Hans Bernhard Schmid is a professor of political economy and social philosophy at the University of Vienna. Before that he taught at the University of Basel, Freiburg, St. Gallen and at the New School for Social Research in New York. His field of research encompasses the philosophy of social sciences, social onthology, theories of action,…
Gérard Bensussan is professor of philosophy at Université Marc-Bloch in Strasbourg, visiting professor at various universities, and a researcher at the CNRS (Husserl Archives, ENS). He is also a translator. His areas of interest are German and Jewish philosophy (Schelling, Heidegger, Rosenzweig, Benjamin…), Marxism, philosophy of practice, Messianism. He is one of the founders of…
Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim is a sociologist, psychologist and philosopher. She taught sociology at the University of Hamburg (1993–1994) and at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (1994–2009); she was a guest lecturer at the University of Trondheim (2009–2012), and since 2013 she works at the University of Munich. Her main research interest is in social changes and the…
Ulrich Beck was one of the leading sociologists of today. His idea of the risk society – later developed into the idea of the world risk society – marked contemporary social theory. His latest work was mostly dedicated to the issues of Europeanization and building of cosmopolitan Europe. He taught sociology at the University of…
Etienne Balibar is a leading French neo-Marxist, professor emeritus at the prestigious University of Paris X and full professor at the University of California Irvine. Balibar was a student and follower of Louis Altiser, where he took a course on Marx’s Capital, and was one of the co-authors of How to Read Capital (1965, our translation…
Éric Fassin is a professor of sociology in the Political Science Department and co-chair of the Gender Studies Department at Paris 8 university, and a founding member of the Laboratoire d’études de genre et de sexualité – Research Center on Gender and Sexuality Studies (LEGS, CNRS / Paris 8 / Paris 10). His work focuses…
Associate researcher cvetic.andrej@gmail.com CURRICULUM VITAE (pdf) Andrej Cvetić (1994) is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Political Science at Trinity College Dublin. Currently, Andrej is a Research Assistant on the project titled ‘Religious Group Involvement and Endorsement of Democratic Norms’ with Dr. Gizem Arikan as Principal Investigator. In his dissertation, Andrej is studying the influence…
Research Assistant vukan.markovic@ifdt.bg.ac.rs CURRICULUM VITAEMarković Vukan Vukan Marković is currently a PhD Candidate at Cambridge University. His proposed thesis title is The Anthropocene Challenges to the Understanding of Historical Time as the Recurring Sense of Crisis of History (1980s – Present). Before PhD, he completed his MA/MSc at LSE and Columbia University with dissertation Can History be a…
Research Fellow krisztina.racz@ifdt.bg.ac.rs CURRICULUM VITAERácz Krisztina Krisztina Rácz is a scholar with interdisciplinary education and experience, having research interests in language, multilingualism / multiculturalism, ethnic minorities and education, with a special focus on Central and Southeastern Europe. Her expertise also lies in social memory, gender and migrations. To the study of these, she is applying…
Research Fellow jelena.guga@ifdt.bg.ac.rs CURRICULUM VITAEGuga Jelena Jelena Guga is a theorist of new media art and culture currently working as a research fellow and coordinator of the Digital Society Lab at the Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Interdisciplinary Activities, Research Center for…