SUMMER SCHOOL
2021

for Sexualities, Cultures, and Politics

Gender and Culture – New Reading of Gender

Series of panel discussions aims at further development of critical thinking...

KISSING AREA

In these four “public walls”, all boundaries are erased...

MIRROR

A public space intervention, initiated as a critique of the politics of public space...


BIO eng

BIO eng

Velimir Žernovski

Graduated at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University - Skopje.
Currently, he is postgraduate student at the Department of Cultural Studies at "Euro-Balkan" Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities Research in Skopje.

He realized solo exhibitions in Macedonia and abroad: New York (2010, 2012), Paris (2011), Vienna (2009, 2011), Freiburg (2009), Skopje (2006, 2007, 2010, 2012); he took part in group exhibitions in Slovenia, Kosovo, Austria, Germany, Netherlands, Macedonia, Turkey and USA. He curated and co-curated several projects and exhibitions and participated in many international projects and collaborations.

He was working as a curatorial assistant at press to exit project space-special project of the Swiss Cultural Program in Macedonia, currently working as a researcher at University Euro-Balkan and actively participating in the program of The Coalition "Sexual and Health Rights of Marginalized Communities".
From 2008 Zernovski is co-founder and president of FRIK Cultural Initiatives development Formation, organization which is working on motivation of socially engaged art production and society democratization, beyond prejudices and stereotypes.

Through the media of drawings, videos, installations, object installations in public space, writing and publishing artist books he is exploring notions of identity, urbanity and popular culture as well as sexuality and gender identity.Graduated at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University - Skopje.Graduated at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University - Skopje.
Currently, he is postgraduate student at the Department of Cultural Studies at “Euro-Balkan” Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities Research in Skopje.

He realized solo exhibitions in Macedonia and abroad: New York (2010, 2012), Paris (2011), Vienna (2009, 2011), Freiburg (2009), Skopje (2006, 2007, 2010, 2012); he took part in group exhibitions in Slovenia, Kosovo, Austria, Germany, Netherlands, Macedonia, Turkey and USA. He curated and co-curated several projects and exhibitions and participated in many international projects and collaborations.

He was working as a curatorial assistant at press to exit project space-special project of the Swiss Cultural Program in Macedonia, currently working as a researcher at University Euro-Balkan and actively participating in the program of The Coalition “Sexual and Health Rights of Marginalized Communities”.
From 2008 Zernovski is co-founder and president of FRIK Cultural Initiatives development Formation, organization which is working on motivation of socially engaged art production and society democratization, beyond prejudices and stereotypes.

Through the media of drawings, videos, installations, object installations in public space, writing and publishing artist books he is exploring notions of identity, urbanity and popular culture as well as sexuality and gender identity.Graduated at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University - Skopje.


CURENT, Master Studies / Department of Cultural Studies at “Euro-Balkan” Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities Research, Skopje, Macedonia http://www.euba.edu.mk/department-for-postgraduate-studies-419.html

2005 May, B.F.A. Faculty of Fine Arts, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University – Skopje, Macedonia http://www.ukim.edu.mk/en_struktura_contact.php?inst=20

1996 - 2000, School of Applied Arts, Skopje, Macedonia


2010, Kultur kontakt, Vienna, Austria

2013, International Studio and Curatorial Program ISCP, New York, New York


2009,Biennale of Young Artists, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Skopje, Macedonia 

2012, DENES award, Skopje, Macedonia


2009 – 2010, DESCHOOLING CLASSROOM (o^o) / TkH Belgrade & Kontrapunkt, Skopje http://tkh-generator.net / http://kontrapunkt-mk.org

2009 May, Urban space and memory, Cultural Center “Tocka”, Skopje, Macedonia (workshop)

2008 September, Remapping Skopje, Cultural Center “Tocka”, supported by Ministry of Culture of Republic of Germany, Skopje (workshop)

2007 September,  Curatorial translations, Visual and Research Centre, Euro Balkan Institute, project initiated by Suzana Milevska (Curator and theoretician) Skopje, Macedonia (workshop) http://www.curatorialtranslation.blogspot.com/


2013 September, All Beauty Must Die, Project on billboards in public space on the occasion of The Macedonian Independence day 8th of September. Supported by Coalition SHRMC and Open Societies Foundation New York.http://coalition.org.mk/2013/09/proekt-seta-ubavina-mora-da-umre-velimir-zernovski-2013/?lang=en   

2012 November, Exhibition at Open Studios, International Studio and Curatorial Program ISCP New York, New York

2012 Jun, The Distitled, (awarded exhibition with DENES award), Suli An, Skopje, Macedonia

2010 April, Alice, Remixed? – MC Gallery, New York, USA

2010 December, Alice, What Else is Out There? – Museum of Contemporary Arts Skopje, Macedonia (curated by Mira Gakina) http://www.msuskopje.org.mk/msu.php?mode=exh&mid=1&id=1&exhid=92

2010 November, Transformemories – Art`est gallery, Paris, France

2010 May, Welcome to Skopje #2 - open performance and building of artist book at Mala Galerija, Skopje, Macedonia

2010 January, In the Third Picture, ARTPOINT Gallery, Vienna

2009 June, ECDC 2009, for the project Skopje - Freiburg 009, E – Werk, Freiburg, Germany (Curated by Ksenija Cockova)

2009 May, Launch of the artist book “Full color in black and white” and textual installation together with Slavco Dimitrov, Cultural Center CK, Skopje, Macedonia http://www.cdathouse.org.mk

2008 June, Launch of the “Book of love and similar things” and exhibition, Museum of the city of Skopje, Macedonia

2007 December, Waiting for the night, Cultural Centre CK, Skopje, Macedonia http://www.cdathouse.org.mk

2006 August, EDEN 2006, press to exit project space, (site specific) office and residency space, for the long term project Lost Highway Expedition initiated by Marjetica Potrc and Kyong Park, Skopje, Macedonia http://www.presstoexit.org.mk


2011 June, Comics Make Art - Art Makes Comics Künstler machen Comics - Comics werden Kunst, Gallery Erns Hilger, Vienna, Austria http://www.hilger.at/827_DE.61479256b61b8db10c996e6a08d649a61bc09f036

2011 May, 255 804 km² Young art from the former Yugoslavia, Brot Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria (Curated by Alenka Gregoric and Mateja Podlesnik) http://www.brotkunsthalle.com/

2011 April, The Invisible Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Skopje, Macedonia (curated by Marika Bocvarova Plavevska) http://www.msuskopje.org.mk/msu.php?mode=exh&mid=1&id=1&exhid=98

2010 September, Synoptic Visionaudial Art Meeting 15-30 September, Pécs, Hungary (curatede by Szolga Hajnal)

2010 July, 255 804 km2 at Mestna Galerija Ljubljana (Curated by Alenka Gregorič / Co-curated by Mateja Podlesnik) Ljubljana, Slovenia http://www.mestna-galerija.si/razstava.asp?st=435

2009 September, Project Indigo Drawings, for the exhibition Sinestezija, Vienne, Austria / Rim, Italy / Belgrade, Serbia (curated by Viktorija Vaseva Dimeska, MOCA Skopje) http://www.msuskopje.org.mk/msu.php?mode=exh&mid=1&id=1&exhid=65

2009 September, Project Time Rhapsody – Instalation for the exhibition Climate Change = Culture Change, Skopje / The Embassy of Switzerland in Macedonia and World Bank

2009 July, Transforma, project of the seven curators from the Robert Bosch Foundation, "kulturmanager aus suedosteuropa" in collaboration with Thalia theatre, Hale, Germany

2009 February, (first prize) at the Biennale of Young Artists, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Skopje, Macedonia

2008 October, Independent Drawing Gig 4, alternative space, Skopje, Macedonia (curated by Velimir Zernovski)

2008 August, AKTO – Contemporary Art Festival, Bitola, Macedonia

2008 February, Project (or) Art fair, Platform for Contemporary Art Spaces, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2007 September, Independent Drawing Gig 3, Den Haag, Zuid Holland, Netherlands

2007 August, Lost Highway Exhibition, Skuc gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia, (curated by Alenka Gregoric)

2007 January, Happy people (video,15 min), ATITUDE festival for short and experimental film, Center for Contemporary Public Art – ELEMENTI & International Art Expo (Italy), Magaza gallery, Bitola, Macedonia

2007 May, Denes - Nomination for Best Young Visual Artist, Museum of contemporary art, Center for Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia

2007 May, Drunk on Dreams, Fruehsorge - Galerie für Zeichnung, Berlin, Germany, (curated by Bjorn Hegardt and Yane Calovski)

2006 October, Independent Drawing Gig vol.2 Museum of contemporary art, Skopje, Macedonia, (curated by Linas Jablonskis and Yane Calovski)

2005 January, 25th Anniversary Exhibition of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Chifte amam - National gallery of Macedonia, Skopje

2005 October, Welcome to Skopje - White Nights Festival, Youth-Cultural Center, Skopje, Macedonia


2012 May, Panel discussion at the SUBVERSIVE FESTIVAL (Queer movement at the beginning of the 90`s), Zagreb, Croatia

2012 April, Art is possible only when it speaks, CULBURB Conference, Museum of  Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana, Slovenija

2011 June, ART AS VOICE, presentation at the Summer School Ohrid 2011 on Dialectical interdependences of theory and practice in feminism, Euro Balkan Institute, Ohrid, Macedonia

2010 June, Presentation on Macedonian Queer art and activism at the Summer Colloquia 2010 on Epistemologies in Social Sceinces and Humanities for the Gender Studies, Euro Balkan Institute, Ohrid, Macedonia ( (together with Slavco Dimitrov)

2010 March, Lecture on Macedonian contemporary art scene at Höhere Bundeslehranstalt für wirtschaftliche Berufe, Vienna, Austria

2007 September, Translational Relations between Curatorial Concepts and Art Works, presentation in Mala Stanica, National Gallery of Macedonia, Skopje (together with Elena Veljanovska, Svetlana Kuyumjieva, Vladimir Jancevski )

2007 March, Travel Research on Contemporary Art Scene in the Netherlands, presentation in press to exit project space, Skopje, Macedonia (together with Aleksandra Petrusevska and Liljana Pesovska)


2010 December, Turning Macedonia’s Fearful World Into Art, BALKANINSIGHT, http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/turning-macedonia-s-fearful-world-into-art

2010 December, Identifications (artist portrait) text by Dejan Budjevac, Porta 3, Skopje, Macedonia

2010 March, On cities, light and identity, text by Alexander Lass for Art Magazine Kunst- Informationsgesellschaft m.b.H. Breite Gasse 17/4, 1070 Wien

2010 March, Kulturkontakt magazine, Director Gerhard Kowar, Print REMAprint Austria

2010 March, Gay Art!? On line issue by Nebojsha Vilic, published by 359º Skopje, Macedonia

2009 June, Geschichlchten der Enge critique for the work ECDC 2009, for the project Skopje - Freiburg 009, E – Werk, Freiburg, by Urlike Duwell for the Badische Zeitung, Freiburg

2009 May, Full color in black and white, Artist Book by Velimir Zernovski, printing 2-ri Avgust S, Stip, Macedonia, published by the artist

2008 May, Book of love and similar things, Artist Book by Velimir Zernovski, printing Libris Grafika, Skopje, Macedonia, published by the artist

2007, Lost Highway Expedition - Photobook

2007 May, FUKT & D, D is for drawing and FUKT a magazine for contemporary drawing, collaborative issue by Yane Calovski and Bjorn Hegardt, Data Pons

2006 October, From Kosovo to Kaliningrad: Part 1, Aaron Moulton, FLESH ART

2006 September, Welcome to Skopje - post cards edition, AGREGAT/ KONTRAPUNCT, Kliment Ohridski 15, Skopje, Macedonia


2011 April, Logo design for the Coalition “Sexual and Health Rights of Marginalized communities” Skopje, Macedonia

2011 March, Creating of a Balkan Artists Data Base, for the “Euro-Balkan” Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities Research, Skopje, Macedonia

2009 October, curator of the project Skopje is not a Thriller (exhibition and publication on new development of the city of Skopje) in frames of the project "On the public table, wall, floor: Artistic and curatorial collaborative investigations"

2008 October, curator for: Independent Drawing Gig 4 (Skopje edition), www.indiedrawingsgig.com alternative space, Skopje, Macedonia

2008 June (to present), Co - founder and President of F.R.I.K. Cultural Initiatives Development Formation, www.myspace.com/frikaktion; www.frik.mk Skopje, Macedonia

2008 March, logo design for PIRASTRO, organization for performing arts, Skopje, Macedonia

2007 October, design for the poster for Love is Love festival, (Queer Square Skopje 2007)

2006 August – 2008 January, curatorial and gallery assistant at press to exit project space, special project of Swiss Cultural Program Prohelvetia, www.presstoexit.org.mk Skopje, Macedonia

2007 May, design for the book edition “Pregled” published by MASSO – Macedonian Association for Free Sexual Orientation

2007 January, Travel Research on Contemporary Art Scene in the Netherlands, supported by European Cultural Foundation

2006 December, logo design for MASSO – Macedonian Association for Free Sexual Orientation

2006 October, design for the poster for Independent drawing gig vol.2 for press to exit project space

Milka Vasilijević

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Milka Vasilijević, born in Smederevo. Studied Literature and Theory of Literature at the Faculty of Philology (University of Belgrade) and Communications at the Faculty of Media and Communications (Singidunum University), where she is working towards her MA Degree in Culture of Global Media: Gender and Media. She is interested in gender studies, identity and modern concepts of human rights. Currently, she is engaged in the realization of the regional campaign “I Sign”, dealing with prevention and combating violence against women, which is being implemented by the Autonomous Women’s Center, Belgrade. Lives and works in Belgrade.

Stanimir Panayotov

Stanimir Panayotov (1982, Bulgaria) graduated in Philosophy from Sofia University and holds MA in Philosophy and Gender Studies from Euro-Balkan Institute (2011) with a thesis on Plato’s natural philosophy and the problem of femininity/maternity in the ancient concept of space (khora). He is currently a PhD student in comparative gender studies at CEU, Budapest, working on the relation between desire and space in ancient cosmologies and Plato. His research interests and published work are centered round issues in feminist and continental philosophy, queer theory, and gender studies. He is also a free-lance translator and has translated numerous articles from the same fields (Sedgwick, Fuss, Butler, A. Rich, etc.), and books by Peter Berger, Wendy Brown, Jasna Koteska, and David M. Halperin (forthcoming). He has also been involved in numerous projects in Bulgaria and Macedonia related with queer issues and has served as a queer activist for various projects and organizations. Stanimir is also part of Social Center Xaspel and New Left Perspectives in Sofia.


  • Early pre-Christian cosmologies; Plato and sex
  • 20th c. continental philosophy (esp. Guattari, Deleuze, Foucault, and theories of desire and subjectivation); and Marxism (esp. autonomist Marxism)
  • Epistemology and feminist philosophy of science (Fox Keller, Harding, Braidotti, Stengers, Grosz, Butler)
  • Queer Theory & Gender Studies (sexuality, space and matter; queer and feminist post-humanities)
  • Speculative realism and materialism / object-oriented philosophy

  • RESET Project: Regional seminar in gender/women’s studies and European studies 2004-2006 (Skopje, Euro-Balkan Institute)
  • Q-files (www.qfiles.net) - Online bibliographical project in Bulgarian on LGBTIQ and Sexualities Issues (March 2005 – ongoing)
  • Media and Marginalized Communities (2011, Coalition for the Protection of Marginalized Communities, Skopje)
  • Life Matters: Microlife, Species, and Extinction (2012, Linkoping University, Sweden)
  • Sex Machines: Theorizing Contemporary Pleasure ((2012, Linkoping University, Sweden)

2011/12: Euro-Balkan Institute, Skopje:
  • Methodologies and Epistemologoies of the Social Sciences and Humanities
  • Biopolitics

Books and Journals: edited
  • Queer Balkans: special issue of Sextures (ongoing, in English)
  • Autonomism and Marxism: From the Paris Commune to the World Social Forum (with Nikolay Karkov), Sofia: Anarres, 2013 (forthcoming December 2013, in Bulgarian).
  • Sofia Queer Forum (with Boryana Rossa), Sofia: Anarres, 2013. (bilingual edition, Bulgarian and English).
  • Marx: Heterogenous Readings from the XX Century (with Haralambi Panitsidis and Emilia Mineva), Sofia: Anarres, 2012. (in Bulgarian)
  • Heretical Realisms (with Katerina Kolozova), special issue of Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 8, No. 1, Skopje: Euro-Balkan Press, 2011. (in English)
  • Queer Art in Bulgaria, Sofia: Bilitis, 2010 (bilingual edition, Bulgarian and English).
  • Gender, Power, Culture, special issue of Literaturen Vestnik, 20/2003, Sofia: Literaturen Vestnik (in Bulgarian).
Essays in edited volumes
  • “The Absent Foucault: Bulgarian (Mis)Uses,” in: Monika Pisankaneva and Melinda Shateauvert (Eds.), New Social Movements and Sexuality, Sofia & Washington: Bilitis & Woodhill Foundation, 2006 (in English).
  • „From Tradition to Experimentation”, in: Queer Art in Bulgaria, Sofia: Bilitis, 2010 (in Bulgarian and English).
  • “De/legitimization of Activism and the Dilemma of Integration or Assimilation,” in: Zarko Trajanoski (Ed.), Media and Marginalized Communities, Skopje: Coalition for the Protection of Marginalized Communities, 2011 (in Macedonian and English).
  • “Neutralizing Visibility: Bulgarian Strategies of Justifying Inequality,” in: Narcisz Fejes and Andrea P. Balough (Eds.), Queer Visibility in Post-Socialist Cultures, Bristol: Intellect Books, 2013 (in English).
  • “Za ‘samoizmenenieto’” [“On ‘Self-Changing’”], in: Haralambi Panitsidis, Emilia Mineva, Stanimir Panayotov (Eds.), Marx: Heterogenous Readings from the XXth Century, Sofia: Anarres, 2012. (in Bulgarian)
  • “For More Happy Drag Queens,” in: Boryana Rossa and Stanimir Panayotov, Sofia Queer Forum, Sofia: Anarres, 2013. (In Bulgariand and English)
Journal papers
  • “Homomitologii, heterosotsiologii” [“Homomythologies, Heterosociologies”], in: Demokraticheski pregled [Democratic Review], Vol. 50/2002 (in Bulgarian).
  • “Normativnijat problem za homoseksualnija subekt: gay & lesbian studies and queer theory” [“The Normative Problem of Homosexual Subject: Gay & Lesbian Studies and Queer Theory”], in: Kritika I Humanizam [Critique & Humanism], Vol. 17/2004 (in Bulgarian).
  • “The Binary Code (Notes on The Celebrating of Homosexuality)”, in: Identities, Vol. 8-9/2005 (in Macedonian and English).
  • “Heart’s Unreason: A Reading of Edelman’s Anti-Futurism through Bataille,” in: Identities, Vol. 8.2/2011 (in English).
Selected interviews
  • [with Galena Eduardova] “Choveshkite tela sa zavistlivi kam tehnologiite” [“Human Bodies Are Envious to Technologies” (An Interview with Rosi Braidotti)], in: Altera, 9/2005 (in Bulgarian).
  • Michael O’Rourke in conversation with Stanimir Panayotov: “X, Welcome!!!”, in: Identities, Vol. 8.1/2011 (in English).
  • “After Oedipus’ Heels. Interview with Jasna Koteska,” in: Kultura, 22/2012, http://www.kultura.bg/bg/article/view/19832 (in Bulgarian).
Conference proceedings
  • “The Gender Paradigm As A Lack of the Local Object (On the Discursive Limits of A Regional Queer Theory),” in: Woman & Politics: Sexuality between the local and the global,
  • Zagreb: Zenska Infoteka, 2005 (in English, German and Croatian).
  • “Postcolonial Fire”, in: Women & Politics: Eastern Europe and the Third World - Women's Attempt to re-establish the dialogue, Zagreb: Zenska Infoteka, 2006 (in English, German and Croatian).
  • “On Guattari’s Planetary Psychopathology,” in: Melentie Pandilovski (Ed.), The Apparatus of Life and Death, Skopje: Euro-Balkan Press, 2011 (in English).
  • “Pride: Between Permission and Hijacking,” in: Rex Cultural Center, 10.05.2013, http://www.rex.b92.net/sr/ovogmeseca/tribineDebate/story/4712/Debata%20?message=ok. (in Serbian).
Selected book reviews
  • “Krizata kato subekt” [“Crisis As A Subject”] (Judith Butler et al., Proceedings from The Seminar ‘Crisis of The Subject’, Held in Ohrid, Macedonia, 11-14 May, 2000, Euro-Balkan Institute: Skopje, 2001), in: Kultura, 20/2003, http://www.online.bg/kultura/my_html/2275/heterologia.htm (in Bulgarian).
  • “R’edip” (Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus. Capitalism and Schizophrenia I, Sofia: Critique & Humanism, 2004), in: Kultura, 33/2004, http://www.online.bg/kultura/my_html/2335/heterologia.htm (in Bulgarian).
  • “Koi se strahuva ot tehnologiite?” [“Who’s Afraid of Technologies?”] (Rosi Braidotti, Metamorphoses. Towards a Materialistic Theory of Becoming, London: Polity Press, 2002), in: Kultura, 2/2005, http://www.online.bg/kultura/my_html/2352/heterologia.htm (in Bulgarian).
  • “Smeshno, tvarde smeshno” [“Funny, All Too Funny”] (Simon Critchley, On Humour, Routledge: London & New York, 2002), in: Kultura, 11/2005, http://www.online.bg/kultura/my_html/2361/heterologia.htm (in Bulgarian).
  • “Modernoto, razkazano za postmodernisti” [“The Modern Narrated for Postmodernists”] (Frederic Jameson, A Singular Modernity, Sofia: Critique & Humanism, 2005), in: 39 grama, 4/2005 (in Bulgarian).
  • “Transferatu” (Siegmund Freud, Psychoanalysis: Theory and Therapy (ed. and trans. by Vladimir Teoharov), Sofia: Critique & Humanism, 2005), in: Literaturen Vestnik, 22/2005 (in Bulgarian).
  • “Posledniyat vazmozhen potlatch” [The Last Possible Potlatch] (Guy Debord, Panegyric, Vols. 1 & 2, Verso: London, 2004), in: LiterNet, 10.09.2008, № 9 (106), http://www.online.bg/kultura/my_html/2361/heterologia.htm (in Bulgarian).
  • “Knigovartezh” [“A Vertigo of Books”] (Gillez Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus. Capitalism and Schizophrenia II, trans. Antoaneta Koleva, Sofia: Critique and Humanism, 2009), in: Literaturen vestnik, 38-9/2009; 3/4/2010 (in Bulgarian).
  • “Ask the Puppet” (Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy against the Human Race, New York: Hippocampus Press), in: Identities, Vol. 8.2/2011 (in English).
  • “Nihilizam ili nishto [“Nihilism or Nothing] (Gianni Vattimo, Nihilism and Emancipation, Sofia: Critique and Humanism, 2011), in: Literary Club, 24.04.2012, http://www.litclub.bg/library/fil/panayotov/vattimo.html (in Bulgarian).
  • “The Queer Therapist Unbound” (Lindsey Moon (Ed.), Counseling Ideologies: Queer Challenges to Heteronormativity, Surrey: Ashgate), in: Sextures, Vol. 2, No. 1, Sydney. (in English)
  • “Gaga Fails” (J. J. Halberstam, Gaga Feminism. Sex, Gender and the End of Normal. Boston: Beacon Press, 2012), in: Graduate Journal of Social Sciences (forthcoming, in English).
Other Presentations and Contributions
Conference Proceedings
  • “The Gender Paradigm as a Lack of the Local Object,” paper presented at Sexuality between the Local and the Global, 19-24 May 2004, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
  • “Postcolonian Fire,” paper presented at Eastern Europe and the Third World: Women's Attempt to Re-establish the Dialogue, 19-21 May, 2005, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
  • “Invested (Feminist) Elites and the Future of Class Struggle,” paper presented at Gender Studies of and for the Region of the Balkans: Winter Colloquium on Thematic and Epistemic Issues, Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities Research “Euro-Balkan,” 30 October – 2 November, 2009, Skopje, Macedonia.
  • “Universalism and Male Silence,” paper presented at Gender Studies of and for the Region of the Balkans: Summer Colloquium on Epistemic Issues in Gender Studies, Ohrid Summer University, June 2010, Ohrid, Macedonia.
  • “On Guattari’s Planetary Psychopathology,” paper presented at The Apparatus of Life and Death, Skopje Electronic Arts Fair, Skopje Museum of Contemporary Arts, 6-7 October 2010, Skopje, Macedonia.
  • “Sexual Khora,” paper presented at European Geographies of Sexualities, Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel Brussels, 8th – 10th September 2011, Brussels, Belgium.
  • “Puppeteering Nothing: Thomas Ligotti and the Abolishment of Paradox in Life,” paper presented at Energy, Biopolitics, Strategies of Resistance and Cultural Subversion, Skopje Electronic Arts Fair, Skopje Museum of Contemporary Arts, 2 November 2011, Skopje, Macedonia.
  • “Straight Separatism: Theses on the Queer Archive,” paper presented at In/visible: The Sexual and Political Regimes of the Archive, Skopje, National Gallery of Macedonia – Chifte Hamam, 25 February 2012.

Jelisaveta Blagojević


• PhD: University of Novi Sad, Gender Studies Program, Association of the Centers for Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies and Researches, with the dissertation entitled “Theoretical contribution to Gender Studies: Discourses on Identity, Difference and Otherness”, (2006).

• MPhil: Diploma in Gender&Culture at Open University London - Mylton Keynes, thesis topic - “Hieroglyphs of Jealousy”, (2001).

• BA: Diploma in History of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade University, thesis topic “Speech of Silence: Philosophy of Luce Irigaray”, (1995).


• Higher Education Support Program, Fellowship, 2003 - 2006

• Utrecht University - postgraduate summer school in Politics of Location, 2005.

• Open Society Institute Belgrade – grant for participation at X International Conference of Women Philosophers, Barcelona, 2001

• Soros Scholarship for M. Phil degree at Open University London, 1999 - 2001

• Media and Journalism Foundation, Multi -Kulti Radio, Berlin, Germany, 1999

• Goethe Institute: Language scholarship, Berlin, Germany, 1998


• Associate Professor and Dean for Academic Affairs at the Faculty of Media and Communications, University Singidunum, Belgrade, since 2006

• Lecturer and Coordinator at Belgrade Women’s Studies and Gender Research Center, Belgrade, since 2001

• Editor of the book edition "Gender &Culture" – Belgrade Women's Studies and Gender Research Center, since 2002

• Editorial Assistant of the Belgrade Women’s Studies Center Journal for Feminist theory Genero, Belgrade, 2001-

• The Belgrade Circle NGO, Office manager, Belgrade, 2001 - 2002

• OSCE, Stability Pact, Office Manager in Gender Task Force Office, Budapest, 2000


• Teaching courses at the Faculty of Media and Communications, University Singidunum, Belgrade:

- Contemporary Political Theories and Ideologies, since 2008.

- Structuralism and Post-structuralism, since 2006.

- Politics of Borders, since 2009.

- Critical Thinking: Problems of 21. Century, since 2006.

- Politics of Love, since 2008.

- Gender and Culture, since 2009.

- Media and Diversity, since 2008.

• Teaching course “From the discourse of brotherhood and unity to the discourses of EU integration: the case of "transition" in Serbia” at the Summer School for Comparative Conflict Studies, Center for Comparative Conflict Studies and FMK, Belgrade, 2011 and 2012.

• Lecturer at SIT Study Abroad Program - Serbia, Bosnia, and Kosovo: Peace and Conflict Studies in the Balkans- title “Politics of otherness and differences: the Case of Serbia”, since 2008.

• Visiting lecturer at the Gender and Politics MA program at the Political Science Faculty, Belgrade University, since 2006

• Lecturer at Ohrid Summer School in “Gender Studies of and for the Region of the Balkans”, since 2009.

• Visiting lecturer at the Research Center in Gender Studies - Euro Balkan Institute, Skopje, since 2002

• Teaching courses in Contemporary Feminist Philosophy at Belgrade Women’s Studies and Gender Research Center, since 2001

• Teaching course in Contemporary Philosophy at Faculty of Political Science, Belgrade University 2003/2006

• Teaching course in Popular Culture at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, 2004/2006

• Visiting Lecturer at ISH Ljubljana, 2005

• Teaching course in Introduction to Queer Theory, Belgrade Women’s Studies Center and Faculty of Political Science, 2004

• Teaching course Women Philosophers in XX century at Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, 2003-2005

• Visiting Lecturer at Faculty of Philosophy Sofia, Bulgaria, 2004

• Teaching courses in Philosophy and Gender Studies at the Alternative Academic Education Network, 2002/2003

• Visiting Lecturer at Mileva-Maric Ajnstajn Center in Novi Sad, 2003


• Director of the Center for Research in Identities, Politics and Cultures (Ipak.Center), Belgrade, 2013 -

• Director of the Summer Institute for Sexualities, Cultures and Politics: “Queerness, Community and Capital: Towards New Alliances of the Political” Presentation title: “Sunday Lunch Politics” Euro-Balkan Institute, Skopje, 2012.

• European Fund for the Balkans, „Fellowship Program for Young Government Officials from the Western Balkans – Supporting Excellence and Leadership in Governance”, Presentation title: “Discourses of EU Integration: Human Rights and Anti-discrimination Politics”, Berlin, 2012.

• Center for Visual History, Faculty for Media and Communication, title of the project VAS Belgrade Berlin www, supported by Ministry of Culture, Republic of Serbia, 2010-2011.

• Faculty for Political Science, (Belgrade University), Project title: Gender Equality and Cultural Citizenship: Historical and Theoretical Foundations in Serbia (from 2011-2014) supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Serbia.

• Faculty of Media and Communications, Project title: New Media and Culture of Resistance, supported by Higher Education Support program, Budapest, 2010-2011.

• Faculty for Political Science, Belgrade University, Project title: Comprehensive Analysis of Gender Dimension in Educational Material funded by United Nations Development Program (UNDP) completed in 2009.


• Contemporary Political Philosophy, Culture/Media Studies, Gender and Queer Studies, Love Studies


 
Articles:

• “Unthinkable: Bodies-in-Common, Queerness and the Ethico-Political Fiction in the Present” co-author with Dimitrov, Slavcho, in Antropologija Br. 12 Sv.2, Beograd, 2012.

• “Revisiting Heteronormativity: A madman who believes he is heterosexual is no more mad than a heterosexual who believes he is heterosexual” co-author with Dimitrov, Slavcho.in Duhacek, Dasha ed. Kultura, rod, građanski status. Belgrade: Center for Women’s Studies, 2012.

• “Cultures of Alterity” in Belgrade Journal of Media and Communications, Center for Media and Communications, FMK, Vol 1, No 1, Belgrade, 2012.

• “Unthinkable: Ethico-political fiction in the present” in Journal Identities, Vol 8, No 1, Euro Balkan Institute, Skopje, 2011.

• “Adieu to Europe: Impossible necessity of Balkans politics” in Journal Identities, Euro Balkan Institute, Skopje, 2009.

• “Feministička politika: od politika identiteta do politika razlike” (“Feminist Politics: from Identity Politics to Politics of Difference”) in Žene i politički uticaj, Glas razlike, Beograd, 2005.

• “Smještanje ljubavi: granice subjektivnosti” (“Taking Place of Love: Borderlines of Subjectivity”), Journal Treća, Zagreb, 2005.

• “Kraj jedne ljubavne priče: pisanje kao rad farmakona” (The End of the Affair: Writing as a Labor of Pharmakon”) Journal Identities, Skopje, 2002 and Journal Delta, Ljubljana, 2004.

• "Mišljenje kao prevođenje: od jednog do drugog" (“Thinking as Translating: from one to the other”) in Žene i politika: pitanje roda u političkoj teoriji, Zenska Infoteka, Zagreb, 2002.

• “From One to the Other: Problem and/or Aporia”, Journal Lectora revista de dones i textualitat, 7, 2002.

• "Logika poseda" (“Logic of the Proper”) in Zenske studije No 14, Belgrade Women's Studies Center's Journal for Feminist theory, Belgrade, 2001.

• " I cannot love you unless I give you up" magazine for Gender and Cinema, Lithuania, 2001

• " Eyes Wide Shut: Logic of the proper" magazine Kinas, Lithuania, 2001.

• “Gde je srce Subjekta?” (“Where is the heart of the Subject?”), Journal Kruh i Ruže – Infoteka – Zagreb, 2000.

• “Govor osluškivanja – Filozofija Lus Irigaraj” (“Speech of Silence” - Luce Irigaray’s Philosophy), Magazine Kosava, Philosophical edition, Vrsac, 1995.

Chapters in Books:

• “Between Walls. Provincialisms, human rights, sexualities and Serbian public discourses on EU integration” u De-Centring Western Sexualities: Central and Eastern European Perspectives, eds. Robert Kulpa and Joanna Mizielinska, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, UK, 2011.

• “Postmoderni feminizam” (Postmodern feminism) in Uvod u rodne teorije (Introduction to Gender Theories), Mediterran Publishing, Novi Sad, 2011.

• “Kultura koja dolazi” (“Culture to Come”) in Kultura, Drugi, Žene (Culture, Others, Women), eds. Svenka Savić, Jasenka Kodrnja and Svetlana Slapšak, Institut za društvena istraživanja, Hrvatsko filozofsko društvo and Plejada, Zagreb, 2010.

• «Queer molitva: politička kultura i Evrovizija u Srbiji na početku XXI veka” (“Queer Preyer: Political culture and Eurovision Contest at the beginning of 21st century in Serbia”), co-autor, in Teorije i politike roda: rodni identiteti u književnostima i kulturama jugoistočne Evrope, ed.Tatjana Rosić, Institut za književnost i umetnost, Beograd, 2008.

• “I prefer not to: On potentiality and actuality of love” in Places of Love (in the Texts of Ten East European Women) ur. Miglena Nikolchina i Nadezhda Radulova, Altera, Sofia 2007.

• “Taking Place of Love: Borderlines of Subjectivity” in Gender and Identity: Theories from/about Southeast Europe,, co editor, European Association of Academic Programs in Gender Studies (ATHENA Network), 2007.

• “Mislim, dakle mislim drugo: Deridina poetika gostoprimstva” (“I Think Therefore I think the Other: Derrida’s Poetics of Hospitality”) in Voice and Writing, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Beograd, 2005.

• “Protiv drugofobije” (“Against Otherphobia”) in Maštarije o vidljivom, Misao, Novi Sad, 2005.

• “I prefer not to… :On potentiality and actuality of love” in Gender and Migrations, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2005

• "Thinking as Translating: From One to the Other" Women and Politics: Gender in Political Theory (“Frauen und Politik: Das Geschlecht in der Politischen Theorie", Documentation from the Seminar, Zenska Infoteka, 2002.

Books:

• Hieroglyphs of Jealousy, Research Center in Gender Studies, Euro-Balkan Institute, Skopje, 2008

• Zajednica onih koji nemaju zajednicu (Community Without Community), Faculty of Media and Communications, Belgrade, 2008

Books – Editor:

• Media/Power/&, eds. with Jovan Cekic, Faculty of Media and Communications, Belgrade, 2012.

• Gender and Identity, eds. with Katerina Kolozova and Svetlana Slapsak, Collection: SEE Theories in Gender Studies, (Skopje, Ljubljana, Belgrade) in 2006.

• Selected Papers, eds. with Dusan Djordjevic Mileusnic, Belgrade Women’s Studies Center, Belgrade, 2002.

Reference available upon request.

Slavcho Dimitrov

Time Judith Butler Gilles Deleuze Jean-Luc Nancy Wendy Brown Michel Foucault Ron Athey Sara Ahmed Emmanuel Levinas SlavchoDimitrovInt

Slavco Dimitrov (b. 1984) holds a diploma for Comparative and General Literature at the University of St. Cyril and Methodius and holds MA in Gender Studies and Philosophy, on the subject of: Genealogical Deconstruction of the Confessional Subject: Political and Ethical Implications. He is currently enrolled in M.Phil. Multidisciplinary Gender Studies Programme at Cambridge University. He is also a PhD candidate in Gender Studies and Philosophy and working on his PhD thesis. He’s been teaching several courses at the non-formal School on Gender and Politics at the Euro-Balkan Institute. At the moment he is a teaching assistant for the courses ‘Contemporary Cultural Theories’, ‘Culture and Gender’, ‘Masculinities and the Balkans’ and ‘Queer Theory’ at the postgraduate Gender Studies and Cultural studies departments at the Institute Euro-Balkan. In the last several years he has coordinated several projects concerning the human rights and non-discrimination of minority communities in Macedonia. At the moment he is director of the Coalition for Sexual and Health Rights of Marginalized Communities. He has participated at more than twenty symposia, workshops, conferences and international trainings. He has been academic coordinator of several summer schools organized by the Euro-Balkan Institute, as well as coordinator of several academic and educational projects. Slavcho is the founder and academic coordinator of the Summer School in Sexualities, Cultures and Politics. He is also one of the founders of the IPAK (Research in Cultures, Politics and Identities) Center.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


  • Queer and Gender Theory
  • Biopolitics
  • Corporeal Politics
  • Post-Foundational Political Philosophy
  • Affect Theory

  • 2013. History and Anthropology of Gay Clubbing in Belgrade, Senior Researcher HARTEFAKT. 2013. Belgrade, Serbia, to be published
  • History of the Experience of AIDS and Homosexuality in Serbia: 1984 - 2012, Senior Researcher. 2013. HARTEFAKT, Belgrade, Serbia, to be published
  • Society, Gender, Sexuality, Sexual Health and MSM in Macedonia: Community Based Research, Senior Researcher. 2012. UNAIDS and H.E.R.A, Skopje, Macedonia National Identity and Media, Work Package 4 from Ge.Mi.IC (Gender, Migration and Intercultural Interaction in SEE), Euro-Balkan Institute: 2008-2011. International Research Project granted by EC, FP7 (Main Researcher)
  • Sexualities in Transition: Discourses, Power and Sexual minorities in Transitional Macedonia, Euro-Balkan Institute: 2009. Granted by Erste Bank Foundation (Main Researcher)
  • Love Only After School Classes: Assessment of the Need and Availability of Information from the Domain of Sexual Education in Macedonia, H.E.R.A: 2010. Granted by IPPF (Assistant Researcher)
  • Media, Non-Discrimination and Marginalized Communities, HOPS-Healthy Options Project Skopje: 2009. Granted by OSCE (Assistant Researcher)

  • Contemporary Cultural Theories
  • Cultural/Sociological Theories and Gender
  • Queer Theory
  • Masculinities
  • Gender, Body and Culture
  • Politics of Love
  • Politics and Affect

 
Books: edited
  • Trajanoski Zarko & Dimitrov Slavcho ed. 2011. (Homos)Sexuality and the Education in the Republic of Macedonia. Skopje: Coalition SHRMC
  • Dmitrov, Slavcho & Lozanoska Jana. 2009. Integrating Differences – Human Rights, Social Inclusion and Social Cohesion in the Balkans on its Road to the EU: Proceedings from a regional conference. Skopje: Euro-Balkan,
 
Essays in edited volumes
  • Blagojevich, Jelisaveta and Dimitrov, Slavcho. 2012. “Revisiting Heteronormativity: A madman who believes he is heterosexual is no more mad than a heterosexual who believes he is heterosexual” in Duhacek, Dasha ed. Kultura, rod, gradanski status. Belgrade: Center for Women’s Studies
  • 2008. The Perverse Pleasure of Curating, in Milevska Suzana and Tanurovska Biljana eds.. Curatorial Translation, Skopje:Evro-Balkan Press
  • 2008. Paradoxes of Autonomy: Towards the Ethics of Precariousness, in Katerina Mojancevska ed, Through woman’s perspective Skopje: Multimedia
  • 2007. Killing for Survival, in Profeminist White Flowers-Sands 1974, a monograph for the American Contemporary Artist Sands Murray-Wassink. Stadtichen Kunsthalle, Munchen,
 
Journal papers: academic
  • Blagojevich, Jelisaveta and Dimitrov, Slavcho. 2012. “Unthinkable: Bodies-in-Common, Queerness and the Ethico-Political Fiction in the Present” in Antropologija Br. 12 Sv.2, Beograd,
  • 2012. “Sexualities in Transition” in Daskalova Krassimira, Caroline Hornstein Tomić, Karl Kaser, Filip Radunović , ed. Gendering Post-Socialist Transition: Studies of Changing Gender Perspectives. Wien: Erste Foundation
  • 2011. Identities – Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, chief editor of a thematic issue on Bodies, Affects and the Political, Vol.8/No.1/Winter 2011
  • 2010. "The Lived Revolution: Solidarity with the Body in Pain as the New Political Universal by Katerina Kolozova", Aspasia, International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History
  • 2009. Sexuality and Gender in Macedonian Art, Interview with prof. Nebojsa Vilic. Identities (magazine for politics, culture and gender), Vol. 7 / No. 1/2 / summer 2008/winter 2009
  • 2008. That Dark Object of Desire: Towards David Halperin, What Do Gay Men Want, in Identities (magazine for politics, culture and gender) Vol. 6 / No. 2/3 / Summer 2007/Winter 2008
  • 2006. Extasis- Coercion and vulnerability (analysis of Judith Butler’s Undoing gender), published in Identities (magazine for politics, culture and gender) Vol. 5 / No. 2 / Summer 2006,
  • 2006. Dogville, the City With No Citizens, the City With No People (semiotic and post- colonial analysis of Lars von Trier’s movie “Dogville”), published in the electronic magazine for Comparative Literature Mirage (www.mirage.com.mk ), 16th November, 2006

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