From 18 to 20 September 2026, the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, in cooperation with the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), hosted the ASN European Conference Reconfiguring National Identities amid Multiple Crises. The conference brought together 160 participants from 31 countries across 37 research panels, roundtables, and book discussions. Participants ranged from…
Medical deserts are areas in which residents do not have adequate access to healthcare. Their existence is shaped by a range of infrastructural, institutional, and economic barriers: limited opening hours of local health clinics, a lack of pharmacies, long distances to healthcare facilities, inadequate public transport, shortages of doctors and medical staff, long waiting times, and high travel costs.
The inaugural lecture, entitled “Word and Deed: Variations,” will be delivered by Predrag Krstić on 27 October. Offering a synoptic historical overview, the lecture will examine debates concerning the primacy of one or the other, from “biblical times” to contemporary controversies.
This year’s fellowship focuses on the competing visions of the future emerging around democracy, technological transformation and ecological transition. Against the backdrop of democratic backsliding, rapid developments in artificial intelligence, environmental pressures, geopolitical change and uneven European integration, different actors are advancing different ideas of modernization, development, democracy and sustainability.
16th Central and Eastern European Communication and Media Conference CEECOM 2027: Communication and Freedom 16–17 September 2027 Belgrade, Serbia Organized by the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade in cooperation with the ECREA Central and East-European Network Call for Papers Freedom is in decline in many parts of the world. According to…
We are hereby inviting interested participants to enroll in an international, CEU-hosted, one-semester interdisciplinary online courses about the Balkans.
At its regular session, the Scientific Council of the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory at the University of Belgrade decided to award the 2026 ‘Miladin Životić’ Annual Prize for Critical-Theoretical Engagement to Professor Francis Fukuyama.
Organized by the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, the second open forum on educational reforms was held, concluding this year’s cycle of discussions with teachers.
This issue of our journal carries six original research papers. First, resisting the idea of a “post-work society,” Rade Pantić and Rastko Močnik in “From Technological Utopianism to the Theory of Unequal Development of Automation,” consider new forms of inequality that emerge due to automation.
Researchers from the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory (IFDT) presented the Digital Multimedia Database “Remembering Through Inclusion and Dialogue (SID-IFDT)“, which consists of materials collected during field research on the culture of memory among individuals and communities from the former Yugoslavia.
