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IVAN MILENKOVIC is a philosopher by education, a translator by vocation, and a and a critic by temperament. He studied law and philosophy at the University of Belgrade and obtained his Phd at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade with a thesis on the concept of “sovereignty." He deals with contemporary politics and contemporary French philosophy.

He has published the books “Philosophical Fragments" (2011), “Praise of Discord: Machiavelli vs. Machiavellianism" (2018), and “Voice and Letter: Amir Brka's Dialectics of Darkness" (2023). In domestic, regional, and international periodicals, he has published more than 40 scientific papers, twenty reviews, and about 250 reviews, presentations, and reviews. Alone or in collaboration with other colleagues, he has prepared five collections of texts. He has translated 12 studies from French (among others, works by Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Rancière, Michel Foucault, etc.). He has given numerous lectures in Serbia, in the region, and in France.

Until 2021, Milenkovic will be the editor of the philosophical library of the Phaedon publishing house. He is a member of the Association of Literary Translators of Serbia. He works on the Third Program of Radio Belgrade.

SLOBODANKA MARKOVSKA was born in Bitola, where she completed primary and secondary education. She graduated with a master's degree (thesis: "Erich Fromm's Anthropological Thought") and a PhД (thesis: "Woman in the Bible: Anthropological Implications") from the Institute of Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje. She was the initiator and coordinator of the team for the preparation of a report for a study program in gender studies, and since the establishment of the Institute for Gender Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy in 2007, until 2013, she held the position of head. Since 2016, she has been a retired university professor.

Markovska has published a large number of scientific and professional papers, prefaces, and afterwords books, translations, and presentations. She is the author of the book “Man and Hope" (Skopje: Metaforum, 1994) and co-editor of the first anthropological anthology in our country, “Anthropology: A Collection of Texts" (Skopje: Doger, 1999). She is the head of the project for the Macedonian language publication of the world-renowned five-volume edition “History of Women in the West" (edited by Michel Perrault and Georges Diby). Her work also includes six translations from English in the field of humanities.

Markovska participates in numerous domestic and international scientific meetings, symposiums, summer schools, etc. In 1997, she completed a study stay at Columbia University in New York.

STEVEN FRIEDMAN is a philosopher (Harvard) with a rich scientific and academic career. The New Yorker called him a "polymath" for his contributions to fields as diverse as philosophy, molecular biology, medicine, the visual arts, poetry, drama, and performance. Under a grant from the National Cancer Institute, he conducts research in the area of medicine and molecular biology at UCLA, where his contributions range from developing methods for elucidating the structure of viruses to devising smart cancer chemotherapy.

As a fine artist, Friedman is represented by the Robert Berman Gallery in Los Angeles (since 1999). The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has characterized his art as "a new mode of visual representation." His work includes over 200 philosophical works, six collections of lyric poetry, the play “The Passion of the Mind" (1980), the philosophical narrative poem “The Books of Joshua" (2008), etc. Premiered to a New York audience, his autobiographical philosophical performance “Phalaris's Bull: Solving the Riddle of the Great Big World” has experienced numerous performances in the United States, Europe, and Asia, and already several in Macedonia as well (among other things, last year it was shown at the 63rd Ohrid Summer).