Lecturers - Center for Women's Studies

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C, Č, Ć
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K, L, LJ
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V, Z, Ž

branislava-andjelkovic Branislava Anđelković, PhD, History and Theory of Art (Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK). Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade. One of the founders of the Center for Contemporary Art in Belgrade and a member of International Association of Art Critics (AICA - Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art). Research areas: visual art, contemporary art, feminist theory. Key projects: Introduction to Feminist Visual Theories (Belgrade, 2002).

branka-arsic Branka Arsić, PhD, Philosophy (University of Belgrade). Lecturer at State University of New York (SUNY), Albany. She was the editor of the journal Ženske studije (Women’s Studies) and she was a lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade and Central European University (CEU), Budapest. Research areas: feminist theory, philosophy, psychoanalysis, linguistics, visual arts, American literature and 19th century philosophy. Key publications: Women, images, imaginaries (ed., Belgrade, 2000); On Leaving: A Reading in Emerson (New York, 2010).

stasa-babic Staša Babić, PhD, Archaeology (University of Belgrade). Associate Professor of archaeology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. She was the vice-president of the Board of Directors of the Alternative Academic Educational Network (AAEN) and one of the founders of the Center for Cultural Studies in Belgrade. Research areas: theoretical archaeology, archaeology of identity, classical Greece and the Iron Age in the Balkans and Europe. Key publications: The Archaeology of Identity, Approaches to gender, age, status, ethnicity and religion (London and New York, 2005); Greek and Others – Antique Perception and Perception of Antique (Belgrade, 2008).

jana-bacevic Jana Baćević, PhD, Social Anthropology (University of Belgrade). Associate Professor at the Faculty of Media and Commmunication, Singidunum University, expert in the Serbian governtment’s task force for the development of multi-ethnic higher education programs (2010-2011), associate of the Center for Education Policy (2008-2010) and researcher on a number of international projects dealing with multi-ethnic and postconflict societies. Research areas: education policy, public policy, social role of university.

zorica becanovic nikolic Zorica Bečanović Nikolić, PhD, Comparative Literature and Literary Theory (University of Belgrade). Associate Professor at the Department of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade. Author of numerous essays and studies within the areas of literary theory and interpretations of Shakespeare. Research areas: hermeneutics, literary theory, research of Shakespeare and renaissance literature, Serbian literature in the international context. Translates from English and French. Key publications: Hermeneutics and Poetics (Belgrade, 1988) and Shakespeare through the looking glass (Belgrade, 2007).

jelisaveta-blagojevic Jelisaveta Blagojević, PhD, Gender Studies (University of Novi Sad). Associate Professor and Dean for Academic Affairs at the Faculty of Media and Communication, Singidunum University, Belgrade. Former Coordinator of the Belgrade Women,s Studies Center. Editor of the Gender and Culture book series of the Women’s Studies Center in Belgrade and editor of Genero, a journal of feminist theory (2005-2008). and of the Research areas: philosophy, media studies, gender studies, queer studies. Key publications: Gender and Identities (Skopje/Ljubljana/Belgrade, 2006). Hieroglyphs of Jealousy (Skopje, 2008); Community of Those Without Community (Belgrade, 2008); "Culture to Come" in Culture, Others, Women (Beograd, 2010); "Postmodern Feminism" (coaut.), in Introduction to Gender Theories (Novi Sad, 2011).

marina-blagojevic Marina Blagojević, PhD, Sociology (University of Belgrade). Scientific counselor at the Institute for Criminological and Sociological Research, Belgrade. Researcher at Zentrum für Interdisciplinäre Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Hildesheim, Germany. Taught at the Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade and at CEU, Budapest. One of the founders of Women’s Party ŽEST (1991/92). Founder and member of the first Board of the Women’s Studies Center in Belgrade. Research areas: parenthood and society, women and education, contemporary sociology of gender. Key publications: Towards Visible Women’s History – Women’s Movement in Belgrade in the 1990s (Belgrade, 1998); Mapping Misoginy in Serbia: Discourses and Practices (Belgrade, 2000); Women Out of the Circle - Profession and Family (Belgrade, 1991), Gender and Knowledge at Balkan Semiperiphery (Vienna, 2006).

Marina Bogdanović, BA, Psychology (University of Belgrade). Psychotherapist at the Center for Marriage and Family, Belgrade. Instructor on projects dealing with non-violent conflict resolution in the Bridge group. Research areas: peace studies, non-violent conflict resolution, psychology of gender.

Ljiljana Bogoeva Sedlar, PhD, Literature (Yale University, USA). Professor at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, University of Arts in Belgrade. Research areas: contemporary Anglo-American drama, Shakespeare and visual arts. Key publications: On Changes – cultural essays 1992-2002 (Belgrade, 2003).

Aleksandar Bošković, PhD, Social Anthropology (University of St Andrews, Scotland). Director of the Center for Political Studies and Public Opinion Research, researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences and Anthropology Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. He was a lecturer at the Universities in Great Britain, Slovenia, Brazil, South Africa; Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Belgrade Circle journal. Research areas: gender and culture studies, contemporary sociological theories, anthropology of gender, methodology of social sciences. Key publications: Etnhology of Everday Life (Belgrade, 2005); Myth, Politics, Ideology (Beograd, 2006); Short Introduction to Antropology (Belgrade/Zagreb, 2010).

Neda Božinović (1917-2001), BA, Law (University of Belgrade). She was active in the communist students’ and women’s movement prior to World War II and a partizan in the People’s Liberation War; served as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Yugoslavia. Active in women’s movement of the 1990s and in the Women in Black anti-war group. Founder and member of the First Board of the Belgrade Women’s Studies Center. Research areas: status of women in Serbia in the 19th & 20th century.

Biljana Branković, BA, Psychology (University of Belgrade). She was a Co-ordinator of the psychology program at the Petnica Research Center. An independent expert in the field og gender equality and domestic violence. Research areas: gender equality, alternative psychiatry, cognitive language theory, methodology of education. The most recent publication: What Works? – A potential guide to some good practice examples, CARE International on Combating Trafficking in Human Beings in North-West Balkan (Belgrade, 2009).

Čarna Brković, PhD, Social Anthropology (University of Manchester, UK). She participated in socio-anthropological research projects Transforming Borders: A Comparative Anthropology Of Post-Yugoslav ‘Home’ (University of Manchester) and New and Ambiguous Nation-building processes in Southeastern Europe, (Freie Universität Berlin, Karl Franzens Universität Graz). Research area: social anthropology.

Ivanka Buzov, MSc, Sociology (University of Zagreb), Assistant at the Sociology Department, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Split. Was a consultant in NGO projects dealing with problems of refugees, ecology and addiction diseases. Research areas: ecofeminism, social ecology, sociology of education, and sociology of gender. She is active in various civic organizations.

Vesna Cipruš, MSc, Sustainable Development (Imperial College London, UK). Consultant with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Regional Centre in Bratislava. Research areas: women and economy, gender aspects of sustainable development, rural social capital, social organisations. Recent publication: Gender and microfinance in South East Europe – a critical view (Confronting Microfinance, USA, 2011).

Jovan Čekić, PhD, Philosophy (University of Belgrade). Professor at the Faculty of Media and Communication, Singidunum University. He was the Editor of New Moment magazine and of the Art book series (Geopoetika publishing house). One of the founders of the "143" group for conceptual art. Art director of BELEF (2003/04). Research areas: philosophy and theory of art, role of electronic media and computer technology in visual arts. Key publications: Cutting the Chaos (Belgrade, 1998).

Vanja Čelebičić Arielli, MA, Visual Anthropology (University of Manchester, UK). PhD candidate at the University of Manchester. Research areas: comparative and social anthropology. Author of several documentary anthropological films: Border Times (2007), Roma Snapshots: A Day in Sarajevo (2007).

Ivan Čolović, PhD, Ethnology and Anthropology (University of Belgrade). He works at the Institute of Ethnography, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Art, Belgrade. Research interests: urban ethno-sociology, ethno-linguistics and political anthropology. Founder and editor of the 20th Century Library which for forty years has been publishing numerous important ethnological and anthropological titles. He was awarded the French medal of the Order of the Legion of Honour. Key publications: Bordel of A Worrier (Belgrade, 1993); Wild Literature: Etnholinguistic Study on Para-Literature (Belgrade, 2000); Politics of Symbols – Essays on Political Antropology (Belgrade, 2000).

Ileana Čura, PhD, English Language and Literature (University of Exeter, UK). She is a retired professor at the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Philology, Belgrade. Literary critic and translator. Research areas: contemporary novel, 20th century Anglo-Saxon literature, literary criticism.

Nadežda Ćetković, BA, Philosophy (University of Belgrade). Active in women’s movement and a researcher at the Center for Social Research in Belgrade. Co-Founder and Coordinator of Belgrade Women’s Lobby. Research areas: women in politics, women’s political movements, women’s oral history, violence against women. Key publication: Danubian Women of German Origin I, II (Belgrade, 2000).

Hana Ćopić, MA, German Language and Literature (University of Belgrade). Project coordinator (gender) at Heinrich Böll Foundation in Belgrade. Translates political theory, essays and fiction. Fields of interest: feminist linguistics, holocaust studies (women’s role and perspective), feminist struggle and sustainable development.

Branislav Dimitrijević, MPhil, History and Theory of Art (University of Kent, UK). One of the founders of the Center for Contemporary Art in Belgrade. Writes on contemporary art and politics in journals and catalogues, curates exhibitions and edits catalogues. Research area: contemporary art.

Ljiljana Dobrosavljević Grujić, PhD, Physics, (Facultee des Sciences, Universite Paris-Sud, France). Full Professor at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Belgrade and Scientific Adviser at the Institute of Physics, Zemun. Research interests: theoretical physics, history of physics, women’s’ trade union rights.

Biljana Dojčinović, PhD, Literature (University of Belgrade). Associate Professor at the Department of Comparative Literature and Theory of Literature, Faculty of Philology, the University of Belgrade. She was one of the founders and coordinators of Women’s Studies Center in Belgrade, as well as the founder of INDOC Center of the Association for Women’s Initiative. Editor-in-chief of Genero, a journal in feminist theory (2002–2008). Member of the Management Committee of the COST Action IS 0901, Women Writers in History: Toward a New Understanding of European Literary Culture since 2009. Research areas: literary theory and history, feminist literary criticism. Key publications: Gynocriticism: Gender and the Women’s Writing (1993); Selected Bibliography in Feminist Theory and Women’s Studies 1974-1996 (Belgrade, 1997); Cities, Rooms, Portraits (Belgrade, 2006),; GendeRingS: Gendered Readings in Serbian Women’s Writing (CD, Belgrade, 2006), Cartographer of the Modern World (Belgrade, 2007), Encounters in the Dark (Belgrade, 2011).

Mirjana Dokmanović, PhD, Gender Studies, University of Novi Sad. Associate Professor at the Faculty of European Legal and Political Studies, Singidunum University, Novi Sad, and Gender Studies, University of Novi Sad. Research interest: international law, human rights, women’s rights, economic integrations and globalization, antidiscriminatory legislation, gender and development. Key publications: New World Order: Impact of Globalisation on Economic and Social Rights of Women (Subotica, 2002), Gender Equity and Public Policy (Subotica, 2002); Transiton, Privatization and Women (ed., Subotica, 2002).

Sonja Drljević, BA, Economics and Construction Engineering (University of Belgrade). One of the founders of the feminist group Žena i društvo (Woman and Society, 1979-97). Organizer and co-founder of the following organizations: SOS Hotline for Women and Children, Victims of Violence, Women’s Lobby, Women’s Parliament, founder and co-ordinator of the Center for Women’s Studies, Research and Communication (1992-1999), founder of Association for Women’s Initiative AŽIN, project co-ordinator in Women’s Movement – Women’s Network and of the pre-election campaign 2000 Come Out, Be Active, co-ordinator of the campaign for promotion of women’s rights in the work force, For Us – For Others – promotion of women’s co-ops, project co-ordinator for the economic empowerment of women, member of the Serbian Government’s Council for Gender Equality. Research areas: feminism, anarchism, women’s activism, dissemination of women’s studies.

Rada Drezgić, PhD, Anthropology (University of Pittsburg, USA). Research Associate at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory in Belgrade and Assistant Professor of sociology of culture at the Music Department, University of Arts in Belgrade. Research interests: anthropology of gender, gender, sexuality and reproduction; nation and nationalism. Recent publication: White Plague among the Serbs: On Nation, Gender and Reproduction at the Turn of the Century (Belgrade, 2010).

Daša Duhaček, PhD in Political Philosophy (Rutgers University, USA). Coordinator of the MA program in Gender Studies and Director of the Center for Gender and Politics, at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade. Founder and coordinator of the Belgrade Women’s Studies Center. Director of the Course in Feminist Criticism at Inter-University Center IUC - Dubrovnik. She taught at the Rutgers University, USA, Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary, and others. Research areas: feminist theory, political philosophy. Key publications: "Women’sTime in Former Yugoslavia" (in Gender Politics and Post- Communism, New York, 1993); "Belgrade Women’s Studies Centre" in European Journal of Women’s Studies, SAGE, (London, 1998); The Captives of Evil: The Legacy of Hannah Arendt (co-ed., Belgrade, 2002); "The Making of Political Reponsibility: The Case of Serbia" (in Women and Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe (Burlington, 2006); The Burden of Our Times (Belgrade, 2010); "Questioning Authority in the Singular" in European Journal of Women’s Studies, SAGE (London, 2011); "Clasic Liberal Feminism" and "Gender and Identity", in Introduction to Gender Theories (Novi Sad, 2011).

Nađa Duhaček, MPhil, Women’s and Gender Studies (Universidad de Granada, Espana). Worked at Office for Europen Integration of Government of Serbia (2008) and the Youth Initiative for Human Rights (2006-2007). Activist of the Women in Black. Member of the Gender and Education Association – GEA in the UK. Research interests: gender and education, feminist educational policies, ethnographic studies of elementary schools, popular culture as pedagogy. Key publication; "Gender and Education" (co-aut.), in Introduction to Gender Theories (Novi Sad, 2011).

Jelena Đorđević, PhD, Political Studies (University of Belgrade). Full professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences, Belgrade. Member of the Editorial Board of the Kultura journal. Research interests: political anthropology, cultural studies, culture and religion. Key publications: Political Rituals and Feasts (Beograd, 1997); Antropology of Religion (ed., Beograd, 2001); Introduction to Cultural Studies (Beograd, 2008); Post-Culture (Beograd, 2009).

Tamara Đorđević, PhD in Art Theory (University of Arts in Belgrade). Engaged on the project at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad (2012-2013). Fields of interests: (bio)political theory, Marxism, anti-capitalism, collective readings and writings.

Jelena Đorđević, BA, Migration Studies (University of Sussex, UK). Feminist and activist. Co-founder of the Anti- Trafficking Center (Belgrade) and member of Consultative Council of International Fund Astraea (New York). Key publication: What is the use of revolution if I can not dance? (coaut., Belgrade, 2010).

Dubravka Đurić, PhD, American modern and postmodern poetry (University of Novi Sad). She is Assistant Professor at the Faculty for Media and Communication, Singidunum University. Research areas: gender theory, popular culture, globalisation, fashion, literary theory, poetry. Key publications: Language, Poetry, Post-modernism (Belgrade, 2002); Speech of the Other (Belgrade, 2006); Poetry, Theory, Gender (Belgrade, 2009); Politics of Poetry (Belgrade, 2010); Discourses of Popular Culture (Belgrade, 2011).

Rajko Đurić, PhD, Sociology (University of Belgrade). Roma author, academic and politician. President of the International Romani Union and General Secretary of the International PEN Center. Recent publication: History of Roma Literature (Vršac, 2010).

Tatjana Đurić Kuzmanović, PhD, Economics (University of Belgrade), Full professor at the Higher School of Professional Business Studies, Novi Sad. Research areas: gender and development economics, gender budgeting, female entrepreneurship and family business. Key publication: Gender and Developement in Serbia: From Socialism to Transition (Novi Sad, 2002).

Ildiko Erdei,PhD, Anthropology (University of Belgrade). Assistant Professor at the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology at the University of Belgrade. Research areas: new political rituals, media and rituals, politics and power, culture and economy. Key publication: Anthropology of Consumption: concepts and theories at the turn of 20th century (Belgrade, 2008).

Vladislava Felbabov, PhD, English and American Literature (University of Novi Sad). Full Professor of English and American Literature at the Department of Philology, State University of Novi Pazar. Translates Serbian, especially dramatic literature into English. Research areas: English and American literature, 19th and 20th century American novel, American women’s writing, British history and culture, American history and culture, Canadian literature in English.

Marijana Filipović, MA, Sociology (CEU, Poland). Research interests: media studies, sociology of religion, gender studies..

Jelena Gledić, MA, Cultural Studies (University of Belgrade). Teaching Assistant at the Department of Oriental Studies – Chinese Language, Literature and Culture, Philological Faculty, University of Belgrade. Research areas: theories of culture, theories of communication, film and media, linguistics, philosophy.

Drinka Gojković, BA, Literature (University of Belgrade). Coordinator and founder of the Documentation Center "Wars 1991-1999". Writes essays and translates from English and German. Editor of Mostovi journal. Research interests: contemporary political culture, public sphere and responsibility. Key publication: Birth of Nationalisms From the Spirit of Democracy - In Road to War in Serbia (CEU, Budapest, 2000).

Zagorka Golubović, PhD, Sociology and Anthropology (University of Belgrade). In 1975, as a member of the Belgrade Praxis group, she was expelled from the University of Belgrade, together with seven other professors of the Faculty of Philosophy. She worked at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory. She regained her status and taught sociology and anthropology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, and many other institutions of higher education, both in Serbia and abroad. Although retired since 2001, she is still very active publically. She edited numerous books, the most significant being: Man and His World in Antropological Perspective (Belgrade, 1973), Family as Community – An Alternative to Patriarchal View (Belgrade, 1981), Crisis of Identity in Modern Yugoslav Society (Belgrade, 1988), Anthropological Portraits (Belgrade, 1991), Me and Others – Anthropological Study of Individual and Colective Identity (Belgrade, 1999), Challenges of Democrasy in Contemporary World (Belgrade, 2003), Where Does Post- October Serbia Go, 2000-2005 (Belgrade, 2006).

Vladislava Gordić Petković, PhD, Literature (University of Novi Sad). Full Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Novi Sad. She published more than a hundred academic papers and articles, and books: The Syntax of Silence (Belgrade, 1995), Hemingway (Belgrade, 2000), Correspondence: The Currents and Characters of Postmodern Fiction (Belgrade, 2000), On the Female Continent (Belgrade, 2007) and Mysticism and Mechanisms (Belgrade, 2010), as well as the books of literary criticism and short essays: Virtual Literature (Belgrade, 2004), Virtual Literature 2: Literature, Technology, Ideology (Belgrade, 2007), The Literature and the Quotidian (Belgrade, 2007) and Formatting (Belgrade, 2009).

Vera Gudac Dodić, PhD, Political Sciences (University of Belgrade). Research Associate at the Institute for Contemporary Serbian History, Belgrade. Research interests: contemporary history of Yugoslavia 1945, status of women in real socialism.

Tanja Ignjatović, MPhil, Gender Studies (University of Belgrade). She co-ordinates a Development Program in the Field of Domestic Violence at the Autonomous Women’s Center, dedicated to the development of knowledge, education and analyses of practical policy. She is the author of a larger number of handbooks for practitioners and scholarly articles in the field of violence against women. Key publication: Violence Against Women in Intimate Partnerships (Belgrade, 2011).

Jelka Kljajić Imširović (1947-2006), (1947-2006) MPhil, Sociology (University of Belgrade). As one of the leaders of the 1968 student movement she was a victim of a show trial and convicted as a member of a "Trotskyite group". Later she worked at the Sociology Department of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. She translated scholarly works from the field of social sciences and philosophy. Research areas: political theory, contemporary social theories.

Trivo Inđić, MPhil, Sociology of Politics and Law (University of Belgrade). As a member of the group Praxis, he was expelled from the Faculty of Philosophy in 1975, along with seven other professors. He worked as a researcher at the Institute for International Politics and Economy and the Institute for European Studies in Belgrade. Research areas: sociology of culture, anarcho-feminism. He published a number of books: Culture and Cultural Policies (Beograd, 1965), Market For Visual Arts (Belgrade, 1983), Rise of Masses (Belgrade, 1985), Balkan – Posibilities of Regional Security System (Belgrade, 1999), and edited the journals: Vidici, Gledišta, Sociološki pregled, Kultura.

Marija Ivanić, BA, Comparative Literature (University of Belgrade). Writer and publicist. Research areas: gender and genre in literature. The most recent publication: Belgrade Fairies (Belgrade, 2009).

Zorica Ivanović, PhD, Social Anthropology and Ethnology (University of Belgrade). Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology and Ethnology. Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade. At present, a member of the Belgrade Women’s Studies Board. Research areas: anthropology of kinshišp, body and identity, ethnography of Serbia. Key publications: Preface: Anthropology of Women and Gender Relations in New Anthropological Discourse, in: Žarana Papić and Lydia Sklevicky (eds.), Antropology of Women, 2nd edition (Belgrade, 2003), Antropology of Body (ed., Belgrade, 2010).

Isidora Jarić, MPhil, Gender and Culture (University of Belgrade). Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, Sociology Department. Research interest: sociology, sociology of education, gender studies, sociology of everyday life.

Ljiljana Jelinek, PhD, Sociology (University of Belgrade). Retired professor at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Belgrade. Research interests: biomedical ethics, sociological aspects of keeping animals, alternative medicine.

Deana Jovanović, PhD student, Social Anthropology (University of Manchester, UK). Research Trainee at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory in Belgrade. Participant in an international project on practical issues related to post-conflict societies, politics of memory, transitional justice and gender.

Nataša Kandić, BA, Sociology (University of Belgrade). Founder and Executive Director of the Humanitarian Law Center. Research areas: humanitarian law, war crimes. She is a recipient of numerous international, regional and national humans rights awards, including the Martin Ennals Award (2000), a prestigious award for human rights advocates, and the Homo homini award (2004). Since 2007 she has been a member of the International Consultative Council of the International Journal of Transitional Justice (Oxford University Journals). Since 2008 she has been a member of the Consultative Council of the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies of the University of Michigan.

Marija Kolin, PhD, Sociology (University of Belgrade). Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology, Institute of Social Sciences, Belgrade. She has published several articles and books dedicated to the status of women and social policy in Serbia and the region. Research areas: women’s participation at labor market, employment, social economy, European integration process. Key publication: Women Participating in Economy and Politics in Serbia in the Context of Euro-integration processes (co-author, Belgrade, 2010).

Tinde Kovač Cerović, PhD, Psychology (University of Belgrade). Advisor at REF, international organization for Roma education (2005-2007). State secretary at the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Serbia since 2008. Research areas: educational reform, Roma education, psychology of education. Key publications: Psychology in Teaching (Belgrade, 1984); Quality Education For All: Challanges of Educational Reform in Serbia (co-author, Belgrade, 2004); Conflicts in Serbia (co-author, Belgrade, 2006).

Vesna Krmpotić, BA, Psychology & English Language (University of Zagreb). Published a number of collections of poetry and edited a number of poetry anthologies. Published the first translation of Kama Sutra (Belgrade, 1967) and the first anthology of Indian literature in our country under the title Thousand Lotuses (Belgrade, 1971).

Ivana Kronja, PhD, Film Theory (University of Arts in Belgrade). Professor at the Higher School of Fine and Applied Arts in Belgrade. Member of a number of national and international art and film critics juries (FAF Belgrade, Cinema City Novi Sad, Motovun FF Croatia, INFANT Novi Sad, 25FPS Zagreb, Croatia). Key publication: Deadly Shine: Mass Psychology and Aestetics of Turbo-folk (Belgrade, 2001).

Vera Kurtić, BA, Sociology (University of Niš). Activist in numerous women’s and Roma organizations in Serbia, such as SOS Hotline for women and children victims of violence and the Center for Non-violent Conflict Resolution. One of the founders and co-ordinator of the group Ženski prostor/ Women’s Space, in Niš.

Vera Litričin, vera-litricin MD. med. (University of Belgrade). Retired ophthalmologist, feminist and peace activist. Took part in preparing, founding and the work of several autonomous women’s groups: SOS Hotline for women and children victims of domestic violence (1990), Women in Black (1991) and SOS Hotline and Center for Girls (1994). She was a member of a team working on education of new volunteers for women’s groups dealing with violence against women, girls and children. From 2005 consultant of ASTRA (Anti Trafficking Action).

Nada Ler Sofronić, PhD, Political Sciences (University of Belgrade). Women’s movement activist. Co-organizer of the First International Feminist Conference in Yugoslavia in 1978 "Comrade/ss". Works on programs at the Open Society Insitute of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Taught social psychology at the University of Sarajevo. Research areas: social psychology, women’s studies, culture and gender studies. Key publications: Neofeminism and Socialist Alternative (Belgrade, 1986); Because We Are Women – Socioeconomic Status of Women in BiH (Sarajevo, 2002); Violence Against Women in Media Mirror (Sarajevo, 2008).

Katarina Lončarević, Phd, Political Science (University of Belgrade). Philosopher, feminist, and activist. Research areas: feminist philosophy, epistemology, history of feminism and feminist movements, history of women in philosophy, feminist and lgbt activism, relationship between feminism and liberalism. She has published more than twenty articles in scientific journals and edited volumes, in BSC and English. She wrote with Jelena Višnjić two monographs: Solidarity and Feminist Politics (2010) and The Politics of Media Representation of LGBTTIQ Population: The Case of Serbia (2011), and with Adriana Zaharijević she published the book March 8th: The History of a 'Holiday' (2011). Since 2010, she is deputy editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Genero.

Jasmina Lukić, PhD, Literature (University of Belgrade). Associate Professor and Head of Department of Gender Studies at CEU, Budapest and the CEU coordinator for Erasmus Mundus MA Program GEMMA. She was a co-founder of the Women’s Studies Center in Belgrade and the Women’s Studies Center in Zagreb, as well as a co-founder and the editor-in-chief of the journal for feminist theory Ženske studije (Beograd 1996-1999), and the associate editor of The European Journal of Women’s Studies (1999-2009). Research interests: literary and cultural studies, South-Slavic literatures. Key publications: collection of critical studies The Other Face (Beograd 1984), a monograph Metafiction: Reading the Genre (Beograd 2001), and Women and Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe (ed., 2006).

Marija Lukić, MPhil, Law (University of Niš). Researcher at the Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research in Belgrade. Human rights advisor at the OSCE Mission to Serbia (2006-2008) and manager of the Fund for Free Legal Aid, UNDP, Serbia (2003-2006), co-cordinator of the program Strategies and policies of gender equality at Glas razlike (1998/2000), co-cordinator of the project "Domestic Violence – Response of State Institutions", at the Group for Women’s Human Rights of the European Movement in Serbia (1995). Key publications: Women With Children in The Economic Market (Belgrade, 2002); Maternity or Parentship – A Comparative Study of Laws and Practices in EU (Belgrade, 2002); Family Violence: new incrimination (Belgrade, 2003).

Miroslava Malešević, PhD, Ethnology (University of Belgrade). Associate at the Ethnographic institute SASA, Belgrade. Research interests: anthropology of women, collective identities and nationalism. Key publications: Ritualisation of women’s social development (Belgrade, 1986), Female (Belgrade, 2007), Are there nations on planet Reebok - discussions about politics of identity (Belgrade, 2011).

Dušan Maljković, BA, Philosophy (University of Belgrade). Publicist and translator. Editor of homoerotic edition Kontrabunt (RENDE), international award-winning broadcast Gayming on Radio Belgrade and web-site Gay-Serbia.com. Associate of the web-site b92.net and Third Programme of Radio Belgrade. Editor at the publishing house Karpos. Member of the advisory board of magazin Novi plamen, Queer Zagreb and Gay Straight Alliance. President of the Center for Queer Studies and editor of journal for queer theory QT.

Olga Manojlović Pintar, PhD, History (University of Belgrade). Researcher at the Institute for Contemporary Serbian History. Research areas: 20th century history, collective memory, historical consciousness. Key publications: History and Remembernace (ed., Belgrade, 2006); "History and Ethics", u Tokovi istorije (Belgrade, 2006); "Redefining Memories", in Helsinški odbor 115/116 (Belgrade, 2008).

Ivan Milenković, MPhil, Gender Studies (University of Belgrade). Editor of the science and politics editorial staff Radio Belgrade Third Programme. Translates from French and Italian. External associate of the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory. Editor of the philosophical book series of the publishing house Fedon (2007-2009). Research areas: contemporary French and political philosophy. Key publication: Philosophical Frangments (Belgrade, 2011).

Anđelka Milić, PhD, Sociology (University of Belgrade). Retired full professor at the Sociology Department, Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. Introduced and taught the first course of "Women and Society", at the Faculty of Philosophy. Research interests: women and nationalism, women and profession, sociology of family. Key publications: Sociology and Family: Criticisms and Challenges (Belgrade, 2001); Social Transformations and Strategy of Different Social Groups: Everyday Serbia at the Dawn of the Third Millenium (ed., Belgrade, 2004).

Snježana Milivojević, PhD, Sociology (University of Montenegro). Full professor at the Department of Journalism and Communication, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade and Head of the Center for Media Research at the Faculty of Political Sciences, Belgrade. Author of numerous national and international publications, academic research and consultacy projects. Research interests: public opinion, critical media studies, media and democracy, media policy, new media, media and gender, media and memory. Key publications: Media Monitoring Manual (London/ Belgrade, 2003); Women and Mediai (ed., Genero, special edition, Belgrade, 2004); Children in the Media Mirror (UNICEF, 2010).

Olivera Milosavljević, PhD, History (University of Belgrade). Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. Visiting lecturer at universities in Munich, Würzburg, Margburg (Germany) and Salzburg (Austria). Member of the project Dialogue Between Serbian and Croatian Historians in Pecs, Hungary. Research interests: contemporary history, social theories. Key publications: In National Tradition or Stereotypes of Serbian Intelectuals in XX Century on "us" and "others" (Belgrade, 2002); Contemporaries of Fasism 1: Perception of Fasism in Belgrade:1933-1941 (Belgrade, 2010); Contemporaries of Fasism 2: Yugoslavia: 1933-1941 (Belgrade, 2010).

Sanja Milutinović Bojanić, PhD, Centre for Ethics, Law and Applied Philosophy in Belgrade; and Acting, Media and Culture Studies, University of Rijeka. PhD obtained at Université Paris 8 (Le Centre d’études féminines et d’études de genre) within PhD programme on Practices and theories of senses and social sciences. Lectured at Université Paris 8, Aberdeen, Wiena, Saint Mary's University College (London). Fileds of interests: queer and gender studies, philosophy of sexuality, theories of translation. Member of Association of Literary Translators of Serbia. Translator from French and English.

Zoran Milutinović, PhD, Comparative Literature (University of Belgrade). Teaches South-Slavic literature and culture at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Research interests: theory of literature and drama, cultural studies. Key publications: Negative and Positive Po-etics (Belgrade, 1992); Encounter on Another Place (Belgrade, 2006); What is the ‘West’? Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the ‘West’ in Early 20th-Century Serbian Culture (Belgrade, 2010); Getting Over Europe. The Construction of Europe in Serbian Culture (Belgrade, 2011).

Ana Miljanić, MA, Theatre (University of Arts, Belgrade). Director and playwright in the Center for Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade. Currently lives works in New York, working as Assistant Professor at the Columbia University. Research interests: theatre, public sphere and political responsibility. Key publication: anthology Community of Memories (co-ed., with O. Savić, 2006).

Aljoša Mimica (1948-2011), PhD, Sociology (University of Belgrade). He was Professor at the Sociology Department, Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade. Research interests: histories of social theories. Key publications: An Essay on the Middle Class (Belgrade, 1983); Emil Dirkem and Radical Sociology (Belgrade, 2004); Analecta: sociological essays (Belgrade, 2011).

Mirjana Mirosavljević Bobić, BA, journalism (University of Belgrade). Journalist and Program Coordinator of the only local women’s foundation in Serbia, Reconstruction Women’s Fund, responsible for grant-making, women’s funds networking and fundraising. Activist of Women in Black.

Lepa Mlađenović, BA, Psychology (University of Belgrade). Feminist and lesbian activist. Co-founder of the Belgrade Women’s Studies Center and Autonomous Women’s Center (2000). Activist of the Women in Black Against War, feminist anti-war and anti-fascist group. Co-founder of Arkadia, Lesbian and Gay group (1990) and Labris, Organisation for Lesbian Human Rights (1995). Editor of books on alternatives to psychiatry and on violence against women. Author of a number of essays on issues of male violence, feminist anti-war activism, emotional literacy, multiple discrimination of women, especially lesbians. Active member of a number of different international boards and networks on issues of lesbian rights and violence against women. Key publication: Women for Life Without Violence, a manual for SOS telephone volunteer (Belgrade, 1999), "Longinig for Activism", Treća, 2/2002, Zagreb.

Aleksandar Molnar, PhD, Sociology (University of Belgrade). Professor at the Sociology Department, Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade. Research interests: history of social ideas, sociology of inter-ethnic relations, sociology of law. Key publications: Human Rights and Disintegration of Yugoslavia (Novi Sad, 1994); People, Nation, Race: Historical Sources of Nationalisms in Europe (Belgrade, 1997); Farewell to the Enlightenment Idea of the Constitutional Assembly? (Belgrade, 2008).

Zorica Mršević, PhD, Law (University of Belgrade). Associate professor at the Faculty for European Legal and Political Studies in Novi Sad. Founder and member of the First Board of the Belgrade Women’s Studies Center. Serbia’s Deputy Ombudsman for gender equality and for the rights of disabled persons (2008-2010). She worked for international organizations OXFAM and the OSCE Mission to Serbia on the issues of women’s human rights, gender equality and mechanisms for gender equality. She was teaching at universities in Budapest (Hunagry), Iowa (USA), Vienna (Austria) and Ljubljana (Slovenia). She has published 19 books and over 300 scientific articles in scientific and scholarly periodicals within the fields of criminal justice disciplines, gender theory, theory of violence and gender studies. Key publications: Women’s Rights in International Law (Belgrade, 1999; 2000); Standards and Mechanisms for Gender Equality in Democratic Countries (ed., Belgrade, 2001).

Radmila Nastić, PhD, English Literature (University of Niš). Full Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Philology and Arts (FILUM), Kragujevac; Faculty of Foreign Languages, University ALFA, Belgrade. Research interest: drama, women writers. Key publications: Drama in the Age of Irony (Podgorica, 1998); In Quest of Meaning (Belgrade, 2002); Tragedy and the Modern World (Kragujevac, 2010).

Slobodanka Nedović (1955-2004), PhD, Sociology (University of Belgrade). She tought at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Law, Belgrade. Founder and director of the the Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CeSID, 1997); was an active participant in the foundation and work of the Alternative Academic Educational Network (AAEN/AAOM) and the Center for the Advancement of Legal Studies. Research areas: civil society, electoral systems, feminist movements. Key publications: The Welfare State – ideas and policies (Belgrade, 1992); Contemporary Feminism (Belgrade, 2005).

Iva Nenić, MPhil, Theory of Arts and the Media; MA, Ethnomusicology (University of Arts in Belgrade). Teaching Assistant at the Department of Ethnomusicology, Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade; affiliate of the Group for Theory of Arts and the Media (University of Arts in Belgrade); editor and critic at the Radio Belgrade III program. Research areas: status of gendered subject in arts and culture, theory of ideology, popular culture, women’s practices in (post)traditional contexts.

Vesna Nikolić Ristanović, PhD, criminology, victimology and criminal law (University of Belgrade). Full professor at the Faculty of Special Education and Rehabilitation, Belgrade. Co-founder and director of the Victimology Society of Serbia. Founder and former editor of Temida, the journal on victimization, human rights and gender. Key publications: Domestic violence in Serbia (ed., Belgrade, 2000), Social Change, Gender and Violence: Post-Communist and War- Affected Societies (Dordrecht, 2002), Surviving Transition: Everyday life and Violence in Post-communist and Postconflict Society (Belgrade, 2008).

Mirjana Obretković (1938-2003), PhD, Law (University of Belgrade). She used to work at the Institute for Criminological and Sociological Research, Faculty for Political Sciences, Belgrade. Research areas: family law, sociology of family, children’s rights. Key publications: Children’s Rights-Human Rights (co-author, Belgrade, 1996).

Ivana Pantelić, MPhil, Socio-cultural Anthropology (University of Belgrade). Research associate at the Institute of Contemporary History in Belgrade. Research areas: history of women’s movement in Yugoslavia, women’s emancipation, oral history. Key publications: Women Partisans as Citizens (Belgrade, 2011).

Vesna Pantelić, BA, Arts (National Academy of Fine Arts, New York). Member of ULUS (Serbian Fine Arts Association) and International Fine Arts Association, New York. Exhibited in the USA, Europe and South America. Research interests: feminism and visual arts.

Žarana Papić (1949-2002), PhD, Social Anthropology (University of Belgrade). Associate professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade. Feminist and anti-war activist. Coorganizer of the International Feminist Conference "Comrade- ss" in 1978, Belgrade. Founder and member of the first Board of the Belgrade Women’s Studies Center. Member of the Scientific Committee of Transeuropeennes Program "Perspective du voisinage dans L’Europe du Sud-Est". Lectured at the Network of Interdisciplinary Women’s Studies in Europe (NOISE). Research areas: history of anthropology, anthropology of gender, feminist theory. Key publications: Antropology of Woman (co-editor, Belgrade, 1983); Sociology and Feminism (Belgrade, 1989); Gender and Culture, Body and Knowledge in Social Antropology (Belgrade, 1997).

Borka Pavićević, MA, Drama (Academy for Drama, Film, Radio and TV, Belgrade). Founder and the Director of the Center for Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade. Columnist (Danas, Vreme), publicist and political activist. Worked for a number of years as playwright in Atelje 212 and BITEF theaters in Belgrade. Research interests: theatre, public shpere and responsibility.

Đorđe Pavićević, PhD, Political Science (University of Belgrade). Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade. Research interests: political philosophy, political theory, ethics. Key publications: "Political Discours: Media and Communications", in: Media and War (Belgrade, 1999); "Liberal values and political stability in Serbia", in Philosophy and Society XIV/XV (Belgrade, 2002).

Vukašin Pavlović, PhD, Political Sciences (University of Sarajevo). Full professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences, Belgrade. Director of Center for Socio-Ecological Research (ECO Center), Belgrade and the Center for Eco-politics and Sustainable Development (CEPOR). Co-founder of Alternative Academic Educational Network (AAEN/AAOM, Belgrade). President of the Yugoslav Society for Political Sciences. Research interests: new social movements, civil society, political sociology, ecology. Key publications: Civil Society and Democracy (Belgrade, 2006); Social Movements and Changes (Belgrade, 2009); Discourses of Power (Zagreb/Belgrade, 2010).

Aleksandra Pečujlić, MPhil, Psychology (University of Surrey, UK). Senior clinical psychologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital and consultant at KCC, London. Member of the group Bridge. Research interests: family therapy, treatment and communication with handicapped and autistic children.

Latinka Perović, PhD, Political Sciences (University of Belgrade). Scientific counselor at the Institute for Contemporary History, Belgrade. Editor in Chief of the journal Tokovi istorije. Research interests: history of political and social ideas in the 19th century Serbia. Key publications: Srbian- Russian Revolutionary Connections (Belgrade, 1993); Serbian Socialitsts in the 19. century: a contribution to the history of socialism (Belgrade, 1995); Between Anarchy and Autocracy: Serbian Society Between Centuries (XIX-XXI) (Belgrade, 2006); Towards Modernity: Serbia in the 19th and 20th Century: Women and Children (ed., Beograd 2006).

Vanda Perović vanda-perovic , MPhil, Gender Studies (University of Belgrade). Translates feminist theory for the journal Genero, Ženske studije, ProFemina. Key publications: Emma Goldman: Anarchism and Feminism (Belgrade, 2000); "Jelena Ilka Marković – a biography of a woman assassin", in Mapping of Misogyny in Serbia (2000, 2005); "Žarana Papić" in A Biographical Dictionary of Women’s Movements and Feminisms, Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe of the 19th and 20th Centuries (CEU, Budapest, 2006). Fields of interest and research: women’s history, anarchism and feminism.

Dijana Plut, PhD, Psychology (University of Belgrade). Professor at University Singidunum, Belgrade. Research interests: education, violence against children, democracy and education. Key publications: Values in elementary school textbooks (co-aut., Belgrade, 1990); School textbook as a culturaltool (Belgrade, 2003); Social Crisis and Education (co-editor, Belgrade, 2004); Culture of critical thought: theoretical aspects and implications for teaching (co-author, Belgrade, 2007); The circle of violence – a study on violence in institutions for children without parental care (co-author, Belgrade, 2007).

Nada Polovina, PhD, Psychology (University of Belgrade). Senior researcher associate at the Institute of Educational Research, Belgrade with years of practice in family psychology. Research areas: different aspects of parental role and parental functioning, parental divorce, family-school cooperation, gender aspects in family functioning. Key publications: Emotional bounding: theory, research, practices (Belgrade, 2007); Family in System Surrounding (Belgrade, 2011).

Dragan Popadić, PhD, Psychology (University of Belgrade). Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade. Co-founder of Peace Studies and member of the Bridge group. Research interests: social psychology, peace studies, nonviolent conflict resolution. Key publication: Introduction to Peace Studies (ed., Belgrade, 2000).

Nataša Popivoda, BA, Literature (University of Belgrade). Publishes essays, literary criticism and translates from English and French. Research areas: graduate education, feminism.

Tijana Popivoda, radical feminist and lesbian activist, coordinator at the Counselling center for the support to lesbians and bisexual women within the Novi Sad Lesbian Organization (NLO). She dealt with the topic of male violence against women for ten years as a consultant within the Autonomous Women’s Center (Belgrade), working with women who survived violence.

Nebojša Popov, PhD, Social History (University of Zagreb). Works at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade. He was a member of the Board of Korčula Summer School, and the Secretary of the Praxis journal. Editorin- chief of the magazine Republika. Research interests: social history, political sociology, social conflicts.

Dragana Popović, PhD, Biophysics (University of Belgrade). Professor of Biophysics at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Belgrade. Former Coordinator of Women’s Studies Center in Belgrade (2000-2011) and lecturer on the Faculty of Political Sciences, MA program Gender and Politics. Member of the Editorial Board of Genero, a Journal in Feminist Theory. Coordinated the project Women and Academia in the Balkans (2005-2006), and participated in the project Gender Stereotypes in Science in South Eastern Europe (UNESCO, 2005). Published more that 200 papers in radiation/biophysics and popular science and translated a number of scientific essays and books. Research interest: education, women in sciences, history of science. Key publications: Women and Physics in Yugoslavia (Paris, 2002); Women and Education in Serbia and Japan: Post War Stories (Tokio, 2005); Science, Gender and Power (Blagoevgrad, 2005); From Zurich Circle To Gender Studies: Gender and High Education in Serbia (Belgrade, 2009); Analysis of Gender Dimension in University Educational Material (co-author, Belgrade, 2010); "Ecofeminism", "Gender and Ecology", and "Gender and Education", in Introduction to Gender Studies (Novi Sad, 2011).

Olga Popović Obradović (1954-2007), PhD, Law (University of Belgrade). Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law in Belgrade. Research areas: contemporary national history and legal theory. Key publication: Essays on Serbian political and social history (Belgrade, 2009).

Sonja Prodanović, MSci, Architecture and Planning (Barlett School, University College, London). Worked as researcher at the Institute of Architecture and Town Planning of Serbia, Belgrade. Member of the editorial board of the journal Republika and of the Committee for Urbanism and Ecology of the Association of Serbian Free Cities. Co-founder of the environmental NGO Eco-Urban Center, Belgrade, member of Women in Black and of the Center for Anti-war Action. Research interests: ecofeminism, ecology and women’s movement.

Ivana Pražić, Mphil, History of Arts (University of Bangalore). PhD student at the University of Sydney, Department of Indonesian Studies. One of the founders of Center for Queer Studies, Belgrade, and member of the board of QT Magazine. Member of Association of Literary Translators of Serbia. Fields of interests: queer theory and critique of racism, contemporary Indonesian politics of citizenship. Key publications: Storyboards in Stone: Outlining the Buddhist Art of Gandhara (u: Mazaar, Bazaar: Design & Visual Culture in Pakistan, Oksford, 2010, ur. Saima Zaidi); Ka nehomofobičnoj srednjoj školi (ur., Beograd, 2008).

Branka Prpa, PhD, History (University of Belgrade). Worked at the Institute for Contemporary History of Serbia; former Director of the Archive of the City of Belgrade. Research areas: contemporary national history, Serbian elites in the 20th century. Key publications: Enlightment of Serbs in Dalmatia 1836-1848 (Split, 1988); "The Making of Yugoslavia (1830-1945)", in: Yugoslav’s Ethnic Nightmare, The Inside Story of Europe’s Unfolding Ordeal (New York, 1995).

Radmila Radić, PhD, History (University of Belgrade). Research Associate at the Institute for Recent History of Serbia, Belgrade. Research interests: contemporary national history, religious denominations. Key publications: State and Religious Communities in Serbia 1945-1954 (Belgrade, 1995); State and Religious Communities in Serbia 1945-1970 (Belgrade, 2002); Beliefs, Religion and Spiritualism in Serbia in 19th and First Half of the 20th Century (Belgrade, 2009).

Srđan Radović, MPhil, Ethnology/Anthropology (University of Belgrade). Research assistant at the Institute of Ethnography of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade. Research areas: memory culture, politics of space, dynamics of national and cultural identities in post-Yugoslav countries. Key publications: Images of Europe: Research of Representations of Europe and Serbia in Early 2000s (Belgrade, 2009).

Ljubiša Rajić (1947-2012), PhD, Linguistics (University of Belgrade). Professor of Scandinavian Studies and founder of the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Belgrade. Visiting professor at the University College of Oslo (2001-04). Research areas: Nordic philology, general linguistics, intercultural communication, translation studies, political sciences, sociology and Balkan studies. Has published more than 200 research articles, translated more than 30 books. Recipient of numerous Scandinavian medals and prises. Member of Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and member of the editorial board of journals Scientia Yugoslavica, Mostovi and Prevodilac. Key translations and publications: Sophia’s World. A Novel on the History of Philosophy (J. Gorder, Belgrade, 1996); Antology of Modern Norvegian Drama (ed., Belgrade, 2004); Philosophy of Fear (L. Svensen, Belgrade, 2008); A Skill to Read (Belgrade, 2009).

Gordana Rajkov, BSc, Mathematics (University of Belgrade). Consultant for disability issues with OXFAM – Belgrade office. The first person with disability elected into the Parliament of Serbia (2007). Research areas: human rights of marginalized groups, women’s health.

Ljubica Rajković, PhD, Sociology (University of Belgrade). Works as Associate Professor at the Faculty of Geography, Belgrade. Research areas: family sociology, status of village women, status of Roma people. Key publications: Social Status of Women in Rural Central Serbia (Belgrade, 2010).

Vesna Rakić Vodinelić, PhD, Law (University of Belgrade), Founder and Full Professor of the Faculty of Law, Union University, Belgrade. Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade: expelled following the restrictive 1998 University Law in Serbia. Corresponding member of the International Academy of Comparative Law in Paris and member of the International Association of Procedural Law. Participated in drafting many laws in Serbia. Key publications: Civil Law (ed., Belgrade, 1996); Stolen Elections (ed., Belgrade, 1997); Civil Law in EU (co-aut., Belgrade, 1998); Compatibility of Yugoslav Law with European Convention on Human Rights and Elementary Freedoms (Council of Europe, in Serbian and English, ed. and co-aut., Belgrade, 2002).

Ružica Rosandić, PhD, Psychology (University of Belgrade). Retired Professor at the Teacher Training Faculty and the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. Visiting Professor at Nova Southeastern University, USA (1998-2001). Co-ordinator in the Center for Anti-war Action in Belgrade. Research areas: theories of conflict resolutions, violence prevention, qualitative research methodology. Key publications: A Harder Way – Peace Actions in Yugoslavia (co-aut., Belgrade, 2005); History of Childhood – Recognizing Cultural Differencies (Belgrade, 2006).

Tatjana Rosić, PhD, Literature (University of Belgrade). Associate Professor at the Faculty for Media and Communication of the Singidunum University in Belgrade, external associate of the Institute for Literature and Art, Belgrade. Visiting Professor at the doctoral studies of the Faculty of Philology and Arts, University of Kragujevac. Literary critic and author of numerous essays in the field of gender studies in the context of history and theory of Serbian literature. Key publications: Romantic Diary in Serbian Literature (Belgrade, 1994); Myth of a Ideal Biography: Danilo Kish and figure of father in Serbian culture (Belgrade, 2008); Theories and Policies of Gender, Gender Identities in literatures and cultures in Balkan and South-East Europe (ed., Belgrade, 2008).

Obrad Savić, PhD, Philosophy (University of Leeds, UK). Former editor of Theoria and Philosophical Studies. Editor of the Belgrade Circle journal. One of the founders and Acting President of the Belgrade Circle. Professor at the Faculty of Media and Communication, Singidunum University. Translator, editor and publisher. Research areas: 20th century social theory and philosophy, culture studies. Key publication: Captives of Evil – Legacy of Hannah Arendt (co-editor, Belgrade, 2002).

Svenka Savić, PhD, Psycholinguistics (University of Belgrade). Professor emerita at the University of Novi Sad. Founder and coordinator of the Women Studies & Research Center "Mileva Marić Einstein" in Novi Sad and of the Center for Gender Studies at the University of Novi Sad. She led a number of research projects in the fields of women’s studies, sexism in the media, feminist theology, women’s memory/oral history etc. Research interests: cognitive linguistics, feminism, psycholinguistics, gender and language, feminist theology. Select publications: Feminist Theology (ed., Belgrade, 1999); Biographies of Old Roma Women in Vojvodina (ed., Belgrade, 2001); Gender and Language (coeditor, Belgrade, 2009).

Nada Seferović, MPhil, History of Art (University of Toronto, Canada). Works in the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia. Publishes literary criticism and translations. Research interests: feminist history of art, postmodernism.

Marina Simić, PhD, social anthropology (University of Manchester, UK). A lecturer at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade. A Coordinator of the Anthropology Program in Petnica Research Centre; a lecturer at Belgrade Open School and Belgrade Women’s Studies Centre. Research interest: political anthropology, anthropology of the state, post-socialist transformation in Europe, popular culture and consumption.

Ivana Simović, PhD, Law (University of Belgrade). Senior associate at the Institute for International Politics and Economy. Research areas: criminal law, violence against children, cultural rights.

Zoran Skrobanović, PhD, Oriental Studies (University of Belgrade). Associate Professor at the Department for Chinese Language and Literature at the Faculty of Philology, Belgrade. Research interests: classical Chinese literature, media technologies, Chinese and Western modernism. Key publications: Classic Chinese (transl., Beograd, 2004); Chinesse (co-author, Belgrade, 2009); To Live (transl., Ju Hua, Belgrade, 2009).

Vera Smiljanić, PhD, Psychology (University of Belgrade). Full professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade and at the Universities of Novi Sad and Priština. Research areas: children and developmental psychology, psychoanalysis.

Maja Solar (University in Novi Sad). Teaching assistant and PhD student at the Philosophy Department, Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad. Member of Gerusija, member of the board of Stvar, magazine for theoritical practices, and Polja, magazine for literature and theory. Fields of interests: Marxism, politics of emancipation, critique of political economy, theory of ideology, literature.

Ivana Spasić, PhD, Sociology (University of Belgrade). Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. Apart from contributions to journals and collections, she has published, either as author, co-author or editor, the following publications: Politics and Everyday Life 1999-2002 (Belgrade, 1996); Interpretative Sociology (Belgrade, 1998); Sociology of Everyday Life (Belgrade, 2004). She translates from English works from the fields of social and humanist sciences.

Biljana Srbljanović, MPhil, Drama (University of Arts, Belgrade). Assistant at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade. Playright and publicist. Research areas: theatre, public sphere and political responsibility.

Dejan Sretenović, MPhil, Art History (University of Belgrade). Curator, editor and writer, working as the Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade. Fields of research: modern and contemporary art, visual culture and the new media.

Vuk Stambolović, PhD, Medicine (University of Belgrade). Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, Belgrade. Research areas: human rights and health, constructive postmodernism, alternative medicine.

Ivana Stefanović, BA, Composition and Violin (Music Academy, Belgrade). Manager of Culture Program in the Fund – Center For Democracy, President of the Art Council of Belgrade Music Festival (BEMUS). Writes drama and radiophonic music, also essays on music. Key publications: A Road to Damascus (Belgrade, 2002); Music from Anything (Belgrade, 2010).

Bojana Stojanović Pantović, PhD (University of Novi Sad). Full Professor at Department of Comparative Literature, Faculty of Philosophy, Novi Sad. Writes literary criticism, poetry and translates. Research areas: Expressionistic Movement in the Serbian, South-Slavonic and European literature, morphology of short prose genres, contemporary Serbian and Slovenian poetry and gender studies.

Branimir Stojanović, BA, Philosophy (University of Belgrade). Affiliate of the Center for Contemporary Art, Belgrade. Essayist and editor. Research areas: digital art, visual arts.

Dubravka Stojanović, PhD, History (University of Belgrade). Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade. Research areas: history of institutions and ideas in Serbia before the First World War; modernization process in Serbia; urban history of Belgrade; history textbook analyses. Key publications: Serbian Social-Democratic Party and War program of Serbia 1912-1918 (Belgrade, 1994); Srbia and Democracy 1903-1914. A Historical Study of the "Golden Age" of Serbian Democracy (Belgrade, 2003); Kaldrma and Asfalt. Belgrade 1890-1914 (Belgrade, 2008); Oil on Water. Essays from Contemporary Serbian History (Belgrade, 2010).

Slavica Stojanović, BA, Litearture (University of Belgrade). Director of the Reconstruction Women’s Fund, Serbia. Founder and member of the First Board of the Belgrade Women's Studies Center. Editor of numerous journals and anthologies: Vidici, Selected Work of Virginia Woolf, Feminist Notebooks, co-founder of the non-profit publishing house Feminist"94". Translated works of Virginia Woolf, Hannah Arendt, Nadine Gordimer. Longterm activist for a number of women’s organizations: Women in Black, SOS Hotline for Women and Children Victims of Violence, Autonomous Women’s Center, Voice of Difference; co-ordinator of the Women’s Program (Fund for an Open Society).

Biljana Stojković, PhD, Genetics and Evolution (University of Belgrade). Associate Professor at the Faculty of Biology in Belgrade. Research interst: evolution of human social systems, social interactions and behaviour. Key publication: Darviniana (co-aut., Belgrade, 2009).

Marijana Stojčić, BA, Sociology (University of Belgrade). Affiliate at Women’s Information and Documentation Center (ŽINDOK), Belgrade. Research interests: gender, politics of identity, history of feminism, culture of remembrance, globalization, social movements. Key publications: Cindarellas and Witches in Serbian Print Media/Research on Media Images of Women (Belgrade, 2008); Feminist Movement in Yugoslavia 1978-1989 (Belgrade, 2009); Where Has Roza Luxemburg Gone? Reception of Ideas of Rosa Luxemburg in Serbia/ex-Yugoslavia (Belgrade, 2011).

Ana Stolić, MPhil, History (University of Belgrade). Affiliate of the Institute of History of Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Belgrade. Director of the Historical Museum of Serbia. Research interests: social history of Serbian people in the 19th century, history of labour. Key publication: Queen Draga: A Biography (Belgrade, 2000).

Gordana Subotić graduated at the Faculty of Security, University of Belgrade. At the moment, she is writing her MA thesis concerning the Implementation of the 1325 Resolution in United States of America and Republic of Serbia at Regional US studies at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade. She is an activist, researcher and project coordinator in monitoring of the implementation of the Resolution 1325 in Republic of Serbia in feminist anti-militarist organisation Women in Black. Active in women's movement since 2009. Worked as an analyst on the interdisciplinary project of the Faculty of Mathematics, Faculty of Security and George C. Marshall Center. This project was presented at the Science Festival in 2010. She has organized street actions on disarmament, advocacy for signing of the Convention on cluster munitions in Republic of Serbia, feminist study exchanges between Kosovo and Serbia, actions on women, peace and security.

Predrag Šarčević, MPhil, Anthropology (University of Belgrade). Editor of Radio Belgrade Third Program. Worked at the Petnica Research Center. Research areas: anthropology of gender, political anthropology, history of anthropology.

Jelena Špadijer Džinić, PhD, Sociology (University of Belgrade). Researcher at the Institute for Criminology and Sociology, Professor at the Faculty of Defectology, Belgrade. Research interests: sociology of prostitution, international sex-trafficking.

Teodora Tabački, MA, Philosophy (Université Paris, France). Activist of the Otpor (Resistance) movement. Currently PhD candidate at the University of Paris. Key publications include numerous articles in national and international journal, as well as translation of texts from the fields of philosophy and feminist theory. Lives and works in Berlin.

Jasmina Tešanović, BA, Lettere Moderne (Universita Statale di Milano, Italia). Author, feminist, political activist (Women in Black, Code Pink), translator, publisher and filmmaker. She was one of the organizers of the first Feminist Conference in Eastern Europe "Comrade/ss" in 1978, in Belgrade. Co-founder of the publishing house Feminist 94. Founder and member of the First Board of the Belgrade Women’s Studies Center. Author of Diary of a Political Idiot, written during the 1998-2000 Kosovo War and widely distributed on the Internet. She writes in three languages: English, Italian and Serbian. Key publications: Matrimonijum (Belgrade, 2004), The Balkans does not exist (Belgrade 2004).

Svetlana Tomin, PhD, Literature (University of Novi Sad). Professor of Medieval Literature at the Department of Serbian Literature at the Faculty of Philology in Novi Sad, and at the Gender Studies at the University of Novi Sad. Research interests: Serbian Medieval litarature, presentations of women in the Middle Ages, women studies. Key publications: Books-Loving Women in Medival Serbia (Novi Sad 2007), Holy Mother Angelina ( Novi Sad, 2009).

Ljubinka Trgovčević, PhD, Modern and Contemporary History (University of Belgrade). Full professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade. Research areas: Serbian and Balkan cultural, social and political history in the 19th and 20th century, general education and education of women. Key publications: Serbian scholars and the establishment of the Yugoslav State (Beograd, 1986); History of the Serbian Literary Society 1892-1992 (Belgrade, 1992); The Planned Elite. Students from Serbia in European Universities in the 19 th Century (Belgrade, 2003).

Nikola Tucić, PhD, Biology (University of Belgrade). Professor at the Department of Genetics and Evolution, Faculty of Biology, Belgrade. Board member of the Alternative Academic Educational Network (AAEN), Belgrade. Research areas: evolutionary genetics and ecology. Key publications: Evolution, Man and Society (Belgrade, 1999); On Gens and Men (co-aut., Belgrade, 2005); Darviniana (co-aut., Belgrade, 2009).

Lidija Vasiljević, MPhil, Gender and Politics (University of Belgrade). Feminist, psychotherapist and trainer, affiliate of the British Psychodrama Association. Currently coordinating educational and research program in Women’s INDOC Center in Belgrade, dealing with gender equality and media representation of women. Co-founder of the Regional Association for the Implementation of the Integrative Psychotherapy. Research interests: mental health policies, gender theory and group work.

Ivan Vejvoda, PhD, Political Philosophy and Sociology (Institute of Political Sciences, Universite Paris). Vice President, German Marshall Fund, Washington DC. Former Director of the Balkan Trust for Democracy and former Executive Director of the Fund for an Open Society Yugoslavia, Belgrade. One of the founders of the Belgrade Circle. Advisor at the European Studies Institute. Taught at the University of Sussex, UK and at Smith College, USA. Research interests: European Studies, civil society, French revolution. Key publications: Serbia After Four Years of Transition (Belgrade, 2004); No Magic Wand (Belgrade, 2004); Bosnia-Herzegovina: Unfinished Business (Beograd, 2005); Serbia: Current Issues and Future Direction (Beograd, 2006).

Jasminka Veselinović, BA, Pedagogy (University of Belgrade). Works in the Center for Marriage and Family, Belgrade. Research interests: family therapy, non-violent conflict solving.

Ana Vilenica, PhD, Interdisciplinaty Postgraduate Studies at the Univerity of Arts in Belgrade, Theory of Arts and Media; MA in Scenic Design; BA in History of Arts, Belgrade University. Researcher at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. Editor of uz)bu))na))), journal for art, politics, theory and activism. Fields of interests: activism and art, urban regenerations, commons, public space, theories of labour, feminist theories, motherhood. Key publications: Na ruševinama kreativnog grada (co-editor, kuda.org, Novi Sad 2012), Postajanje majkom u vreme neoliberalnog kapitalizma (ed. forthcoming).

Jelena Višnjić, MPhil, Gender Studies (University of Belgrade). Activist in different feminist organizations, such as Voice of Difference: A Group for Promotion of Women’s Political Rights and Labris: A Group for Lesbian Human Rights. Co-founder of the Festival of Feminist Culture and Action - BeFem. Research interests: gender studies, media studies, cultural studies, anthropology of popular culture.

Ivana Vitas, ivana-vitas MSc, Biotechnology (University of Belgrade). Program coordinator at Peace Studies, Belgrade. Research areas: biotechnology, feminism and new technologies, peace studies.

Vladislava Vojnović, BA, Drama and Art (University of Art, Belgrade). Assistant at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade. She writes essays, film criticism, scripts for short documentary and feature films. Key publications: Women’s Epic Poems (Belgrade, 2002); A Paper Prince (Belgrade, 2008).

Radina Vučetić Mladenović, MPhil, History (University of Belgrade). Affiliated with the Department of Contemporary History, Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade. Research interests: cultural history, women’s question in Serbia in 20th century, processes of modernization in the 20th century.

Đorđe Vukadinović, MPhil, Philosophy (University of Belgrade). Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. Editor-in-chief of the journal Nova srpska politička misao. Research areas: contemporary philosophy, history of philosophy.

Viktorija Vukićević, PhD, Chinese Literature (University of Belgrade). Worked as Associate Professor at the Department for Oriental Languages, Faculty of Philology, Belgrade. Lives in the Netherlands since 2002. Research areas: gender question in modern China, women characters in Chinese literature.

Adriana Zaharijević, PhD, Political Science (University of Belgrade). Junior Researcher at the Faculty of Political Sciences. Former Program Director at Radio Belgrade 3 (2004-2011). Member of the Association of Literary Translators of Serbia since 2003. Fields of interest: political philosophy, contemporary feminist theory, history of the 19th century. Key publications: Somebody Said Feminism? (ed., 2007, 2008, 2012); Becoming Woman (2010).

Staša Zajović, BA, Spanish Language and Literature (University of Belgrade). Anti-war and feminist, member of the group Woman and Society and of the Center for Anti-War Action. Founder and activist of Women in Black, an international anti-war association. Research areas: women’s activism, pacifist movements. Key publications: War Deserters in the Former Yugoslavia ( Belgrade 1995); Always disobedient (Belgrade, 2007); Transitional Justice – A Feminist Approach (Belgrade, 2007); Fundamentalisms Today – Feminist and Democratic Answers (Belgrade/Sarajevo, 2007); Secularism and Women (Belgrade, 2007).

[*] This information reflects the situation at the time when the lectures were held.