Dear guests, The Institute is organizing a debate with Dr Michal Vit on The Changing Dynamics of the Effective Protection of EU External Borders or/and Forced Migrants Dr Vit is a professor at the Department of International Relations and European Studies of the Metropolitan University Prague. He is currently researching migration issues and is conducting…
Month: January 2019
Dr Miroslav Prokopijević has passed away
With great sorrow and pain we inform the public that our long-time colleague, Senior Principal Fellow Dr Miroslav Prokopijević, has suddenly passed away on the night of 20/21 January 2019 at his home in Belgrade. Dr Miroslav Prokopijević’s funeral will be held at the New Cemetery in Belgrade, on Friday 25 January 2019 at…
Sanja Ivić, EU Citizenship: Towards a Postmodern Conception of Citizenship?
The modern liberal idea of citizenship is constructed by a fixed notion of identity which gains meaning through a number of binary oppositions, such as we/ they, citizen/ foreigner, self/ other and so forth. Defined by these binaries, where the first term is perceived as dominant because it is considered to be derived from reason,…
Sanja Ivić, Paul Ricoeur’s Idea of Reference: The Truth as Non-Reference
This book investigates the importance of Ricoeur’s hermeneutics and poetics in rethinking humanities. In particular, Ricoeur’s insights on reference as refiguration and his idea of interpretation as a triadic process (which consists of mimesis 1 – prefiguration, mimesis 2 – configuration, and mimesis 3 – refiguration) will be applied to philosophy of science and to…
January 17 – a lecture by Umut Uzer
Dear guests, The institute begins its 2019 cycle of public events with a lecture by Dr Umut Uzer From a Multinational Empire to a national state: The emergence of Turkish Identity (in English) Dr Uzer is an Associate Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Istanbul Technical University (ITU). He is an…