Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd)

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.

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.

Events | U-M LSA Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREES)

Join us tomorrow for a conversation about nonaligned literary networks, engaged travel writing, and anticolonial scholarship.
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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!

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

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

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.

From the Archives of Yugoslavia

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.

Nonaligned Literature (Part 1)* ⋆ Yugoblok Yugoslavia cultivated extensive literary connections and networks with its nonaligned friends. Writers from Yugoslavia traveled to nonaligned countries and published travelogues about their observatio...

Nonaligned literature, Part I, features Iva Kosmos and Nebojša Đorđević talking about nonaligned travel writing:

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.

I was recently interviewed about my research on nonaligned literary solidarities for one of my favorite podcasts, Yugoblok. Check it out! @nupress.bsky.social

NUP books are 50% off until January 3!

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.

Nonaligned Imagination - Northwestern University Press Recovering the literary and intellectual history of anticolonial collaborations   Preoccupied with developing a multiethnic, postcolonial culture and seekin...

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!
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ASEEES 2025 Thursday, Nov 20 – Sunday, Nov 23 All events at Washington Hilton unless otherwise noted

And check out the amazing lineup of #ASEEES panels sponsored by the New Yugoslav Studies Association: newyugoslavstudies.org/aseees-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."

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

Looking forward to sharing my research with Eastern Michigan University colleagues and students. Book launch coming up on October 23!

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
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Hvala!

The hard copies are here! @nupress.bsky.social designed a gorgeous cover.

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....

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.

Italian hosts also intercept telegrams of support due to their communist content. And they are embarrassed by an Ethiopian delegate who demands they repatriate looted art. Guberina concludes that Yugoslavia should offer to host the next congress in a more friendly environment.

Fanon brings up the taboo topic of the Algerian War, so Belgian and French observers try to prevent others from mentioning either the Congo or Algeria. Italians are cordial at first, until they realize that the congress has a “political” agenda so they move it to a smaller venue.

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.

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.

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):

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Thank you for the shoutout! Glad to connect on bsky!

Some of them decorate the inside covers of Yugoslav diplomat and historian Zdravko Pečar's book 'Alžir do nezavisnosti' (Algeria until Independence).

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.

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.

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

Nonaligned Imagination - Northwestern University Press Recovering the literary and intellectual history of anticolonial collaborations   Preoccupied with developing a multiethnic, postcolonial culture and seekin...

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!