Guests
VANGEL NONEVSKI
DOMINIQUE CHATEAU
RISTO SOLUNCHEV
IGOR I. EVLAMPIEV
VLADIMIR DAVCHEV
JOHN Ó MAOILEARCA
MAJA MUHIKJ
HRVOJE TURKOVIC
SERDAR ÖZTÜRK
ILLUM JAKOBI
BARTOSZ GRUDZIECKI
ATANAS CHUPOSKI
SLAVICA SRBINOVSKA
STEFAN PALITOV
VLADIMIR ANGELOV
MILAN GJORGJIEVIKJ
YORDAN KOSTOV QUINTET
Speakers (International Conference: "Philosophy and Film")
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VANGEL NONEVSKI
Vangel Nonevski is born in 1977, in Belgrade. He graduated, holds a master's degree and a doctorate from the Institute of Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje. He authored two books so far: Music Bricolage (2003) and The Gramophone as a Meta-Instrument (2014); and is an Editor of an anthology. His interests and activities are in the fields of culture and remix studies (from Duchamp to Grandmaster Flash); aesthetics and interdisciplinary studies of interactive arts; modern art and its relation to semiology (from Benjamin to Derrida); the theory of contemporary architecture and public space; and everything that enters the cracks between them... From 2012 until 2018 he is professor at the Euro-Balkan University- Skopje, and from 2015 until 2018 a visiting professor at the University American College Skopje. Currently, he is a professor at the Institute of Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje. -
DOMINIQUE CHATEAU
Dominique Chateau is professor emeritus at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and member of the Institut ACTE research team. Trained in philosophy and logic at the Sorbonne, he taught aesthetics, philosophy of art and film studies. He is currently a lecturer at the Higher National School of Landscape (ENSP) in Versailles. He is Editorial Director of the Nouvelle Revue d’Aesthétique. He has published in particular: Plastic arts: archeology of a notion, Jacqueline Chambon, Coll. “Rayon art”, 1999. Cinema and Philosophy, Nathan, Coll. “University”, 2003. Art counting for one, Les Presses du Réel, MAMCO, 2009. Subjectivity (ed.), Amsterdam University Press, 2011. Subjectivity in the cinema, Presses Universitaires de Rennes (2011). The Aesthetization of art. Contemporary art and cinema, L’Amandier (2014). After Charlie: the denial of representation, Le bord de l'eau (2016). Screens, codir. (with José Moure), Amsterdam University Press, 2016. A Japanese aesthetic. Art and taste in floating mode, L’Harmattan (2019). Post-cinema, codir. (with J. Moure), Amsterdam University Press, 2020. To be published: The cinematographic idea, Classiques Garnier. -
RISTO SOLUNCHEV
Risto Solunchev is born in Skopje, graduated, holds a master’s degree and doctorate from the Institute of Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje, Currently, he is a professor at the Institute of Philosophy and holds the subjects: Newage Philosophy, German classical philosophy, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy. But his existence is a vibrating machine of flux and music in search of its philosophical form, and philosophy that tends to annihilate itself in the music. From 1993 to 1996 he studies Macedonian traditional music along with Pece Atanasovski and numerous of the Macedonian traditional music, and in 1997 together with a group of students of Atansovski co-creates and leads the Orchestra “Pece Atanasovski” until 2003. For the last 15 years, he is actively studying Byzantine Church music and he is also a conductor of the Macedonian Bizantian choir “Harmosini” -
IGOR I. EVLAMPIEV
Igor I. Evlampiev is a professor at the Department of Russian Philosophy and Culture at the Institute of Philosophy at St. Petersburg State University. His research interests include the history of philosophy and the philosophy of culture, especially the philosophy of cinema. His monographs (in Russian) are: Divine and Human in the Philosophy of Ivan Iluin (1998), History of Russian Metaphysics in the 19th and 20th Centuries (2000; 2nd ed. - 2020); The Aesthetic Philosophy of Andrej Tarkovski (2001; 2nd ed. - 2012); History of Russian Philosophy (2002; 2nd ed. - 2014); Philosophy of Man in the Creativity of F. Dostoevsky (2012); Political philosophy of B. Н. Chicherin (2013); Russian Philosophy in the European Context (2017), Henri Bergson: The Philosophy of the Walking Era (2020) and others. -
VLADIMIR DAVCHEV
Vladimir Davchev, born in Skopje, holds a bachelor's, master's degree (’Spirit-body’ relation in the modern analytical philosophy) and a doctorate (The Consciousness and the Analytical Philosophy: An Analysis of the Understanding of the Concept of Consciousness by Bertrand Russell, Gilbert Ryle and Daniel Dennett) at the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje. He is currently a full professor at the Institute for Gender Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy and is the author of fifty published papers. She teaches several subjects, from which we would single out: Technofeminism and cyberculture, Gender and sexuality, Philosophy of Mind, Critical approach to manhood, Technology and gender. Professor, Ph.D. Vladimir Davchev is one of the founders of the Interdisciplinary Center for Cognitive Science (ICCS) at the Faculty of Philosophy –Skopje. -
JOHN Ó MAOILEARCA
John Ó Maoilearca is a Professor in the Department of Critical and Historical Studies at Kingston University, London. Previously, he lectured in philosophy departments at the University of Sunderland, England, and the University of Dundee, Scotland. He has published eleven books, including (as author) Bergson and Philosophy (2000), Post-Continental Philosophy: An Outline (2006), Philosophy and the Moving Image: Refractions of Reality (2010), and All Thoughts Are Equal: Laruelle and Nonhuman Philosophy (2015). His intrests are in the areas of Continental Philosophy (Bergson, Deleuze, Henry, Laruelle, Badiou), metaphysics (especially of time and identity), and metaphilosophy. The latter has led him to explore non-standard modes of thinking and philosophical expression, including the diagrammatic thinking, animal representation, as well as film philosophy. Recently his intrest is directed towards François Laruelle’s project of non-philosophy. Currently he is working on ordinary modes of mysticism and time-travel. -
MAJA MUHIKJ
Maja Muhikj has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, MPhil in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. She also holds a Master's Degree in Gender and Culture from Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. In 2004, Muhikj attended the University of Santa Barbara, California for two months, on a scholarship awarded by the US Department of State for Religion in the United States: Pluralism and Public Presence. As a result, Muhikj appears as co-author of the Encyclopedia of Global Religion (2011), edited by Mark Juergensmeyer and Wade Clark Roof. Ms. Muhic has been working as a lecturer at the Department of English, Faculty of Languages, Cultures and Communications at South East European University, Tetovo since 2003. Her interests include colonialism and human rights, multiculturalism, intercultural competencies. -
HRVOJE TURKOVIC
Hrvoje Turkovic (Zagreb, Croatia, November 4, 1943) is a full professor who, after retiring, is still associated with the Academy of Dramatic Arts as an external professor (Akademija dramke umjetnost), Zagreb, University of Zagreb and Vern University, Zagreb. He holds degrees in Philosophy and Sociology, University of Zagreb (MA); M.A. in Film Studies, New York University, New York; PhD in Philology, University of Zagreb. He has published 17 books and numerous articles on film and TV and is a member of the editorial board of the academic film magazine Chronicle of Croatian Cinema (Croatian Film Ethography - http://www.hfs.hr/hfs/ljetopis_detail_e.asp). -
SERDAR ÖZTÜRK
Prof. Serdar Öztürk, is an academics at Department of Radio Television and Cinema, at Faculty of Communication in Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University (AHBV), Ankara, Turkey. Studied in interdisciplinary perspectives, Öztürk published extensive papers both in national and international journals, and seven books concerning cultural history of Turkey as well as history and sociology and philosophy of cinema. Among his books, Cafes and Power in the Turkish Republic (1930-1945) is his doctoral dissertation. Cinema, reception and politics during the early Republican period; Dialectics of communication in the Ottoman period; The sources of the sociology of communication in Turkey are his other major studies. The book Space and Power: The Politics of Communication Places with Movies (Mekan ve İktidar: Filmlerle İletişimMekanlarının Altpolitikas) focuses mainly on cinema sociology. His book Cinephilosophy: The Journey to Kurosawa's Dreams (Ankara: Heretic 2016) are about the connection of films with philosophy. -
ILLUM JAKOBI
Illum Jakobi comes from a background in mountaineering and long expeditions to the Arctic and the Amazon. He worked as a cameraman at high altitude before embarking on his expeditions to remote mountain ranges traveling 2,500 miles [2,500 km] off the north coast of Greenland. He later studied Cinematography at the Danish Film School and began making films with scientists and artists studying our relationship with nature. This theme is now being continued in the form of fiction with a series of feature-length projects in development based on his own experiences in the desert. His first film, THE TROUBLE WITH NATURE, was made in the restless spirit of the Romantic era and was shot with just two actors in remote Alpine regions. -
BARTOSZ GRUDZIECKI
Bartosz Grudziecki was born in Wroclaw in 1982. Bartosz Grudzieski moved to Germany with his parents when he was a child. He studied at the University of Television and Film in Munich. In 2005 he was a judge at the International Film and Television School Festival in Lodz, Poland. In 2008, he participated in the Berlinale talent campus. His interests are painting and architecture (published in the most important Polish magazines for architecture). From 2009 until today he is a teacher at HFF Munich (supervisor of the script and directing project). THE WALL is his first film debut. -
ATANAS CHUPOSKI
Atanas Chuposki is a writer and director, holding a PhD degree in Philological Sciences. He is working as a filmologist consultant at the Cinematheque of N. Macedonia, and he is a scriptwriter and director of seven documentaries and one short fiction film. He is the author of around twenty TV shows produced by the Macedonian Radio Television and around hundred radio shows produced by Kanal 103 and Radio Ravel. He is the author of four books and over a hundred literary and film studies, essays, poems, short stories and other texts. He is a professor of History of Film, Theory of Film at the Europa Prima University. Member of the Macedonian Writers Association and the Association of Comparative Literature of Macedonia. -
SLAVICA SRBINOVSKA
Slavica Srbinovska is a Professor of Theory and Methodology of Literature, Comparative Literature, Hermeneutics at the Department of General and Comparative Literature, "Blaze Koneski" Faculty at UKIM - Skopje. Professional experience: publication and translation studies in the field of theory of literature and comparative literature (M. Bal, G. Prince and others). Major studies: Feminism and gender (2010); Literature, film, popular culture (2011); Literature and philosophy (2010); Philosophy of the point of view (2020), etc. She has collaborated on projects in the field of theory of fiction (including the field dedicated to the adaptation of fiction/literacy in film, drama, and theater) and cultural studies with the University of Amsterdam, European Institute of Gender Studies in Florence, the New Sorbonne University (Paris 3) and other universities. -
STEFAN PALITOV
Stefan Palitov is a filmmaker, media artist and researcher focusing on storytelling, extended realities and art & tech. His academic background includes BA studies in Philosophy on Ss. Cyril and Methodius - Skopje and filmmaking studies on FAMU in Prague, Czech Republic. Acquired Master of Arts in Media Arts Cultures Erasmus Mundus Excellence Program.
Along with creating fiction and documentary films, he has exhibited VR and media artworks. Notable exhibitions include Ars Electronica and exhibitions in Copenhagen, Hong Kong, Nanjing, Changsha... Former artist in residence on UNESCO supported residency in China and at ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe researching the history and design of 360-degree, VR and immersive artworks. -
VLADIMIR ANGELOV
Vladimir Lj. Angelov upon graduation at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, for a short period, works as a producer in Vardar Films, and from 1995 starts working at the Cinematheque of Macedonia and in 2017 is appointed Director. At the beginning of his career works on recognizing and restoration of the Macedonian film fond, and from 2006-2017 is responsible for the realization of the monthly film programme, executing and collaborating on numerous projects: showing film cycles from different national cinematographies, retrospectives of authors, and presentation of programmes dedicated to the film classics, but also of the contemporary cinematography. From 1997 he collaborates on the magazine CINEGRAPHY and since has published around treaty texts. Angelov also collaborates with numerous local film festivals, and has been a jury member of Watch Out, Philosophical Film Festival, cinEdays… -
MILAN GJORGJIEVIKJ
Milan Gjorgjievikj (Skopje, 1981) is an orthodox priest and associate professor at the Orthodox Theological Faculty "St. Clement of Ohrid” in Skopje. After completing his undergraduate theological studies in Skopje and his master's degree in philosophy in Sofia, in 2011 he received a doctorate in medieval philosophy from the Thomas Institute at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cologne. The dissertation entitled Nikolas Kabasilas - ein Weg tu einer Synthese der Traditionen was published under the same title for the Peeters publishing house in 2015. The same year, his first book in Macedonian, Byzantium in Dialogue, was published, and four years later, his second, In Heaven and on Earth. In 2019 is published his translation of the monograph Byzantine Philosophy by Georgi Kapriev from Bulgarian and German into Macedonian. He has authored scientific works and essays in Macedonian, Bulgarian, Serbian, German and English language, and he also has organized scientific gatherings and discussions in the field of theology and philosophy. -
YORDAN KOSTOV QUINTET
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Speakers (International Conference: "Philosophy and Film")