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The Belarusian Language Lectorate

About the Lectorate

The Belarusian language is the ‘youngest’ language taught at the Department of Slavic Studies. Belorussian language courses were first held in Serbia in 2006 when, with the support of the management of the Faculty of Philology and the Department of Slavic Studies, and above all, academician Predrag Piper, Professor Petar Bunjak, Professor Miodrag Sibinović and other professors of Slavic Studies, an elective course Belarusian language and culture was held for students of the Slavic Department. First as an elective course, thanks to the initiative and enthusiasm of the first language instructor Svetlana Goljak, and an elective subject at the Faculty from 2009 and then as a second Slavic language (four semesters) from 2017, the Belarusian language is an integral part the Department, making Belgrade Slavic studies complete. In 2017, the course Belarusian Literature 1‒4 began to be taught as a second course in Slavic literature in the third and fourth year of Slavic studies (accredited in 2014). Belarusian language and literature is currently taught by Dr Svetlana Goljak, the first contractual language instructor for the Belarusian language, as well as language instructors who are regularly sent to Belgrade by the Faculty of Philology at the Belarusian State University in Minsk (to date: Lj. Cimanovič, M. Suprunchuk, A. Naumova, and N. Sentjurova).

Eminent Belarusian academics specializing in Belarusian Studies have held lectures at the Faculty of Philology and SASA (Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts), thus contributing

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