Research Center for Cultures, Politics and Identities (IPAK.Center) is founded as a result of long-term cooperation of students, scholars, activists, artists and other political friends from Serbia, SEE, Europe, and from all around the world.
Situated at the Faculty for Media and Communications in Belgrade the Center is involved in cultural and political research studies devoted to reflecting on and questioning of rather complex issues of identity formation, difference, otherness and diversity, cultural, political and activist doing, as well as with shared researches deployed locally, regionally and globally.
Mission of the Center is to encourage, spread and advance critical thinking and to initiate innovative discourses, to develop trans-disciplinary knowledge and contemporary research. By participating in socially and politically engaged cultural production the Center will provide conditions for improvement of democratic principles of the social life and academic disciplines that are not based on hierarchy and hegemony. Main goal of the Center is to promote multiple identities, minority thinking and different forms of socio-political life.
IPAK CENTER supports critical, non-normative education, research and activist agency that questions embedded and stable notions of identity, as well as predominant discourses in categorizing and creating meaning and valuing of individuals, groups and communities.
Jack Halberstam is Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University. Halberstam is the author of seven books including: 
Gavin Butt is a scholar of modern and contemporary art whose work contributes to the fields of art history & visual culture, performance and queer studies, and popular music studies. Trained as a fine artist and art historian, he is a writer, curator and filmmaker. He is currently completing a book 'Being in a Band: When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Pop' which focuses on a crisis of legitimacy for modern art education in the 1970s and 1980s and groups that came out of art school, including Scritti Politti, Gang of Four, Fad Gadget, Delta 5, Three Johns and Soft Cell. He is co-editor (with Mark Fisher and Kodwo Eshun) of Post-Punk Then and Now, Repeater, 2016. He is also working towards completion of a second book, 'Anti-Gravitas' exploring the challenges to cultural seriousness presented within queer art and performance. He is co-author (with Irit Rogoff) of ‘Visual Cultures as Seriousness,’ Sternberg, 2013. In 2013 he made his first feature length documentary film, co-directed with journalist Ben Walters - Not a Dream.
Susanna Paasonen is professor of Media Studies. After finishing her PhD in Media Studies in Turku in 2002 she acted as lecturer in Media Culture at University of Tampere (2003), as an Academy of Finland postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Women's Studies in Turku (2004-5), as senior research associate in Digital Culture at University of Jyväskylä (2005-7), as Collegium researcher at the Collegium for Advanced Studies at University of Helsinki (2007-10) and as professor of Digital Culture at Jyväskylä (2010-11) before starting in her current post in August 2011. She was the first recipient of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters' Jutikkala Award in Humanities in 2011. Paasonen has broad teaching experience in media studies, cultural studies, digital culture and gender studies. She is currently in charge of postgraduate studies at the department of Media Studies, classes on media and networks, as well as theme courses connected to social media, sexuality, affect and pornography. With an interest in studies of popular culture, affect, sexuality, and media theory, Paasonen is e.g. the author of ‘Carnal Resonance: Affect and Online Pornography’ (MIT Press 2011) and ‘Many Splendored Things: Thinking Sex and Play’ (Goldsmiths Press 2018), co-author of ‘Not Safe for Work: Sex, Humor, and Risk in Social Media’ (with Kylie Jarrett and Ben Light for MIT Press, forthcoming), as well as co-editor of ‘Pornification: Sex and Sexuality in Media Culture’ (with Kaarina Nikunen and Laura Saarenmaa, Berg 2007), ‘Working with Affect in Feminist Readings: Disturbing Differences’ (with Marianne Liljeström, Routledge 2010) and ‘Networked Affect’ (with Ken Hillis and Michael Petit, MIT Press 2015). Her current book-length projects focus on boredom and distraction in social media, on feminist tactics and humour in social media (with Jenny Sundén), and on the notion of objectification (with Feona Attwood, Alan McKee, John Mercer and Clarissa Smith). 
Jenny Sundén is Professor of Gender Studies at Södertörn University in Stockholm. Her work is situated in the intersection of digital media studies and gender and sexuality studies, with a particular focus on bodies, desires, sexual politics, and technologies. She is currently working on questions of digital fragility and its consequences for queer theory and queer lives, as well as on feminist uses of humor in social media as forms of resistance. She is the author of Who’s laughing now? Feminist tactics in social media (MIT Press, forthcoming, with Susanna Paasonen), and Gender and sexuality in online game cultures: Passionate play (Routledge, 2012, with Malin Sveningsson).
Ljubomir Danailov Frchkoski (1957) is a Dean at the Faculty of Legal and Political Studies (FON Univeristy, Skopje, Macedonia), and a full-time professor at the same Faculty in Public International Law, International Law for Human Rights, Political Theories I & II, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, and Negotiation in Identity conflicts. As a guest lecturer he was widely engaged in Europe and North America; and as a visiting professor was lastly engaged on the International Relations and Negotiations, International Human rights Law program at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (May 2018), and before in Italy for more than 7 years on the second cycle study/master program of the International Institute for European Studies (IUIES) and also at Università degli studi Internazionali di Roma. Besides being dedicated to issues of human rights, the scientific focus of his late work is on political philosophy and psychoanalysis. He has been also politically involved in some periods during the Macedonian independence, and he is one of the writers of the Macedonian Constitution from 1991. He is the author many books, including ‘Human Rights and Psychoanalysis’ (2019), ‘Restless Nationalism’ (2016), and ‘Negotiation in Identity Conflicts’ (2012). 
Apr 28,19:30, 2015
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