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Katerina Kolozova is Associate Professor of gender and culture studies at the University of Skopje (Institute for Sociological, Political, and Juridical Research) and the director of the Research Center in Gender Studies at the "Euro-Balkan" Institute in Skopje. She is also the executive editor of the English-Macedonian Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture "Identities". She has already been the course director of two HESP-supported summer schools for young academics from the region of Eastern and Central Europe: “Critical Debates in Contemporary Philosophy: Historicism and Difference versus Universalism” (Ohrid Summer University, 2002) and “Reading the Balkan Subject and its Genders” (Ohrid Summer University, 2001.) and of the RESET programme in Gender and European Studies 2004-2006.
Her recent publications include the books Anthology of Seminal Readings in Contemporary Gender Studies (ed.), Skopje: Euro-Balkan Press, 2003 (in Macedonian); Conversations with Judith Butler, Skopje: Euro-Balkan Publishing, 2001(in English and Macedonian), Death and the Greeks: on the Philosophical and Traditional Concepts of Death in Ancient Greece, Skopje: Kultura, 2000 (in Macedonian).
Rosi Braidotti is professor of women's studies in the Arts Faculty of Utrecht University and scientific director of the Netherlands Research School of Women's Studies. In the academic year 1994-95 she was a fellow in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
She has been involved extensively in European cooperation in Women's Studies for many years. She chaired the European Subject Area Evaluation of Women's Studies in 1995. This lead to ATHENA, the European Thematic Network of Women's Studies for the SOCRATES programme of the commission of the European Union.
Furthermore she founded the inter-European university exchange programme, NOISE, linking 10 universities in different European countries, which offers a yearly European Summer School from interdisciplinary and multicultural perspectives. She has published extensively in feminist philosophy, epistemology, poststructuralism and psychoanalysis. She serves as an advisor to the journals: Signs, Differences, Identities and The European Journal of Women's Studies.
Rosi Braidotti’s research and writing is about feminist philosophy and cultural studies/studies of popular culture. She is especially interested in poststructuralism and psychoanalysis, theories of sexual difference and the history of feminist ideas. Her research focuses on the work of Gilles Deleuze and Luce Irigaray. Currently she is working on the politics of feminist postmodernism from a multicultural perspective and on the history of scientific teratology.
Svetlana Slapshak is coordinator of the Anthropology of Gender Program and coordinator of the Ancient Anthropology Program at the Graduate School in Humanities, Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis, (ISH) Ljubljana.
She is also editor-in-Chief of the quarterly for women’s culture and feminism ProFemina, Beograd, since 1994. Among other, she published Anthropology of the Ancient Worlds, ČZKZ, Ljubljana, 1999; Women’s Discourse, War Discourse (ed.), Ljubljana: ISH, 1999 (in print, English) Women’s Icons of the 20th Century I, Ljubljana: UŽP, 2000; The Balkans and the Intellectuals. A Study in Historic Anthropology (for Jan Mets publisher, English). Svetlana Slapshak is one of the editors of Comparative History of Central and Eastern Literary Cultures (University of Toronto Comparative Literature Project, for Oxford UP).
Ugo Vlaisavljevic is a professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy, Sarajevo, BIH and Editor in Chief of the Journal “Dialogue”. His main theoretical interest are ethnical identities in Southeastern Europe. He philosophically thematizes the political ideas of Europe, with a special accent on the Balkans.
Among others, he published: Ontology and Its Legacy, Medjunarodni centar za mir, Sarajevo. Phenomenological Constitutiton of European Community, Medjunarodni centar za mir, Sarajevo, 1996.
Gabrielle Griffin is Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Hull, UK. Previously she was a Professor of English at Kingston University, UK, where she supervised PhD students in Women's Studies and English, taught women's writing and feminist theory, and chaired the development of Kingston University's new MA in Women's Studies. She was also Head of the School of Cultural Studies and Professor of Women's Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University. Her research interests include Women’s Studies as a discipline, women and employment, race, ethnicity and diaspora, 20th century women’s cultural production, feminist theory, and issues of bodies/sexualities. She is co-founding editor of the journal Feminist Theory (Sage 2000). Her publications include HIV/AIDS and Representation: Visibility Blue/s (Manchester UP 2000); Straight Studies Modified: Lesbian Interventions in the Academy (co-ed. with S. Andermahr; Cassell 1997); Gender Issues in Elder Abuse (co-authored with L. Aitken; Sage 1996); Feminist Activism in the 1990s (ed.; Taylor & Francis 1995); Heavenly Love? Lesbian Images in 20th Century Women’s Writing (Manchester UP 1993).
Dasa Duhacek is a professor of Philosophy and coordinator of the Women’s Studies Center in Belgrade. She teaches at the Women’s Studies Center and at the University in Belgrade. Authoress of several books and many articles in theoretical journals. Dasa Duhacek researches and writes in the area of feminist philosophy. She focuses also on the work of Hanna Arendt.
Gilles Grelet is a professor of Philosophy at Paris-VIII University. He is one of the leading figures of the theoretical position of non-philosophy, critic of philosophical institutionalization and the traditional idea of University. Gilles Grelet is the author of Déclarer la gnose: D’une guerre qui revient à la culture and L’évènement ciel.
Nina Lykke is a professor in gender and culture at the Department of Gender Studies, Linkoeping University, Sweden. Her current research is focused on feminist cultural studies, including cultural studies of technoscience and feminist science studies. From 1999 to 2002 she is director of the project “Cyborgs and Cyberspace – Between Narration and Sociotechnical Reality”, a collaborative research project, funded by the Danish Research Agency. Also, she is the scientific coordinator of a European panel of experts working on “A Cross-European, Comparative Study of Degrees, Qualifications and Professional Outlets of Women’s/Gender/Feminist Studies”, a project which is a part of the European Athena-network (Advanced Thematic Network in Women’s Studies), funded by the SOCRATES-program of the EU 1998-2001. Nina Lykke is author, co-author or editor of 81 scholarly publications (12 books and 69 articles) in several languages (primarly Danish, English and German)
Ray Brassier is a professor at Middlesex University – Research Center in Modern European Philosophy in London. His main theoretical interests are the relation between transcendental philosophy and natural science or phenomenology and materialism; recent French philosophy, especially Deleuze, Badiou and Laruelle; German Idealism; Marx and Freud; Cognitive theory and philosophy of mind: Quine, Churchland and the eliminativist materialist debate in the philosophy of mind; the Radical Enlightment from Spinoza to Darwin.
Avtar Brah is a professor of sociology at the Utrecht University. Previously she worked as a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Birkbeck College, University of London and was a visiting professor at the Center for Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, where she conducted a research on Difference and Diasporas, which was published in the book “Cartographies and Diaspora” (1996). Her latest research has been on Memory and History, Globalisation, Contemporary British Identities and Re-Thinking Hybridity (1997-1999). Her teaching is focused on gender, culture and society. Also, she is a prominent member of ATHENA.
Miglena Nikolchina is associate professor at the Department for Theory and History of Literature at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. In Bulgarian, her books include “The Myth of Prometheus and the Poetics of English Romanticism” (1988), “The Utopian Human Being” (1992), “Born from the Head: Plots and Narratives in Women’s Literary History” (2002). “Meaning and Matricide: Reading Woolf via Kristeva” (Bulgarian edition 1997) has appeared in Macedonian (2000) and is forthcoming in Russian, Hungarian and English.
Eva D. Bahovec is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Women Studies, Institute of Educational Research, and Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. Her main research and teaching interests are in the areas of womens’ studies, contemporary philosophy, sociology of education, etc.
Her publications include essays in the journals Mesothes (Austria), New Formations (Great Britain), Wo Es war (Austria), Kasarinlan (Philippines), Zarez (Croatia) etc., and in book collections, edited by Slavoj Žižek (Gestalten der Autorität, Turia und Kant, Wien 1991); Jaakkao Hintikka and Klaus Puhl (The British Tradition in 20th Century Philosophy, Kirchberg/am Wechsel 1994); Charlotte Annerl et al. (Krieg/War, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, München 1997), Chantal Mouffe and Jürgen Trinks (Feministische Perspektiven, Mesothes/Turia und Kant, Wien 2001); Christine Delphy and Sylvie Chaperon (Cinquantenaire du Deuxième sexe, Syllepse, Paris 2002).
Eva D. Bahovec is the founding editor of the Journal for Women's Studies and Feminist Theory Delta, published in Ljubljana by the Society for Cultural Studies (1995-).
Bozidar Slaphsak is a Full Professor in Roman Archaeology and Epigraphy at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts and the Department of Archaeology. He is also a supervisor to courses in Archaeological methodology and Early Medieval Archaeology and a Director of Field training courses in archaeological excavation and archaeological survey. He is also a supervisor to 5 young researchers and has directed international student summer schools and young reseach camps. He teaches Roman archaeology, Archaeological methodology, Archaeological theory, History of archaeology, Theory of archaeology, Epigraphy. He was a visiting lecturer at University of Paris 1 and delivered lectures in Trieste 1980, Lancaster 1985, Bradford 1985, Oxford 1985, Berlin FU 1992, Paris ENS 1992, Besan‡on 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998, Cambridge 1992, Dallas SMU 1994, San Antonio UTSA 1994, Binghamton SUNY 1994, Rutgers 1994, Leiden 2004. Was a Head of the Department of Archeology (1984-1988, 1996-2000), Director of AD reasearch programme (1983-1989, 1997-2000), Head of the Center for Historical Anthropology at the Ljubljana Postgraduate School in the Humanities (1996-1999). His reaserch activities include archaeological survey in the Karst region 1971-1974, co-directing of the Hvar project since 1982, directing the Rodik project since 1981, co-directing the Boiotia-Tanagra project since 2001. He is National coordinator of the PACT European network, 1990-1992 and National coordinator of the COST G2 European network, 1994-2001. He has directed surveys and excavations in Slovenia, in Croatia and in Serbia.
Prof. Slapshaks main areas of research interest are settlement and landscape archaeology (later prehistory and antiquity), ancient rural economies, history of archaeology, archaeological theory and metodological inovation in archaeology.
Kevin Robins is a Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths College – University of London and is interested in the cultural consequences of globalisation, with a particular emphasis on media and cultural identities. This research seeks to connect media and cultural studies with work in cultural geography. A substantive interest is in developments in Turkey and in the Balkans. Other interests include urban culture and cultural aspects of new technologies. Currently working on a project funded within the ESRC Transnational Communities Programme - Negotiating Spaces: Media and Cultural Practices in the Turkish Diaspora in Britain, France and Germany. At the present time, Kevin Robin's group is combined with David Morley's research group. The focus of activity is on media, identities and transnationalism.
His publications include: "Into the Image: Culture and Politics in the Field of Vision" (London: Routledge, 1996, 194pp.); "Times of the Technoculture: From the Information Society to the Virtual Life" (London: Routledge, 1999 (with F. Webster), 318pp.); "Programming for People: From Cultural Rights to Cultural Responsibilities" (Rome: Radiotelevisione Italiana, 1997, 342pp.); 'Peripheral Vision: Cultural Industries and Cultural Identities in Turkey', Environment and Planning A, vol. 29, no. 1, 1997 pp. 1937-1952 (with A. Aksoy). Reprinted in Paragraph, vol. 20, no. 1, 1997, pp. 75-99. Reprinted in Balkan Forum, vol. 5., no. 1, 1997, pp. 265-296. Reprinted in Balkan Media, 6 (2), 1997, pp. 19-30.; "Global cities: real-time... and Byzantine" City, no. 7, 1997, pp. 40-46; "Modernism and the Millennium: Trial by Space in Istanbul", City, 8, 1997, pp. 21-36 (with A. Aksoy); "The Iron Cage of the Information Society," Information, Communication and Society, vol. 1, no. 1, 1998 (with F. Webster), pp. 23-45; "New Media and Knowledge," New Media and Society, vol. 1, no. 1, 1999, pp. 18-24; "Against Virtual Community: For a Politics of Distance," Angelaki, vol. 4, no. 2, 1999, pp. 163-170; "Foreclosing on the City? The Bad Idea of Virtual Urbanism," in J. Downey and J. McGuigan (eds.), Technocities, London, Sage, 1999, pp. 34-59; "Europe,", in P. Cloke, P. Crang, M. Goodwin (eds.), Introducing Human Geographies, London, Arnold, 1999, pp. 268-276; "New Media," in J. Stokes and A. Reading (eds), The Media in Britain: Current Debates and Developments, London, Macmillan, 1999 (with J. Cornford), pp. 108-125.
Alberto Toscano holds a PhD in Philosophy from the The University of Warwick. From 2004 Alberto Toscano is a lecturer at the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmith College, University of London where he teaches 10 week course ‘Creation and Judgment’, on MA level in Contemporary Art Theory. He is fluent in French, Italian and Spanish, and author of numerous articles. His most recent publications, among other, include: ‘Autopoiesis’, ‘Body Without Organs’, ‘Complexity’, ‘Enaction’, ‘Philosophy of Biology’, ‘Varela, Francisco’ – entries for the Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental Philosophy, ed. by John Protevi (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2005); ‘Axiomatic’, ‘Capture’, ‘Chaos’, ‘Cinema (Werner Herzog)’, ‘Marx (Antonio Negri and Italian Workerism)’, ‘Phenomenology (Husserl)’, ‘Post-structuralism (Political Theory)’ – entries for The Deleuze Dictionary, ed. by Adrian Parr (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2005); ‘Preface: The Coloured Thickness of a Problem’, in Éric Alliez, The Signature of the World, Or, What is Deleuze and Guattari’s Philosophy? (London: Continuum, 2004); The Theatre of Production: Philosophy and Individuation between Kant and Deleuze (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006); ‘Dossier for the Prosecution’, review of Janet Afary and Kevin Anderson, Foucault and the Iranian Revolution, Radical Philosophy 136: 54-57; ‘Merleau-Ponty, Whitehead y la politica de la naturaleza’ (in Spanish), Eidos 4 (2006); ‘Can Violence Be Thought? Reflections on Badiou and the Possibility of (Marxist) Politics’ (bilingual, in English and Macedonian), in Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture 10; Forthcoming: ‘Vital Strategies: Maurizio Lazzarato and the Metaphysics of Contemporary Capitalism’, Theory, Culture & Society; ‘Communism and the End of Politics: The Political Philosophy of Mario Tronti’, Diacritics; ‘European Nihilism and Beyond’ in Alain Badiou, The Century (London: Polity, 2007); editor and introduction (with Matteo Mandarini) Antonio Negri, The Political Descartes (London: Verso, 2007); ‘Culture of Abstraction’, Theory, Culture & Society, special issue on Alfred North Whitehead; Review of Michael Scott Christofferson, French Intellectuals Against the Left: The Antitotalitarian Moment of the 1970s, Radical Philosophy 138; ‘1985, or, the Poverty of Post-Marxism’ (bilingual, in English and Serbo-Croatian), in Prelom 8; ‘Badiou and the Problem of Populism’ (in Spanish), Nomádas; ‘Imperialism’, ‘Neo-Marxism’, ‘Situationists’, entries for the Blackwell‘s Encyclopaedia of Sociology, 11 vols. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006).
His translations from French include Alain Badiou, ‘Metaphysics and the Critique of Metaphysics’, Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy 10 (2000): 174-190; Alain Badiou, ‘Who is Nietzsche?’, Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy 11 (2001): 1-11; Éric Alliez, ‘Nietzsche, or, The Parting of the Waters’, Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy 11 (2001): 32-25; Alain Badiou, ‘One Divides Into Two’, Culture Machine: An Electronic Journal, Issue 4 (Spring 2002); Michel Foucault, ‘First Preface to Histoire de la Folie (1961)’, Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy 13 (2002); Alain Badiou, ‘Seven Variations on the Century’, Parallax, 9:2 (2003): 72-80; Alain Badiou, ‘Some Replies to a Demanding Friend’, in P. Hallward (ed.), Think Again: Alain Badiou and the Future of Philosophy (London: Continuum, 2004); Alain Badiou, Handbook of Inaesthetics (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004); (with Ray Brassier) Alain Badiou, Theoretical Writings (London: Continuum, 2004); (with Eliot Albert) Éric Alliez, The Signature of the World, Or, What is Deleuze and Guattari’s Philosophy? (London: Continuum, 2004); (with Matteo Mandarini) Antonio Negri, The Political Descartes (London: Verso, 2006) (from Italian); (with Natalie Doyle) Alain Badiou, ‘The Subject Supposed to Be a Christian: On Paul Ricoeur’s Memory, History, Forgetting’, Bible and Critical Theory 2.3 (2006).
Since 2004, he is the editor of Historical Materialism and was editor of Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy from 1999 to 2002.
Mary Ellen Heian Schmider holds a PhD in American Studies from the University of Minnesota. She teaches literature and English at university level since year 1961 in USA, Iceland, Japan, Mongolia, Austria, Finland, China, Germany, Macedonia. Her publications include: “Jane Addams,” Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Twentieth Century, 1914-2000. John Powell, ed. Greenwood Press, 2004; “Jane Addams,” “Hull House,” and “Ellen Gates Starr,” Historical Dictionary of the Progressive Era, John D. Buenker, ed. Greenwood Press, Inc., 1988.; Review, Gender, Ideology, and Action: Historical Perspectives on Women's Public Lives, Janet Sharistanian, ed. Greenwood Press, 1986, in Women Historians of the Midwest Newsletter, Spring 1987; Review, Communities of Women: An Idea in Fiction, Nina Auerbach. Harvard University Press, 1978, in Women Historians of the Midwest Newsletter, Spring 1987; “John Lovejoy Elliott,” Biographical Dictionary of Social Welfare, Walter I. Trattner, ed. Greenwood Press, Inc., 1985; “The Church, the Search, and Higher Education,” ENTREE, Vol. 8, Issue 6, November 1978, pp. 7-9.
Suzana Milevska is a visual culture theorist and curator from Skopje. She is a Lecturer in Visual Culture at the Research Centre in Gender Studies – “Euro-Balkan” Institute in Skopje. In 2005 she received her PhD at the Visual Culture Department at Goldsmiths College in London. She is a recipient of the Fulbright Visiting Scholar Grant (2004), P. Getty Curatorial Research Fellowship (2001) and ArtsLink Grant (1999). Since 1992 she curated over 70 art projects in Skopje, Istanbul, Stockholm, Berlin, Bonn, Stuttgart, Leipzig, etc, and she was one of the curators of the International Biennale of Contemporary Art 2005 – National Gallery in Prague and the Cosmopolis Balkan Biennial in Thessalonica (2004). She is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Contemporary Art Museum – Kumamoto (2004-2006), a member of AICA (from 1995) and of IKT (from 2005). She directed the HESP/OSI Skopje Summer School Programmes “The Image of the Other” (1999) and “The Face of the Other” (2000). Her publications include “From a Bat's Point of View” in Eduardo Kac, edited by Peter Tomaz Dobrila and Aleksandra Kostić (Maribor, 2000), 47-58; Capital and Gender, edited by Suzana Milevska (Skopje, 2001); “The Readymade and the Question of Fabrication of Objects and Subjects” in Primary Documents - A Sourcebook for Eastern and Central European Art since the 1950s (New York, 2002), 182-191; “The portrait of an artist as a young ‘strategic essentialist’” in Tanja Ostojić - Strategies of Success / Curators Series 2001-2003, (Belgrade, 2004), 33-43; “Curatorial Labyrinths in Macedonia”, Men in Black – Handbook of Curatorial Practice, Ed. Christoph Tannert/Ute Tischchler, Kűnstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin, 2004). “Hesitations, or About Political and Cultural Territories” in Cultural Territories, edited by Barbara Steiner, Julia Schäfer and Ilina Koralova (Köln, 2005), 31-43; “Is Balkan Art History Global” in Is Art History Global, edited by James Elkins, (New York, 2006).
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