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.
Sanja Seliškar was born in 1989 in Belgrade. She graduated from the Faculty of Media and Communication, with a major in Journalism and Media Production. She is a radio journalist at Radio Belgrade 1, in the culture section. She works at Center for Comparative Conflict Studies, as project coordinator and research assistant. With her friends, she started a project Mesto za ljubljenje/Kissing area. She is interested in gender, conflict studies, queer theory, feminism and activism. In her spare she time likes reading Derrida and Harry Potter, makes tea parties and bakes. Lives and works in Belgrade.
Apr 28,19:30, 2015
Within the context of its queer reconceptualization, desire can be conceived as a capacity to go beyond what is thinkable. On the one hand, there is traditional “western” model of thinking understood as the rational/dialectical thought which, in its circular manner, can onl...
Ovaj motiv koji se dakle odnosi na kritiku savremenih oblika fašizacije društva pokušavam da prenesem na vreme u kome mi živimo i na ovaj ovdašnji kontekst. Teza je da se fašizam ili fašizmi dosta dobro ’drže’ u vremenu u kome živimo i važno je, iako ne i dovoljno, da se pritom u...