@conference{
author = "Бубало, Ђорђе",
year = "2022",
abstract = "Академик Јованка Калић, редовни професор у пензији Филозофског
факултета Универзитета у Београду, један је од најзначајнијих српских
историчара последње трећине XX века и прве четвртине XXI века. По основној вокацији медиевиста, аутор је прве модерне историје средњовековног
Београда. Као истраживач посматрала је српску историју на ширем пла ну европске историје и из те перспективе дала целовиту историографску
слику о владарима Србије XII века, српским великим жупанима и њиховим разгранатим политичким и културним везама с тадашњим европским дворовима, и о историји Срба после Немањића, кроз појаве и промене изазване турским освајањима. Највећи научни и друштвени домашај
имају њена истраживања Рашке области, којима је доказала да се прва немањићка престоница – Рас – налазила на месту данашњег Новог Пазара., Academician Jovanka Kalić was born on 15 September 1933 in Belgrade, into an old
middle-class family, as a child of Momčilo Mijušković and Zagorka, whose maiden name
was Hristić. Her paternal grandfather was Dragutin Mijušković, professor of History of
Slavic Law at the Grand School. On her mother’s side, Jovanka Kalić is descended from
the family of Filip Hristić, that is to say, the family branch originated by Filip’s brother
Sava, judge of Appeal and Cassation Court in Belgrade.
She completed primary and grammar school in Belgrade. She graduated from the
Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade in 1957 with a degree in History and was appointed
as a junior researcher at the Historical Institute in February 1958. Upon the invitation
of professor Ivan Božić in 1961, she was appointed Teaching Assistant at the Faculty
of Philosophy in Belgrade, History Department, Chair of General Medieval History.
Jovanka Kalić earned a Ph.D. in Historical Sciences on 27 January 1964, by defending
her doctoral dissertation entitled Belgrade in the Middle Ages. She was appointed
Assistant Professor in the same year, Associate Professor in 1970, and Full Professor in
1976. During the 1967–1972 period, she lectured, at the rank of Associate Professor, in
Medieval History of Europe at the History Department of the Faculty of Philosophy in
Novi Sad. From 1978 until her retirement in 2001, she was head of the Chair of General
Medieval History at the History Department, and from 1979–1981 head of the History
Department. Furthermore, she has been a research associate at the Institute for
Byzantine Studies of SASA since 1966.
In her scholarly career and professional development, she specialized under the
mentorship of Fernand Braudel at the École des Hautes Études, Bibliothèque nationale
de France in Paris, Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, Österreichische
Nationalbibliothek, Österreichisches Staatsarchiv – Kriegsarchiv in Vienna, as well as
at the Magyar Országos Levéltár in Budapest, among others. She held guest lectures at
various European and North American universities (Vienna, Graz, Augsburg, Münster,
Warsaw, Stanford, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara) on diverse topics in Serbian history and
the history of South East Europe. She participated in numerous scientific conferences
in European university centres – Augsburg, Athens, Taranto, Sofia, Vienna, Nancy, etc.
She translated from German and French.
Jovanka Kalić was a member of the leading European international scientific
committees, notably of the International Scientific Committee for Historical Geography
of the Byzantine World within the European Science Foundation in Strasbourg,
where she headed a Byzantine project for Yugoslavia from 1978–1983, with a focus on
investigations of Old Rascia (Stara Raška). She had a longstanding collaboration with
Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Institut für Slawistik. She is a member of the North
American Society for Serbian Studies, Société Européenne de Culture (SEC), Serbian
Archaeological Society, Society of the Friends of Mount Athos, as well as of the National
Committee for Byzantine Studies Jovanka Kalić had directed the investigations of the Belgrade Fortress for over
two decades, within the project “Belgrade Area in Medieval Times”. She headed the
investigations of the Raška region as head of the interdisciplinary scientific project
at the Institute for Byzantine Studies of SASA, and subsequently under the auspices
of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. She was the president of the Committee
for the Middle Ages at the Network of Institutes for the protection of cultural herit age in Serbia and a member of a number of professional committees at the Republic
Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments of Serbia. She edited the second
volume of A History of the Serbian People.
She was elected a corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences
and Arts on 27 October 1994. Her accession speech entitled Europe and the Serbs in
the 12th Century was held on 11 December 1995. She was appointed to the Board for
Sources of Serbian Law as well as to the Board for the Middle Ages. At an extraordi nary session of SASA Assembly for the election of new members, held on 5 November
2009, Jovanka Kalić was elected a full member of the SASA. Her admission speech
under the title Old Rascia was held on 28 May 2010. She is a member of the Board for
the Study of Kosovo and Metohija, Szentendre Board, and in 2010 she was appointed
to the Managing board of the Institute for Byzantine Studies, Professional Council of
SASA Library and SASA Managing board of Dragoslav Srejović Foundation for scien tific and artistic projects of capital importance.
Jovanka Kalić was twice the recipient of the October Award of the City of Belgrade
– in 1967 and 1974. She was also the first laureate of the “Radovan Samardžić Fund”
Award, in 1995, for the book Serbs in the Late Middle Ages. She received “Vladimir
Ćorović” Award for the lifetime achievement in the area of historiography in 2018.
She authored the first modern history of medieval Belgrade. To this day, there
has been virtually no extensive overview of the history of Belgrade that does not
contain chapters on the Middle Ages penned by Jovanka Kalić or contributions from
other authors that are largely based upon her research findings.
By comprehensive analysis of Byzantine and Western sources, cross-referencing
the data on the deeds of Serbian Grand Zhupans of the 12th century with the events
in Europe current at that time, Jovanka Kalić gave a proper account of what might
be said without exaggeration to have been the age of European glory of the Serbian
rulers. She demonstrated that Serbian Grand Zhupans were not mere subjects of the
Byzantine emperor in a distant outpost or a tool in the hands of the Hungarian king
in his aspirations to extend his influence further across the Sava and Danube rivers.
In these studies Jovanka Kalić uncovered and illuminated the fact that Latin Europe
had been present among the Serbian people from the earliest times, especially since
the 12th century.
The major scientific significance in the scholarly work of Jovanka Kalić, according
to its comprehensive interdisciplinary approach, applied methods, research findings,
reception and discussion in academic circles, is accorded to the investigations of Old
Rascia, that is to say, of the site and material vestiges of Stari (Old) Ras, episcopal see
and the first capital of the Serbian lands. By means of combining the achievements
of the historical science, archaeology and toponomastics, Jovanka Kalić proved and
advanced the thesis, using results based on firm evidence, that Stari Ras, the seat of
the Serbian state of the Grand Zhupan Stefan Nemanja, was not situated at the site of
Gradina over Pazarište, but that the site of that urban agglomeration, which included
a fortification of a residential type, the episcopal see and an urban settlement with a
central square, was located in the area of what today is the town of Novi Pazar.
Jovanka Kalić’s studies of the history of the Serbian people in the late Middle Ages
focused on the era in which Belgrade became a full-fledged capital of Serbia, the pe riod of the reign of despot Stefan Lazarević. In fact, this ruler represents the subject
of the majority of specialized studies of that era. The said topical and chronological
focal point reached its peak in a synthetic overview of the history of Serbia in the post Nemanjić era, first partially, in selected chapters in the second volume of A History of
the Serbian People, and then in the invaluable synthesis Serbs in the Late Middle Ages,
which came out in three editions and was used as a textbook in the academic studies
of history at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade.",
publisher = "Београд : Српска академија наука и уметности",
journal = "Живот и стваралаштво жена чланова Српског ученог друштва, Српске краљевске академије и Српске академије наука и уметности. Том 2",
title = "Јованка Калић : (1933), Jovanka Kalić : (1933)",
pages = "394-435",
url = "https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_14888"
}
