Slavic studies students from across Europe meet in Belgrade

BELGRADE - The traditional three-day seminar of slavicists meant for Serbian language students from foreign universities started at the Belgrade Faculty of Philology on Monday.

This year's meeting is organised by the International Slavic Centre and includes more than 50 students from Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, the UK, Italy, Hungary, Germany, Poland, Romania, Russia, SLovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, France, the Czech Republic, Macedonia and Finland.

The goal of the seminar is to spread knowledge of the Serbian language, literature and history, but also to gain friends for the Serbian people and country, head of the International Slavic Centre professor Dragana Mrsevic Radovic said opening the event.

The participants of the seminar will hear lectures about the Serbian language, literature and culture during their stay, as well as have the opportunity to attend optional specialist courses of modern Serbian language and literature and a course in national songs and dances.

Daily writing and speaking exercises and conversation classes are an important part of the seminar, helping foreign students expand and improve their knowledge of the Serbian language.

The participants will also visit a number of scientific and cultural institutions, the Museum of the City of Belgrade, Ethnography Museum, Military Museum, Fresco Gallery and Museum of Nikola Tesla.

Besides that, they will visit the monasteries Hopovo, Manasija and Tronosa, the city of Valjevo, the village of Brankovina in western Serbia, known for some famous figures from Serbia's history, the birthplace of Vuk Karadzic, who was a reformer of the Serbian language, and Novi Sad, where they will learn about the cultural heritage of the Autonomous Province of...