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CAS SEE Seminars With Guests: Željko Ivanković
On Thursday, May 6th at 10 am (CET) we will host CAS SEE Weekly Seminar with Željko Ivanković (Prague College) on “Cryptocurrencies and value neutrality of technology”. The idea of author of Bitcoin network Satoshi Nakamoto was to create an electronic payment system without a ‘trusted third party’ which verifies transactions. His endeavour revives the understanding of technology, here embodied →
Graffitied Memoryscapes: Virtual exhibition opening and online round table on research political graffiti
Tuesday, 27th April 2021, at 1:30 pm (CET) An exhibition on the interrelations between landscapes, memory and graffiti in the post-Yugoslav space The exhibition is based on photos taken over the past decade by four researchers working in the former Yugoslavia: Roswitha Kersten-Pejanić, Vjeran Pavlaković, Eric Ušić, and Kevin Kenjar. Each researcher has analyzed the political sentiments, ascriptions, and →
CAS SEE Seminars With Guests: Narine Harutyunyan Brod
On Thursday, April 22nd at 10 am (CET) we will host CAS SEE Weekly Seminar with Narine Harutyunyan Brod on “Regulating Genetic Technologies: The Future of Human Reproduction“. The seminar is presented and moderated by CAS SEE Fellow Desara Dushi. The Seminar covers the issues related to modern-day reproduction through assisted reproductive technologies. New genetic technologies now allow potential →
CAS SEE SEMINARS WITH GUESTS: Josef Djordjevski
On Thursday, April 15th at 10 am (CET) we continued with “CAS SEE Weekly Seminar with Guests”, where we welcomed Josef Djordjevski whose presentation tracked the development and consequences of the idea that the Eastern Adriatic coast and its adjacent sea are “clean,” an idea that developed under Yugoslav socialism that has carried on into the 21st →
“EVENINGS AT THE MOISE”: “Building of Hotel Cres, former city granary”
On Thursday, 1st April at the Moise Palace mag. art. Jasminka Ćus-Rukonić held a lecture on “Building of Hotel Cres, former city granary”. At the beginning of the XIX. in the whole of Europe, including Cres, the former city walls and all other city buildings that lost their previous role were abandoned, so the City →
“EVENINGS AT THE MOISE”: Life in the age of disease COVID-19 – the value of information in protecting the rights of vulnerable members of society
We have continued with lectures for citizens at the Moise Palace on Thursday, 25th March with a lecture entitled “Life in the age of disease COVID-19 – the value of information in protecting the rights of vulnerable members of society.” The lecture was held by dr. sc. Dalida Rittossa and dr.sc. Dejana Golenko from the Faculty of →
Spring 2021 CAS SEE Fellowship recipients
The Center for Advanced Studies of Southeastern Europe (CAS SEE) is pleased to announce the 13th generation of fellows, recipients of the Spring 2021 CAS SEE Fellowship Awards at the University of Rijeka. The purpose of the CAS SEE Fellowship Programme is to further the research and creative work in the fields of the humanities and humanistic →
CAS SEE Seminars with Guests: Čarna Brković
On Thursday, February 25th at 12:00 pm (CET) we hosted CAS SEE Weekly Seminar with Čarna Brković presented by our fellow Kevin Kenjar. The seminar is entitled: Minority Sexualities, Kinship, and Non-autological Freedom in Montenegro. This talk explores conceptions of freedom among gay men in Podgorica, Montenegro, who strive to maintain love alongside kinship relations. The demands of liberal →
lifelong learning Program “Youth in Contemporary Society”
The lifelong learning Program “Youth in Contemporary Society” has started and is being implemented by the University of Rijeka and the Faculty of Philosophy in partnership with the Institute for Social Research and the University of Ljubljana. The program has 30 participants from six European countries who will attend (online and onsite) classes over the →
CAS SEE Seminars with Guests: Larisa Kurtović
On Thursday, February 18th at 4 pm (CET), we hosted CAS SEE Weekly Seminar with Larisa Kurtović (University of Ottawa) presented by our fellow Kevin Kenjar. The seminar is entitled: Sarajevo’s Spring of Discontent: Public Safety, Youth Violence and Politics of Answerability in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina. In February 2008, the murder of a 16-year-old high school student, Denis Mrnjavac, inspired →
CAS SEE Seminars with Guests: Pamela Ballinger
On Thursday, February 11th at 3:30 pm (CET), we hosted CAS SEE Weekly Seminar with Pamela Ballinger. After a brief introduction on the ‘Unlikely refuge?’ project by Michal Frankl (principal investigator), Pamela Ballinger (University of Michigan) presented her book ‘The World Refugees Made: Decolonization and the Foundation of Postwar Italy’ (2020), in dialogue with Doina Anca Cretu and Francesca →
CAS SEE Seminars With Guests: Rafael Marín
On Thursday,February 4th at 10 am, we hosted CAS SEE Weekly Seminar with Rafael Marín, moderated by CAS SEE executive director Sanja Bojanić. The seminar is entitled: “Existential challenges and threats for the European Union in a post Brexit, post-Trump and post-Covid world”. This seminar focused on four aspects of utmost importance for the immediate future of the →
CAS SEE Seminars with Guests: Nadia El-Shaarawi and Maple Razsa
On Thursday, January 28th at 4 pm (CET), we hosted CAS SEE Weekly Seminar with Nadia El-Shaarawi and Maple Razsa, presented by our fellow Kevin Kenjar. The seminar is entitled: Ahmed, the Megaphone, and the Assembly of New Political Subjects In 2015. Ahmed H. was detained following protests by hundreds of refugees against the abrupt →
CAS SEE Seminars With Guests – Federico Giulio Sicurella
On Thursday, January 21st at 10 am (CET), we hosted CAS SEE Weekly Seminar with Federico Giulio Sicurella in dialogue with Dimitris Serafis (University of Malta), and Francesca Rolandi (Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences – Center for Advanced Studies Rijeka). The seminar was dedicated to the presentation of Sicurella’s new book – Speaking for the →
International Conference: The Epistemic Circumstances of Democracy
The Epistemic Circumstances of Democracy 29th January 2021, 9:00 am – 7:30 pm (CET) In both academia and layperson political culture, democracy has been enshrined as the system that best respects every citizen’s freedom and political equality. However, it is worth inquiring whether average voters – some of whom are neither informed nor unbiased and →
CAS SEE Seminars With Guests – Saša Vejzagić
On Thursday, January 14th at 4 pm CET, we hosted CAS SEE Weekly Seminar with Saša Vejzagić, in dialogue with our fellow Filip Balunović. The talk revolved around The Rise of Business Class and Managerial Elites in Yugoslavia, 1963-1978. The thesis investigates an emergence of a business world in Yugoslavia in the midst of communists’ peculiar endeavor →
CAS SEE Seminars with Guests – Dominique Kirchner Reill
On Thursday, January 14th at 10 am (CET), we hosted CAS SEE Weekly Seminar with Dominique Kirchner Reill, in dialogue with Natka Badurina (University of Udine), Ivan Jeličić (Institute of Political History Budapest), and Francesca Rolandi (Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences – Center for Advanced Studies Rijeka). The seminar was dedicated to the →
International Conference “Horizons of Engagement: Eternalizing Pierre Bourdieu”
22. December – 23. December The conference “Eternalizing Bourdieu” is organized on the occasion of the ninetieth anniversary of the birth of Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002), the world’s most-cited sociologist. The achievements of Bourdieu’s academic work are reflected in the high institutional positions he held, such as the position of the general secretary of the Centre de sociologie européenne, →
CAS SEE Seminars with Guests – Paul Stubbs and Noémi Lendvai-Bainton
On Thursday, December 17th, we hosted CAS SEE Weekly Seminar with Paul Stubbs and Noémi Lendvai-Bainton, presented by our fellow Tanja Anđić. The talk is entitled: The Temporalities of Policy Translation in the Semi-Periphery: revisiting the Europeanisation of welfare reforms in Central and South East Europe. This presentation seeks to conceptualise time and temporality in the semi-periphery, with a →
Prestigious ERC Grant at our University
The European Research Council (ERC) just announced the results of its latest ERC Consolidator Grant tender for mid-career researchers. The funding is part of the EU’s current research and innovation program, Horizon 2020, and worth in total €655 million. With this support, the new grantees will be able to consolidate their teams and have a far-reaching impact. →
WHAT IS ENGAGEMENT? WITH ÉTIENNE BALIBAR
On the occasion of the Special Lecture with Étienne Balibar entitled “What is engagement?” organized by the Center for Critical Democracy Studies at The American University of Paris in partnership with the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory at the University of Belgrade (IFDT) and the Center for Advanced Studies Southeast Europe at the University of Rijeka (CAS SEE), →
Exhibition: GRAFFITIED MEMORYSCAPES
An exhibition on the interrelations between landscapes, memory and graffiti in the post-Yugoslav space Open from 4th December to 20th December 2020. in Export on Delta, Rijeka. The exhibition is based on photos taken over the past decade by four researchers working in the former Yugoslavia: Roswitha Kersten-Pejanić, Vjeran Pavlaković, Eric Ušić, and Kevin Kenjar. →
CAS SEE Seminars with Guests – Nenad Stefanov
On Thursday, December 10th, we hosted CAS SEE Weekly Seminar with Nenad Stefanov, presented by our fellow Roswitha Kersten-Pejanić. The seminar is entitled „The “magic” of maps. About the Visualization of Ethnization of Society”. In the perception of the wars over ethnically homogeneous territories in Yugoslavia in the 1990s, “cultural boundaries” are often considered a →
CAS SEE Fellowship Application: Spring/Summer 2021
The Center for Advanced Studies – Southeast Europe (CAS SEE) at the University of Rijeka is pleased to announce its annual Call for Fellowships for Spring/Summer 2021. The CAS SEE Fellowship Program for Spring/Summer 2021 will host 7 Junior Fellows. The Call for Applications closes on January 15th, 2021. The 13th generation of fellows will →
CAS SEE Seminars with Guests – Milica Popović
On Thursday, December 3rd, we hosted CAS SEE Weekly Seminar with Milica Popović, presented by Filip Balunović. The seminar is entitled „Memories as resistance strategies and the use of Yugonostalgia – the case of the (post)Yugoslav political actors: the last pioneers“. Embracing the social-constructivist concept of the past, her research takes an interdisciplinary approach to nostalgia, bringing together political →
CAS SEE Seminars with Guests: Rijeka in Flux
On Thursday, November 26th, at 6 pm CET, we hosted CAS SEE Seminar with Brigitte Le Normand, Jon Corbett, Vanni D’Alessio, and Francesca Rolandi; the talk revolved around Rijeka in Flux project. In addition to coordinating a team of historians researching the history of postwar Rijeka, the project Rijeka in Flux, supported by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council →
Workshop: “Where Are the Women of Goli Archipelago?”
As part of artist Andreja Kulunčić’s project, “You Betrayed the Party Just When You Should Have Helped It,” anthropologist Renata Jambrešić Kirin and feminist theorist Brigita Miloš held a workshop in partnership with the Center for Advanced Studies of Southeastern Europe – University of Rijeka. The event has taken place on Zoom on the 24th →
“Evenings at the Moise”: Challenges of Parenting
On Thursday, 19th November at the Moise Palace dr. sc. Sanja Smojver Ažić held a lecture on “Challenges of Parenting”. The lecture dealt with various aspects of what it means to be a parent these days, tackling various issues of modern-day parenthood. Today we tend to treat children as “small adults”, but what does that →
“Evenings at the Moise”: The Coats of Arms in the Moise Palace
On Thursday, November 12th, Jasminka Ćus Rukonić, an archaeologist who dedicated a considerable portion of her career to the study of heraldry, gave a lecture entitled “The Coats of Arms in the Moise Palace“ at the Moise palace. The talk elaborated on the known coats of arms and their locations across the palace and explained →
“Evenings at the Moise”: Air quality on the islands of Cres and Lošinj
Prof. dr. sc. Ana Alebić-Juretić from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Rijeka held a lecture “Air quality on the islands of Cres and Lošinj” on 5th November at the Moise Palace. It was also the first lecture with an online broadcast via Facebook Live, and we will continue with this practice in →
“Evenings at the Moise”: Lecture by Dr. Juraj Sepčić
Dr. Juraj Sepčić has designed a series of lectures entitled “Flipping through a Catalogue of Human Pathology”, divided by topics into several “chapters” that will be presented to the public in the coming months. The first lecture entitled “Congenital and hereditary diseases,” held on October 29th, 2020, at the Moise palace. The audience had the →
The first step towards the Moise Palace media library: Branko Horvat Library Collection
Last week, experts from the University Library Rijeka visited the Moise Palace to systematize and organize an extensive collection of material from the private library of Branko Horvat, one of Croatia’s and Yugoslavia’s most prominent economists in the second half of the 20th century. He was a prolific scientist and a dedicated educator, and an →
Science Festival – workshop on coding for high school students at Moise Palace
On Saturday, October 17th, 2020, at the Moise Palace prof. dr. sc. Vedrana Mikulić Crnković and prof. dr. sc. Bojan Crnković gave the lecture on coding for high school students from Cres as part of the “Science Festival”. To encipher means to convert a text into code using a certain key. The need for encoding →
Horizons of Freedom: The Cunning of Freedom in times of a Twin Authoritarianism
On Friday, November 6th, from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm, Yanis Varoufakis gave a talk entitled The Cunning of Freedom in times of a Twin Authoritarianism within the annual series Horizons of Freedom. As capitalism is transforming into a species of technofeudalism, two seemingly mutually opposing authoritarianisms are rising up. Can an authentic freedom survive →
Horizons of Freedom: On Political Action
On Thursday, October 29th, from 4 to 6 pm, Michael Walzer gave a talk entitled On Political Action within the first event of the annual series Horizons of Freedom. Michael Walzer’s book Political action: A practical Guide to Movement Politics could be used as an example of how much insightful literature can generate an impression →
CAS SEE Seminars with Guests – Gergana Dimova
On Thursday, October 22nd, we continued with the CAS SEE Seminars with Gergana Dimova. The talk revolved around a challenging topic – Democracy beyond Elections: Government Accountability in the Media Age. What do media scandals have to do with democracy? After all, couldn’t just about anybody level allegations, even when they are untrue, at the →
Open-source Institutions Talks III
Open-source Institutions Talks 3 October 14th, 15th, and 23rd, 2020 Organized by Center for Advanced Studies – South East Europe The intelligence of the next generation of European institutions hinges on a system of technologically-mediated participatory policy-making and problem-solving. Center for Advanced Studies – South East Europe (University of Rijeka) is currently developing a project →
Semiotic Landscapes of Southeastern Europe – Call for papers
Semiotic Landscapes of Southeastern Europe (May 28-29, 2021, Island of Cres) The Center for Advanced Studies of Southeastern Europe (CAS SEE) at University of Rijeka in conjunction with the Berlin Centre for Transnational Border Research “Border Crossings – Crossing Borders” at Humboldt University is organizing a two-day conference (May 28-29, 2021) in Moise Palace on →
Dock Culture exhibition at Moise Palace
Dock Culture exhibition at Moise Palace / 3rd Biennale of industial art / European Capital of Culture 2020 A proposal for revitalization and protection of the last remaining floating dock in Croatia from Austro-Hungarian Era, and its conversion into an industrial “living museum” – a new urban platform for culture, creative industries, education and tourism. →
“EVENINGS AT THE MOISE”: Lake Vrana on the island of Cres in the context of possible climate change
On Thursday, September 30th, 2020, the cycle of lectures for citizens continued in the Moise Palace in Cres, the University of Rijeka’s scientific and educational center. For the first in a series of lectures after the summer break, a universally interesting topic was chosen: Vrana Lake presented through a talk entitled “Lake Vrana on the →
Island Connect at the Moise Palace
Island Connect is a collaborative program between five performing arts organisations, working with residencies located on (or associated with) European islands of different countries. They are united in this project by a common interest in contributing to the creation and consolidation of performing arts, with an important ambition to support the artists in their personal →
Diversity Mixer – Cultural participation: diversity and inclusion
Diversity Mixer Cultural participation: diversity and inclusion Organized by: RIJEKA 2020 On Monday, September 28th, from 10.00 am to 1.45 pm a workshop on Culture in an Unintentional Digital Environment will be held via Zoom platform. This is the third in a series of workshops under the Cultural Participation: Diversity and Inclusion program. The workshop →
ACADEMIA IN THE WILD – SEMINAR SERIES ON UNIVERSITY FOR 21st CENTURY COMMUNITY
Academia in the Wild Seminar Series on University for 21st Century Community Organized by CAS SEE and the Academy of Applied Arts University of Rijeka has been developing a strong focus on the relationship between the university and the community. Join us for a series of zoom talks in which we will discuss, with professors →
THE EUROPEAN DIPLOMA IN CULTURAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT
The “Kultura Nova” foundation is hosting the first program of this year’s edition of “EU diploma in cultural project management”, an educational program taking place from 30 August to 5 September, 2020, in Zagreb, Rijeka, and Cres. In Croatia, the program was organized by the “Kultura nova” foundation in partnership with the Association “Marcel Hicter” →
“Evenings at the Moise”: The Interactive Platform and Prevention of Violence
During the summer months, the Moise Palace continued to carry out educational activities and provide new facilities for its citizens and visitors. During July and August, the Ministry of Science and Education together with the Society Our Children Sisak had organized a cycle of educational workshops entitled “Interactive Platform and Prevention of Violence”. On July →
The Archipelagos of the Living
We are inviting you to participate in a workshop in the afternoon, September 3rd, to discuss the Archipelagos of the Living, a cross-country laboratory territory seeking to develop sustainable modes of life and living on Island territories. The workshop follows from the seminar hosted by l’IRI and L’Association des amis de la génération Thunberg last June, which consisted →
Open-Source Institution Talks II
Open-Source Institutions Talks 2 September 3-4, 2020 Organized by Center for Advanced Studies – South East Europe The intelligence of the next generation of European institutions hinges on a system of technologically-mediated participatory policy-making and problem-solving. Center for Advanced Studies – South East Europe (University of Rijeka) is currently developing a project in collaboration with →
The Moise Palace – From Oblivion to an Incubator of Knowledges and Skills
The Croatian island of Cres is an outstanding place to plan getting lost in while discovering its bays and ports, old towns and narrow paths, chimerical legends, and the cultural heritage dating since the Roman days. In 2020, Cres became even more engaging for the intellectual wanderer due to the opening of the Moise Palace, →
Open-Source Institutions Talks I
July 29-31, 2020 Organized by Center for Advanced Studies – South East Europe The intelligence of the next generation of European institutions hinges on a system of technologically-mediated participatory policy-making and problem-solving. The Center for Advanced Studies – South East Europe (University of Rijeka) is currently developing a project in collaboration with RadicalxChange Foundation, which →
“Evenings at the Moise”: The Forgotten Cornel
The Moise Palace on Cres again hosted an interesting lecture dedicated to health and the knowledges forgotten, when it comes to preserving it. On Thursday, July 16th, 2020, the Moise audience found out about the cornel (Cornus mas L.), on a lecture entitled “Searching for the Super Fruit of our Parts: The Forgotten Cornel”. The →
CAS SEE Seminars with Guests – Bonnie Honig
On Thursday, July 23rd, 2020, the CAS SEE Seminars with Guests continued with questioning the (nature/s of certain) politics in the Arendtian fashion, introducing Professor Bonnie Honig, who was presented by our fellow Valentina Moro. The seminar took place at 4 PM CET due to different time-zones. Saidiya Hartman’s “Fabulation” is an important concept in Black →
CAS SEE Spring Fellowship 2020 Seminars – Federica Porcheddu and Valentina Moro
The ending of this year’s Spring Fellowship has digitally “happened” on July 7th, 2020, with two philosophical questions: one on food sovereignty and the other inquiring on the legacy of feminist movements. Firstly, the relationship between human society and nature has been viewed through the lens of the more general process of commodification by Federica →
CAS SEE Seminars with Guests – Giovanni Maddalena
On Thursday, July 16th, 2020, the CAS SEE Seminar with Giovanni Maddalena, presented by our fellow Alessandra Scotti has taken place on Zoom. The seminar was dedicated to the presentation of Maddalena’s new book – The History and Theory of Post-Truth Communication. Giovanni Maddalena is an Associate Professor of History of Philosophy and Philosophy of →
Discussion on Democracy – “Evenings at the Moise”
Thursday, July 2nd, 2020, was at the Moise Palace on Cres Island reserved for an evening of (re)thinking democracy. The cycle of lectures for citizens continued in the scientific and educational center of the University of Rijeka, in line with the (then) upcoming parliamentary elections. The title of the public discussion held was “How Can →
CAS SEE Spring Fellowship 2020 Seminars – Alessandra Scotti and Xenia Chiaramonte
As the CAS SEE Spring Fellowship 2020 is coming to an end, we realize that it has been one of the most interesting fellowships so far: we have extended our work into our private spaces instead of leaving them to meet each other in the Moise Palace, to say the least. Because of this reason, →
CAS SEE Weekly Seminars with Guests – Mauro Carbone
In the aftermath of the first global pandemic, some of us are facing far more screen-time than usual, is considered healthy, others… Screens are evolving rapidly to complement our bodies and senses, while the virtuality of life (online vs. offline version of life) is being legitimized around the world, inviting new standards regardless of our →
“Evenings at the Moise”: From Garbage to Art
Yet another event has been added to the Moise Palace becoming Rijeka’s scientific and educational center: last Friday, June 26th, 2020 a lecture entitled “From Garbage to Art” was held by an artist Tanja Blašković. “We Have Become a Culture of Disposing” Tanja Blašković presented her work by re-introducing plastic bags and bottle caps, her →
“Evenings at the Moise”: How Can We Improve Our Democracy?
On July 2nd 2020, at 20.00, several days before the Croatian general election, the Moise Palace will host a discussion on the topic of “How Can We Improve Our Democracy?”. The discussion will be led by Sanja Bojanić, executive director of Center for Advanced Studies Southeast Europe and a professor at Academy for Applied Arts, →
CAS SEE Weekly Seminars with Guests – E. Glen Weyl
RadicalxChange (RxC) is a global movement advancing plurality, community, and equality through investigating and experimenting with innovative institutional designs for upgrading democratic decision-making, property regimes, markets, data economy, and collective intelligence management. Sparked by E. Glen Weyl’s research into social technologies for widely-shared prosperity and cooperation under diversity, RxC has since developed into a research →
“Fridays at the Moise” – Dr. Juraj Sepčić
“Fridays at the Moise” gatherings have continued on June 19th, 2020, with a lecture entitled “About Health”, and held by prof. dr. sc. Juraj Sepčić. The lecture is a part of a weekly event organized by the Centre for Lifelong Learning and the University of Rijeka. “Health Is Silence of the Body” Dr. Sepčić is →
CAS SEE Weekly Seminars with Guests – Olivia Guaraldo
On Thursday, June 25th from 10.00 to 12.00 am the fifth CAS SEE Weekly Seminar with Olivia Guaraldo, presented by our Fellow Valentina Moro took place on Zoom. The seminar discussed Arendt’s imaginative reception of the Athenian democracy. Olivia Guaraldo is an associate professor of political philosophy at the Department of Human Sciences and the director of the Hannah Arendt →
Solidarity in Times of Pandemics: CAS SEE Weekly Seminars with Guests – Barbara Prainsack
On Wednesday, June 17th from 10.00 to 11.30 am we hosted the fourth CAS SEE Weekly Seminar with Barbara Prainsack, presented by Vedran Džihić. The COVID-19 pandemic poses unprecedented challenges for policymakers, public health officials, and societies. The social and economic effects are likely to be felt for years to come. Amidst these difficult times, politicians, →
“Fridays at the Moise”: The Role of Grandparents in Contemporary Childhood
On Friday, June 12th, 2020, the Moise Palace hosted prof. dr. sc. Jasna Krstović, who held a lecture entitled “The Role of Grandparents in Contemporary Childhood”. It was an introduction to a series of lectures for citizens in the Moise Palace in Cres, the scientific and educational center of the University of Rijeka. Prof. Krstović’s lecture, →
“Fridays at the Moise”
After the Lockdown, on Friday, June 5th, 2020 the Moise Palace Program was finally launched with an event – “Fridays at the Moise”, opening the Moise Palace to citizens of Cres and their guests. The first lecture, entitled “The Poetics and the Poeticness of Physics – To See the World in a Grain of Sand” →
CAS SEE Spring Fellowship 2020 Seminars – Ondřej Císař and Guglielmo Feis
When it comes to this year’s fellowship, it’s almost difficult not to get excited about contemporary social sciences and the things we do at CAS SEE here in Rijeka. In between two Weekly Seminars, we have gathered again on Thursday at ten to share more about what each of the Spring Fellows is researching and →
CAS SEE Weekly Seminars with Guests – Kateřina Vráblíková
On Thursday, June 11th from 10.00 to 12.00 am we have hosted the third CAS SEE Weekly Seminar with Kateřina Vráblíková, presented by our Fellow Professor Ondřej Císař. The seminar revolved around Vráblíková’s new book – What Kind of Democracy?: Participation, Inclusiveness, and Contestation. Kateřina Vráblíková is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Bath, UK. Her →
CAS SEE Weekly Seminars with Guests – John Keane
On Thursday, May 28th from 9.00 to 11.00 am we hosted the second CAS SEE Weekly Seminar with John Keane, presented by Vedran Džihić and Sanja Bojanić, and dedicated to the presentation (and discussion) of Keane’s new book The New Despotism. In his path-breaking new book, John Keane, Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney →
CAS SEE Weekly Seminars with Guests – Adriana Cavarero
On May 21st, 2020 at 10 AM we held our first “CAS SEE Weekly Seminar with Guests”, where we welcomed Adriana Cavarero who spoke about her latest work “Resurging Democracy”. The Italian philosopher Adriana Cavarero is among the most influential feminist theorists in the international debate. Her latest book “Democrazia sorgiva. Note sul pensiero politico →
Vedran Džihić at CAS SEE
On Thursday, April 30th, 2020 the usual 10 AM “Isolation Zoom Meeting” was held within this year’s Spring Fellowship, however, the regular ten have been strengthened by an eleventh CAS teammate, Dr. Vedran Džihić, one of the Centre’s directors, who was joining us from Vienna. With the regard to the circumstances, Dr. Džihić reminded some →
The New (Form of) Work: CAS SEE Fellowship 2020/21
As the isolation period began taking its remote-work and restrictive-movement-measurements form, it had slowly begun being clear to us that our work is not “simply” being put to a pause, the famous “halt” and wait, but rather, that we have entered a new stage of organizing our endeavors. One of the immediate tasks which had →
“Architectures of Vision” – Call for Papers
The Call for Papers for our 2020 conference, “Architectures of Vision,” is now open! International Association for Visual Culture’s 6th biennial conference in cooperation with the Department of Cultural Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka University of Rijeka, Croatia / September 10 – 12, 2020 / Submissions due May 1, 2020 →
Values at Stake – SE Europe: A Normative Marketplace?
The region of Southeast Europe has been expected to progress almost linearly on the European and democratic path, accepting, implementing, and internalizing the democratic and liberal values that the European Union stands for. The EU was founded as the “greatest peace project of all time”. Its steady political and economic progress before the Great Recession →
Reflections from Isolation
March 2020 As a form of keeping spirits under the newly-developing global circumstances, we asked our 2020 Fellows to send us a few words about how are they holding up, and to share thoughts they might have on the COVID-19 crisis. The aim was not to delve too deep into theoretical and scientific discussions, which →
The Call for 2nd Summer School in Migration: European Border Regime in the Periphery of the EU
The Second Summer School in Migration explores the analytical potential of critical migration and border regime studies in the context of the EU periphery or more precisely in the context of research of/along the so-called Balkan route. The school will consider current research and the struggles surrounding migration in the Balkan region. It will also →
Program of the “Equality and Citizenship 2020” Summer School
The Center for Advanced Studies – South East Europe, the University of Rijeka, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Rijeka and the Croatian Society for Analytic Philosophy are organizing the 7th edition of the Equality and Citizenship Summer School which will be held from July 13th to 17th, 2020 in →
UNIRI Moise Palace: Cres
The Moise Palace – an education center of the University of Rijeka This five-hundred-year-old patrician townhouse is the largest Renaissance palace on the Croatian island of Cres. A venue and forum for various scientific and research activities, it welcomes visiting academics, students, artists, as well as teams of experts and practitioners wishing to withdraw for →
aut aut: Pensare la violenza
Time: February 13th, 2020 from 17:30-19:30h Venue: Lovat Library, Trieste Are effective actions against the use of violence possible, and if so – in what terms? The political, verbal and identity violence that pervades the languages and actions of the institutions, is causing us to rethink the critical tools that we want to put in →
Seminar With Oszkár Roginer: “/self/perception of minorities and knowledge production”
“The research project proposed a comprehensive analysis of a structural flaw in the social sciences and humanities, which is similar to – or even part of – methodologic nationalism. A concept, which is proposed by many scholars of late-modern nationalism studies, migration studies, globalisation studies, global history, historical sociology, comparative literature, and which emerged as →
Seminar with Andrey Menshikov: “Political emotions, religious feelings and human rights”
“In the aftermath of Pussy Riot punk prayer, a section on the freedom of conscience in the Russian criminal code has been renewed and the norm appeared aimed at protecting “religious feelings”. This clause, although extremely controversial, indicates the important trend. By granting the right to protection of religious feelings, legislature not merely positively discriminated →
Seminar with Valentina Moro: “Staging gender in Antiquity: why is this archive still crucial for feminist theory? The case of the study of kinship”
“The research project I worked on at CAS SEE focuses on feminist discourses and methodologies. In this seminar presentation, I discussed several contributions in the research field of Gender in Antiquity, which are significantly relevant for their feminist methodology. This links my research as a fellow in Rijeka and my previous work, insofar as I →
Seminar with Snežana Vesnić “Altered Time and Memory: Analog(y) of the Digital”
“My intention is to provide a new theoretical concept of the relation of analog/digital in order to then draw on it as a technology for the creation of new cultural models of the European Union. In a practical sense, I would like to construct a theoretical basis, critically deconstructing the relation analog/digital, with which I →
Seminar with Guglielmo Feis: “Coding for Humanities”
“The talk takes a hands on practical approach to show how a little bit of familiarity with programming may benefit a researcher in the humanities. We are the machines, pcs are our tool. It is our duty to set them properly and use them to do less boring work (e.g.: typesetting bibs) and have more time to →
Seminar with Sabino Paparella “About ‘e-selfing’: from self-branding to Quantified Self”
“Whether is considered under the bad aegis of ‘surveillance capitalism’s’ new-panopticism (Crary, 2013; Zuboff, 2019), or as the ‘organized networks’ affordance (Rossiter, 2006; Lovink/Rossiter, 2011) towards social movements, the political efficiency of new digital media however depends on the transduction of a body-individual physical identity in the Netizen’s digital one. We need a digital identity →
Seminar with Dragana Kovačević Bielicki
Mapping the anti-migrant protests in Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina through their online media coverage (2015-present) “The ‘migrant crisis’ in Europe in 2015 and beyond has resulted in an abundance of pro- and anti-migration discourses and practices. The continuous arrival and transit of migrants has been accompanied by rising anti-migration sentiments and reactions. This →
A Day at the Moise Palace
The tenth generation of CAS SEE fellows were inaugurated at the Open Doors Day of the Moise Palace in the city of Cres on October 1st, 2019 thus symbolically celebrating the new academic year 2019/2020. The event provided us with the opportunity of welcoming an esteemed guest, Prof. Bernard Stiegler who gave a lecture on →
Open Doors Day at the Moise Palace
New academic year 2019/2020 Lecture by Bernard Stiegler and a roundtable October 1st, 2019 at 12.00 pm It is our pleasure to invite you to the celebration of the beginning of the new academic year 2019/2020, which will be marked on October 1st, 2019 at 12.00 pm with an Open Doors Day at the Moise →
Call for Papers & Posters: Croatian EU Council Presidency Conference
First Announcement HERItage: The role of cultural heritage in socio-economic development and preservation of democratic values Organised by University of Rijeka In partnership with: Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia and the European Commission as part of the Croatian Presidency of the Council of the European Union Date and Venue: March 11-13, 2020, Opatija →
Program of the “Equality and Citizenship 2019” Summer School
The Center for Advanced Studies – South East Europe, the University of Rijeka, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Rijeka and the Croatian Society for Analytic Philosophy are organizing the 6th edition of the Equality and Citizenship Summer School which will be held from July 10th to 14th, 2019 in →
International colloquium with Axel Honneth “Democracy, Socialism and Engagement: Axel Honneth and Critical Theory Today”
Belgrade, June 21-22, 2019 Critical Theory today faces a daunting triple challenge: to explain the far-reaching societal transformations that have undermined democracy across the globe over the past decade, justify the normative foundations for the critique of these processes in universalist terms, and present a vision of the good society that can provide, not just →
Towards a Harmony of Epistemic and Political Virtues: Seminar on Snježana Prijić-Samaržija’s “Democracy and Truth”
Belgrade, June 20, 2019 at 3.00 pm Venue: Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory (IFDT) Address: Kraljice Natalije 45, 11000 Belgrade (4th Floor, Conference Room) Snježana Prijić-Samaržija’s Democracy and Truth: The Conflict Between Political and Epistemic Virtues (2018) has a two-fold task. First, the book, generally speaking, aims to justify the application of epistemology to real-world situations →
“Cities and regions in flux after border change: Reconfiguring the frontier, reshaping memory and visualizing change in twentieth century Europe”
International Conference Rijeka, Croatia, 10-12 July 2019 Venue: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka Address: Sveučilišna avenija 4, 51000 Rijeka (Room 230, 2nd Floor) Since the end of the First World War, cities and regions in Europe, particularly in the eastern half of the continent, witnessed frequent changes in borders. Previous research on →
BOOKS, PAPERS AND REVIEWS PUBLISHED BY CAS SEE FELLOWS
CAS SEE fellows have published (or are about to publish) an impressive list of publications in the period between 2018 and 2019: Daniela Brasil Brasil, Daniela and Daily Rhythms Collective. NO FEAR, DEAR. Empowerment Print Bar: making voices visible through printing actions in public spaces. 2017-18 in Berlin, Chiang Mai, Graz, Manaus, Salvador da Bahia. →
Call for Papers: Feminist Responses to Populist Politics
Special Issue 25, European Journal of English Studies Guest editors: Mónica Cano Abadía (University of Graz), Sanja Bojanić (University of Rijeka), Valentina Moro (University of Padova/University of Rijeka) ‘Populism’ is as slippery a term as the political soil it rhizomes in. During the last decade, it has been tested in political reality on numerous occasions →
Lecture by Ulf Brunnbauer
What shipyards can tell about late Socialism and Post-Socialism (and what they cannot), on the example of Uljanik Anent the recent signing of the Agreement on Academic Cooperation between the University of Rijeka and the University of Regensburg, we are glad to invite you to a lecture by Prof. Dr. Ulf Brunnbauer, Director of the →
Seminar with Ivan Flis
Are Open Science practices the solution? The case of psychology’s replication crisis “The seminar takes a critical look at the role of Open Science practices and advocacy within the ongoing replication crisis in psychology. Open Science is a multifaceted interdisciplinary movement that spans the modern university, within which scientists themselves criticize established scientific practices of →
Seminar with Bojan Baća
Digitalization of the Marketplace of (Reactionary) Ideas: The Alt-Right as a Political Ideology, Social Movement, and Counter-Culture “The seminar explores the emerging phenomenon of the alternative right, or the “Alt-Right”, as a multidimensional phenomenon – that is, as a political ideology, social movement, and counter-culture. By taking a position of critical sociology, this seminar presents →
Seminar with Nilay Kılınç
Highly-Skilled Turkish Migrants’ Search for Alternative Diaspora Spaces in Europe: How They Build (Digital) Social Networks Beyond the ‘Culture of Rejection’ “This research explores Europe-based highly-skilled Turkish migrants’ everyday-life experiences in; a) work places, b) wider social community and, c) wider Turkish diaspora community. The project focuses on the narratives of individual identity vis-à-vis the →
Agreement on academic cooperation between the University of Rijeka and the University of Regensburg
For the purposes of developing academic exchange and cooperation programs in both education an research, the University of Rijeka and the University of Regensburg (Germany) and its associated institute, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg agreed upon cooperation on research and educational processes at both universities. These activities will promote the →
(Re)building Progressive Thought for Common Europeanness in Central Eastern & Southeastern Europe
The ERSTE Foundation and the Center of Advanced Studies Southeast Europe, University of Rijeka invite you to “(Re)building Progressive Thought for Common Europeanness in Central Eastern & Southeastern Europe” A Round Table Discussion and Presentation of the Southeast European Institute (SEI) initiative Date: May 8, 2019 Venue: ERSTE Foundation, Am Belvedere 1, Vienna Time: 17.30 →
Values at Stake: Revisiting Normative Horizons for Southeast Europe
Date: Thursday, 25 April, 2019 Venue: Europe House Zagreb, Jurišićeva 1/1 18:00 -19:30 | Welcome Türkan Karakurt, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Zagreb Senada Šelo Šabić, Institute for Development and International Relations Zagreb Public Discussion: Can Values Unite Us? (in B/H/S language) Igor Štiks, writer Antonija Petrušić, Law Faculty, University of Zagreb Bojan Baća, Center for Advanced Studies Southeast →
Lecture by Abel Polese: “How to publish, why to publish, what journals to target and why?”
Date: April 24, 2019 at 14.30 Venue: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka, Room 107, 1st Floor How to publish, why to publish, what journals to target and why? Reflections on publications strategies from “The Scopus diaries and the (il)logics of academic survival” “Academics need to publish, and peer review, articles; they →
The Second Rijeka Industrial Heritage – Education for Tourist Guides
University of Rijeka, Center for Advanced Studies – South East Europe and Center for Industrial Heritage organized an education on Rijeka industrial heritage designed for tourist guides, which took place on February 11th, 2019 in “Akvarij“, at the University of Rijeka campus. University of Rijeka is working alongside the City of Rijeka and Rijeka Tourist Board in a program and infrastructure development project “Touristic →
“Around 1800/2000 – Aesthetics at the Threshold”
CAS SEE Epistemology and Architecture Course Programme Venue: Inter University Center (IUC), Dubrovnik Dates: Monday, March 25 – Friday, March 29, 2019 Organizers: University of Rijeka, Center for Advanced Studies – South East Europe, Technical University Berlin, Politecnico Torino and Brown University The 2019 summer school Around 1800/2000 – Aesthetics at the Threshold addresses the changing concepts of →
Spring – Autumn 2019 CAS SEE Fellowship Recipients
The Center for Advanced Studies – South East Europe (CAS SEE) is pleased to announce the recipients of the Spring – Autumn 2019 CAS SEE Fellowship Awards at the University of Rijeka. The purpose of the CAS SEE Fellowship Programme is to further the research and creative work in the fields of the humanities and humanistic →
Jelena Belić
Structural Injustice, Shared Obligations, and Civil Society In this co-authored paper, we aim to shed more light on the shared obligations of individuals to address structural injustice. Following Iris Young, structural injustice occurs when a myriad of institutional and individual actions leads to outcomes that unfairly disadvantage many people (Young, 2011). To address structural injustice, →
Arianna Piacentini
Non-Alignment and Youth’s Political Engagement in Bosnia Herzegovina and Macedonia Political engagement and participation are fundamental ‘to change the system’ and counteract anti-democratic tendencies – and it is especially so in ethnically divided societies featured by ethnopolitics, such as Bosnia Herzegovina (BiH) and Macedonia. Starting from the assumption that political parties’ support goes hand in →
Lina Dokuzovic
Mapping and militant research from recent knowledge-based struggles to current migrant movements The seminar outlined the strategies and forms of occupation of recent protest movements, focusing on the university movements and migrant movements of the last decade. Cases from Austria and Croatia will serve as the core examples for analysis, with examples from the militant →
Dino Pitoski
Drivers of Human Migration: a review of scientific evidence “A vast number of studies has been dedicated to investigating which factors affect human migration. Those factors, often referred to as “determinants”, or “drivers” of migration, have become the founding blocks for different migration theories. While hundreds of factors have been stacking up into dozens of →
Roswitha Kersten Pejanić
Linguistic Landscape Studies in the Post-Conflict Society: Opportunities and Challenges Persisting bottom-up discourses of former open conflicts between the different national groups of former Yugoslavia can be perceived in the landscape of the former ‘Serbian Krajina’ in today’s Croatia. Next to legacies of the violent war in the physical landscape (such as ruins, danger signs of →
Mónica Cano Abadía
Vulnerability, Precarising Discourses, and Collective Political Responses This lecture addressed Judith Butler’s stances on precarising discourses. Her analysis on precariousness and precarity are key nowadays, when we are witnessing an unsettling and dangerous rise of fascistic discourses. Vulnerability is, then, a key concept for this project. Cano Abadia reflected on it within the tension that →
Rory Archer
To the Northwest! Intra-Yugoslav Albanian migration (1953-1989) “Researchers have explored many aspects of Albanian migration – so much so that one renowned scholar of the field, Russel King, described Albania as a ‘laboratory’ for the study of migration and development. Despite the large number of studies examining the experience of Albanian migrants in countries like →
Natasha Jankovic
#rijeka_terristories: New Media Atlas of Architecture or Profile of One City #rijeka_terristories is a hashtag used by Nataša Janković within her newly formed Instagram webpage Rijeka terristories https://www.instagram.com/rijeka_terristories/. This webpage was launched as part of a research project – Re/I:translating terRI[s]tories: architectural stories about Rijeka’s territory http://cas.uniri.hr/cas-fellowship-programme/current-fellows/ with the purpose of a methodological examination of →
Cities and Regions in Flux after Border Change: Reconfiguring the frontier, reshaping memory and visualizing change in twentieth century Europe
Rijeka, Croatia, 10-12 July 2019 Call for Papers Since the end of the First World War, cities and regions in Europe, particularly in the eastern half of the continent, witnessed frequent changes in borders. Previous research on border change and territorial transfers has focused on the actions of nationalizing regimes after the 1919 Paris conference, →
Erasmus+ Project “Rights at Work, Work on Rights”
Kickoff Meeting of the Erasmus+ Project “Rights at Work, Work on Rights” Kickoff meeting of the Erasmus+ Project “Rights at Work, Work on Rights” was held in Belgrade on December 12, 2018. The project, envisaged as a combination of awareness raising and educational activities, is aimed at improving knowledge and information of young workers on →
Rijeka Industrial Heritage – Education for Tourist Guides
University of Rijeka, Center for Advanced Studies – South East Europe and Center for Industrial Heritage organized an education for tourist guides, which took place on November 28 -29, 2018 in RiHub, a newly opened creative hub in the center of Rijeka. University of Rijeka is working alongside the City of Rijeka and Rijeka Tourist Board in a program and infrastructure development project “Touristic →
Call for Papers: “Rules without Words: Inquiries into Non-linguistic Normativities”
Special Issue of the journal Phenomenology and Mind Deadline for paper submission: March 27th, 2019 The issue will be published by December 2019 Call for Papers: In the common thinking, rules are often considered linguistic entities. However, forms of normativity not necessarily connected with verbal or written language emerge in the social reality. A number of normative →
The rise of nationalism in Europe: causes, effects, and comparison between Western and Eastern Europe
1st International Conference of the Faculty of Political Science, University of Montenegro in partnership with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and Center for Advanced Studies – South East Europe, University of Rijeka SEE ‘Academia in Dialogue’ Series The rise of nationalism in Europe: causes, effects, and comparison between Western and Eastern Europe Podgorica, 8-9 October 2018 PROGRAM October →
Closing of the Summer school of Innovative interpretation of industrial heritage
The press conference and the official closing of the Summer School of Innovative Interpretation of Industrial Heritage program was held on Friday, September 28th, at the Delta Lab in Rijeka. The Summer school is a part of the “Touristic Valorisation of Representative Monuments of Rijeka’s Industrial Heritage” program, and on this subject, the program was →
Summer School of Innovative Interpretation of Industrial Heritage
Summer School of Innovative Interpretation of Industrial Heritage, organized by Center for Industrial Heritage and Center for Advanced Studies – Southeast Europe of University of Rijeka in cooperation with Culture Hub Croatia and European Heritage Volunteers, started on Monday, 17th of September with the volunteers’ visit to the City of Rijeka, where they were welcomed →
Notation, Algorithm, Criticism: Towards a Critical Epistemology of Architecture
Venue and date: IUC, Dubrovnik, September 17-22, 2018 Course description: In modernity, there is no place for architecture without critical reflection, just as modern culture without cultural criticism is no better than the barbarism it has replaced (Schnädelbach). Critique is necessary of any activity, be it artistic, political, or scientific. In 1976, it was the „crisis →
Industrial Heritage Interpretation Conference
Center for Industrial Heritage and Center for Advanced Studies – Southeast Europe at the University of Rijeka in collaboration with the Culture Hub Croatia and European Heritage Volunteers invite you to the “Industrial Heritage Interpretation” Conference September 18, 2018 at the Delta Lab (Delta 5, 51000 Rijeka) 09.00 – 14.00 | Morning Session 09.00 – 10:30 →
Round Table “In Tribute to Saba Mahmood” with Judith Butler
Round Table with Judith Butler “In Tribute to Saba Mahmood” took place at the Art-kino Croatia in Rijeka on June 20th 2018, within the summer school “Critique of Violence Now: from Thinking to Acting against Violence” program. The round table discussion, entitled In Tribute to Saba Mahmood, was dedicated to the recently deceased anthropologist from the →
III. Rijeka SeminaRi
Rijeka Summer Research Seminars in History & Culture Dates: July 11-12, 2018 Organizers: CAS SEE & Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka event organized with CEASCRO (Rijeka) & the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Göttingen) DAY 1 – History of Psychiatry and Mental Diseases Wednesday, 11. 7. →
“Critique of Violence Now. From Thinking to Acting Against Violence” with Judith Butler
The CAS SEE 2018 Summer School “Critique of Violence Now. From Thinking to Acting Against Violence” (June 18 – 22, 2018) opened with at inaugural lecture by Judith Butler, entitled “Interpreting Non-Violence”. The event took place at the Croatian National Theater “Ivan pl. Zajc” in Rijeka on Monday, June 18th 2018. During the lecture Butler →
Fashion Week Spring 2018 – Food: Policies & Innovations
Fashion Week Spring 2018 – Food: Policies & Innovations gathered, for the first time in Croatia, the representatives of the European parliament, Croatian government, the civil sector, scientific community, media, architecture and activism in a two-day discussion on the growing economic, ecological, social and urban problem of Europe – food waste, donation and production. Organizers →
The fourth ICCTP Conference “The Critique of Violence Now”
We are pleased to announce the fourth conference of the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs (ICCTP) to be held at Rijeka, Croatia on June 16-19, 2018 on the topic of “The Critique of Violence Now”. The conference will take place at the Center for Advanced Studies – South East Europe, University of Rijeka, and will →
Fashion Week Spring 2018
Fashion Week Spring 2018 is organized in collaboration with CeKaDe (Center for the Culture of Dialogue) and Food Network, and its central theme is food. Researchers, politicians, business representatives, philosophers, architects and activists will – for the first time in Croatia – have chance to thoroughly discuss the developing a food network with the future →
Public Lecture by Judith Butler: “Interpreting Non-Violence”
Venue: Croatian National Theatre Ivan pl. Zajc in Rijeka Date and time: June 18th 2018 at 6 p.m. This year’s Summer School opens with a public lecture by Judith Butler (University of California, Berkeley), entitled “Interpreting Non-Violence.” The lecture will be held on Monday, June 18th 2018, at 6.00 p.m. at the Croatian National Theatre ‘Ivan →
Summer School Program: “Critique of Violence Now: from Thinking to Acting against Violence”
University of Rijeka, Center for Advanced Studies Southeast Europe (UNIRI CAS SEE) In cooperation with The Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory University of Belgrade Supported by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Zagreb, National Theatre Ivan pl. Zajc, Goethe Institute Zagreb, Erste Foundation, European Fund for the Balkans, French Institute Croatia, Consulato generale d’Italia – Fiume, City →
Program of the “Equality and Citizenship 2018” Summer School
The Center for Advanced Studies – South East Europe, the University of Rijeka, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Rijeka and the Croatian Society for Analytic Philosophy are organizing the 5th edition of the Equality and Citizenship Summer school from June 25th – 29th, 2018 in Rijeka, Croatia. Summer school program and →
Filip Milačić
The Emergence of Identity Politics Cleavage and its Effect on Social Movements Seminar was held at the University of Rijeka on May 11, 2018. “Numerous European societies are currently dealing with great socio-political changes that are strongly affecting their political systems and their democracies in general. I argue that this has been to a great →
Tiziano Toracca
Metamorphosis of Labour. The Movement for a Basic Income in the Light of the Modern Paradigm of Labour Seminar held at the University of Rijeka on May 11, 2018. “In my talk I will discuss a social and political movement active at an international level, which engages in developing a new paradigm of welfare through →
Barbara Turk Niskač
“Life is all about work”: Growing food as lifestyle politics in Slovenia Seminar was held at the University of Rijeka on May 11, 2018. “In a global drive towards lowering production costs and maximise profits run by corporations and market institutions (Steel 2009), many agree that the global food systems need rethinking (Grasseni 2014). →
Daniela Brasil
Emancipatory Learning: Reframing Situatedness and the new Cartographies of Belonging Seminar was held at the University of Rijeka on May 10, 2018. “In this paper we will discuss the first part of The Emancipatory Learning Project, a long-term art-based-research-journey I have embarked within decolonial (Mignolo, Souza Santos, do Mar Castro Varela, Spivak, Vasquez) and →
Polona Sitar
Reclaiming Menstruation: Menstrual Social Movements, Feminist-Spiritualist Menstrual Activism and The Red Tent Seminar was held at the University of Rijeka on May 10, 2018. “In this paper we will try to understand global menstrual movements as new forms of social engagement, especially in which way they are challenging and changing the existing social order →
Francesca Forlè
Rythmòs in Acting Together. A Tool to Improve Stability and to Orient Power Hierarchies Seminar was held at the University of Rijeka on May 10, 2018. “The main aim of the present talk is to argue that the theoretical notion of rythmòs (Piana 1991, Zhok 2012) can be crucial in the analysis of shared agency →
Rules without Words #2
The seventh, Summer 2018, generation of CAS SEE Fellows continues investigations into non-verbal normativity. This year’s seminar is reflective of the diversity of themes which may gather under the umbrella of “rules without words”, with Fellows tackling issues of requiredness, unlearning and Laibach. The language of the lectures and the discussion is English. The seminar →
CAS SEE Fellows at the „Engagement for Social Change: Moving beyond Resistance“ conference
The current, 7th generation of CAS SEE fellows participated in the „Engagement for Social Change: Moving beyond Resistance“ conference held in Belgrade, 19-21 April, 2018. Francesca Forle presented her paper „Rythmòs in Acting Together. A Tool to Improve Stability and Orient Power Hierarchies“ at the “Thinking of Engagement” panel of the first day, together with Olga →
Critique of Violence Now: From Thinking to Acting against Violence
2018 CAS SEE Summer School Rijeka, June 18 – 22, 2018 Guest lecturers: Judith Butler (Berkeley University) Hervé Le Brass (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) Peter Fenves (Northwestern University) Alexis Nuselovici-Nouss (University of Aix-Marseille, Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme) Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky (Ruhr University Bochum) Marc Crepon (Ecole normale supérieure, Paris) Rationale and →
“Peace and Conflicts – Present and Future Challenges” Conference
The conference Peace and Conflicts – Present and Future Challenges (April 16 – 17, 2018) is set to be held at the University in Rijeka (Campus) within the organizational framework of the University of Rijeka, Peace Research Institute, Oslo; International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities, University of Tübingen; Center for Peace Studies, Zagreb; and CeKaDe, Rijeka; →
Call for Applications: “Transitional Justice & Memory Politics” Summer School
Venue: Cres, Croatia Date: July 1-12, 2018 How to apply? Applications have started for the 2018 edition of the Cres Summer School on Transitional Justice and the Politics of Memory, a unique, two-week immersion into how diverse societies around the world deal with past abuses and conflicts. The Cres Summer School offers participants a timely, intensive and multidisciplinary →
5 YEARS OF CAS SEE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF RIJEKA
The 5th anniversary of the Center for Advanced Studies – South East Europe at the University of Rijeka was held at the at the Rectorate’s Aula Magna on Monday, March 26, 2018. On the occasion, Madam Rector, Prof. Snježana Prijić – Samaržja, Director od CAS SEE opened the event with presentation of the Center’s establishment →
Call for Papers: “The rise of nationalism in Europe: Causes, Effects, and Comparison Between Western and Eastern Europe”
Conference dates: October 8-9, 2018 Venue: Podgorica, Montenegro Guest lecturers: Wolfgang Merkel, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Germany Joakim Ekman, Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden Zsolt Enyedi, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary Daniele Conversi, University of the Basque Country and Ikerbasque, Spain Daphne Halikiopoulou, University of Reading, Great Britain Jelena Džankić, European University Institute, Florence, Italy Rastko Močnik, University of →
Call for Applications: The 5th Edition of the Equality and Citizenship Summer School
The Center for Advanced Studies – South East Europe, the University of Rijeka, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Rijeka and the Croatian Society for Analytic Philosophy are organizing the 5th edition of the Equality and Citizenship Summer school from June 25th – 29th, 2018 in Rijeka, Croatia. The Summer school does →
5 Years of CAS SEE at the University of Rijeka
Date: March 19, 2018 Venue: Aula Magna, University of Rijeka Rectorate Address: Trg braće Mažuranića 10, HR-51000 Rijeka, Croatia Center for Advanced Studies was established on March 13, 2013 at the University of Rijeka. In its five years long course of action, the Center is performing scientific and research activities in the fields of Social →
Spring 2018 CAS SEE Fellowship Recipients
The Center for Advanced Studies – Southeast Europe (CAS SEE) was pleased to host the recipients of the Spring 2018 CAS SEE Fellowship Awards at the University of Rijeka, for the first working meeting. The purpose of the CAS SEE Fellowship Programme is to further the research and creative work in the fields of the humanities →
RULES WITHOUT WORDS
An Interdisciplinary Seminar on Non-Verbal Normativity Date and Venue: February 8, 2018 at Društvo arhitekata Rijeka (DAR) Organization: CAS SEE & DAR Non-verbal normativity surrounds us. In design and architecture practices, the visual communication and the built environment transmit rules and shape behaviour in a variety of, arguably, understudied ways. Signalization, political and lifestyle propaganda →
Olimpia Giuliana Loddo
How to understand the normative nature of a picture? “Pictures have often been considered as means of representation or as forms of expression. However, an agent can use pictures for different goals (Mitchell, Nyíri) and more specifically, pictures can have a normative sense (Lorini). The expression ‘normative sense’ is vague and it hides different possible →
Davide Pala
Experts, Good Citizens, Democratic Public Debates and Global Warming “Among climate experts there is an overwhelming consensus that (i) global warming is occurring, that (ii) this fact is alarming and that (iii) humans are causally responsible for it. Despite this, 16% of American citizens deny that (i) global warming is occurring, 48% of them question →
CARLO BURELLI
The Pure Normativity of Realism “In this paper, I investigate the question of whether realism can provide a substantive normative standard to evaluate institutions. While classical realists focus on the individual dimension of political actors and their freedoms and responsibilities, many contemporary realists adopt broadly liberal values for political institutions. Drawing from discussions about the →
GERRIT WEGENER
How Long is Now? “Thinking about architecture, we are confronted with the heritage of former generations as well the questions of how to understand, act on, act with and further develop these structures and how to create today a vision of and for the future. My vision of an interaction with the existing building stock →
MILORAD KAPETANOVIC
Legalising informal construction in Rijeka “This presentation is an extension of the original research proposal which dealt with individual informal construction and its legalization process in the light of European Capital of Culture. Through it, I aimed to get better insight in Rijeka as a case of relatively high construction regulation, in historical terms and compared to the rest →
Natasha Jankovic
Architectural terRI(s)tories[1]: mapping the process of city transformation [1] Architectural stories about Rijeka’s territory “Architecture represents one of the possible ways of how territory can be marked, but it is also a permanent trace of the process of its development. As a built form it is a sign in the ground, while as an idea it represents a trace of various approaches →
MONICA CANO ABADIA
The Re-Radicalization of Critical Thinking. Toward a Global Social Justice with Judith Butler and Rosi Braidotti “The research project The Re-Radicalization of Critical Thinking: Toward a Global Social Justice intends to carry out a diffractive reading on Rosi Braidotti and Judith Butler. A diffractive reading is a methodology that tries to read important insights though one →
2018-2019 CAS SEE FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS
The Center for Advanced Studies – Southeast Europe (CAS SEE) at the University of Rijeka is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2018/2019 CAS SEE Fellowship Awards. The purpose of the CAS SEE Fellowship Programme is to further the research or creative work in the humanities and humanistic social sciences in the Balkans. Fellows →
Fellows at the “TESTIMONY. POETRY. LANGUAGE.” Conference
The conference investigated the concept of testimony, notably war testimony, from different perspectives, i.e., literature, philosophy, sociology and political activism. The first day of the conference and a roundtable on the third day were entirely devoted to the analysis of the holocaust poet Paul Celan through the contributions of Sue Vice, Pajari Räsänen, Matthew Boswell →
FASHION WEEK WINTER 2017
Fashion Week is a seasonal showcase of the Sweet and Salt flagship, which is a part of a project Rijeka – European Capital of Culture 2020, presenting us with themes, concepts, works, plans and cooperative developments connected to the understanding and designing the future city through the context of Rijeka and the S&S territory. This →
Fashion Week Winter 2017
Fashion Week is the seasonal showcase of Sweet&Salt flagship, which is part of the Rijeka – European Capital of Culture 2020 project, presenting the themes, concepts, works, plans and cooperative developments connected to the understanding and designing the future city through the context of Rijeka and the S&S territory. The themes of this year’s program are the →
“Race, Nation, Class’: Ambiguous Identities” international seminar with CAS SEE fellows
The coming year will mark three decades since the publication of Immanuel Wallerstein’s and Etienne Balibar’s seminal work Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities. The book, characterized by a specific ”dialogical” structure, has become influential in the study of racism and in the interdisciplinary school of cultural studies. The publication of the work was preceded by →
„Science and Culture: Trieste & Rijeka 2020“: University of Trieste and University of Rijeka
The Science and Culture: Trieste & Rijeka 2020: University of Trieste and University of Rijeka working meeting was held at the University of Rijeka on Monday, December 4, 2017 with representatives of both universities. In 2020, Rijeka will carry the title of European Capital of Culture alongside Trieste carrying the title of European Capital of →
Testimony. Poetry. Language. Conference
Organizers: Center for Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade; The Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade and Center for Advanced Studies – South East Europe, University of Rijeka Time and venue: Belgrade, 14 – 16. 12. 2017 Witnessing is a participative act, testifying is an act of speech with multiple addressees at one time, at the least →
Fellows at the “Cultures in Translation” Conference in Belgrade
CAS SEE Fellows have participated in the international Conference Cultures in Translation: a Paradigm for Europe / Culture in traduzione: un paradigmna per l’Europa / Kulture u prevodu: paradigma za Evropu, which took place 18-19 October 2017 at the Italian Cultural Institute in Belgrade. Following a fruitful exchange →
Lecture and Seminar with Tamar Meisels and Margaret Moore in Belgrade
Targeted Killing with Drones? Old Arguments, New Technologies Public Lecture by Tamar Meisels (Tel Aviv University) Tamar Meisels is a professor of Political Theory in the department of Political Science at Tel Aviv University. She earned her D.Phil. in Politics from Oxford University in 2001. Her primary research and teaching interests include liberal nationalism, territorial rights, →
Conference “Cultures in translation: a paradigm for Europe”
Culture in traduzione: un paradigma per l’Europa | Kulture u prijevodu: paradigma za Europu Date: 18-19 October 2017, Belgrade Venue: Italian Culture Institute in Belgrade Languages: English, Italian and Serbian Translation: Simultaneous PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME: Day 1 | 18 October 2017 9.00-10.00 | Registration of participants and welcome coffee 10.00-10.30 | Opening lecture ⌑ Petar Bojanic, IFDT (10 min) ⌑ Davide →
FEMINIST SELF-DEFENCE WORKSHOPS
The Center for Advanced Studies has initiated a feminist self-defence workshop organized in collaboration with the Center for Women’s Studies (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences), taking place at the Academy of Applied Arts at the University of Rijeka. The course will last until the end of the winter semester with guidance of current CAS →
AUTUMN 2017 CAS SEE FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS
The Center for Advanced Studies – Southeast Europe (CAS SEE) is pleased to announce the recipients of the Autumn 2017 CAS SEE Fellowship Awards at the University of Rijeka. The purpose of the CAS SEE Fellowship Programme is to further the research and creative work in the fields of the humanities and humanistic social sciences in →
BOOKS, PAPERS AND REVIEWS PUBLISHED BY CAS SEE FELLOWS
CAS SEE fellows have published or are about to publish an impressive list of publications in the period between 2015 and 2017: Benli, A. E. (2016) Implementing global taxes on natural resources: A social choice approach. Diacritica Vol. 30, No. 2 (pp. 15-32) Carabelli, G. (2015) Review of the book The Political Economy of Divided →
Between Intellectual and Sensory Reason: Towards an Epistemology of Architecture
Following last year’s course «Philosophy and Architecture: Inequality in the City» which took place at the IUC in Dubrovnik and engaged its participants in topics related to the political and urban implications of social injustice in cities, this year’s summer school’s focus was on the double bind of architecture as a material practice and as →
Summer school “Between Intellectual and Sensory Reason: Towards an Epistemology of Architecture”
Program Co-directors: Snjezana Prijic Samarzija, University of Rijeka Jörg H. Gleiter, Technical University Berlin Petar Bojanic, University of Belgrade / CAS SEE University of Rijeka Vladan Djokic, University of Belgrade Focal Theme: Throughout the history of philosophy, architecture has been widely referred to as a metaphor for conscious action and logical construction. For Aristotle the →
Back to the future – Livable life between nostalgia and utopia
As hundreds of representatives of civil society from Western Balkan countries assembled in Trieste for the Civil Society Forum, CAS co-organized a kick-off event which included the screening of the documentary “Trieste, Yugoslavia” and a lively debate themed “Back to the future – Livable life between nostalgia and utopia”. Introduced by Franz Karl Prueller of the ERSTE Foundation →
Gruia Bădescu
Sites of memory and the criminalization of authoritarian pasts: Interrogating Goli Otok in a regional and transnational frame. “A repertoire of transitional justice practices has been mobilized in the last decades in states that experienced various incarnations of authoritarian regimes, from Latin America to Central and Eastern Europe. From trials to incriminating reports, from lustration →
II Ad-Ri SeminaRi
History&Culture Research Seminar-Ri(jeka) 2017 A CAS SEE Event. Conception FFRi History & Cultural Studies List of the Discussants (in bold paper presenters and organizers) Gruia Badescu (CAS, Rijeka), Carla Konta (Università di Trieste), Sarah Czerny (Filozofski Fakultet, Rijeka), Neža Čebron Lipovec (Univerza na Primorskem, Koper), Vanni D’Alessio (Filozofski Fakultet, Rijeka, Università di Napoli), Franko Dota →
Civil Society Forum Trieste of the Western Balkans Summit Series
Screening of the documentary “Trieste, Yugoslavia” Date: Monday, July 10, 2017 Venue: Revoltella Museum Gallery of Modern Art, Via Armando Diaz 27, Trieste 18.00 – 18.30 | Welcome speech Franz Karl Prueller, ERSTE Foundation Branka Panic, European Fund for the Balkans 18.30 – 20.30 | Screening of the documentary movie: “Trieste, Yugoslavia” Discussion: „Back to the future →
Equality and Citizenship IV – Summer School Rijeka 2017.
Venue: Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka, Campus, Sveučilišna avenija 4, Room 401 program July 3rd, 2017 9.00 – 9.15 / Welcoming address by the members of the Organization board, the academic and the public authorities Tom Douglas Symposium 9.15 – 10.45 / Tom Douglas – The ‘Mere →
LIBERAL DEMOCRACY IN THE WEST / THE END OF HISTORY 25 YEARS LATER
PUBLIC LECTURE by Professor Francis Fukuyama Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) Stanford University Date: 04 July 2017 / 19.30 – 22.00 Venue: Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Sarajevo Moderation: Asim Mujkić, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Sarajevo Participants in the discussion: Petar Bojanić – Institute →
Call for papers: Croatian International Relations Review (CIRR)
Special issue on ‘European Union and Challenges of Cultural Policies: Critical Perspectives’ Guest editors: Jaka Primorac, Aleksandra Uzelac and Paško Bilić, Department for Culture and Communication, Institute for Development and International Relations (IRMO), Zagreb, Croatia Vol. 24 No. 83 (2018) The Croatian International Relations Review (CIRR) now accepts contributions for its special thematic issue with →
Building strategies in art and culture (post)graduate student initiatives
An intensive workshop on (self)organizing and management in culture Date: Rijeka, June 26 – 28, 2017, each day from 11.00 to 16.00, including two short breaks Venue: APURI (Academy of Applied Arts, University of Rijeka), Room A209, Slavka Krautzeka bb, 51000 Rijeka Workshop hosts: dr. Peter Purg, School of Arts, University of Nova Gorica (Slovenia) and Danica Bojić, →
“THE NEW LEFT” SUMMER SCHOOL
Organizers: FES DIALOGUE SOE & CAS SEE Venue: Rijeka University Campus, Faculty for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Sveučilišna avenija 4, IV Floor; Room 401, Rijeka Dates: June 11th – 17th 2017 Rationale and Background for the Summer School: The region of Southeast Europe is facing significant political and economic challenges which creates worrying distrust in the very basics →
MARIJA OTT FRANOLIĆ
READ, THINK, FEEL, ACT: Can reading literature be a path to becoming empathic and critical individuals, ready for social change? “Fiction enhances our vocabulary and imagination, gives us tools to describe and understand our lives, to make sense of the world. Reading fiction also offers readers a way to identify with the characters and imagine →
GREGOR MODER
Truth in Politics According to Spinoza, rights of individuals or groups are identical to their physical or psychical capabilities. If contemporary theory, including its Marxist variations, Althusser and Foucault, explains political and social relations as the relations of power and domination, of ideology and hegemony, then one could say that it follows the premises of →
Between Intellectual and Sensory Reason: Towards an Epistemology of Architecture
11 – 15 September / Between Intellectual and Sensory Reason: Towards an Epistemology of Architecture Course Description Throughout the history of philosophy, architecture has been widely referred to as a metaphor for conscious action and logical construction. For Aristotle the work of the master builder served as a metaphor for his philosophy of action, while Nietzsche →
SOCIAL ONTOLOGY SYMPOSIUM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF RIJEKA
The 19th edition of the International Conference Contemporary philosophical issues: Social Ontology Symposium at the University of Rijeka was officially opened with a welcome address by the newly elected University of Rijeka Chancellor, professor Snježana Prijić-Samaržija, followed by opening remarks by the CAS-SEE and Institute for Social Theory (University of Belgrade) director, professor Petar Bojanić. →
SOCIAL ONTOLOGY SYMPOSIUM
19th Edition of the International Conference Contemporary Philosophical Issues Date: May 22-23, 2017 Conference Venue: Faculty for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka, Campus, Sveučilišna avenija 4, 51000 Rijeka Organizer: Department of Philosophy, Faculty for Humanities and Social Sciences; Center for Advanced Studies – Southeast Europe, University of Rijeka; Croatian Society for Analytic Philosophy, PhD →
MAREK SZILVASI
Does it matter for excluded Roma whether water is public or private? Case study of Slovenia “Access to water especially in geographic regions threatened by water scarcity, have been increasingly elevated to the centre of the attention of governments, international community, and businesses across the world. Many political leaders and CEOs of multinational corporations have →
MATEJA KURIR
Architecture as Ideology: the perspectives of critical theory (Benjamin and Adorno). An attempt “The ideological attunement of architecture will be the key focus of the lecture, where the work of two promi-nent philosophers of critical theory on the topic of architecture, namely Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno, will be outlined. →
SEMINAR WITH ROBERT D. KAPLAN
Robert D. Kaplan visited Center for Advanced Studies – South East Europe on April 21, 2017 and gave a talk about how technology is making geography and geopolitics smaller, more anxious and claustrophobic, so that all of Eurasia is coming together as a single conflict system, even while Europe divides from within. Precisely because globalization leads to integration, →
NATASHA SARDZOSKA
Mapping of spatial memory in limitrophe cities: border-landscapes and border-bodies “My project draws on limitrophe cities and interzones within border-zones landscapes and deserted places where abandon, detachment, twisted memory and emotional representation shape the place as liminal and as ontologically uncertain. I argue border passages, which are today spaces deprived from meaning, or rather Phantomgrenzen, →
Call for papers – John Searle Symposium
19th Edition of the International Conference Contemporary Philosophical Issues Place: University of Rijeka, Croatia Organizers: Department of Philosophy, Faculty for Humanities and Social Sciences; Center for Advanced Studies – Southeast Europe, University of Rijeka; Croatian Society for Analytic Philosophy; PhD programme “Contemporaneity and philosophy”, LabOnt, University of Torino; Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University →
CAS SEE FELLOWS INAUGURATION
The Center for Advanced Studies – Southeast Europe (CAS SEE) at the University of Rijeka organized the 5th Fellows Inauguration at the University Campus Akvarij caffé on Thursday, March 16, 2017. The Fellows will stay and work at the CAS SEE premises in the following ten months divided in two terms (Spring and Autumn 2017/2018) and present their research to the representatives of →
2017-2018 CAS SEE FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS
The Center for Advanced Studies, Southeast Europe (CAS SEE) at the University of Rijeka is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2017-2018 CAS SEE Fellowship Awards. The purpose of the CAS SEE Fellowship Programme is to further the research or creative work in the humanities and humanistic social sciences in the Balkans. Fellows will →
ANTON MARKOČ
Are There Genuine Reasons Against Intending Harm? “Are bad intentions wrongs per se? In other words, are there normative reasons against intending harm and other bad effects which are not derived from reasons against harming or bringing those effects? The defenders of the Doctrine of Double Effect and all those who subscribe to the thesis →
DEANA JOVANOVIĆ
The thermodynamics of “muljavine i pizdarije”: state, infrastructure and moral economy of district heating in Bor (Serbia) and Rijeka (Croatia) “In this seminar I provided an anthropological perspective on how citizens in two post-Yugoslav industrial towns – Bor (Serbia) and Rijeka (Croatia) – encounter and negotiate district heating. I explored how moral economy and neoliberal →
Rastko Močnik
Fascisms: Historical, Neo-, and Post- “Public discourses now usually describe the new anti-liberal and anti-globalist politics as “populist”. The term is problematic in many ways. It is pronounced from aloof and entails the suggestion that politics is a matter of expertise, not to be soiled by the people. Consequently, the implied position of uttering contradicts →
Carlos González Villa
The Slovene Reaction to the European Migrant Crisis: Class and Ideology at the edge of Schengen “The European response to the 2015 migrant crisis was initially featured by warm welcome expressions from the European elites. However, it quickly evolved into the enhancement of extremist positions and the ‘Fortress Europe’ pretension. The opposition to the limited →
Rijeka 2020 – European Capital of Culture
FASHION WEEK – WINTER 2016 Fashion week – Winter 2016 is a seasonal event which took place on December 19 – 20, 2016, at the OKC Palach in Rijeka. The Winter 2016 pilot edition presented us with a two day display of the basic themes and concepts of the Sweet & Salt Flagship, including the →
CAS SEE FELLOWS PANEL IN VIENNA
The second day of the Aktionstage: Refugees – Migration – Democracy Symposium held at the Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien hosted a panel with the 4th generation of CAS-SEE Fellows. CAS-SEE Director Petar Bojanic provided Input on the subject of Europe, Refugees, Hospitality, Destitution. The 6th panel of the Symposium, entitled Towards a new research agenda: Debate and exchange →
Aktionstage: Refugees – Migration – Democracy
The first panel of the Aktionstage: Refugees – Migration – Democracy Symposium held at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, entitled (Not) Learning from history, part I: Yugoslav refugee crisis – how Europe dealt with it from left to right, moderated by Vedran Džihić (CAS SEE, University of Rijeka, oiip, Vienna) included the presentations of Zoran Slavinić →
On Mothers and Daughters with Mira Furlan
The upcoming January premiere of the Autumn Sonata by Ingmar Bergman at the Croatian National Theatre Ivan pl. Zajc in Rijeka was a great motive for another collaboration of scientific and art institutions in Rijeka. This time, the theme of engagement was a contemplation on the specifics and challenges of a complex mother – daughter →
SEMINAR WITH FLORIAN BIEBER AND CAS SEE FELLOWS
Following his lecture at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, professor Florian Bieber, Ph.D. held a seminar on the subject of current political developments in the U.S. and Europe and the complex life of academia, in dialogue with the fourth generation of CAS SEE Fellows at the University of Rijeka. →
Ernesto C. Sferrazza Papa
The “Wall”: Ontology, Politics, Culture “In my presentation I’ve shared with colleagues and participants the current stages of my research project. I divided the presentation into three parts, namely the three point of views of my approach to the issue of the wall. The first one is an ontological point, and I consider it the →
FLORIAN BIEBER
Crisis of Democracy in Southeastern Europe A lecture by Folrian Bieber, Ph.D., entitled “Crisis of Democracy in Southeastern Europe”, was held on Thursday, November 10, 2016 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. The lecture was organized by Center for Advanced Studies – South East Europe in cooperation with Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Rijeka. →
ANDREW HODGES
Social Inequalities on the Urban Periphery? Vocational Education, Ultras’ Participation and Cultures of Resistance in the Classroom This project seeks to analyse processes of class production as manifest through educational ‘sorting’ mechanisms alongside passive/active forms of resistance present amongst pupils enrolled in vocational education (strukovne škole) on the urban periphery of Zagreb. The aim is to make →
AKTIONSTAGE: REFUGEES – MIGRATION – DEMOCRACY
While most European states are not able to create humane conditions for those who have fled war zone sin the Near East in recent years, the dedication of Europe’s civil society proves that solidarity is alive and that the vision of a democratic Europe will not be abandoned. Community action – whether in smaller communities →
AUTUMN 2016 CAS SEE FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS
The Center for Advanced Studies Southeast Europe (CAS SEE) is pleased to announce the recipients of the Autumn 2016 CAS SEE Fellowship Awards at the University of Rijeka. The purpose of the CAS SEE Fellowship Programme is to further the research and creative work in the fields of the humanities and humanistic social sciences in the →
Philosophy and Architecture: Inequality in the City
The «Philosophy and Architecture: Inequality in the City» course took place at the IUC in Dubrovnik and engaged its participants in topics related to the political and urban implications of social injustice in cities from the 19th to the 24th of September. Almost thirty participants from eight countries contributed to the course by providing culturally →
What is Left in Diversity and what is Diverse in Left?
The panel discussion: “What is Left in Diversity and what is Diverse in Left?” was the last event of the CAS SEE “Rethinking Politics of Diversity” Rijeka summer school and was held at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (University of Rijeka) on Friday, September 16th, 2016. The discussion was led by Felix Henkel (FES →
“Crossing Roads: Civil Society and the Academia” round table
The “Crossing Roads: Civil Society and Academia” round table took place at the Rijeka City Hall on September 14th, 2016, as a part of the CAS SEE “Rethinking Politics of Diversity” summer school program, organised in cooperation with the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung – Zagreb, University Paris →
PHOTO EXHIBITION OPENING
The “Out of Sight: Poverty, Rurality, Gender” photo exhibition provides an intersectional approach to poverty and gender issues and presents us with photographs that were made as a result of a research project in the rural parts of Serbia and Kosovo. Jelena Ceriman, Milos Kosovac (CELAP) and Kristina Smoljanovic (Center for Advanced Studies, University of Rijeka) presented →
SUMMER SCHOOL OPENING
The Rethinking Politics of Diversity CAS SEE summer school started today with opening session led by Julija Sardelic, Gazela Pudar Drasko, Sanja Bojanic, Brigita Milos and Adriana Zaharijevic. Lectures by Julija Sardelić and Caroline Schultz followed in the morning and the afternoon sessions and the day will end with an opening of the “Out of Sight: Poverty, Rurality, Gender” →
Round Table “Crossing Roads: Civil Society and the Academia”
As a part of the CAS SEE Summer School program, the Round table Crossing Roads: Civil Society and the Academia will take place on Wednesday, September 14, 2016, starting at 5.30 pm at the City Hall (Korzo 16) in Rijeka. The question of representing the reality of society is fundamental and is now threatened by the triumph →
PHOTO EXHIBITION OPENING: “Out of Sight: Poverty, Rurality, Gender”
The photo exhibition opening will be held on Monday, September 12, 2016, starting at 5:00 pm at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (Main hall) on the University Campus, Sveučilišna avenija 4, Rijeka. The “Out of Sight: Poverty, Rurality, Gender” exhibition is a part of a Summer School “Rethinking Politics of Diversity” program and will be open in its whole duration, September 12th – →
CAS SEE Summer school Programme
RETHINKING POLITICS OF DIVERSITY RIJEKA UNIVERSITY CAMPUS, FACULTY FOR THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, Sveučilišna avenija 2, IV Floor; Room 401, Rijeka September 12th – September 16th 2016 Organized by: Center for Advanced Studies – South East Europe, University of Rijeka In cooperation with: Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade Friedrich Ebert Stiftung →
2016-2017 CAS SEE FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS
The Center for Advanced Studies, Southeast Europe (CAS SEE) at the University of Rijeka is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2016-2017 CAS SEE Fellowship Awards. The purpose of the CAS SEE Fellowship Programme is to further the research or creative work in the humanities and humanistic social sciences in the Balkans. Fellows will →
COURSE / PHILOSOPHY AND ARCHITECTURE
Course description: The course includes perspectives of social and political philosophers and architects on the issue of social inequality in cities and intimately related issues such as people’s quality of life and wellbeing. The assumed notion of cities contains an institutional component (a jurisdiction issue), a spatial component (an architectural issue of housing, density of →
History Rijeka Seminars – Riječki SeminaRi
The History Rijeka Seminars – Riječki SeminaRi are jointly organized by the Department of History (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences) and the Center for Advanced Studies – South East Europe (CAS SEE) at the University of Rijeka, Croatia. The first seminar was held on Thursday, June 30, 2016 at the Department of Art History →
ALFREDO SASSO
From the crisis to a “Third Yugoslavia”. The political project of Ante Marković and the Alliance of Reformist Forces In the extensive literature on the crisis and the dissolution of the Second Yugoslavia, the role of the so-called “alternatives”, grounding on a democratic and progressive view of the Yugoslav state, has been understudied. My research →
Call for Application: Rijeka Summer School – RETHINKING DIVERSITY POLITICS IN EUROPE
12-18 September, 2016, Rijeka (Croatia) organized by CAS SEE, UNIRI in cooperation with Center for Women’s Studies, University of Rijeka, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, University Paris 8, Vincennes-St Denis This summer school should provide space for recasting frameworks of “diversity politics” and “diversity discourses” in Europe. In light of recent events, we would →
Philosophy and Architecture: Social Inequalities and Cities
Social Inequalities and Cities is a CAS SEE course that took place at IUC Dubrovnik from 19th to 23rd September 2016. Course directors: Snjezana Prijic Samarzija, CAS SEE – University of Rijeka, Petar Bojanic, CAS SEE – University of Rijeka, University of Belgrade, Avner de Shalit, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jonatan Wolff, University College London, Joerg Gleiter, Technical University →
New Europe College – Institute for Advanced Studies’ “Refugees, Migrants and Cosmo-Politics” Conference in Bucharest
Petar Bojanic (CAS SEE, Belgrade Institute for Philosphy and Social Theory) gave a keynote lecture On Counter-Institution. Europe, Refuge, Hospitality, Destitution (Chair: Dan Lazea), on June 4th at the Refugees, Migrants and Cosmo-Politics Conference in Bucharest, organized by the New Europe →
VISIT TO THE CITY OF CRES AND THE RENAISSANCE MOISE PALACE
Within the 4th International Conference PLAYING BY THE RULES: Institutions in Action: The Nature and the Role of Institutions in the Real World the representatives of the University of Rijeka, Center for Advanced Studies and distinguished partners from the Institute for the Danube Region, Institute for Human Sciences (Vienna) →
SIGNING OF THE AGREEMENT OF COOPERATION between the University of Georgia (INSTITUTE OF HIGHER EDUCATION) and University of Rijeka (CAS SEE)
University of Rijeka (Center for Advanced Studies – Southeast Europe) and University of Georgia (Institute of Higher Education) signed a cooperation agreement towards the objective of a joint enforcement of academic programs and scientific research activities in the domain of development of institutions of science and higher education. This agreement has been signed in the course of the →
Round Table „The Role of Institutions – Experiences and Prospects“ and Opening Reception
With the round table on the subject of “The Role of Institutions – Experiences and Prospects”, which took place on Thursday, May 26, 2016 in Hotel Jadran in Rijeka, the 4th International Conference of the Center for Advanced Studies – Southeast Europe, PLAYING BY THE RULES. Institutions in Action: The Nature and the Role of Institutions →
IGOR ŠTIKS AT THE „WRITER AND CITIZEN“ DISCUSSION
The 11th session of the Writer and Citizen series (“Pisac i građanin”) will hoast writer and activist Igor Štiks. Discussion led by Željka Horvat Čeč will be held on Saturday, May 28, at the book cafe Dnevni boravak (Ciottina 12A) in Rijeka. This talk will question the position of a citizen and what happens when this position shifts in that of a foreigner or →
Round Table “The Role of Institutions – Experiences and Prospects” and Opening Reception
In the past forty years we have been witnessing a decline of public institutions in various areas. First, decline of institutions of welfare state. Second, decline of democratic institutions. There has been much talk recently of democratic deficit, particularly at EU level. Many public institutions that provided public →
Institutions in Action: The Nature and the Role of Institutions in the Real World
Political, social, economic, and legal institutions exert a great impact on the lives of individuals as social beings, as well as on those individuals’ own understanding of themselves, their potentialities, and aspirations. In big societies, institutions also offer information regarding what others do or tend to do. Still, in the last thirty years, both in →
Social and epistemic (in)justice
Plenary Presentation “Social and Epistemic (In)justice” – Professor Snježana Prijić-Samaržija, (Director of CAS SEE, University of Rijeka) at the 4th International Conference of the Group for Social Engagement Studies, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory in cooperation with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, The Center for Ethics, Law and Applied Philosophy and Center for Advanced Studies, University in Rijeka Social Justice: →
Social Justice in the Regional Perspective: Inequalities in the Western Balkans
Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory organised the Round table ‘Social Justice in the Regional Perspective: Inequalities in the Western Balkans’ as a part of the International Conference ‘Social Justice: New Perspectives, New Horizons’. It aimed to provide the space for discussion on the current trends and socio-political process that contribute to increasing social inequalities in →
Kick-off Seminar of the “Gender in the Changing Society” project
Kick-off Seminar of the Impulse – The New Cooperation Programme for Higher Education project “Gender in the Changing Society” which took place at the Faculty of Media and Communications in Belgrade. Project leader: University of Continuing Education Krems (Danube University Krems), Department for Migration and Globalization. Project partners: Centre for Refugee and IDP studies, University of Sarajevo, Faculty of →
CAS-SEE Fellows Panel in Belgrade
CAS-SEE Fellows presented at the “Social Justice: New Perspectives, New Horizons” Conference in Belgrade (May, 4-6 2016). Chair: Sanja Milutinović Bojanić Dane Taleski, Dragan Tevdovski, Trajche Panov and Viktor Dimovski Socially Impoverish and Entrap: A Strategy to Maintain a Hybrid Regime? Some theories of democratization argue that quality of democracy and social equality are interrelated. →
CAS-SEE Fellows at the “Social Justice: New Perspectives, New Horizons” Conference in Belgrade
Current CAS-SEE Fellows will participate in the upcoming 4th International conference of the Group for Social Engagement Studies, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory in cooperation with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, The Center for Ethics, Law and Applied Philosophy and Center for Advanced Studies, →
NURI ALI TAHIR
Controlling the Borders of “Borderless” Europe in the Age of Migration Recent international developments and the flow of people towards Europe made borders again a strong component of the European integration. Different reactions by European Institutions and EU member states showed that the classical idea of borders being marker of a territory and special identity →
VLADIMIR UNKOVSKI-KORICA
City Partnerships as Détente from Below? Twinning Bologna and Zagreb This talk discusses a project, a work in progress, jointly developed by Dr Eloisa Betti and Dr Vladimir Unkovski-Korica, about the twinning of Bologna and Zagreb in the Cold War. Town twinning in the interwar period of the twentieth century has been called ‘Locarno from →
Summer School Equality and Citizenship III – 2016
The Center for Advanced Studies of South East Europe, the University of Rijeka and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of Rijeka are organizing a summer school on equality and citizenship from June 6th to June 10th, 2016, in Rijeka (Croatia). The summer school does not reproduce, in a diluted form, the familiar teaching format →
DANE TALESKI
From Armed Boots to Polished Suits: A Precarious Predicament for Peacebuilding and Democratization? “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter” – Gerald Seymour, Harry’s Game, 1975 In many of contemporary intrastate conflicts, armed groups transit to politics when the conflict ends. For example, Shin Feinn in Northern Ireland, UCK in Kosovo, NLA in Macedonia, →
MATE NIKOLA TOKIĆ
“Za dom spremni!” Transnationalism, Diaspora Politics and Croatian Separatist Terrorism. Of the myriad terrorist organizations that emerged in the late 1960s and 1970s, those supporting the destruction of socialist Yugoslavia and the establishment of an independent Croatia were among the most active. In one ten year period, Croatian separatists committed no fewer than 52 noteworthy →
Generation In-Between. The Children of the Balkan Wars: Getting to Know a Crucial Generation for Europe
As a result of the Generation on the Move workshop that took place at the Center for Advanced Studies of Southeastern Europe (CAS SEE), at the University of Rijeka on October 9 – 10, 2015, a book entitled Generation In-Between. The Children of the Balkan Wars: Getting to Know a Crucial Generation for Europe was published and is now available in →
“The Second Sex” by Simone de Beauvoir
Rijeka, March 17, 2016 Center for Advanced Studies – South East Europe and Center for Women’s Studies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (University of Rijeka) held a book promotion following the publication of the first Croatian translation of The Second Sex by French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir in edition of Naklada Ljevak. On this occasion, founding of the →
Jörg H. Gleiter
Architecture and Philosophy: Nietzsche, Décadence and the Physiology of Architecture On 19th February, 2016, Jörg H. Gleiter, Professor and the Head of the department of Architectural Theory, but also the managing director of the Institute of Architecture of Technische Universität Berlin, held a lecture organized by CAS SEE at the University of Rijeka. In April 1888, in a →
JÖRG H. GLEITER in conversation with CAS SEE Fellows
Architecture and Anthropocene On the occasion of Prof. Gleiter’s visit to Rijeka, on 21st February, 2016, and after assisting at his lecture the previous day, CAS SEE Fellows had the opportunity to engage in a rather controversial discussion on Anthropocene, or more precisely, conceptual and epistemological issues of anthropogenic transformations of the earth’s land, oceans, →
Spring 2016 CAS SEE FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS
The Center for Advanced Studies, Southeast Europe (CAS SEE) at the University of Rijeka is pleased to announce the recipients of the Spring 2016 CAS SEE Fellowship Awards. The purpose of the CAS SEE Fellowship Programme is to further the research or creative work in the humanities and humanistic social sciences in the Balkans. Fellows will →
GIULIA CARABELLI
The Ties That (un)Bind: Affect and Organisation in the Bosnia-Herzegovina Protests, 2014 “In this lecture, I will discuss the results of my research on the 2014 mass protests in Bosnia Herzegovina. Overall, I am interested in accounting for the production and articulation of these spaces of rebellion by considering their ‘affective atmospheres’, which means that →
VERA TRIPODI
The Metaphysis of Gender. Not Simply a Woman (or a Man). Is a metaphysically sound objectivist account of sexed identity possible? Do gender categories exist because we recognize real distinctions in the world or because we agree to use gender terms while according to them categorical force? In this paper, I defend a non-realistic view →
FRANCESCO MARONE
The Structure and Dynamics of Migrant Smuggling from Libya to Italy Migration and, in particular, irregular migration from North Africa and the Middle East represents one of the most relevant and demanding challenges that the European Union (EU) has to address in our age. In the last two decades, the Mediterranean Sea has become the →
ALEKSANDRA DJURASOVIC
Rethinking large-scale development projects in Belgrade and Zagreb There is one general question that motivated this research: To what extent global economic restructuring and neoliberalization influence urban planning processes in transitional cities? The main aim of this research is to look into the process of urban transformation in two different institutional contexts in order to deepen →
PIRO REXHEPI
Unmapping Islam in Eastern Europe: Periodization and Muslim Subjectivities in the Balkans This article challenges the fixed spatial and temporal disconguities of the borders between East/West and Europe/Islam that contribute to the physical and discursive partition of Balkan Muslims from the larger Muslim world. It examines the works of twentieth century Islamic scholars and activists, particularly →
CALL FOR APPLICATION: PLAYING BY THE RULES
Institutions in Action: The Nature and the Role of Institutions in the Real World Place: University of Rijeka, Croatia Organizer: Center for Advanced Studies – Southeast Europe, University of Rijeka: LabOnt – Department of Philosophy, University of Torino Date: May 27-28 2016 Deadline for applications: 31 March 2016 Political, social, economic, and legal institutions exert →
JULIJA SARDELIĆ
ACTS OF CITIZENSHIP FROM THE MARGINS: THE POSITION AND AGENCY OF IRREGULARIZED ROMANI MINORITIES IN POST-YUGOSLAV SPACE In her presentation, Julija Sardelić maps recent transformations in the position of Romani minorities caused by the disintegration of former Socialist Yugoslavia, the subsequent military conflicts, and the establishment of new post-Yugoslav states. She argues that Romani minorities have not been only the targets of physical violence conducted mostly by →
FELLOWSHIP APPLICATIONS: spring 2016
The CAS SEE Fellowship 2016-2017 Call for application will be published by the end of May 2016. New Call for the CAS SEE Fellowship programme is opened. Following the implementation of the First and Second Generation of CAS SEE Fellows in the academic year 2014-15 and the automne semester 2015, CAS SEE is announcing a →
Erhard Busek, Shalini Randeria, Hedvig Morvai and Giuseppe Mastruzzo with CAS SEE Fellows
Working seminars with Erhard Busek (Chairman of the Institute for Danube Region and Central Europe) and Shalini Randeria (Rector of the IWM, Vienna) and CAS SEE Fellows took place on Tuesday, 24 November at the Sveučilišni odjeli building (Room 804). On that occasion Piro Rexhepi, Julija Sardelic, Giulia Carabelli, Aleksandra Djurasovic, Jeremy Walton and Francesco →
Shalini Randeria
Fragmented Sovereignties in an Era of Globalisation: Challenges for Cunning States and Citizens On 24th November, 2015, Shalini Randeria, Professor of Social Anthropology and Sociology, Rector of the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna, held a lecture organized by Center for Advanced Studies in collaboration with Department for Cultural Studies, (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences) at the University of Rijeka. “Two parallel developments →
HOW TO ACT TOGETHER? FROM COLLECTIVE ENGAGEMENT TO PROTEST
3rd International conference of the Group for Social Engagement Studies, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory Center for Advanced Studies in Southeastern Europe (CAS – SEE), University of Rijeka How to Act together: From Collective Engagement to Protest Belgrade, November 19-21, 2015 The conference explored the broad issue of action – in its various sociological and →
FRAGILE INFRASTRUCTURES OF TOGETHERNESS
CAS SEE Fellows Panel in Belgrade Chair: Sanja Milutinović Bojanić (CAS SEE, Rijeka) Aleksandra Djurasovic Center for Advanced Studies in Southeastern Europe (CAS – SEE), University of Rijeka “Oh, we could be together, if only the things weren’t so complicated”: Complexity Factor in the Late Post-Socialist Transition in Bosnia and Herzegovina The paper analyzes planning →
CAS SEE Fellows at the conference “How to Act Together”
Fragile Infrastructures of Togetherness Saturday, November 21, House of Culture, Faculty of Media and Communication, Belgrade Chair: Sanja Milutinović Bojanić, CAS SEE, Rijeka Aleksandra Djurasovic: “Oh, we could be together, if only the things weren’t so complicated”: Complexity Factor in the Late Post-Socialist Transition in Bosnia and Herzegovina Giulia Carabelli: Affects That Bond and Disband: On the →
Avner de Shalit
Lecture: 3rd November 2015 ‘Inequality in the city -What’s wrong with how it is measured?’ If cities are different political and social entities than states, perhaps we should think about inequality in the city differently from the way we think about inequality in the state. Inequality in the city is currently measured by applying the →
Jeremy Walton
Times and Spaces of Islam across Turkey, the Balkans, and Southeast Europe In his presentation, Jeremy Walton forges a panoramic perspective on Islam across the variegated geography of Turkey and southeast Europe. Rather than a direct focus on questions of Muslim politics or theology, he is concerned with the distinctive histories, temporalities, places and spatial practices that situate →
THE FELLOWS 2015/2016
This year, the Center for Advanced Studies – Southeastern Europe (CAS – SEE) invited seven Fellows from four different countries. In the below you can see our current Fellows. Giulia Carabelli (London – Great Britain) Project – title: The Ties That (un) Bind: Affect and Organization in the Bosnia-Herzegovina Protests, 2014 Giulia holds a PhD in →
Workshop “Generation on the move Children of the 90s in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, and Serbia”
Workshop Program: Generation On The Move Description: The 1990s had a long lasting impact on the children and youth of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, and Serbia, that can be seen nearly a quarter of a century after the outbreak of the Yugoslav wars. The experiences as well as the social and political view points of this →
Authoritarianism On The Rise: A New Global Competitor For Democracy
POLITICAL SYMPOSIUM in collaboration with EUROPEAN FORUM ALPBACH 2015 31.08.2015, 13:30-16:00, Alpbach HAUPTSCHULE In Eastern And South Eastern Europe, In The Caucasus, In Asia And In Latin America, We Are Witnessing The Resurgence Of Authoritarian Regimes, Be They “Old-Fashioned” Ones Adjusting To Global Circumstances Or Newly Emerging Forms Of Such Governments. Authoritarian Rule Seems To Be →
Symposium “Lubitsch in Rijeka”
“Lubitsch in Rijeka” is a one day symposium held on July 3rd 2015, and is organized by CAS SEE in collaboration with Art-kino Croatia and Slovenska kinoteka. The participants of the symposium are a philosopher and honorary fellow of CAS SEE, Alenka Zupančić Žerdin, a fellow of CAS SEE, Aaron Schuster, Marin Lukanović (University of Rijeka) and Sanja Milutinović Bojanić (CAS SEE, University of Rijeka). The Panel Chair is Jelena →
Seminar “How to Research Like a Dog: Kafka’s New Science”
Aaron Schuster July 2nd, 2015 This seminar will consist in a close reading of Kafka’s short story “Investigations of a Dog.” In this story we are presented with a brilliant and sometimes hilarious parody of scientific research and the norms that govern the production of knowledge, what Lacan called the “University discourse.” And indeed, if there →
Seminar: Wolfgang Merkel in dialogue with CAS SEE Fellows
Goethe Institut, Belgrade – June 26, 2015 Capitalism and Democracy – Debating various dimensions and variations of an uneasy Marriage As Wolfgang Merkel argues democracy and capitalism are two highly contested models following different logics: “Unequally distributed property rights on the one hand, equal civic and political rights on the other; profit-oriented trade within capitalism →
CAS SEE Fellows at the conference “Thinking beyond Capitalism”
New Perspectives on Debt and Economy Friday, June 26, House of Culture, Faculty of Media and Communication, Belgrade Panel Chair: Sanja Milutinović Bojanić Two Historians in Front of the Economic Crisis of 2007-2008: E. Hobsbawm and T. Judt Between Marxism and the Legacies of the 20th Century – Marco Bresciani Is Capitalism in Our Genes? Competition, →
Across the National Borders: Making and Remaking the Multicultural Adriatic Area
We are happy to invite you to the CAS SEE Workshop organised by CAS SEE Fellows, Marco Abram, Marco Bresciani, Jan Mus and Francesca Rolandi from the History Department of the Faculty for Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Rijeka. The workshop is dedicated to the new researches and approaches of the Upper Adriatic history and it will take place on June 10th from 9h15 to 13h30 at the Faculty for Humanities and →
Marco Abram
“A bastion of Brotherhood and Unity”? Socialist Yugoslavism and national identities in post-war Rijeka In the last years international historiography has devoted more attention to the history of Yugoslavism, nevertheless the role of a new Yugoslav identity in the building of Tito’s socialist federation after 1945 is still a matter of debate among scholars. Inspired by →
Prof. dr. Tomoji Onozuka
Internationality and Simultaneity of Popular Music: Experiences of the Japanese Labour and Socialist Movements in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries We often hear that there is no border in [the world of] music, but we know much about national, and particularly local characteristics of popular music. How popular music could come across local, →
Marco Bresciani
In the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire. Postwar crisis, National Conflicts and New Fascist Order. In the last two decades an increasing bibliography has focused on fascism in new ways, by shifting from a typological to a conceptual perspective and at the same time by developing transnational comparative approaches. However, the historical accounts of the →
Mariagrazia Portera
Evolutionary Aesthetics. A bridging discipline between the life and human sciences In the last few years an increasing number of academic disciplines within the human sciences have turned to evolutionary theory to find explanations for various aspects of human behaviour (“Evolutionary Ethics”, “Evolutionary Epistemology”, “Evolutionary Linguistics”). The inquiry into the nature of aesthetics, aesthetic attitude →
Marcello Barison
Types of Spaces. Philosophy of Architecture. Among the most promising conceptual articulations that constitute the contemporary philosophical debate, a prominent place is undoubtedly occupied by the intersection between philosophy and architectural theory. To date, though, there is no general philosophical approach that problematizes the architectural practice as such, developing an actual philosophy of architecture that, →
Summer School Equality and Citizenship II – 2015
The Center for Advanced Studies of South East Europe, the University of Rijeka and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of Rijeka, are organizing a summer school on equality and citizenship on June 29th – July 3rd, 2015, in Rijeka (Croatia). The summer school does not reproduce, in a diluted form, the familiar teaching →
JAN MUŚ
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND ETHNOPOLITICS. STUDY OF DEPENDENCY. Contemporary research approaches to ethnicity tend to perceive them through prisms of either political and institutional frameworks, widely understood protection or abuses of human (and minority) rights, or cultural and anthropological issues. This research project proposes a less popular approach that combines ethnicity with economy and in this sense refers to →
La grande Trieste
CAS fellows took their first trip in the region on March 16th to Trieste. They visited the exhibition La grande Trieste 1891 – 1914. Rittrato di una citta, that is being held in the museum Salone degli incanti in the city center. In many ways, Trieste is too “vast” a city to be summarized in a →
Tamara Caraus
The East European Dissidence in a Transnational Perspective Globalization and the post-2008 financial crisis have generated modes of opposition and dissent, be they dissent from global political-economic systems, opposition to international institutions or to local political regimes, and we are witnessing the emergence of a new type of global politics – the politics of dissent →
Interviews, Inauguration of the European Studies, 2014
As a result of the conference held in October 2014, CAS SEE published the booklet of interviews edited by Snježana Prijić Samaržija (Director, CAS SEE, Rijeka) and Hrvoje Marušić (Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Croatia) with Vesna Pusić, Vedran Mornar, Pero Lučin, Jo Shaw and Erhard Busek. The booklet can →
Interviews Equality and Citizenship
As a result of the summer school held in June 2014, CAS SEE published the booklet of interviews edited by Ivan Cerovac, Andrea Mesanovic and Nebojsa Zelic with Thomas Christiano, David Miller, José Luis Martí and Elvio Baccarini. The booklet can be downloaded here: Equality and Citizenship Booklet of Interviews →
The Fellows 2014/2015
The Fellows 2014/2015 This year, the Center for Advanced Studies in Southeastern Europe (CAS – SEE) invited eight Fellows from eight different countries. In below you can see our Fellows. →
2014-2015 CAS SEE Fellowship recipients
The Center for Advanced Studies, Southeast Europe (CAS SEE) at the University of Rijeka is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2014-2015 CAS SEE Fellowship Awards. The purpose of the CAS SEE Fellowship Programme is to further the research or creative work in the humanities and humanistic social sciences in the Balkans. Fellows will →
What Makes New Forms of Authoritarianism so Attractive? – Rethinking the Shades between Authoritarian and Democratic Rule
The famous slogan “the end of history” proved to be a historical misjudgment. Instead of linear progress towards liberal democracies we are confronted with new setbacks of democratization, emergence of grey-zone regimes between democracy and authoritarianism and new and supposedly attractive forms of authoritarianism. Classical authoritarianism seeks for absolute obedience, is directed against individual freedom →
Peter Eisenman
Peter Eisenman Tuesday, June 10th 2014. Aula Magna of the University of Rijeka, at 19.00. →