Dear Colleagues,

During 2024, two significant jubilees will be celebrated – 100 years since the First Congress of Slavic Geographers and Ethnographers in Prague and the publication of the first volume of the scientific monograph “Geomorphology” by renowned Serbian geographer Jovan Cvijić (1865–1927), one of the Congress initiators. Subsequent Congresses were held in the Republic of Poland (1927), the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1930), and the Kingdom of Bulgaria (1936). Therefore, on the proposal of the Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijić” SASA, an initiative to mark these great anniversaries was launched. Considering aforementioned, the organization of the 5th Congress of Slavic Geographers and Ethnographers is planned with the aim of gathering eminent foreign and domestic scientists from the field of geography and related disciplines. In this way, we want to continue the tradition of connecting the Slavic peoples, as well as the cooperation with the broader international scientific community in the sphere of contemporary scientific achievements.

The International Scientific Congress is dedicated to topics of wider importance for the scientific community, focusing on the mentioned publications from previous congresses and the scientific work of Jovan Cvijić. The topics of the upcoming Congress are:

1. Physical–geographical processes and their effects on the population (geomorphological processes, hydrology, climate changes, contemporary achievements in natural hazard risk decreasing);

2. Contemporary theoretical and methodological approaches in geography (geospatial data analysis, remote sensing);

3. Population geography (population structure, migrations, predictive and prognostic models);

4. Economic development perspectives and their impact on the population (natural and social resources, including food and water production, markets, infrastructure);

5. Spatial planning (urban and rural development, environmental protection);

6. Historical geography (changing relationship between people and the environment over time, the evolution of cultural and economic regions);

7. Political geography (international relations, development strategies, geopolitical issues);

8. Ethnology (ethnic and cultural identities, tangible and intangible cultural heritage, anthropogeographic research, vernacular architecture).

Honorary Committee

 

Academician Zoran Knežević, President of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia

Nikola Selaković, Minister of Culture of the Republic of Serbia

Academician Aleksandar Kostić, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia

Academician Vladica Cvetković, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia

Dr Slobodan Marković, Corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts; Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia

Dr Stevan M. Stanković, Emeritus, University of Belgrade – Faculty of Geography, Belgrade, Serbia

Academician Milovan Pecelj, Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina

International Scientific Committee

Dr Milan Radovanović, Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijić” of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia, President

Dr Michael Meadows, Emeritus, Immediate Past President of the International Geographical Union; Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Dr Rafael de Miguel Gonzalez, President of the European Association of Geographers; Faculty of Education, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

Dr Andrzej Tyc, Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Silesia in Katowice, Sosnowiec, Poland

Dr Anita Bušljeta Tonković, Institute of Social Sciences “Ivo Pilar”, Gospić, Croatia

Dr Biljana Apostolovska Toshevska, Institute of Geography, Faculty of Science, University “Ss. Cyril and Methodius”, Skopje, North Macedonia

Dr Danica Šantić, University of Belgrade – Faculty of Geography, Belgrade, Serbia

Dr Dragan Burić, Department of Geography, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Montenegro, Nikšić, Montenegro

Dr Dragana Radojičić, Institute of Ethnography of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia

Dr Ekaterina Antipova, Department of Economic and Social Geography, Faculty of Geography and Geoinformatics, Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus

Dr Etienne Piguet, Institute of Geography, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Dr Gaëlle Hallair, CNRS UMR Geographie-Cites, Paris, France

Dr Gorica Stanojević, Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijić” of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia

Dr Jana Pospišilova, Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

Dr Jelena Ćalić, Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijić” of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia

Dr Luděk Sýkora, Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Dr Marina Martynova, Institute Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Dr Marko V. Milošević, Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijić” of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia

Dr Matija Zorn, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Anton Melik Geographical Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Dr Mikhail Viktorovich Slipenchuk, Department of Environmental Management, Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Dr Milan M. Đorđević, Department of Geography, Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, University of Niš, Niš, Serbia

Dr Milovan Milivojević, Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijić” of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia

Dr Mira Mandić, Department of Geography, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Banja Luka, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Dr Mlađen Jovanović, Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia

Dr Nina Nikolova, Department of Climatology, Hydrology and Geomorphology, Faculty of Geology and Geography, University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria

Dr Paweł Swianiewicz, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland; National Institute for Local Government, Lodz, Poland

Dr Rok Ciglič, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Anton Melik Geographical Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Dr Sanja Zlatanović, Institute of Political Science of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Dr Saša A. Milosavljević, Department of Geography, Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, University of Priština, Kosovska Mitrovica, Serbia

Organizing Committee

 

Geographical Institute ”Jovan Cvijić” of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia

Dr Ana Milanović Pešić, President

Dr Stefan Denda, Co-president

Dr Zlata Vuksanović-Macura, Co-president
Dr Dejan Doljak
Dr Dejana Jakovljević
Dr Dragana Miljanović
Dragoljub Štrbac
Dr Dunja Demirović Bajrami
Dr Jasna Micić
Dr Jelena Kovačević-Majkić
Dr Jovana Brankov

Dr Marija Drobnjaković

Dr Marko D. Petrović

Dr Marko Urošev

Dr Milena Panić

Petar Nešić

Dr Stefana Matović

Dr Suzana Lović Obradović

Dr Tamara Jojić Glavonjić

Tijana Anđelković

MSc Teodora Popović

Dr Vlasta Kokotović Kanazir

Cultural Centre “Vuk Karadžić” Loznica, Serbia

MSc Snežana Nešković-Simić

MSc Biljana Radičević

Preliminary Program of the 5th Congress of Slavic Geographers and Ethnographers

Thuesday, October 22nd, 2024

13:00 – 18:00 Early registration

Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024

11:00 – 12:00 Opening Ceremony in the Ceremonial Hall of the Rectorate of the University of Belgrade

12:00 – 13:00 Cocktail (the Rectorate of the University of Belgrade)

13:00 – 18:00 Registration

Registration and all sessions will be held in Majestic Hotel

13:30 – 15:30 Sessions

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 – 18:00 Sessions

18:10 – 19:00 Forum

Thursday, October 24th, 2024

10:00 – 12:00 Sessions

12:00 – 12:30 Coffee Break

12:30 – 14:30 Sessions

14:30 – 15:30 Lunch

15:30 – 17:00 Sessions

17:00 – 17:30 Coffee Break

17:30 – 18:30 Closing Ceremony (the Majestic Hotel)

from 20:00 Congress dinner (Velika Skadarlija Restaurant)

Friday, October 25 th, 2024

9:00 – 19:15 Field trip

Details about the participants by session can be found in the Preliminary Program pdf document at the end of this announcement.

Important Notes

Venue of the Congress

Sessions of the Congress will take place on October 23rd and 24th, 2024, at the Majestic Hotel, Obilićev Venac 28 (main entrance), Belgrade.

Details of the location and transport to the Majestic Hotel, with maps, can be found in the Third Call pdf document at the end of this notice.

Registration fee

Registration fee includes participation in working sessions, printed material, Book of Abstracts and Contributed Papers, lunch, and refreshments during the Congress. Fees can be paid to the Institute’s bank account by following the instructions at these links: Link for participants from Serbia and Link for participants from other countries. If participants did not fill out the application form, they will be able to register and pay for the optional social activities (Congress dinner and Field trip) during the registration process. The number of available places for field trip is limited.

Registration fee	Amount (EUR)
Registration	140
On-line presentation	50
Accompanying person (co-authors and guests)	50
Social activities (optional)
Congress dinner	55
Field trip (by bus, with lunch)	60

Social events

The Congress dinner and field trip are optionally available for an additional fee for all participants. The invited authors are exempt from paying. The Congress dinner will be organized on October 24th, 2024, in Velika Skadarlija Restaurant, Skadarska 40b, Belgrade.

Presentation information

 

The official languages of the Congress are English and Serbian. Participants can choose in which language they will present their research. If they decide to present in Serbian, it is preferable to have a .ppt presentation in English. In addition to the in-person presentation at the Congress, there is a possibility to present the paper online, via Zoom platform, or in a poster session. The estimated time for the presentation is 10 minutes.

This is a kindly recommendation to the speakers to prepare and send us their presentations for the Congress:

• Please prepare your presentation as a PowerPoint or PDF file and name it by indicating your name (e.g., Manojlovic_Milica.ppt or Manojlovic_Milica.pdf). We recommend using the Office 2010 version.

• If you have a recorded oral presentation, let it be in mp4 format (for online

presentation).

• Please send your presentation to by October 20th,2024.

Publications

 

Abstracts and papers with a positive review will be published in the Book of Abstracts and Contributed Papers. The selected papers will be published in the Special Issue of the Journal of the Geographical Institute ”Jovan Cvijić“ SASA (Clarivate (WoS) IF2022: 1.2; Scopus: (Q2): 2.0), according to the usual procedure for publishing papers.

Accommodation

The invited authors are provided with accommodation in the Majestic Hotel. The Majestic Hotel is located in the inner center of the City of Belgrade, in the pedestrian zone, with many facilities in the immediate vicinity. There are also numerous hotels near the Congress venue: the Palas Hotel, the Prag Hotel, the Belgrade Inn Hotel, the Le Petit Piaf Hotel, the Mikan Hotel, etc. For accommodation reservations (including apartments) you can also use the services of Booking, Airbnb, Stan na dan, etc.

Field Trip

Field trip program and timetable:

09:00	Departure from Belgrade
10:45 – 13:00	Archaeological site of Viminacium (near the Town of Požarevac), one of the most important and richest archaeological sites from the Roman period in Serbia. It was a military headquarters and the capital of the Roman province of Upper Moesia
14:00 – 15:15	Golubac Fortress, a medieval cultural monument of exceptional importance, located on the right bank of the Danube and the entrance to the Djerdap Gorge and Djerdap National Park
15:45 – 17:30	Lunch at Srebrno jezero Lake (near Veliko Gradište)
19:00 – 19:15	Return to Belgrade

During the field trip, lunch will be provided for all participants.

THIRD CALL

FINAL PROGRAM

Contact:

Email:

Tel: +381-11-2636-276

Fax: +381-11-2637-597

Thank you for choosing to attend our Congress and we look forward to

meeting you in Belgrade!