Professor Selma Raljević Named to Participate in 2025 Summer Institute for the Study of East Central and Southeastern Europe

Professor Selma Raljević Named to Participate in 2025 Summer Institute for the Study of East Central and Southeastern Europe

Awardees Will Spend Two Weeks at Interdisciplinary Writing Residency in Bulgaria Hosted by ACLS and the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia

The Faculty of Humanities of the Džemal Bijedić University of Mostar is proud to announce that Professor Selma Raljević will participate in the 2025 Summer Institute for the Study of East Central and Southeastern Europe (SISECSE), convened by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia (CAS).

Professor Selma Raljević is one of fifteen talented scholars from Eastern Europe and North America convening for a two-week residency hosted by the American University in Bulgaria from June 5-20, 2025 in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. SISECSE participants will have the opportunity to dedicate time to their own research and writing in a collaborative and interdisciplinary setting. During the institute participants will also engage in a series of immersive discussions exploring the topic “Epistemic Mistrust: Authorship, Credibility, and Knowledge Production.”

Professor Raljević’s research deals with “Narrating Worlds through Transnationalism.” It focuses on Aleksandar Hemon’s and Semezdin Mehmedinović’s literary and artistic work, as well as on Contemporary Transnational American, Slavic, European, Post-Yugoslav and Bosnian-Herzegovinian Literature(s).

“The Summer Institute provides an essential space where scholars from Eastern Europe and the United States can come together to build new networks, learn from the diverse perspectives of their fellow participants, and make progress on their own research,” said Deena Ragavan, ACLS Director of International Programs. “ACLS is grateful to the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia for their partnership in convening leading scholars of East Central and Southeastern Europe in Bulgaria.”

The Summer Institute for the Study of East Central and Southeastern Europe is made possible by a generous donation from Carl and Betty Pforzheimer. The program builds on a long history of ACLS support for humanistic scholars and scholarship in Eastern Europe including the ACLS Humanities Program in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine (1999-2010).