Pristupačnost
Maja Vasiljević: Biopolitics: From Nazism to Contemporary European Societies, Thursday, 19 October, 15.30, Room E
Maja Vasiljević holds a PhD in sociology and has been working at the Department of History, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade since 2011. She completed her undergraduate and master's studies in the field of musicology and sociology at the Faculty of Music of the University of Arts in Belgrade and the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. She received her doctorate with a topic on the relationship between biopolitics and Nazism on the example of musicians in WWII. She deals with issues of politics and culture in conflict periods of European history, Jewish heritage and the Holocaust. As a member of the Center for Cooperation with the EU, she is actively devoted to political science topics, of which participation in the international Horizon 2020 project POPREBEL - Populist Rebellion Against Modernity in 21st-century Eastern Europe: neo-traditionalism and neo-feudalism (2019-2023) focused her recent research on populism and nationalism, and related phenomena in Croatia and the countries of the former Yugoslavia.
With this lecture, Dr Maja Vasiljević reveals and opens for discussion the issue of applying the biopolitical strategy of interpretation in political science. From the rich and controversial political, philosophical and philological "biopolitical" literature, Vasiljević focuses on the discourses of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben and Roberto Esposito in this lecture. After the key features of "biopolitics" as defined by the aforementioned authors, the lecture focuses on concrete examples. Nazism, as a kind of climax or turning point, but also an example of "biopolitics", stands out as significant both for the study of historical metamorphoses of European societies and for understanding contemporary ones. Finally, Maja Vasiljević will include contemporary concepts, such as "bio populism" and open a discussion about its application.
