Aleksandar Pavlović

Aleksandar Pavlović

Aleksandar Pavlović, research coordinator for Serbia on the project Disobedient Democracy, is a researcher at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory of the University of Belgrade. He holds a BA and an MA from the Faculty of Philology of the University of Belgrade, and a PhD in Southeast European Studies from the University of Nottingham. He was a visiting fellow at the Centre for Southeast European Studies in Graz, New Europe College in Bucharest, and Albanian Institute for International Studies in Tirana.

His main research interests are cultural history of the Balkans, Serbian and Balkan oral and written tradition, Serbian-Albanian relations and traditional Balkan society. He previously coordinated the project Figuring out the Enemy: Re-imagining Serbian-Albanian Relations, a pioneering effort in promoting Serbian-Albanian scholarly cooperation. He published Epika i politika (Beograd: XX vek, 2014) and co-edited Figura neprijatelja: preosmišljavanje srpsko-albanskih odnosa (Beton/IFDT: Belgrade, 2015).

Recent publications:

Aleksandar Pavlović, Rigels Halili and Gazela Pudar Draško eds. (2018), Rethinking Serbian-Albanian Relations: Figuring out the Enemy, London: Routledge (forthcoming).

Aleksandar Pavlović, “Smrtna (ne)ozbiljnost intelektualnog rada” (2017), in: Angažman: uvod u studije angažovanosti, ed. Adriana Zaharijević i Jelena Vasiljević, Beograd: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju, 2017, pp. 191-201.

Gazela Pudar Draško and Aleksandar Pavlović (2017) “Enmity in the intellectual world: what do they stand for?”, Philosophy and Society,Vol 28, No 2, pp. 333-345.

Aleksandar Pavlović (2017), “Njegoš and the Politics of Reading”, Anzeiger fur Slavische Philologie (XLIV), pp. 9-25.

Aleksandar Pavlović (2017)“South Slavic Oral Tradition and its Textualization”, u: Genre, Text, Interpretation: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Folklore and Beyond, ur. Kaarina Koski, Frog i Ulla Savolainen, Studia Fennica Folkloristica Series, Helsinki: Finish Literature Society, pp. 483-504.

Aleksandar Pavlović and Srđan Atanasovski (2016)“From Myth to Territory: Vuk Karadžić, Kosovo Epics  and the Role of Nineteenth Century Intellectuals in Establishing National Narratives”, in: “Nationalism & Discourses of Objectivity: The Humanities and Social Sciences in Central Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century”, thematic Issue of the Hungarian Historical Review 5, no. 2, pp. 357–376.

Aleksandar Pavlović, Adriana Zaharijević, Rigels Halili and Gazela Pudar Draško (2015). Figura neprijatelja: preosmišljavanje srpsko-albanskih odnosa, Beograd: Institut za filozofiju i  društvenu teoriju/KPZ Beton (Albanian edition: Figura e armikut: ripërfytyrimi i marrëdhënieve shqiptaro-serbe, ed. Rigels Halili, Armanda Hysa, Adriana Zaharijević and Aleksandar Pavlović, Priština: Qendra Multimedia, 2016).