Date: October 23, to October 25, 2024
Venue: Belgrade, Serbia
Organisers: Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijić” of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
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.
Contact:
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!