Dear guests, it is my pleasure to welcome you all to the University Library and the beginning of this series. 
We hope that it will be intriguing for all of you. 
It is quite interesting that we are right now in the Art center of the Library 
which hosted an opening of the exhibition by the winner of Politika’s award for Visual arts yesterday.
So, this series of lectures will maybe deliver some interesting “pleasant surprise” in philosophy, art and science.
I hope that the Faculty of Philology will continue to support these series, as it has done before.
I will ask Ms.Jotov from the Faculty of Philology to address the audience.
Allow me to address you on behalf of the Faculty of Philology 
and convey greetings from the Dean, PhD Aleksandra Vraneš
and Vice-Dean for finances, PhD Ljiljana Marković,
who are not here with us today.
Faculty of Philology is very proud to participate in organizing 
The Series "Serendipity in Science, Philosophy and the Arts",
since multidisciplinarity is highly important for the development of philology today.
Thanks to so many of you for joining us today.
I will ask professor Birx to address you now.
