Srđan Sremac

Presentations

 

 

• RESEARCH PAPERS AND SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

 

• Sremac, S. “Religion, nationalism and sexuality in the post-Yugoslav space.” Paper presented at the workshop "Religious claims, nationalism, and human suffering in political conflict: The Former Yugoslavia in a comparative perspective”, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 11-12 October 2014.

 

• Sremac, S. “Eros vs Agape: Sexual and religious nationalism in the Western Balkans.” Paper presented at the ESA RN 34 Sociology of Religion, midterm conference – Religion in the Public Domain, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 3-5 September 2014.

 

• Sremac, S. Round table participant “The ways and form of the theology in ex-Yugoslavian countries” at the Concilium conference – Religion and Identity, Franciscan Theology, Sarajevo, 9-12 June, 2014. 

• Ganzevoort, R.R. & Sremac, S. “Religion and sexual diversity as markers of cultural identity”. Paper presented at the conference Religion in Cultural Perspective, ISERT, York St John University, York, UK, 3-5 April 2014.

 

• Sremac, S. “On the possibility of dialogue between practical-empirical theology and social science: An example of the social construction of conversion” Lecture delivered at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, Serbia, October, 3, 2013. 

 

• Sremac, S. “Eros, Agape and Ethnos: A proposal for critical public discourse analysis on religious and sexual nationalism in the Western Balkans.” Paper presented at The Role of Media in Normalizing Relations in the Western Balkans, University of Novi Sad, Serbia, October 5-6, 2013.

 

• Sremac, S. “Ecumenism, Reconciliation and Transitional Justice in the Western Balkans”. Paper presented at the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute, Hanshin University, Seoul, South Korea, October 27, 2013.

 

• Sremac, S. “Religion, Trauma and Transitional Justice”. Paper presented at the conference The Role of Religion in the Process of Reconciliation and Transitional Justice in the Context of the Western Balkans”, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, June 21-23 2013.  

 

• Sremac, S. “Voices from a junky limbo and the heaven afterwards: Addiction and spiritual transformation” Paper presented at 11th Conference of the International Academy of Practical Theology (IAPT), University of Toronto, Canada, April 11-15 2013.

 

• Sremac, S. & Todorović, D. “Spreading the tongues of fire among Roma Pentecostals in Southeastern Serbia” Paper presented at ESA RN 34 Sociology of Religion, midterm conference - Transformations of the Sacred in Europe and Beyond, Potsdam University, Potsdam, Germany, 3-5 September 2012.  

 

• Sremac, S. “Children, drugs and violence: An overview of children and current drugs situation in Serbia” Paper presented at the core group meeting of the Global Network of Religions for Children (GNRC), Porto, Portugal, 30-31 March 2012.

 

• Sremac, S. “How to use The Learning to Live Together, an Intercultural and Interfaith Program for Ethics Education”, Panel discussion participant at UNESCO, Paris, France 26-29 July, 2011.  

 

• Sremac, S. “Trauma, religion and identity: Post-traumatic spirituality and war trauma” Paper presented at the conference Dangerous Memories and Reconciliation: A Contextual Exploration of Religion in Post-Conflict Society, Paper presented at Dom Omladine, Belgrade, Serbia, 10-11. June, 2011.

 

• Sremac, S. “Churches speaking truth to power: Christian communities as agents for justice” Panel discussion participant at The John Knox Centre, 27-30 March 2011, Geneva, Switzerland.

 

• Sremac, S. “The dark side of the spoon: Narrating and reconstructing the self from addiction experience” Paper presented at the conference The Culture of Identity: Anthropology, Religions and Alternative Religions. University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, 5-6 November, 2010.

 

• Sremac, S. “Peace, justice and reconciliation: An example of the Western Balkans” Paper presented at The Global Institute of Theology, Grand Rapids (USA), Calvin Theological Seminary, June 28, 2010.

 

• Sremac, S. “What has Hollywood to do with Jerusalem? Film, theology and religious experience“ Paper presented at the conference Religion, Media and Culture: Mediatization of Religion, Dom Omladine, Belgrade, Serbia, 7-8. May, 2010.

 

• Sremac, S. “The social construction of conversion: A narrative analyses of the conversion testimonies of recovering drug addicts” Paper presented at the conference Conversion and Context, Dom Omladine, Belgrade, Serbia, 2. July, 2009.

 

• Sremac, S. “Koinonia instead of xenophobia: Theological exploration of the Serbian church context”, presentation at the Program of the Theological Consultation (European and Dutch Theological Faculties and Churches - Protestant Church in the Netherlands) ”Ministry and Leadership: What kind of spiritual leadership do our churches need?”, Feketić, Serbia, 29 June-3 July, 2006.

 

• Sremac, S. “Socio - psychological aspects of the phenomena of religious conversion” Lecture delivered at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, Serbia, Department of sociology, 18 November, 2006.

 

• Sremac, S. “The challenges of the process of democratization in Serbia” Paper presented at the Promoting Youth Participation and Democratic Development in Central and South-East Europe, Ecumenical Youth Council in Europe, 22nd-29th October, Kiev, Ukraine, 2006.

 

• Sremac, S. “Koinonia as precondition for ecumenical dialogue” Paper presented at the panel discussion at Dom Omladine, Belgrade, Serbia, 10 March 2006.  

 

• Sremac, S. “Curriculum and diakonia: What and when do we teach in the theological curriculum about diakonia: Exchange of experience from Protestant Theological Faculty, Novi Sad, Serbia”, paper presented at the Consultation of Central European and Dutch theological faculties and churches on Diakonia - Concepts, Profiles and Practice, Buzau, Romania, 4-8 July 2005.

 

• Sremac, S. “The place and role of emotions as aspect of Imago Dei: Practical Theological Perspective”, Paper presented at the Text and Context Symposium, at the Faculty of Theology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 12 November, 2004.

 

 

• Interviews/Media

• Sremac, S. (2014). ‘Religijski odgovor na zavisnost’. Pravoslavlje, 1131, 16-18.

• Sremac, S. (2013). Portal Religion, Politics and Reconciliation - ‘Religious coping and addiction’.

• Sremac, S. (2012). Interview at Radio Television Vojvodina (RTV).