SHORT CV in English
Dr. Biljana Kašić
Full Professor
Department of Sociology
University of Zadar (Croatia)
bkasic@unizd.hr
Areas of Interest
- postmodernism and decoloniality
- culture of resistance and political activismethics and globalisation
Courses
Undergraduate Study: Sociology of Politics, Feminist Theories
Graduate Study: Sociology of Identities, Postcolonial Theories, Globalisation and the Culture of Resistance
Inter-university Postgraduate Doctoral Study of Sociology; Sex and Gender Identities, Postcolonial Theories and Globalisation (2007–2008, 2008–2009)
Recent research projects
- “Travelling Spaces: Exploring the Third Space” (2010–2014, AtGender), coordinator of the research team
- “Gender Equality and the Culture of Civil Status: Historical and Theoretical Foundations” (Centre for Gender and Politics Studies, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade, 2011–2014)
- “Gender and Nation: Feminist Ethnography and Postcolonial Historiography” (Centre for Women’s Studies, Institute for Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb, 2006–2013)
- “Travelling Concepts” (ATHENA3, 2006–2009 and ATHENA2, 2003–2006, within the framework of the SOCRATES/Erasmus Programme for Thematic Network Projects of the European Commission)
- “Gender, Nationalism and Citizenship” (Kristina Institute, Helsinki/Finland, Centre for Women’s Studies, Zagreb, 2004–2007)
- “Power of female politicians: How do citizens perceive them?” (Centre for Women’s Studies, Zagreb, 2002–2004).
Professional and feminist engagement
- member of the Centre for Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Zadar (2010–)
- member of the Board of MA in Gender Studies, University of Sarajevo, Center for Interdiciplinary Postgraduate studies (2009–)
- member of the Croatian Sociological Association (2008–)
- member of the Editorial Board of the feminist journal Treća – The Third, Centre for Women’s Studies (2008–)
- member of ATGender, European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation (2008–)
- member of ATHENA, Advanced Network in Activities in Women’s Studies in Europe (2006–)
- member of the international Board for the feminist postgraduate course “Feminisms in a Transnational Perspective” IUC, Dubrovnik (2006–)
- Council of Europe expert for gender equality and peace issues (2005–2010)
- member of the Board of El Taller International, Tunis (1999–)
- co-founder and member of the Centre for Women’s Studies (1995–).
Recent selected publications
Caporale Bizzini, S., Galhardo Couto, A., Kašić, B., Lund, L., Pulcini, E., Richter Malabotta, M., Skaerbeck, Eva (2013). Soggetti itineranti. Donne alla ricerca del sé. Milano: AlboVersorio.
Kašić, B., Petrović, J., Prlenda, S., Slapšak, S. (eds). (2013). Feminist Critical Interventions. Thinking Heritage, Decolonising, Crossings. Ljubljana, Zagreb i Beograd:Red Athena University Press.
Kašić, B. and Prlenda, S. (2013). “Women's History in Croatia: Displaced and Unhomed”, ASPASIA, 7 (1): 154-162.
Kašić, B. (2012). “The Politicality of Anti-War Acting”, in: Bilić, B. and Janković, V. (eds.). Resisting the Evil: [Post-]Yugoslav Anti-War Contention. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft | Southeast European Integration Perspectives, vol. 7, pp. 263 -279.
Kašić, Biljana (2012). “Radicalising epistemology: (Re)thinking Feminist Disobedience”, in: Kumar, Corinne (ed.). Asking, we walk: The South as New Political Imaginary (Book three). Bangalore: Streelekha publications, W Q JudgePress, pp. 265-281.
Kašić, B. (2012). “’Womanspace’, Geobodies and Borderlands”, [sic] - a Journal of Literature, Culture and Literary Translation, www.sic-journal.org; published: 28 Jun 2012.
Kašić B., Horvat, S. (2011) (eds.). Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Nacionalizam i imaginacija: I drugi eseji [Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Nationalism and Imagination – And Other Essays], “Afterword”. Zagreb: Fraktura, pp. 189-198.
Kašić, B. (2011). “’Feministička intelektualna klasa: Zebnje oko integracije i politika spoznavanja [Feminist Intellectual Class: Anxiety around integration and the politics of knowledge”], in: I. Radačić, and J. Vince Pallua (eds.). Ljudska prava žena [Human Rights of Women]. Zagreb: Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar, pp. 167-185.
Kašić, B. (2011). “En las trampas de la agenda neocolonial; Una perspective feminista de la region postyugoslava”, 4 Revista de discusion feminista, La Paz: Casa Virgen de Los Deseos, 4: 64-74.
Kašić, B. (2011). “(Po)kretati se onkraj postfeminističkih invazija” [Moving Beyond Post-feminist Invasions], Treća, 13 (1): 9-17.
Kašić, B. (2011). “Otpor i feminističke subjektivizacije” [Resistance and Feminist Subjectivization], Treća, 13 (2): 5-9. (editor for special issue).
Kašić, B., Borić, R., Čakardić, A., Govedić, N., Simonović, K., Sibila, I.N. (2010). Privilegiranje rubova. Intervencije i prilozi feminističkoj epistemologiji [Privileging the Margins. Interventions and Contributions to Feminist Epistemology] (A. Čakardić, ed.). Zagreb: Hrvatsko filozofsko društvo i Centar za ženske studije.
Kašić, B. et al (2009). Teaching Subjectivity. Travelling Selves for Feminist Pedagogy. (S. Caparole Bizzini and M. Richter Mallabota (eds.)). Utrecht: Athena Books, the Graduate Gender Programme at Utrecht University and the Centre for Gender Studies, Stockholm University.
Kašić, B. (2009). “Oglasiti se svojim glasom: o utopijskim činovima i činovima otpora / Voices and voicing: On utopian and resistant acts”, in: Jambrešić Kirin R. and Prlenda S. (eds.). Glasom do feminističkih promjena/Voicing Feminist Concerns. Zagreb: Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku; Centar za ženske studije. pp. 23-33, 166-176.
Kašić, B. (2009). “Nova ‘Feministička renesansa’? Zapretenosti oko motrenja, spoznaje i emancipacije” [New ‘Feminist Renaissance’? Obscurances about observations, insights and emancipation], in: Babić-Avdispahić J., Bakšić-Muftić J. and Vlaisavljević U. (eds.). Rod i nauka [Gender and Science], Collected papers from the Conference, Sarajevo, 4–5 September 2008. Sarajevo: Centar za interdisciplinarne postdiplomske studije Univerziteta u Sarajevu, pp. 41-57.
Kašić, B. (2009). “How to Radicalize Responsibility. Feminism and Rape”, DEP Deportate, esuli, profughe. Revista telematica di studi sulla memoria femminile, DEP n.10. Genere, nazione, militarismo. Gli stupri di massa nella storia del Novecento e nella riflessione femminista. Venezia, pp.168-181.
Kašić, B. (2008). “Where is the Feminist Critical Subject?”, in: Gržinić, M./Reitsamer, R. (eds.). New Feminism. Worlds of Feminism, Queer and Networking Conditions. Wien: Erhard Locker GesmbH, pp. 453-463.
Kašić, B. (2008). “The Potential of the Feminist ‘Suitcase’ - Preservation, Time(s) and Embodiment of Women’s Heritage”, in: Wieringa, S.E. (ed.). Traveling Heritages. New Perspectives on Collecting, Preserving and Sharing Women’s History. Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers, pp. 79-90.
Kašić, B. (2007). “Feminist Ways of Resistance: How to Inscribe Human Textuality?”, in: Kumar C. (ed.). Asking, we walk. The south as new political imaginary. Bangalore: Streelekha publications, W Q JudgePress, pp. 71-83.
Kašić, B. et al (2006). Teaching Subjects in Between: Feminist Politics, Disciplines, Generations (C. Hemmings and A. Kaloski-Naylor (eds.), Series title: Travelling Concepts and Feminist Pedagogies. European Perspectives, York: Raw Nerve Books, York.
Kašić, B. (2006). “Feminist Movements, Time-Lags, Innovations. A Case Study of Feminism(s) in Croatia”, in: Saurer E. et al. (eds.). Women’s Movements. Networks and Debates in post-communist Countries in the 19th and 20th Centuries. L’HOMME Schriften 13, Reihe zur Feministischen Geschichtswissensachaft. Koeln, Weimar, Wien: Bohlau Verlag, pp. 213-223.
Kašić, B. (2006). “The Dynamic of Identifications Within Nationalistic Discourse: From Archetypes to Promising Female Roles”, in: Iveković, R./Mostov J. (eds.). From Gender to Nation. New Delhi: Zubaan (second edition), pp. 189-201.
Kašić, B. (2006). “Une cartographie féministe de la résistance”, Femmes et Citoyenneté, NAQD, Revue d’Etudes et de Critique Sociale, No 22/23. Alger/Paris:Alger, pp. 213-227.
Recent lectures and conference papers
“Conscientious Objectors or How Can the Claim for Non-Violence Find its Place“, International Conference Re-Thinking Humanities and Social Sciences “On Violence”, University of Zadar, 5-7 September, 2013
“A Curious Act of Knowing? Obstacles around the Politicality of Feminist Cognition and Feminist Traces within Academia”, joint presentation with Sandra Prlenda, International Postgraduate seminar Feminisms in a Transnational Perspective: Feminist critique of knowledge production, IUC Dubrovnik, 27–31 May 2013
“Popular University and Social Movements”, International Seminar organized by Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES), Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal and El Taller International, India/Tunis, invited speaker, Tunis, 24–25 March 2013
“Zamke institucionalne 'nesvjesti': o kritičkom znanju i poziciji rodnih studija” [Traps of institutional ‘unconsciousness’: About critical knowledge and the position of Gender Studies], Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo, 2 December 2012
‘Sexual class’, work and the politics of affective labour”, Regional Conference Days of Marija Jurić Zagorka Work, Gender and Class, Zagreb, 30 November – 1 December 2012
“Travelling – in concepts, selves, and spaces”, International Seminar Østfold University College, Fredrikstad (Østfold University College, Fredrikstad/ Norveška, 26 September – 1 October 2012
“Bodies, Borders, Embodiments – Artistic Interpolations and Counteractions”, International Conference Body and Awareness. The Discourse between Anthropology, Literature and the Arts organized by the Department of Anthropology – University of Zadar and University College Cork, University of Zadar, Zadar, 25–27 May 2012
“Expanding the Horizon, Conceptual Entries, Links to the Past: Feminisms in Post-Yugoslav Contexts“, panel: Neither Here nor There: Feminists in Search of Location”, The 8th European Feminist Research Conference: The Politics of Location Revisited: Gender@2012, CEU, Budapest, 17–20 May 2012
Kašić, B., Kolešnik, Lj., Duda, D. and Kaloper, J. Round table: “Emancipatory Practices”, discussion about the exhibition Socialism and Modernity, MSU, Zagreb, 3 February 2012
“Feminist Theories in PostYugoslav Context(s): Liberating or Risking with the very Act of Self-location?”, International Seminar Feminist Perspectives on Critical Cultural Practices, WHW, Zagreb, 10–11 November 2011
Discussant in Madina Tlostanova’s plenary presentation “On Post-Soviet Imaginary and Global Coloniality: A Gendered Perspective”, International Conference REDacting: TransYugoslav Feminisms: Women's Heritage Revisited, Centre for Women’s Studies, Zagreb, 13–16 October 2011
“Neoliberalna optika i akademsko 'sljepilo': kuda s feminizmom?” [Neoliberal optics and academic 'blindness': Where to go with feminism?], scientific gathering Okvir za strategiju suvremene politike znanosti i obrazovanja [Strategic Framework for Contemporary Politics of Science and Education], Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb, 10–12 October 2011
Storie di donne:concetti in movimento, I'io viaggiante, Regional Meeting “Women's Heritage: Contribution to Equality in Culture“, Casa Internazionale delle Donne, Trieste, 30 September – 2 October 2011
“'Womanspace', Geobodies, Borderlands”, Re-Thinking Humanities and Social Sciences pod nazivom “The Zone and Zones – Radical Spatiality in our Times”, Re-Thinking Humanities and Social Sciences 2011, The Zone and Zones, Zadar, 1–4 September 2011
“Hrvatski identitet danas: Politika identiteta, imaginariji i kulturne prakse” [Croatian identity today: The politics of identity, imaginary and cultural practices], International Summer School “Zoranic’s Arcady” 2011, University of Zadar, Zadar, 22–27 August 2011
“Woman's Testimony: Witnessing 'Unhomed' Geography”, International postgraduate course Feminisms in a Transnational Perspective: Women narrating their lives and actions ,IUC, Dubrovnik, 23–28 May 2011.
“Je li Balkan novi Magreb?” [Is the Balkans a new Maghreb?], Round table: “Dekolonizacija – Nove emancipacijske borbe” [Decolonization – New Emancipatory Struggles], Subversive Festival, Zagreb, 20 May 2011
“Novi feminizam? Što izmiče pogledu i/ili zašto se izmičemo” [A new feminism? What avoids the gaze or why are we avoiding the gaze], scientific gathering Feminism, Antifeminism, Crisis, Days of Marija Jurić Zagorka, Centre for Women’s Studies, Zagreb, 26–27 November 2010
International Seminar “Travelling Selves and Feminist Transversalities”, Universidade Aberta-CEMRI, Lisbon, 21–23 October 2010
“Confronting the Shadows: Disruptive Others”, International Symposium Questions of Identity – Days of Frane Petrić / Pitanja identiteta, Dani Frane Petrića, Cres, 19–22 September 2010
“‘Feministička intelektualna klasa’: zebnje oko integracije i politika spoznavanja” [‘Feminist intellectual class’: Anxiety around integration and the politics of knowledge], International conference Ljudska prava žena – razvoj na međunarodnoj i nacionalnoj razini 30 godina nakon usvajanja UN-ove Konvencije o uklanjanju svih oblika diskriminacije žena [Human Rights of Women – Development at the International and National Level 30 Years after Adoption of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women],“Ivo Pilar”, Zagreb, 26–28 May 2010
“The Power of Biography in Counter-discourse: Critical Re-readings of Historical Narration(s)”, Biography and Identity: Dilemmas and Opportunities: 4th Annual Graduate Conference in European History, CEU, Budapest, 6–8 May 2010
“Subjekt, žudnja i postfeministička invazija” [Subject, desire and postfeminist invasion], Regional gathering Feminizam poslije utopije/Feminism after Utopia, Centre for Women’s Studies, Zagreb, 24 April 2010
“Does Critical Activism Matter? The Concept of Horizon and the Radical Desire for Transversality”, International conference RADICAL EDUCATION: CONFERENCE, Ljubljana, 28–29 November 2009
“The Ambiguity of Feminist Nostalgia”, 7th European Feminist Research Conference: Gendered Cultures at the Crossroads of Imagination, Knowledge and Politics, Utrecht, 4–7 June 2009
“‘Granične zone’, slobode, egzili i prijelazi/“‘Border zones’, freedom, exile and crossovers”, Symposium Crossover, Forum Tomizza, Trst/Kopar/Umag, 27–30 May 2009
“Power of Women’s Testimonies”, international interdisciplinary symposium Do Women Have Victory Day? Women’s Traumatic Memory and Resistant Narratives, Zagreb, 8–9 May 2009
“‘Transitional’ space and time – A potential place for collaboration”, International scientific symposium Social science and development in the Adriatic Region: traditions and perspectives, Teramo, University of Teramo, 20–21 November 2008
“Judith Butler – reading Simone de Beauvoir”, Symposium on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Simone de Beauvoir’s birth, Zagreb, Centre for Women’s Studies, 26 September 2008
“Sociology as a potential place for counter-discourse?”, International Conference Sociology and Interdisciplinarity: Central and South East European Perspectives, Zadar, 8–10 May 2008
“Rethinking feminist perspective or how to radicalise responsibility”, The Second Critical Studies Conference “Spheres of Justice”, Academy of Fine Arts/Mahanirban Calcutta Research Croup (CRG), Kolkata, India, 20–22 September 2007.