Sanja Ivić PhD
Principal Research Fellow
Employment
- 2009 – present: Research Fellow, Institute of European Studies; Belgrade (Serbia)
- 2015- 2020: Associate Research Fellow (non-resident), Institute of International Relations; Prague
(Czech Republic) - 2017-2018: Associate Research Fellow (non-resident), Institute of Applied Ethics; University of Hull
(United Kingdom) - 2012: Mentor, Distance Learning Program, Pathways Online School of Philosophy; Sheffield (United
Kingdom)
Education
- Postdoctoral Research in Philosophy, University of Paris 10; Paris (France)
- PhD in European Studies, University of Belgrade, Belgrade (Serbia)
- MA in Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Rotterdam (The Netherlands)
- BA in Comparative Literature, University of Belgrade (Faculty of Philology) Belgrade (Serbia)
- BA in Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy; Belgrade (Serbia)
Foreign Research Fellowships and Internships
- 2021: Visiting Research Fellow (project: “The Crisis of Human Dignity in a Time of the COVID-19
- Pandemic”; University of Crete (Greece)
- 2018: Visiting Research Fellow (project: “Dynamic Nature of Human Rights: Postmodern Analysis of the
- Third and Fourth Generation of Human Rights”, International Society for Philosophers; Sheffield (United
- Kingdom)
- 2014: Fellowship for Postdoctoral Research at the University of Paris 10, Ministry of Education, Science
- and Development (Serbia)
- 2013: INGRID research fellowship for the project “Demographic Change in the European Union”;
- Luxemburg Institute of Social Economic Research (Luxembourg)
- 2007: Research Project “Poststructuralist Philosophical Critique of European Anti-discrimination Law”,
- Institute for Women’s History (IIAV); Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
- 2006: Research Fellowship, Soroptimist; Rotterdam (The Netherlands)
Projects
- 2020: Cooperation with the Ton Duc Thang (project: “Ethical Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic”)
Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam) - 2011-today: Project: “The European Union as a Postmodern Political Community: Global Context,
Institutions and Identity”; Institute of European Studies; Belgrade (Serbia) - 2009-2010: Project: “Contemporary Challenges to EU Citizenship”; Institute of European Studies;
Belgrade (Serbia) - 2007-2008: Project “Poststructuralist Philosophical Critique of European Family Law”, Institute for
Women’s History (IIAV); Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Invited Lectures
- 2022: “The Concept of Global Citizenship”, University of Economic and Human Sciences; Warsaw,
- Poland
- 2017: “Europe’s Borders: Security, Migration, Human Rights”. Konstantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy, Athens, Greece.
- 2016: “Globalization, Fragmentation, Regionalization”. NATO Defense College, Rome, Italy.
- 2007: “Symbolic, Normative and Transformative Dimensions of Law”, Institute for Women’s Studies (IIAV), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Areas of Interest
- Philosophy
- European Studies
- Political theory
- Human Rights
Memberships
- Member of the Board of the International Society for Philosophers, United Kingdom.
- Member of Euroacademia
- Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Law and Conflict Resolution
- Member of the Editorial Board of the International Law Research
- Member of the Advisory Board of the American International Journal of Contemporary Research
- Member of Athens Institute for Research and Education, Greece.
- Member of the Global Team of the Center for Promoting Ideas, USA
- Member of Network Migration in Europe, Germany
Other Professional Activities
- 2017: Organizing international conference “European Union and India Relations Reconsidered in the Frame of Cultural and Political Legacy and Contemporary Impacts of Gandhi’s Thought”, Institute for European Studies, Serbia, 27-28 September.
- 2016: Editor at International Society for Philosophers (ISFP) Publishing (reviewing books submitted for publication) (Sheffield, UK)
- 2012: Reviewing project proposals in the field of political philosophy, GAČR, Czech Science Foundation (Czech Republic)
- 2011-present: reviewing papers in the three international peer-reviewed journals: International Law Research (Canada), American International Journal of Contemporary Research (USA) and Journal of Law and Conflict Resolution (Africa)
- 2009-2011: Reviewing conference papers, Steering group “Pluralism, Inclusion and Citizenship” A Diversity and Recognition Project (London, UK).
Publications
Books:
- (2024): Eastern and Western Conceptions of Human Rights: Reaching a Consensus on Human Rights. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Lexington Books (forthcoming).
- (2023): The Concept of European Values: Creating a New Narrative for Europe. Lanham, MD:
Rowman & Littlefield; Lexington Books. - (2019): EU Citizenship. Vernon Press: Wilmington.
- (2018): Paul Ricoeur’s Idea of Reference. Reference as Refiguration. Boston and Leiden: Brill.
- (2016): The European Identity and Citizenship: Between Modernity and Postmodernity. London:
Palgrave Macmillan. - (2014): Pojam evropskog građanina. Novi Sad: Mediterran Publishing.
- (2008): Pseudonim. Belgrade: Alma.
Book Chapters:
- (2023): Creating Digital European Citizenship and the Digital European Public Sphere. In: Ramiro Troitino, David (ed.) Digital Development of the European Union. London: Springer (forthcoming).
- (2023) The Relevance of Christian Ethics to the Ethics of Care. In: Dennis Hiebert (ed.) Routledge International Handbook of Sociology and Christianity. UK: Routledge (forthcoming).
- (2022): Posthuman Ethics: Priority of Ethical over Ontological Status. In: Tumilty, Emma and Michele Battle-Fisher (eds.): Transhumanism-Entering an Era of Bodyhacking and Radical Human Modification, Springer: Dordrecht (forthcoming).
- (2021): The Future of the European Union after the COVID-19 Pandemic: Creating a New Narrative for Europe. In: Nevena Prolovic (ed.) The Future of the European Union after the COVID-19 Pandemic. Belgrade: Institute of International Politics (forthcoming).
- (2021): Posthuman Ethics: Priority of Ethical over Ontological Status. In: Tumilty, Emma and Michele Battle-Fisher (eds.): Transhumanism-Entering an Era of Bodyhacking and Radical Human Modification, Springer: Dordrecht (forthcoming).
- (2021): International Organizations and COVID-19 Discourse. In: Faiz Ansari and Shruti Charturvedi, International Law and Contemporary Framework. Gujarat, India: Research Culture Society and Publication, pp. 80-90.
- (2019): Brexit and the Emergence of Nationalist Narratives in Europe: Creating a New Narrative for the European Union. In: Sacco, Marcello (ed.): Brexit: A Way Forward, Wilmington: Vernon Press, pp. 1-23.
- (2016): Europe’s Migration Crisis: A Challenge to Democracy. In: Djeric, Gordana (ed.): Spatial Demarcations: Between the Politics of Fear and Effects on the Purse. Belgrade: Institute of European Studies, pp. 83-95.
- (2014): Contemporary Challenges to EU Citizenship (Savremeni izazovi građanstvu Evropske unije. In: Samardzic, Slobodan; Radic, Ivana (eds.): European Citizenship in the Time of Crisis. Belgrade: Cigoja Stampa, pp. 215-233.
- (2011): The Postmodern Liberal Conception of Citizenship. In: Danisch, Robert (ed.): Citizens of the World: Pluralism, Migration and Practices of Citizenship. Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, pp. 3-19.
- (2010): The Postmodern Liberal Conception of Citizenship. In: Chapple, Julian (ed.): Boundaries: Dichotomies of Keeping In and Keeping Out. Oxford, UK: Inter-Disciplinary Press, pp. 13-25.
Journal Articles:
- (2022): Using the Aeneid to Negotiate Difference: Identity, Difference and Narratives of Belonging. Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate, No. 24 (indexed in: A&HCI, SCImago and Scopus) (u pripremi)
- (2021, co-author): Recognition of Older Adults as a Heterogeneous Social Group. Trans/Form/Aςão, Vol. 44, No. 4, pp. 357-374 (indexed in: A&HCI, SCImago and Scopus).
- (2021): Jacques Derrida’s Philosophy of Forgiveness. Filosofia Unisinos, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 1-9 (indexed in: A&HCI, SCImago and Scopus).
- (2020): The Significance of Paul Ricoeur’s Narrative Theory and Hermeneutics for Understanding Carl Jung’s Red Book, Critical Hermeneutics, No. 4, pp. 163-182.
- (2020):The Hermeneutics of Gender Equality Law in Europe, Javnost-The Public, Vol. 27, Issue 4, pp. 407-419 (indexed in: SSCI, SCImago and Scopus).
- (2020) Vietnam’s Response to the COVID-19 Outbreak. Asian Bioethics Review, Vol. 12, Issue 3, pp. 341-347 (indexed in: SCI-expanded, SCImago and Scopus).
- (2020, co-author) The Rhetoric of Othering in a Time of Pandemic: Labeling COVID-19 as a ‘Foreign Virus’ in Public Discourse. Kultura polisa, Vol. 17, No. 43, pp. 421-433.
- (2020): Paul Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics as a Bridge Between Aesthetics and Ontology. Rivista di Estetica, Vol. 1, pp. 87-112 (indexed in: A&HCI, SCImago and Scopus).
- (2019): The Concept of European Values. Cultura: International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology, Vol. 16, No.1,pp. 103-117 (indexed in: A&HCI, SCImago and Scopus).
- (2018): European Philosophical Identity Narratives. Cultura: International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology, Vol. 15, No.1,pp. 125-145 (indexed in: A&HCI, SCImago and Scopus).
- (2018): Globalization and the Postnational Model of Citizenship. Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, No. 1, pp. 1-18.
- (2018): Globalization, Regionalization, Fragmentation: Postnational vs. National Political Paradigms. Kultura polisa, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 153-174 (indexed in: SCImago).
- (2017): The Concept of European Public Sphere in the European Public Discourse. Etikk i Praksis: Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics, No 11, Vol. 2, pp. 79-94 (indexed in: SSCI, SCImago and Scopus).
- (2016): Citizenship as Discursive Practice: The Postmodern Culture of Citizenship. Journal of Philosophy, Culture and Religion, Vol. 19, pp. 13-19.
- (2016): EU Public Political Discourse after Terrorist Attacks in Paris and Brussels. International Politics, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 206-242.
- (2014): Ethics of Care: Towards Postmodern Ethics?, Sveske, No. 112, pp. 94-102.
- (2014): The Concept of European Values within European Public Political Discourse. Sveske, No. 111, pp. 115-122.
- (2015): Demographic Change in the European Union: a Challenge to EU Citizenship. Review of International Affairs, Vol. XLVII, No. 58, pp. 122-140.
- (2013): The Archetypal World of Nikola Tesla. Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 48-55 (indexed in: A&HCI, SCImago and Scopus).
- (2013): The Rights of Older Adults in the European Union. Dados – Revista de Ciencias Sociais , Vol. 1, Issue 56, pp. 185-205 (indexed in: SSCI, SCImago and Scopus).
- (2013): The Truth as a Non-Reference: Realist and Antirealist Conception of Reference. Acta Philosophica, Vol. 22, Issue 1, pp. 99-117 (indexed in A&HCI, SCImago and Scopus).
- (2012): The EU Citizenship as a Mental Construct: Reconstruction of Postnational Model of Citizenship. European Review, Vol. 20, No. 3, 2012, pp. 419-437 (indexed in: SSCI, SCImago and Scopus).
- (2011): Binary Oppositions in Philosophy of Science. Phlogiston: Journal of History of Science, No. 18/19, pp. 127-149.
- (2011): European Identity: Between Modernity and Postmodernity (co-author Dragan Lakićević). Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research. Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 395-407 (indexed in: SSCI, SCImago and Scopus).
- (2011): European Commission’s Plan D for Democracy, Dialogue and Debate: A Path Towards Deliberation? Journal of Law and Conflict Resolution, Vol. 3, No. 2 February, pp. 14-19.
- (2011): Péče cestou deliberace: k ideji kontextuální morálky (Political Science and Contextual Idea of Morality). Filosofický časopis, No. 4, pp. 96-115 (indexed in: A&HCI, SCImago and Scopus).
- (2010): Dynamic Nature of Human Rights: Rawls’s Critique of Moral Universalism. Trans/Form/Aςão, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 223-240 (indexed in: A&HCI, SCImago and Scopus).
- (2010): Care Through Deliberation: A New Role of the Ethics of Care. Revista de Cercetare si Interventia Sociale, Vol. 31, pp. 80-94 (indexed in: SSCI, SCImago and Scopus).
- (2010): European Human Rights Binaries. Cultura, International Journal of Culture and Axiology, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 208-217 (indexed in: A&HCI, SCImago and Scopus).
- (2010): The Assembly of European Regions’ Udine Declaration: Contradictory Approaches to European and Regional Identities. European Urban and Regional Studies, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 443-446 (indexed in: SSCI, SCImago and Scopus).
- (2009): Rethinking EU Citizenship: Towards the Postmodern Ethics of Citizenship. Journal of Identity and Migration Studies, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 40-61 (indexed in: SCI expanded).
- (2009): The EU Visa Liberalisation Process for Western Balkan Countries as a Reflection of the Politics of Modernity. The Romanian Journal of European Studies (Special Issue on Migration and Mobility), No. 7-8, pp. 121-128 (indexed in Scopus).
- (2009): Hermeneutical Aspect of Reference. Praxis Filosófica, No. 29, pp.127-142.
- (2009): The Four Values of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. Daena : International Journal of Good Conscience, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 278-295
- (2009): Ricoeur’s Narrative Theory Applied to Science“, Philosophical Papers and Reviews, Vol. 1 (3), September, 2009, pp. 44-51.
- (2009): European Udine Declaration: Poststructuralist Reading. Review of European Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 110-116.
- (2009): Southeastern European Feminism and Narrative. Konvergencias, Vol. 24, pp. 88-103.
- (2008): Explanation and Understanding in the History of Philosophy and Ricoeur’s Theory. Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics, Vol. 3, Issue 1, pp. 26-34.
- (2007): Spinoza and Kant on Suicide. Res Cogitans: Journal of Philosophy, No. 4, Vol. 1, pp. 132-144.
- (2007): Rawls’s Law of Moral Peoples. Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. 1, Issue 2, pp. 1-10.
Conference Papers
- (2020): “The Relevance of the Postmodern Idea of Subjectivity for Development of the Concept of Posthuman Agency”, 4th Annual Posthuman Symposium, New York University, New York
(odloženo za 2022. godinu). - (2019): “Globalization and Regionalization: National vs. Postnational Values”, Symposium: Intercultural Challenges in the Era of Globalization, University “Alexandru Ioan Cuza”, Iasi,
Romania. - (2018): “European Philosophical Identity Narratives.” Symposium: Interpretation of Values, University “Alexandru Ioan Cuza”, Iasi, Romania.
- (2018): “European Identity in Light of Brexit”. Conference: Europe as a Global Actor, ISCTE-IUL, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
- (2015): Contemporary Challenges to EU Citizenship. University of Belgrade, Faculty of Political Sciences; Belgrade, Serbia.
- (2013): Paul Ricoeur’s Idea of Metamorphoses of Narrative Paradigms. Paul Ricoeur and the Future of Humanities. University of Groningen, Faculty of Philosophy; Groningen, The Netherlands.
- (2012): Citizenship and Identity as Narrative Constructs. Political and Constitutional Accommodation of Ethno-Linguistic Conflicts in Southern Europe. 13th Mediterranean Research Meeting, European University Institute; Florence, Italy.
- (2011): Shared Challenges in the European Union and the United States: Emerging from the Crisis. European University Institute and the European Commission; Brussels, Belgium.
- (2010): The European Union and Politics of Affinity. 8th European Urban an Regional Studies Conference: Repositioning of Europe in Era of Global Transformation; Vienna, Austria.
- (2009): Postmodern Conception of Citizenship. 5th Global Conference: Pluralism, Inclusion and Citizenship; Salzburg, Austria.
- (2008): Cultural Differences and Cultural History. Intercultural Dialogue MALRO. Ministry of Culture, Republic of Serbia, and French Cultural Center; Belgrade (Serbia).
- (2007): Human Rights Sixty Years after the Establishment of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Harper Academic Research Competition: Factors for Prosperity, Progress and Human Flourishing, SocialChange; USA.