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Aleksandar Obradović is a political analyst and researcher in the field of social sciences. As a scholar of the French government, he completed the master’s programme in political anthropology at the EHESS in Paris, focusing on post-colonial national identities. He also a graduate of Belgrade University’s Faculty of Political Sciences, where he studied international relations. His fields of interest are…

Žarka Radoja has been in journalism for 17 years. Currently, she is one of the owners and editors of a small regional online media outlet called kontrapress.com. However, she has also worked with numerous other media outlets in Serbia and throughout the Balkans. Žarka has also co-organised three exhibitions – two on the art scenes in Dubrovnik and Belgrade and…

(English audio starts at 4:05, following the German event description)) This page hosted a live audio stream of the Freiblickinstitut debate, Free speech now? How much freedom of expression can we tolerate?. This English-language debate featured Sabine Beppler-Spahl (Freiblickinstitut), Agota Revesz (Freie Universität Berlin) and Kolja Zydatiss (Novo Argumente) and asked whether free speech should have boundaries or whether it should…

Mirela Travar is an activist, trainer and facilitator. Actively engaged in civil society for the last ten years, she started her working life in human rights and this remains her main area of interest. Internationally, she has worked with the OSCE and the Council of Europe. In Croatia, she was the secretary general of the Croatian Youth Network – the…

Ljubica Slavković is a Belgrade-based architect and researcher as well as an award-winning architectural critic and an editor in chief of the Kamenzind architectural magazine and research platform. She is active in the production of lectures, workshops and seminars and in researching architecture and the city as a spatial-cultural phenomenon. Additionally, she works as a project leader and editor at…

Matija Medenica is a sociologist and political activist from Belgrade, Serbia and a founding member of the revolutionary Socialist organisation Marks21. Between 2008 and 2013, he acted as an executive editor of the socialist magazine Solidarnost. During his studies, he was in the forefront of numerous progressive student movements and initiatives, primarily focused around issues of tuition fees and the…

Andreea Petruț works on public policies for higher education at the Romanian Academic Society, one of the oldest think tanks in Romania. She has an academic background in political science and political organisation management and has been politically active as one of the leaders of the Romanian student movement and an organiser of many civil protests over the past few…

Damir Arsenijević is an associate professor in critical theory and literature at the University of Tuzla and one of the founding member of the Workers’ University of Tuzla platform, which emerged in the course of the February 2014 protests in Bosnia and Herzogovina. Damir develops and carries out collaborative interventions which intersect academia, activism and the arts. Through such interventions,…

Iva Čukić works as a guest lecturer and interdisciplinary studies associate in the Department for Urban Planning at the University of Belgrade’s Faculty of Architecture. Her areas of research include public space, self-organisation, DIY philosophy and urban cultural discourse. In 2011, she co-launched the Ministry of Space collective, which aims to foster civil participation in urban development and to initiate…

Mateusz Kijowski is an IT specialist, journalist, social activist and blogger. His interests and major activities have been focused on human rights and open society values. In the past, he has initiated a nationwide discussion about rape culture in Poland, supported actions helping refugees and asylum seekers and campaigned for shared custody and the protection of children while their parents…

Klementyna Suchanow is an editor, translator, author and political activist. She is the author of several non-fiction books about Witold Gombrowicz and was one of the organisers of October 2016’s Polish women’s strikes. Known as the Black Protests, these strikes stopped the PiS government from introducing new, even more stringent abortion laws and helped give Polish women a voice. Klementyna…