Department of Oriental Studies
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Programs of Study
History
The Department of Oriental Studies in Belgrade was founded in 1926 and was the first university department of Oriental Studies in the Balkans. The founder was Dr Fehim Bajraktarević, who had studied and completed his PhD in Vienna. In 1925, at the invitation of Bogdan Popović, he came to the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade and began teaching Persian literature and the Turkish language at the Department of World Literature. Just one year later, he founded the independent Seminary for Oriental Philology (by a decree dated July 15, 1926), where he spent his entire working life, devotedly, conscientiously, and studiously dedicated to both academic and pedagogical work.
The year 1960 represented a specific turning point for both Belgrade’s Faculty of Philology and the Department of Oriental Studies. In that year, by separating from the Faculty of Philosophy, a new Faculty of Philology was founded, and in addition to the Sub-Department for Oriental Philology, two new ones were formed at the Department: one for Arabic Language and Literature and another for Turkish Language and Literature, which gave the Department a new profile and opened up new development opportunities for Semitic and Altaic studies. Between the 1960s and the 1990s, the number of Arabic language students grew continuously due to Yugoslavia's political and economic connection with the Arab world, meaning local Arabic translators were in high demand.
Library
The Library of the Department of Oriental Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Arabic, Turkish, Persian and Oriental Philology groups) currently has 19,760 books and 555 titles of journals in many world languages, mostly Arabic, Turkish, Persian, English, Russian, French, German and Serbian.
The Fund is classified according to areas of language and literature studies into the Arabic (A), Turkish (T), Persian (P) and so-called miscellaneous (R) categories, and it is distributed by numerus currens under separate call numbers.
All the books that are recorded in the inventory book have been catalogued, and their data can be found in several types of catalogs, both classic and electronic.
The reading room has 30 seats and 4 places for using 2 computers.
- Important information:
- COBISS
- Working hours with users are in 2 shifts: 10am-1pm and 2.30am-5.30pm.
- The reading room is open from 08AM to 7PM.
- Contacts:
- maktaba@fil.bg.ac.rs
- +381(11)2021-681
Contact details
- Head of the Department
- Ema Petrović, PhD
- ema.miljkovic@fil.bg.ac.rs
- Office 310
- Vice-Head of the Department
- Mirjana Marinković, PhD
- mirjana.marinkovic65@gmail.com
- Office 515
- Secretary of the Department
- Tatjana Kojić
- orient@fil.bg.ac.rs
- +381(11)2021-714
- Librarians
- Jelena Anić
- Snežana Genčić
- maktaba@fil.bg.ac.rs
- +381(11)2021-620
- Nevena Mihajlović
- Dalibor Vrcelj
- jap.bibl@fil.bg.ac.rs
- biblioteka.326@gmail.com
- +381(11)2021-715
Staff
Full professors
Associate professors
- prof. dr Divna Tričković
- prof. dr Mirjana Pavlović
- prof. dr Danijela Vasić
- prof. dr Dalibor Kličković
- prof. dr Zoran Skrobanović
- prof. dr Dragana Đorđević
Assistant professors
- doc. dr Ivana Gligorijević
- doc. dr Tarik Duran
- doc. dr Saeed Safari
- doc. dr Xiaolei Jin
- doc. dr Divna Glumac
- doc. dr Irena Kolaj Ristanović
- doc. dr Meysun Gharaibeh Simonović
- doc. dr Ana Jovanović
- doc. dr Saša Bradašević
- doc. dr Uroš Dakić
- doc. dr Marko Gagić
- doc. dr Stefani Miljković
Teaching assistants
Senior Language Instructors
- dr Sanja Joka
- dr Jelena Babić
- dr Smiljana Ristić Bojanić
- Sara Komosar
- Jelena Gledić
- Azusa Takami
- Dajana Ayoub
Language Instructors
Teaching associates
Others
- Predrag Jelenković
- Anđela Jovanović
- Mateja Matić
- Stefan Jovičić - diplomirani bibliotekar
- mr Dalibor Vrcelj - diplomirani bibliotekar
- Hee Seon Kim - strani lektor
- dr Vojislav Stanimirović
- mr Tatjana Kojić - samostalni stručnotehnički saradnik za rad u laboratorijama ili centrima (sekretar katedre)
- Milena Nikolić
- Jelena Anić - diplomirani bibliotekar
- Tatsuya Hirano - strani lektor
- Hong Zhu - strani lektor
- dr Dragan Ćalović
- Nevena Mihajlović - diplomirani bibliotekar
- dr Đorđe Đurić
- Olga Divjak
- Gunel Babanli - strani lektor