The Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory is pleased to announce the Call for Applications for the 2026 Charles Taylor Annual Summer Institute on Democratic Agendas – Institutions in Motion: Democracy Between Social Struggle and the State, to be held June 29 – July 4, 2026 in Belgrade.
We are delighted to announce that the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, has awarded the Charter of Friendship to the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory (IFDT).
EduLab – Laboratory of Educational Theories, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, invites submissions for the Fifth International Why Still Education? Conference, under the title “Education – Community – Resistance” to be held in Belgrade, 7-9 October, 2024.
In 2021, the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory of the University of Belgrade established the “Zagorka Golubović” Award, aimed at younger researchers for their socially engaged research work.
The project “Shared Future: Youth for Inclusive and Dialogic Remembrance” (1/12/2025 – 30/06/2026) of the Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory, with the support of the British Council, aims to encourage dialogue about the past through education in cultural memory and field research on oral histories. The project collects personal stories and visual materials through a regional network of students from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo*, Montenegro, and Serbia. The main results are the Digital Archive “Remembrance through Inclusion and Dialogue” (SID-ARH IFDT) and the Exhibition of Student Works, which will be presented during the Summer School in Novi Pazar
The program “Shared Future: Youth for Dialogic and Inclusive Memory,” implemented by the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory of the University of Belgrade (IFDT) with the support of the British Council, aims to encourage dialogue about the past from different perspectives and thus contribute to reducing divisions.
This project is part of Humboldt4Europe, HU’s national project supporting the European Universities Initiative, funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with resources from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
The Laboratory for the Theory, Creation, and Politics of Space (PerspectLab) has established a partnership with the Department of Geography at Humboldt University of Berlin within the Circle U. Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) programme, through the project Insurgent Berlin–Belgrade.
From 13 to 18 January, the exhibition “Meta Garden – Vanished Plants of Serbia” was presented at the Palace of Science in Belgrade. The exhibition was created by Jelena Novaković, a researcher at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory (IFDT) and a member of the Digital Society Lab (DigiLab) and the Environmental Studies Research Group.
The project “Environmental (In)justice: Project Jadar and Lithium Frenzy” examined Serbia’s controversial Jadar Project as a case study, exemplifying the intersection of lithium extraction with issues such as ecological degradation, community displacement, and undemocratic governance.
