Prof. Dr. Maja Muhic studied philosophy, cultural anthropology and gender studies. Her interdisciplinary academic experience guides her interest in the field of feminist philosophy, theories of multiculturalism, postcolonial theory, and interpretative / symbolic anthropology. She writes about topics such as the formation and complexity of ethnic identities, multiculturalism, ritual symbolism, etc.

Ljupcho Petkovski is a development policy practitioner with formal training in post-structuralist political theory and international relations (University of Essex, University in Skopje, University in Ljubljana). Petkovski has over a decade long experience with working in think-tanks, including at managerial positions (Director of EuroThink Skopje 2017-2020). He has published tens of academic and policy documents, primarily focusing on political ideologies such as populism, authoritarianism and nationalism. His current academic passions concern the links between technological innovation, digitalization, and growth of regressive ideologies.

Agon Hamza, Ph.D. in philosophy is Assistant Professor of political philosophy at the graduate program of Institute. He is the author of Reading Marx (Polity, 2018; with Frank Ruda and Slavoj Žižek), Althusser and Pasolini: Philosophy, Marxism, and Film (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), and From Myth to Symptom: The Case of Kosovo (Kolektivi Materializmi Dialektik, 2013; with Slavoj Žižek). In addition, he is the editor of Althusser and Theology: Religion, Politics and Philosophy (Brill, 2016) and Repeating Žižek (Duke University Press, 2015), as well as coeditor, with Frank Ruda, of Slavoj Žižek and Dialectical Materialism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). He is founder and co-editor (with Frank Ruda) of the international philosophy journal Crisis and Critique. Currently he is working on two books, entitled Reading Hegel (with Slavoj Žižek and Frank Ruda, forthcoming with Polity), and Slavoj Žižek and the Reconstruction of Marxism (forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan). Dr. Hamza is political advisor to Albin Kurti, Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosovo.

Iris van der Tuin is Professor of Theory of Cultural Inquiry in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University and Director of its School of Liberal Arts. Iris is interested in humanities scholarship that traverses the ‘two cultures’ and reaches beyond the boundaries of academia. As such, she contributes to the new and interdisciplinary humanities and to the Scholarship of Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning (SoITL). She leads the research group Subjects in Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching (SILT), a theme under the umbrella of the research initiative Transmission in Motion, and coordinates the special interest group AI in Cultural Inquiry and Art: Thinking and Making in the Algorithmic Condition, a SIG of the focus area Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. With Nanna Verhoeff, she recently initiated the Creative Humanities Academy: an infrastructure for collaboration between academic scholars and creative professionals, post-academic teaching, and consultancy on humanities theories, methodologies, and pedagogies.

Albulena Ibraimi, was born in Kumanovo, on 18 July, 1988. She finished high school in public gymnasium “Goce Delchev”, in Kumanovo. In 2007 she enrolled in undergraduate studies in the Faculty of Law at the State University of Tetova. Albulena was entitled as Baccalaureus of Law, in 2010. After receiving the Turkish scholarship in 2015. Ms. Ibraimi enrolled in a master’s degree program at Marmara University – Istanbul (in French language), and obtained a master’s degree in Public Administration in Political and Social Sciences, in March 2018. She completed a short informal school “Feminist Education for All” in Macedonian, at the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities – Skopje, in 2021.

Ms. Ibraimi worked as a French language teacher in Veles, in 2011 and 2012. She also worked as an English teacher in Istanbul for a short time in 2017.
In 2021 she works as a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Law at the International Balkan University.

Albulena is interested in philosophy and feminism.

Mariglen Demiri, holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and is an MA in Contemporary Philosophy at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje. Currently he works as an Assistant Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities in Skopje. He is the founder of numerous initiatives and political organizations, such as “Lenka”, “Solidarnost”, “Studentski Plenum”, and “Protestiram”.

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Stefan Detchev is an Associate-Professor of modern and contemporary Bulgarian history and historiography at South-West University of Blagoeavgrad, Bulgaria and lecturer on history of masculinity at the University of Sofia. His interests cover history of political culture, nationalism and identity, history of sexuality, food and foodways. Among his major publications are “Who are the Bulgarians? “Race”, science and politics in fin-de-siècle Bulgaria – In: We, the people. Politics of National Peculiarities in South-East Europe (2009); Who are Our Ancestors? “Race”, Science and Politics in Bulgaria 1879-1912. (2010); Politics, Gender and Culture: Articles and Studies on Modern Bulgarian History (2010); In Searching of the Bulgarianness: The networks of national intimacy XIX-XXI (2010) Beltween Slavs and Old Bulgars: “Ancestors,” “Race” and Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century In: Geary, P., Klaniczay, G., Manufacturing Middle Ages. Entangled History of Medievalism in nineteenth-century Europe, Joep Leersen Series “National Cultivation of Culture”. (2013, pp. 347-376); Shopska salat”: The Road from an European Innovation to the National Culinary Symbol”, In: From Kebab to Ćevapčići. Eating Practices in Ottoman Europe” Interdisziplinäre Studien zum Östlichen Europa.

Michal is an Assistant Professor at the Metropolitan University Prague. He obtained his doctorate in 2017. Previously he was associated with the Institute for European Policy (IEP), Berlin and EUROPEUM, Prague. He underwent research fellowships at University of Konstanz and University of Vienna, South East European University (MK). His research focus is formation of national identity in international politics. He cooperates as a consultant with international organizations, such as OSCE.

Adam Nocek is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy of Technology and Science and Technology Studies in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering at Arizona State University. He is also the Founding Director of ASU’s Center for Philosophical Technologies. Nocek has published widely on the philosophy of media and science; speculative philosophy (especially Whitehead); design philosophy, history, and practice; and critical and speculative theories of computational media. He recently published Molecular Capture: The Animation of Biology (Minnesota, 2021), and is working on his next monograph, Governmental Design: On Algorithmic Autonomy. Nocek is the co-editor (with Tony Fry) of Design in Crisis: New Worlds, Philosophies and Practices, The Lure of Whitehead (with Nicholas Gaskill), along with several other collections and special issues, including a special issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (with Cary Wolfe) titled, “Ontogenesis Beyond Complexity.” He is a visiting researcher at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam and previously held the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Professorship.

Katja Kolšek holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Ljubljana (Slovenija) and is the author of “Chinese Script and the Semblant as Fetich” (Problemi: Journal of Culture and Societal Questions), “The Repetition of the Void and the Materialistic Dialectic” (Ed.Malden Dolar, et al. The structure of the void), “Democracy as the Philosophical Concept”, Ed. Jelica Šumič-Riha, Philosophy and Ontology: Philosophy and Philosophy), “Philosophy of Late Althusser as the Science of the Void”, (Ed.Mladen Dolar, Althusser, Problemi) and The Shift of the Gaze in Žižek’s Philosophical Writing”, Ed. Agon Hamza, Repeating Žižek, Durham/London: Duke University Press). She is a scientific researcher working in the fields of psychoanalysis, philosophy and sinology. She has held teaching positions at the Faculty of Arts University Ljubljana, Slovenija, University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenija and Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SAZU), Ljubjljana.