Vol. 22 (2022): SCHOLARSHIP – ENGAGEMENT – ACTIVISM

The presented volume is devoted to education and social and political protests during the COVID-19 pandemic in Central and Southeastern Europe. The main question is whether education can help us to better understand and cope with social and political crises.

Editors-in-Charge of the issue: Ana Kolarić, Katarzyna Taczyńska, Ewelina Drzewiecka

Language and stylistic editor (English): Michael Timberlake

List of reviewers for the volume

Original Table of Contents
(articles’ titles in original language, unrelated to the user interface language)

• Editorial
  • Scholarship – Engagement – Activism
• Education
  • Ana Kolarić, Katarzyna Taczyńska; Pedagogy of Care: Building a Teaching and Learning Community
  • Teodora Todorić Milićević; The Humanities at a Crossroads: Challenges and Prospects in the (Post-)COVID-19 World
  • Yuliya Stodolinska, Halyna Zaporozhets; From Campus Closure to Campus Reopening: Strategies of American Universities to Avoid Social Crisis in COVID-19 Communication
  • Rastislav Dinić; Not Buying It: Opting out, Vaccination and Morality
  • Ewelina Drzewiecka; “The Lexicon of Migrating Ideas in the Slavic Balkans” and the Risk of Knowledge: Some Considerations Regarding Two Promotional Events for This Book
• Democracy in Crisis and Mass Social and Political Protests
  • Julia Mazurkiewicz-Sułkowska; Some Linguistic Phenomena in Belarusian Cities during the 2020 Mass Protests in Belarus
  • Katica Kulavkova; Panoptic Vision of the World: Can a State of Emergency Become a Regular One?
  • Małgorzata Stępnik; “Let the Sirens Roar”: The Women’s Protests in Poland and the Artistic Response to the Backlash
• Lessons from the Past
  • Jelena Milinković; Lessons from the Past: The Right to Abortion in Three Pictures
  • Stanislava Barać; Desanka Maksimović’s Engaged Medical Novel “The Open Window” (1954): Tuberculosis as a Social(ist) Issue
• Neighbourhood – National Identities – Stereotypes
  • Katica Kulavkova; The Narcissism of Minor Differences in the Context of Post-Imperial Macedonian Neighbouring
  • Ganka Cvetanova; Reflections on Krste Misirkov’s Theory: From Ethnocultural Entity to Politically Legitimate Nation
  • Boshko Karadjov; The Portrayal of the Neighbour and the Neighbourhood in Macedonian Graphic Literature and Comic Book Culture
  • Marija Gjorgjieva Dimova; The Role of Literature in the Processes of Destereotyping (Through Examples from Macedonian Literature)
• Imponderabilia
  • Dorota Gil; Reflections of the Anti-Occidentalism Idea in Serbian Cultural Texts of the 20th Century
  • Grażyna Szwat-Gyłybowa; The Dead Female Body and Necropolitics. The Topos of a Walled-up Woman in Bulgarian Modernist Plays
  • Patrycjusz Pająk; Violence and Sex and Violence Again: The Sexual Revolution in the Films of the Yugoslav Black Wave
• Reviews
  • Elena Azmanova-Rudarska; Epidemic and Social Isolation: Research on the Tuberculosis Epidemic until the Middle of the 20th Century and Patients’ Social Problems, Treatment and Adaptation
  • Radojka Jevtić; What is Wrong with Our System?
  • Milica Pupavac; I Think, I Feel, I Decide: The Polish Struggle for Reproductive Rights
  • Jelena Veselinović; Women Intellectual Mentors
  • Zorana Simić; (With) Women Scholars and Scientists
  • Vladimir Zorić; The Moral Witness: The Poetics of Testimony in Modern Serbian Poetry
  • Dara Šljukić; From (Neo-)Avant-garde to Post-Yugoslav Literature
  • Kenneth Hanshew; Seeing Croatian Islands as Something Other than Paradise
  • Paulina Dominik; Between the White Eagle and the Crescent: Polish Go-Betweens in the Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern and Modern Eras

 The publication of two issues of the journal Slavia Meridionalis, 22 (2022) and 23 (2023), was co-financed from the funds of the state budget (Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Poland) under the programme “Development of Academic Journals”, pursuant to the Regulation of the Minister of Education and Science of 3 August 2021 (Journal of Laws of 2021, item 1514); Contract No. RCN/SP/0421/2021/1 (22 December 2022); amount of co-financing: PLN 61,928.50; total cost of the project: PLN 71,633.14.