Igor 艩tiks, PhD
Dr. Igor 艩tiks is a professor at the Faculty of Media and Communications in Belgrade and a senior research fellow at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. He previously worked and taught at universities in Edinburgh, Ljubljana, Sarajevo, and Graz.
His novels,鈥� and 鈥�(originally published as Elijah鈥檚 Chair) won numerous awards and have been translated into 15 languages. His most recent novel鈥�W (Fraktura, 2019)鈥� is dedicated to a century of revolutionary struggles in Europe. He was honored with the French distinction Chevalier des arts et des lettres鈥痜or his literary and intellectual achievements.
Courses Taught
Citizenship in Southeast Europe: Divided Societies and Unequal Cities
Select Publications
艩tiks, I. and K. Stojakovi膰. 2021. . Belgrade: Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Southeast Europe.
艩tiks, I. 2020. ‘Activist Aesthetics in the Post-Socialist Balkans: Resistance, Rebellion, Emancipation’, Third Text 鈥� Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture, Vol. 34, No. 4-5, 461-479,
艩tiks, I. 2019. ‘Back on Tito Street: bodies and citizens’, Studies in Theatre and Performance 39(3): 256-267, available at
艩tiks, I. 2015. Nations and Citizens in Yugoslavia and the Post-Yugoslav States: One Hundred Years of Citizenship, London: Bloomsbury Academic.
艩tiks, I. and S. Horvat. 2015. Welcome to the Desert of Post-socialism: Radical Politics after Yugoslavia. London: Verso.
艩tiks, I. and J. Shaw. 2013 (paperback 2015). Citizenship after Yugoslavia. Abingdon: Routledge.
艩tiks I. and J. Shaw. 2013. Citizenship Rights. Farnham and London: Ashgate, (514 pages).
Select Presentations
‘Activist Aesthetics: Resistance and Rebellion in the Post-Socialist Balkans’, Cultures of the Left: Manifestations and Performances, School of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies, University of Warwick , 5-6 June 2017
‘From Official to Militant: Activist Redefinitions of Socialist Art’, Association for Art History Annual Conference, Association for Art History, Loughbourough University, 6-8 April 2017
‘Re-appropriating the past, pre-figuring the future: Artistic Activism in the Post-Socialist Balkans’, Reimagining Civil Society in a Period of 鈥楿ncivil Societies鈥�, American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 30 March 2017
‘Mapping the desert of post-socialism: sites of resistance’, Royal Geographical Society 鈥� IBG Annual International Conference, Royal Geographical Society, London, 30 August 鈥� 2 September 2016
Research Interests
Citizenship studies
Social movements
Cultural studies
Political art
Southeast Europe
Education
- PhD, Intercultural and International Studies, Northwestern University and Institut d鈥橢tudes Politiques de Paris
- MA, Philosophy, University of Paris 8
- BA, Philosophy and Comparative Literature, University of Zagreb
