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Jelena Veljić is an activist with a background in social sciences. During her studies of ethnology and anthropology, she became involved in student organising and she is a member of the informal Antifascists in Action collective. Her main focus includes the struggle for free and affordable education, feminism and workers’ issues. And, she contributes to the work of the Oktobar…

Filip Jovanovski is a visual artist and civil activist. He often uses a curatorial approach in his works, and creates socially engaged projects, often working with local communities. In 2016, he realised a long-term project called CAC (Centre for Art and Culture) TEXTILE in Štip, where he and textile workers created a two week long programme designed for their needs.…

Özge Çelikaslan (born in 1979) is an artist, activist and PhD scholar. Her studies focus on political media archives. Since 2013, she has been working on the bak.ma open digital media archive of social movements in Turkey. She lives and works in Ankara. Personally and in cooperation with the Artıkişler video collective she has been involved in numerous solo and…

Igor Štiks is an author and socio-cultural scholar, who is best known as the author of two award-winning novels, A Castle in Romagna and Elijah’s Chair, which have been translated into 15 languages. His monograph Nations and Citizens in Yugoslavia and the Post-Yugoslav States: One Hundred Years of Citizenship was published by Bloomsbury in 2015. He has also edited the…

Pål Johan Karlsen is an author with a PhD in psychology. He edits Psykologisk.no and his books include Psykologi i et nøtteskall and the newly released novel The stormwater drains in Canberra, a coming-of-age story which metamorphoses into a global sexual odyssey. Information valid as of summer 2016.

Maria Stepanova is a Russian poet, essayist and editor/journalist. She is a recipient of several Russian and international literary awards and her poems have been translated into numerous languages. Stepanova is also the founder and editor-in-chief of the independent online crowd-sourced journal Colta.ru, which covers cultural, social and political developments in contemporary Russia. Information valid as of summer 2016.

This page featured an English-language live stream of the Project Forum debate, The collapse of the new order? From transition to crisis. This English-language debate was moderated by Michal Hvorecký and saw the Slovak politician and researcher Miroslav Beblavý and the Austrian professor Philipp Ther discuss the socio-political effects of the series of liberalising reforms known as the transition. This debate has now finished, but this page features…

Philipp Ther is a professor and the head of the University of Vienna’s Institute for Eastern European History. He studied in Germany and the USA before taking up a position as a research assistant in the Freie Universität’s Centre for the Comparative History of Europe in Berlin. In 2002, he then became a junior professor for Polish and Ukrainian Studies…

Miroslav Beblavý is a member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic and a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels. He is a graduate of the University of St. Andrews, where he completed his PhD and M.Litt. degrees in economics. He also holds a B.A. in finance from Bratislava’s University of Economics. Until…