Serbian Science Research Articles

Социально-философская и культурологическая мысль во взаимоотношениях России и Сербии

The article deals with the issues of socio-philosophical and culturological thought as a factor of interaction between Russia and Serbia in the modern European space. In the study the author presents the historical periods of socio-cultural development of relationships between the two countries, beginning from the first millennium. The work focused on identifying the common mental, cultural and historical commonalities of our peoples which allowed for the development of interaction between the two countries in the field of scientific cooperation, socio-philosophical, cultural and spiritual relations [1, c. 244-250]. The author defines the role of the language of communication and examines an important stratum of Serbian culture: Orthodoxy. In this context, the aspects of spiritual and cultural unity between Russia and Serbia, which have shaped the unity of views of the representatives of Serbian science and cultural, socio-philosophical and spiritual-cultural thought have emerged. The author defines the role of the ‘Russian House’ Centre for Culture and Science in Belgrade, Serbia, as a fulcrum of cultural, scientific and religious life of the Russian immigrant community and a firm manifestation of the Russian-Serbian spiritual, socio-philosophical and cultural ties between the two states. The paper focuses on such phenomena of intercultural contacts between Russia and Serbia as the scientific and cultural influence of the Russian intelligentsia after the 1917 revolution. Several waves of Russian emigration in the 19th and 20th century had the biggest impact on Serbian spiritual culture, architecture, civil engineering and art. One of the first associations of Russian post-November emigrants was the Archeological Society of Serbia (1921), represented by the Slavist historian A.L. Pogodin. Emigration to Serbia increased after the ruefully known ‘Philosophical steamer’ in 1922. This year, the St. Petersburg scholarly community widely marked the 100th anniversary of this exodus of Russian intellectuals, which marked the loss of the spiritual forces of Soviet Russia, but there was a considerable acquisition of culture, science, architecture, and theatrical art in Serbia, and thus in Europe.

Društveno i kulturno značenje kritike - prilog tumačenju projekta dvanaest knjiga srpske književne kritike

The paper sheds light on the importance of the first edition project of twelve volumes of Serbian literary criticism as a stage in the development of criticism as a culture in Serbian society and as a premise for the publication of a new edition of twenty-five volumes of literary criticism in which philosophers are included. Predrag Palavestra was at the center of the project, as the creator and implementer. In both editions, all the conditions and causes for the creation of his "History of Serbian Literary Criticism 1876 - 2007" as a fundamental book of Serbian science of literature and culture were collected. Palavestra came to all his findings, which are the foundation of Serbian literary criticism and culture, gradually, creating a large scientific project on literary criticism. On that road, the edition of twelve volumes of criticism was the first stage.

Applied musicology: A “manifesto”, and a case study of a lost cultural hub

In this article I present a ?manifesto? of the new discipline of applied musicology, which is closely related to the project Applied Musicology and Ethnomusicology in Serbia: Making a Difference in Contemporary Society (APPMES), supported by the Serbian Science Fund. Here I wish to outline some of the main aims and goals of this project and offer a broader insight into what applied musicology should strive to become. In the second part of the article, I present a case study of the Belgrade neighbourhood of Savamala where I conducted fieldwork before formulating the concept of applied musicology; nevertheless, this research is completely aligned with the aims and purposes of the new discipline, and it has helped me to turn my intuitive insights into a comprehensive theoretical concept.

MИЛАН КУЈУНЏИЋ АБЕРДАР – ОД ,,БУЧНОГ БАРДА“ ОМЛАДИНЕ ДО ,,МЛАДОКОНЗЕРВАТИВЦА“ MILAN KUJUNDŽIĆ ABERDAR – FROM A “BOISTEROUS BARD” OF THE YOUTH TO THE “YOUNG CONSERVATIVE”

Milan Kujundžić Aberdar is a well-known person in Serbian science. However, his political activity has not been sufficiently researched. This paper tends to present his political activity in the period until 1880. The emphasis here is on his work within the United Serb Youth (1866‒1871), as well as on the political steps which he undertook during the 1870s. One of the aims of this paper is to show how Kujundžić, who had been perceived as a member of the Serbian liberal youth, became one of the ideologues of the Serbian Progressive Party, whose subsequent leaders were Milan Piroćanac, Milutin Garašаnin, and Stojan Novaković. This paper is based on the unpublished material of domestic provenance, and the relevant scientific literature.

Greek books of the Dimitrije Davidovic’s printing house in Vienna

Dimitrije Davidovic's printing house did not fulfill the expectations of Serbs, nor his personal ones, during its three years of work in Vienna. Because he did not get the general printing right, he got into big financial trouble. Using his acquaintance with the rich Greek-Aromanian family Darvar, he tried to overcome these problems by printing books in Greek. Taking into account the fact that this is still unknown in Serbian science, we present the available data on it, considering it important for the Serbian national bibliography, and in this way specific international cultural relations are additionally presented. At the end of the paper, a list of all Greek books that Davidovic printed is given.

An overview of the participles ending in -ci, -vsi and -m(i) from the perspective of the lexicographic description of the contemporary Serbian language

From the perspective of lexicography, this paper presents an analysis of participles ending in -ci, -vsi and -m(i), which in contemporary Serbian language fall within two categories: 1) the category of contemporary participial continuants, whose action is attributed to the noun as a temporary, current feature at a definite point in time, and 2) the category of adjectives that semantically correspond to past participles or to adjectives proper. As regards the descriptive dictionaries of the contemporary Serbian language, the participles ending in -ci, -vsi and -m(i) are lexicographically treated primarily in the Dictionary of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (the SASA Dictionary). Comparing the example sentences excerpted from various texts belonging to the contemporary standard Serbian language, on the one hand, with those excerpted from the SASA Dictionary, on the other, it can be noted that the SASA Dictionary does not contain examples of participle forms with the reflexive morpheme -se, while they can be said to be confirmed in other sources. This can be explained as resulting from the impact of the Serbian language norm, according to which participles do not belong to the contemporary standard Serbian language. This is especially true of forms containing the reflexive morpheme -se, which are not to be found in any modern grammar of the standard Serbian language. It is concluded in the paper that the SASA Dictionary treats the participle forms of both aforementioned categories and of three separate participle forms according to the verb tense (past and present) and voice (active and passive). As for the sources confirming the use of these forms, they can be found not only in those dating from the first half of the 19th century, when participles were commonplace in the literary language of Serbs, but also in the works of the 20th-century authors using the contemporary standard Serbian language. In accordance with that, the conclusion to be drawn is that participles should be treated and included in dictionaries, both in those whose compilation is ongoing (i.e. the SASA Dictionary) and in the future dictionaries of the contemporary Serbian language. The excerpted material shows that participles are used by prominent authors in Serbian science, religion and culture. As for the issue of which label to use for the indicated types of participles in the descriptive dictionary of the contemporary Serbian language, it is argued in this paper that in order to resolve it one should take into consideration at least two sets of facts related to the presented material. One refers to the examples of the formation of participles that in fact originate from the older layers of our literary language and which have been preserved in identical or similar form to this day (e.g. odsedsi, usopsi), while the other concerns participles created in a contemporary synchronic process involving contemporary verbs in current use and their meanings (dogorevajuca sveca, plac radjajucih stvorenja, etc.). The former set of examples is marked with standard labels, such as ?zast.? (?obsolete?), ?arh.? (?archaic?), ?rsl.? (?Russian Church Slavonic?), ?csl.? (?New Church Slavonic?), ?ssl.? (?Serbian Church Slavonic?), ?stknj. arh.? (?from earlier literary sources, old-fashioned?), used in the lexicographic description of participles in the SASA Dictionary, which can also be used in other descriptive dictionaries of the contemporary Serbian language to indicate the literary epoch in which a particular form of participle originated, or its pragmatic value. Concerning the latter set of participles, if they were to be introduced into a descriptive dictionary of the Serbian language, they would require different labels, since these are the words formed according to the participle-building pattern of the present-day synchronic lexical-grammatical process.

Reafirmacija metoda i duha književne kritike - prilog tumačenju Istorije srpske književnosti Jovana Deretića

The paper discusses five monographs by Jovan Deretić, which the author considers "accompanying books" of his History of Serbian Literature. These are: Marko Kraljević's riddle - about the nature of historicity in Serbian folk epics, The path of Serbian literature - identity, borders, aspirations, Poetics of Serbian literature, Serbian folk epics and Etudes from old Serbian literature. In this paper, we analyze them as a contribution to the interpretation of the History of Serbian Literature, the most comprehensive history of literature in Serbian science to the extent that they are important as proof of Deretić's great synthesis and consideration of the function of literary criticism in Serbian culture. An important definition of the "accompanying books" is provided by the author in their prefaces and notes. It is summarized in the theoretical and applied level in the process of considering important issues of Serbian literary history: periodization and classification of literature, poetic or historical determinants and the significance of particular epochs, writers, or genres. A review of the critical evaluation of Serbian literature and historical and cultural heritage in the accompanying books shows that Deretić pragmatized his scientific thought and reaffirmed literary criticism, directing it "for the benefit of the people". This means that he gave it a practical and social function and intended it "for a distant generation".

The Potential for Cross-National Research (Re)connection and Collaboration among Home and Host Country STEM Scientists through Labor Circulation: The Case of Serbia and the U.S.

This interview- and document review-based case study, conducted in 2017, captured visions of and possibilities for cross-national research connections and collaboration between Serbia and the U.S. through the eyes of seven Serbian science and engineering professors/scientists at three Mid-Western research universities in the U.S. Global labor circulation was equally explored as a channel for such connection and collaboration endeavors. The scientists' journey was first contextualized through their migration experiences from Serbia to the U.S. in the 1990s. Major thematic interview findings synthesized into promising, yet complex, circulatory flows of high skill labor between the two countries. This theme was channeled through aspirations to connect back with Serbia and engage in joint projects, the circulation potential to offset the loss of talent at home, temporary returns including the expatriated scientist's return criteria, and the meaning of successful research collaboration. Most of the respondents were enthusiastic to reconnect with their home country, although some explicitly wished to see a sign of interest from the home country first. Joint student training and advising and visiting professorships were the most suggested types of collaborations. Document reviews supplemented interviews and pointed to internationalization of the Serbian academia. This emergent theme was channeled through national and university internationalization strategies, student and staff mobility through exchange programs (although mainly in Europe), and success-stories of Serbian alumni abroad. Placing science on the national education and development agenda of Serbia and making academia-industry connections was imperative. Altogether, the findings pointed to complexities in reconnecting across the ocean, in spite of the circulation potential and especially in view of power and structural dynamics in home and host countries. Capitalizing on the circulation channel is not a simple undertaking. Besides researchers and practitioners, educational policy makers in Serbia are earnestly invited to consider this study and the experiences of the established Serbian scientists, and create ways of connecting to this rarely tapped-into potential.

Srbija u predvečerju revolucije 4.0 - Radivoje Mitrović: Srbija 4.0 - budućnost koja se ne sme propustiti, Zavod za udžbenike, Beograd, 2019

A review of this book is presented through a dialectical-synthetic approach which discusses various issues of the state of Serbian science and development of Serbia at a time of great technological innovation in the world. It is about integrated development, which includes science, education and culture, as generators of social development, because only they are able to respond to the complex temptations of the modern world and offer a vision of development.

Near horizon OTT black hole asymptotic symmetries and soft hair* * Supported by the Serbian Science Foundation (171031)

We study the near horizon geometry of both static and stationary extremal Oliva Tempo Troncoso (OTT) black holes. For each of these cases, a set of consistent asymptotic conditions is introduced. The canonical generator for the static configuration is shown to be regular. For the rotating OTT black hole, the asymptotic symmetry is described by the time reparametrization, the chiral Virasoro and centrally extended u(1) Kac-Moody algebras.

Identitet nepravoslavnih stanovnika Crne Gore i religija

This paper analyses the influence of religion on identity, especially the political identity and political behavior of the non-orthodox people of Montenegro. Goal of this paper is to show that non-orthodox minorities in Montenegro have a mass influence on the politics of this country. For example, without their votes, the independence of Montenegro would not be possible. This is very easy to calculate. 55% voted for the independence, and Muslims represents a little bit more than 19% of the Montenegro's population. All of them say they voted for the independence of Montenegro in 2006 referendum. Therefore, this political decision was highly dependent on the Muslim votes, and had a great influence on the Serbian interests. This fact should be highlighted. Moreover, one can say that this was one of the major defeats of Serbs in the last century. This paper shows that the identity of the Serbian speaking population of Montenegro is dependent on their religious background. Bosnians, Muslims, Montenegrin Muslims or Croats base their national identity on their Islamic or Roman Catholic confession. Moreover, this paper shows that the Albanian national question in Montenegro is a great example of how both Serbian science and politics failed to explain this issue. Serbian politicians and scientist are wrong in saying that Albanians are motivated only by antireligious nationalism in their actions, basing their attitude in complex Albanian society made of Muslims, Catholics and Orthodox Christians. Due to this fact religious aspect was completely ignored. However, a great number of Albanians fighting for Islamic State in Syria and Iraq are quite opposite to this attitude, and making Serbians to ask themselves - how is it possible that an atheist Albanians are fighting in the name of Islam? The situation is similar in Montenegro. In this paper we show that Albanians are also divided on religious lines and that this division has huge consequences. If Serbs has analyzed Albanians interreligious relations based on what we have in Montenegro, it would be easier for them to understand that Albanians failed to overcome their religious differences in the name of national unity, and consequently to understand why so many of them are fighting for ISIL. We also deal with the Croatian question in Montenegro. This paper will show that Montenegrin Croats are a part of the same Serbian body, like Bosnians or Muslims. They are divided from this body only because of their religious belonging to Roman Catholic religion. Under the pressure of the First Croat Catholic Congress in 1900 they accepted to declare as Croats as their national belonging. Prior to this, they were divided between the idea of Slavs and Serbs, all sharing the same Serbian background and language.

Aleksandra Novakov: Stubovi srpske prosvete - srpske srednje škole u Osmanskom carstvu 1878-1912, Zavod za udžbenike, Beograd, 2017

This paper presents a review of the monograph The Pillars of Serbian Education, Serbian Secondary Schools in the Ottoman Empire 1878-1912 by Dr. Aleksandra Novakov. Prior to presenting the structure and significance of the work, there is a brief outline of the general historical context in which Serbian educational and political activity had operated in the Ottoman Empire in the decades preceding the First Balkan War. The scope and the significance of the monograph for Serbian science were highlighted.

Stochastic bifurcations of generalized Duffing–van der Pol system with fractional derivative under colored noise**Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11302157), the Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China (Grant No. 2015JM1028), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China (Grant No. JB160706), and Chinese–Serbian Science and Technology Cooperation for the

The stochastic bifurcation of a generalized Duffing–van der Pol system with fractional derivative under color noise excitation is studied. Firstly, fractional derivative in a form of generalized integral with time-delay is approximated by a set of periodic functions. Based on this work, the stochastic averaging method is applied to obtain the FPK equation and the stationary probability density of the amplitude. After that, the critical parameter conditions of stochastic P-bifurcation are obtained based on the singularity theory. Different types of stationary probability densities of the amplitude are also obtained. The study finds that the change of noise intensity, fractional order, and correlation time will lead to the stochastic bifurcation.

Phonetics, phonology and prosody of the Serbian language - current state and development prospects

The three standard aspects of research into the phonetic matter - articulatory, acoustic, and phonological - gained unequal interest among the researchers of the Serbian language. The paper surveys the thoroughness of examination of these questions and points out the remaining lacunae which are to be filled by future work. The state of the contemporary phonetic and prosodic scientific literature is being analysed, as well as the contemporary place of these disciplines within Serbian science, the state of the didactic literature and the state of the practice of teaching phonetic disciplines in universities. Attention has also been paid to the ongoing issues of adherence to the speech norm and its study.

Ilarion Zeremski and Irinej Ciric at the Moscow ecclesiastical academy: A contribution to the history of formation of Serbian theological elite in Russia

According to documents from Moscow archives, the religious and scientific context, historical course and theological significance of the studying of two important Serbian bishops and theologians, Ilarion Zeremski and Irinej Ciric, at the Moscow Ecclesiastical Academy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries have been researched. The process of their theological education in Sergiev Posad, so far unknown to Serbian science, was of a decisive importance for their theological and scientific work latter. In this paper, through the educational and scientific activities of their professors, are presented the currents of Russian academic theological thought at the time of their schooling. Their schooling is followed from the admission to the Academy to the acquisition of candidate of theology degree, with an emphasis on the importance of the final results in the form of their candidate dissertations. It is pointed out that Zeremski and Ciric represent the best testimony to the justifiability of theological and academic cooperation between Serbia and Russia in this period. Possitive outcomes, in their case, were the most visible in the field of Serbian biblical studies, church history and liturgical studies.

ISOLATION – SANCTION WITHOUT A TRIAL FOR KOSOVO’S ALBANIANS (1981-1989)

After the March 11 th 1981anticommunist demonstrations in Kosovo, an “awakening” of the Yugoslavian nationalism with pro-Serbian character begun. As a whole the state structure and the Serbian political structure demanded the abolition of the SFRY Constitution (1974), which was considered as humiliating. To achieve these plans the Serbian Communist Party, since 1984 engaged all the intellectual, political, media and military mechanisms against Kosovo and its autonomy. Under the direction of the Communist League of Serbia, the Serbian Science Academy issued a pamphlet named Memorandum (1986) according to which the pan Serbian nationalist politics within the entire Yugoslavian area was aligned. After a long propaganda by the media and especially after the orchestrated frame-up of the murder of five soldiers (different nationalities) in the Praqini’s Barracks in Serbia (1987), murder that was attributed to the Kosovan soldier Aziz Kelmendi, an unparalleled offensive of Serbia against Kosovo begun, that led to the violent constitution alteration of March 23 rd 1989. These alterations were followed with demonstration in Kosovo in defense of the 1974 autonomy. From this military police violence there are 32 murdered victims in the records, hundreds injured and wounded and hundreds of Kosovo’s intellectuals ISOLATED. All this violence was orchestrated by the state secret service (UDB), who ordered the arrests and isolations, without an order from the Courts nor of the Prosecution, which in accordance with the Criminal Procedure Law of Yugoslavia had a legal obligation to prosecute, arrest and take the felons in front of the courts. Keywords: Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Isolation,Parqini’s Case, Constitution

Independent publications from Serbia in the Science Citation Index Expanded: a bibliometric analysis

This paper presents a bibliometric analysis of articles from the Republic of Serbia in the period 2006---2012 that are indexed in the Thomson Reuters SCI-EXPANDED database. The Republic of Serbia is a small country in Europe with about seven million citizens that became an independent country in 2006. Since 2006, Serbian science has achieved some recognition. Analysis included 14,293 articles with authors all from Serbia. Distribution of published articles in the Web of Science categories, journals, scientific-research institutions and researchers were analysed. Most cited independent research articles from Serbia were also analysed. The Y-index indicator for rating the productivity of researchers and institutions was used. This indicator takes into account the contribution of the researcher to the published results. The results showed that the productivity of articles from Serbia is significant compared to neighbouring Serbian countries, taking into account the number of researchers in these countries, their GDPs and the percentages of GDPs spent on research.

Representations of medical instruments and equipment in Serbian medieval painting

The paper topic is identification of medical instruments and equipment using the images preserved in Serbian medieval painting. This topic has not been the subject of special study in the Serbian science. Medical instruments and equipment make an integral part of iconography of saint physicians. The following medical instruments have been displayed: knives, probes, spoons, tweezers, as well as various carrying boxes for equipment (square-like and cylindrical) and cases, and glass vessels for medical lubricants. Identification has been carried out owing primarily to late Roman remains of medical instruments and equipment, while such remains originating from Byzantine period are very rare.

Contributions of national journals referred to WoS to international position of Serbian science

This paper analyzes the scientific productivity of authors from Serbia and the international position of Serbian science. Scientific productivity is measured by the number of publications that are cited in WoS (Web of Science) in the period of 2000- 2012. Emphasizing the articles published in national journals that are referred to WOS, it is analyzed their contribution to the total scientific production in Serbia, which is present in the period of 2000 to 2012. Analysing the international scientific productivity of country it is necessary to take into account the factor of international coverage of national journals in the WoS.

Vasić before Vinča (1900 –1908)

The work of Miloje Vasić represents a cluster of “revered common places” of the Serbian archaeology. Elevated to the throne of the founder of the discipline with iconical value, Miloje M. Vasić (1869–1956) has been treated by the Serbian archaeologists and general public alike in accordance with the widely accepted and stereotypized canon: he is one of the great personalities of the Serbian science, the first academically educated Serbian archaeologist, long-term professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, director of the National Museum in Belgrade, and the excavator of one of the most important prehistoric sites in the country, the Neolithic Vinča. The intention here is to read the papers of Miloje Vasić written in the period from 1900 to 1908, in the combined internalistic–externalistic key of the history of the discipline, but as well to interpret his personal motifs and dilemmas without the layers of the “revered common places”. As early as in 1906 Vasić started diligently developing his paradigm in which he interpreted all the prehistoric sites from the wider area of the Serbian Danube valley in connection to the Aegean world. At the same time, he did not consider the prehistory in the Serbian lands as the distant echo of the Mediterranean, but an equal, though somewhat poorer branch of the Aegean family. All the subsequent erroneous chronological adaptations and his lowering of the dates of Vinča and other prehistoric sites have exclusively been the building blocks of this imaginary model of the Aegean on the Danube and its approaching to the Aegean and Greek “motherland”. Even before he started excavating Vinča in 1908, Miloje Vasić was utterly convinced in his illusion that this site represented a grand emanation of the Bronze Age of the Aegean.