After two editions in Sarajevo, and one in Banja Luka, Centre for the Promotion of Interactive Education and Social Action (CODA) is organizing the fourth edition of Open University taking place from the 26th to the 29th of November in Sarajevo. As before, Open University will be held at SARTR (Sarajevo War Theatre). This year we are also hosting a part of the program under the title High Noon in the Museum of Revolution at the Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In this year’s session, we will be hosting some of the most prominent intellectuals, philosophers, thinkers, activists, and artists from BiH, the region, and wider Europe. Under the title Who’s afraid of…, together with the audience, our guests will discuss some of the key issues of our time and societies. The program starts on the 26th of November at 5 p.m., with the photography exhibition “MOnuMENTI” by Marko Krojač, followed by the first roundtable dedicated to the current crises in the EU and its relationship to refugees. We will be discussing with the leading Slovenian philosopher Renata Salecl, one of the most notable Left intellectuals Gaspar M. Tamas from Hungary, the coordinator of activist network Transform! Europe, Walter Baier from Austria, and Dino Abazović, professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences and one of the coordinators of OU.
On the second day we continue with the discussions on psychoanalysis and emancipation with theoreticians Jasna Koteska from Skopje and Željka Matijašević from Zagreb. Our guests at the second panel are Željka Matijašević, philosopher Ankica Čakardić, and theoreticians Nebojša Jovanović and Zlatan Delić. They will talk about gender, sexuality, body and multitude. We will end the second day with a key note lecture by Renata Salecl who will attempt to answer the question: who is afraid of women?
On the third day we will be talking about political and social alternatives. Leaders of pan-European and pan-Mediterranean networks, Niccolo Milanese and Gianluca Solera will speak about their experiences and projects with moderator Alina Trkulja. Plenum and protest participants from the post-Yugoslav states— Andreja Živković, Mate Kapović, Emir Hodžić, Jasna Koteska and Šejla Šehabović—will discuss successes and failures of new social movements. Gáspár Miklós Tamás, Richard Saymour, influential philosopher and commentator from London, Asim Mujkić, professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences and Andreja Živković, activist and theoretician, will talk return to Marx and varieties of marxism today. Finally, Srećko Horvat’s Philosophical Theatre (usually held in Croatian national theatre in Zagreb) will host one of the most prominent figures of Italian counter culture, the founder of famous Radio Alice in Bologna and influential thinker and writer—Franco Berardi Bifo.
The last day of Open University (November 29th) will be entirely dedicated to Yugoslavia and its heritage. Srećko Horvat and Igor Štiks will discuss their volume Welcome to the Desert of Post socialism with Senadin Musabegović, and talk about the return of the Left in the post-Yugoslav region. Ines Tanović Sijerčić will moderate the discussion with Asim Mujkić and historians Hrvoje Klasić and Dragan Markovina on who is afraid of Yugoslavia.
The fourth edition of Open University will be closed at 9 p.m. with a play based on the Yugoslav revolutionary and partisan poetry: It is not Red, it is Blood (Nije to crvena, to je krv) directed by Bojan Đorđev.
In addition to the program at SARTR, Dino Abazović will be talking with his guests, Renata Salecl, Gaspar M. Tamas, Franco Berardi Bifo and Richard Seymour each day at high noon in the Historical Museum of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
All of our programs are free and open to public.
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