Lecture "Media Capture and Press Freedom in the Age of Trump" by Anya Schiffrin ( @columbiauniversity.bsky.social SIPA).

Expert lecture on attacks on press freedom and dramatic changes in global media.

🗓️ Fri, 12. Dec, 16:00 (IFDT), open for public.

Link: ifdt.bg.ac.rs/abno

How can we turn knowledge into impact? ✍

@ifdtbeograd.bsky.social brought together researchers, practitioners, and policymakers in Belgrade to explore how democratic innovation can strengthen democracy in practice.

Key takeaways 👉 lnkd.in/ew3MCGdn

Korupcija je postala deo političke kulture Irena Fiket: Korupcija je postala deo političke kulture

Moja draga koleginica dala odličan intervju. Preporuka! 👇👇👇
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LSE IDEAS Online Debate
Student and Civic Protest in Serbia (2024/2025): Messages & Impact
🗓️ 22 May | 11:00 (London)
🌐 Free & online
🔗 Register: lse.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Expert Panel: “Uprising for Justice: Inside Serbia’s Student-Led Protest Movement” The webinar is free and open to the public. Registration is required.

Join the panel discussion “Uprising for Justice: Inside Serbia’s Student-Led Protest Movement" on Apr 30, 2025, 12 PM EDT.

Featuring IFDT @gazelapudar.bsky.social, @vujoilic.bsky.social & Andrej Ševo.

Free & open: events.iu.edu/reei/event/1...

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Podrška rektoru! 👇

📢 Call for Contributions
Edited Volume on the 2024-2025 Serbian Protests: "Protests and New Democratic Imaginaries in Serbia (2024–2025)"
📚 Editors: @fbieber.bsky.social, @gazelapudar.bsky.social, @vujoilic.bsky.social
🗓️ Deadline: May 15, 2025

Info: ifdt.bg.ac.rs/2025/04/call...

The extended Rector’s Collegium of the University of Belgrade condemns the knife attack on the Dean in Niš, and demands justice, accountability, and action to stop hate speech and violence against the academic community and peaceful protesters.
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This is an interesting question, and kind to ask. I am U.S.-based (not U.S.), but here are my thoughts. 🧵

The corruption-induced tragedy of Novi Sad now counts 16 victims.
Vukašin, a high-school graduate who had terrible injuries, died today.
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Join this petition in solidarity with Serbia’s students, academics and all other citizens. Please read forms.office.com/e/jnVLs00DLW...

An it's only Friday...
But Niš just arrived to Belgrade ❤️⛽️

Rektor Đokić: Studenti u blokadi ne žele nasilje na protestu, te najave dolaze od drugih Rektor Univerziteta u Beogradu Vladan Đokić izjavio je danas da su studenti i veliki deo akademske javnosti uznemireni zbog najava da će u subotu, 15. marta, za kada je najavljen protest u Beogradu, d...

U prostorijama IFDT-a održana je konferencija za štampu na kojoj je govorio rektor Univerziteta u Beogradu, Vladan Đokić. Istakao je: „Akademska zajednica stoji iza svojih studenata. I ne samo u Beogradu, već i u drugim gradovima gde su fakulteti u blokadi.“

Ceo tekst: n1info.rs/vesti/rektor...

Mreža Solidarnosti za PROSVETU Priključi se – Pomozimo prosvetnim radnicima sada! Mere smanjenja plata su već stupile na snagu, što znači da moramo odmah reagovati. Hitno nam je potrebno više donatora! Broj ugroženih nastavnika r...

Molim vas delite link, upišite se, prosveta je pod najvećim pritiscima. Moramo da budemo solidarni.

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Mreža Solidarnosti za PROSVETU Priključi se – Pomozimo prosvetnim radnicima sada! Mere smanjenja plata su već stupile na snagu, što znači da moramo odmah reagovati. Hitno nam je potrebno više donatora! Broj ugroženih nastavnika r...

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Serbian Students Are Reimagining What Society Could Be - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung The ongoing mobilizations against government corruption contain the seeds of a much broader transformation

Dušanka Milosavljević, Research Fellow at IFDT, wrote "Serbian Students Are Reimagining What Society Could Be", published by @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social. Also available in Slovenian (Disenz).
Read more: www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/5... #AcademicSky #SEEBluesky

Strong condemnation of inappropriate behavior towards the rector of the University of Belgrade IFDT joins the statement of the Faculty of Architecture, which we convey in its entirety.

Strong condemnation of inappropriate behavior toward the Rector of the University of Belgrade.

The IFDT joins the statement issued by the Faculty of Architecture, which we convey in full: ifdt.bg.ac.rs/0vz3

Vlade u prolazu Prethodnih dana se mnogo govori o Vladi, naročito nakon podnošenja ostavke premijera. Ono što treba odmah reći je da je Vlada Miloša Vučevića i dalje u punom mandatu. I to će biti sve dok Narodna skup...

U Danasu je izašao tekst višeg naučnog saradnika IFDT-a, Luke Glušca.
Tekst u celosti možete pročitati ovde: www.danas.rs/dijalog/licn...

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What next for the protests in Serbia? The regime of Serbian Progressive Party and president Aleksanda Vučić is fundamentally undemocratic and cannot restore the rule of law without threatening itself. Unless Vučić makes a mistake, the sys...

Our latest piece on the protests in Serbia (w. @markokmezic.bsky.social @lurapo.bsky.social & Claudia Laštro) euobserver.com/eu-political...

Lessons from the student protests in Serbia An analysis of the ongoing protests in Serbia, the skill of students in organizing the demonstrations, the differences with the protests of the 1990s and 2000s, and the possible risks of the absence…

Strategic demands, decentralisation, organisation and communication are some of the strengths of the student protests in #Serbia https://buff.ly/3EsishG

Briga [Animirani rečnik angažmana] YouTube video by Angažovana misao / Engaged Thought

“Animirani rečnik angažmana” predstavlja nam pojam brige i istražuje njenu ulogu u društvenom angažmanu, solidarnosti i kolektivnoj odgovornosti. Briga nije samo individualni čin, već i osnov za društvenu transformaciju.

Pogledajte epizodu na linku: youtu.be/wRhVM5DyY2c?...

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Građanska neposlušnost [Animirani rečnik angažmana] YouTube video by Angažovana misao / Engaged Thought

Šta je građanska neposlušnost i kako ona funkcioniše kao oblik nenasilnog otpora? Kada je opravdana i kakvu ulogu ima u demokratskom društvu?

Animirani rečnik angažmana: youtu.be/ml_2W7hL3cQ?...

Scenario: Irena Fiket, Sara Nikolić
Tekst: Marija Tubić
Animacija: Tijana Radovanović, Nada Todorović

Serbia’s students are showing the world how to restore democratic hope | Adriana Zaharijević An authoritarian regime has been rocked by an anti-corruption movement generating society-wide anger and indignation, says philosopher Adriana Zaharijević

"Serbia’s students are showing the world how to restore democratic hope" by
Adriana Zaharijević (#IFDT) published in @theguardian-nt.bsky.social
Read the full article: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The International Sociological Association @isa-sociology.bsky.social invites the global community of sociologists to an online tribute to the life of Michael Burawoy, Saturday, Feb. 8, noon Eastern. Follow the YouTube live transmission bit.ly/414VbLC.

Serbia’s students are showing the world how to restore democratic hope | Adriana Zaharijević An authoritarian regime has been rocked by an anti-corruption movement generating society-wide anger and indignation, says philosopher Adriana Zaharijević

“Vučić is not the state, the protesters argue; the institutions, as well as society at large, must be decaptured.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

2004 American Sociological Association Presidential address: For public sociology* Responding to the growing gap between the sociological ethos and the world we study, the challenge of public sociology is to engage multiple publics in multiple ways. These public sociologies should ...

as they learn students become ambassadors of sociology to the wider world just as they bring back to the classroom their engagement with diverse publics. As teachers we are all potentially public sociologists.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

a dialogue between ourselves and students, between students and their own experiences, among students themselves, and finally a dialogue of students with publics beyond the university. Service learning is the prototype:
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Very sad for the sociological community - we were inspired by his work on public sociology. More than ever, in Serbia today, his words on students resonate with us sociologists:
Education becomes a series of dialogues on the terrain of sociology that we foster
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Response of the Rector’s Collegium of Belgrade University

Read here: ifdt.bg.ac.rs/2025/02/resp...

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