: Writer and Editor of Film Programme at Slovenian National TV Section: Literature and Reading & Mass Communication

Jani Virk, PhD, was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He studied German language and comparative literature. By 2014, he completed his doctoral dissertation on the Middle Ages in contemporary literature and film. He has written nine novels, five books of short stories, a volume of poems and a book of essays. He also translates from German (his translations include works by Meister Eckhart, G. Roth, E. Canetti, H. C. Artmann, T. Bernhard, J. W. Goethe, H. Böll). He has won several prizes at home and abroad, among them the Prešeren Fund Award. One of his short stories, The Village Teacher, was filmed at the beginning of the 90s. Virk´s books have been translated and published in Austria, , Mexico, Serbia, Poland and Croatia and his works have been published also in magazines in many other countries. He lives in Ljubljana and works as Editor of the Drama De- partment at the national public service broadcaster RTV Slovenija.

37 Name and Surname: Sarita Vujković Country: Bosnia and Hercegovina Institution: Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska Position: Director Section: Fine Arts & Museums and Exhibition Projects

Sarita Vujković, PhD, graduated from the Uni- versity of Belgrade at the Department of Art History of the Faculty of Philosophy. In 2008 she completed an interdisciplinary postgrad- uate course on the Theory of Art and Media at the University of Arts in Belgrade, earning a Master’s degree. In 2011 she defended a doctoral dissertation entitled “Ideological, Aesthetic and Art Models in the Artworks of Bosnian and Herzegovinian Female Artists from 1945 until 2005” at the Faculty of Phi- losophy, University of Belgrade. She earned the title of museum advisor at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska, where she was the author, curator and selec- tor in a number of projects on contemporary art, media and gender. Sarita Vujković was the commissioner and curator of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Pavilion at the 55th and 57th La Biennale di Venezia. She is the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska in Banja Luka and a docent at the Academy of Arts in Banja Luka.

Name and Surname: Žana Vukičević Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina Institution: Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska Position: Curator Section: Fine Arts

Žana Vukičević is an art historian and contem- porary art curator. She graduated in 2009 from the Department, Faculty of Phi- losophy, University of Belgrade. She works as a senior curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Srpska in Banja Luka. She is responsible for all aspects of management of museum collections and their presentation and promotion. In addition to being responsi- ble for the museum holdings and storage she develops and coordinates exhibition projects that focus on modern art history and contem- porary art practice. She has written prefaces in catalogues for many exhibitions of contempo- rary art.

38 Name and Surname: Renata Zamida Country: Republic of Slovenia Institution: Slovenian Book Agency Position: Director Section: Literature and Reading

Renata Zamida has been working at the Slovenian Book Agency (JAK) since 2016 as the head of the project “Slovenia, Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2022”. She was appointed by the government as the director of the Book Agency in 2018, after having worked in book publishing for more than 10 years, ph: Tina Jordovič mostly in the field of international co- operation, copyright and e-books. She was the artistic director of the Fabula International Literary Festival as well as manager of the international pro- gramme at the Slovenian Book Fair in Ljubljana. She lectures and publishes articles in Slovenia and abroad. She holds two degrees from the University of Ljubljana, one in journalism and one in philosophy and linguistics. Currently she is a doctoral candidate in publishing studies at the Johannes Gutenberg Uni- versity in Mainz, Germany.

Special FSC Delegates

Name and Surname: Dalibor Domitrović Country: Republic of Croatia Institution: Ogulin Municipality Position: Mayor Section: Cultural Routes

Name and Surname: Dubravka Vuković Country: Republic of Croatia Institution: Ogulin Radio Position: Director Section: Cultural Routes

Name and Surname: Isidora Kovačević Country: Montenegro Institution: National Museum of Montenegro Position: Head of Njegoš Museum Section: Museums and Exhibition Projects

39 FSC SPEAKERS in the Programme of St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum

The main problem of globalization is the increasing expan- sion of American influence on the way of life and visual environment. The dominance of a leading culture gradually leads toward overall uniformity. Possibly the most universally accepted response to the global homogenisation is the re-af- firmation of contextualism to be considered as a strategy of urban planning and a method of urban design. In this sense we need to repurpose the territory and the notion of cultural heritage, not only by enhancing its cultural value, but as an opportunity to make cities more resilient and sustainable.

Janez Koželj, Professor, Deputy Mayor and architect of the City of Ljubljana, Slovenia

40 THURSDAY, 14 NOVEMBER 2019

Section: Cultural Tourism Venue: The State Academic Capella of St. Petersburg Address: Moyka riv. emb., 20, St. Petersburg 13.30 – 15.30 Theatre Festivals and Productions as Part of the Present-Day Tourism Project FSC Speaker: Edin Mustafić, MESS festival (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Section: Cultural Heritage Preservation Venue: General Staff Building Address: Palace sq., 6/8, St. Petersburg 14.00 – 15.30 To Destroy, not to Preserve/Not to Destroy, To preserve Part II: Not to Destroy/To Preserve (Plenary meeting) FSC Speaker: Janez Koželj, City of Ljubljana (Slovenia)

Section: Theatre Venue: The New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theatre Address: Fontanka riv. emb., 49 A, St. Petersburg 15.00 – 18.30 Cultural Bridges in Theatre World: the modern stage in the international cultural space FSC Speaker: Miloš Latinović, BITEF festival (Serbia)

Section: Literature and Reading Venue: The main building of the Russian National Library Address: Sadovaya str., 18, St. Petersburg 15.00 – 17.00 International ties of libraries and publishing houses in digital age FSC Speakers: Silvia Stasselová, University Library in Bratislava (Slovak Republic)

Track: Culture and Youth Venue: General Staff Building Adress: Palace sq., 6/8, St. Petersburg 18.30 – 20.00 Volunteers for Culture: Public Movement or Event Enthusiasm? (16+) FSC Speaker: Tijana Palkovljević Bugarski, Gallery of Matica Srpska (Serbia)

41 FRIDAY, 15 NOVEMBER 2019

Section: Literature and Reading Venue: The State Academic Capella of St. Petersburg Address: Moyka riv. emb., 20, St. Petersburg 10.00–11.30 The 75th Anniversary of the Great Victory: Literature, Film, Theatre FSC Speaker: Tanja Djaković, Ministry of Education and Culture of the Re- public of Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Section: Cultural Tourism Venue: The State Academic Capella of St. Petersburg Address: Moyka riv. emb., 20, St. Petersburg 11.00–13.00 A historical interpretation of cultural resources for shaping tourist offers FSC Speaker: Massimo Negri, EMA (Italy)

Track: Culture and Society Venue: General Staff Building Address: Palace sq., 6/8, St. Petersburg 14.30 – 16.00 Creative People in Culture: Where to Study, How to work? FSC Speakers: Sarita Vujković and Mladen Banjac, Museum of Contempo- rary Art of the Republic of Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Section: Theatre Venue: General Staff Building Address: Palace sq., 6/8, St. Petersburg 16.30 – 18.00 Modern Theatre: Problems and Achievements FSC Speaker: Edin Mustafić, MESS festival (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

42 SATURDAY, 16 NOVEMBER 2019

Section: Mass Communication Venue: General Staff Building Address: Palace sq., 6/8, St. Petersburg 12.00–13.30 Anti-press Conference: What foreign media is interested in FSC Speaker: Saša Šavel Burkart, Slovenian National TV (Slovenia)

Section: Music Venue: General Staff Building Address: Palace sq.,6/8,St. Petersburg 16.15 - 18.15 Museums and Music: Colloquium FSC Speaker: Andreja Rihter, Forum of Slavic Cultures (Slovenia)

Section: Culture 2.0 Venue: Manege Central Exhibition Hall Address: St. Isaac’s sq., 1, St. Petersburg 17.15 – 18.45 Private museums FSC Speaker: Tijana Palkovljević Bugarski, Gallery of Matica Srpska (Serbia)

I expect the event to become a place of ideas for new projects and fruitful networking to preserve and promote the cultural he- ritage of the Slavs. For more than 50 years, I was a professor of languages and lite- rature of the South Slavs at the Department of Slavic Philology at Saint Petersburg State University, paying great attention to history and cultural relationships between Slavic and non-Slavic peoples. For 60 years, I have dealt with translation of fiction works written mainly by Slovenian authors. The Wolf Nights by V. Žabot was published in my translation in the 100 Slavic Novels series, which is the project of the Forum of Slavic Cultures.

Marianna Bershadskaya, Professor at the St.Petersburg State University, Russia

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