Stefan Detchev is an Associate-Professor of modern and contemporary Bulgarian history and historiography at South-West University of Blagoeavgrad, Bulgaria and lecturer on history of masculinity at the University of Sofia. His interests cover history of political culture, nationalism and identity, history of sexuality, food and foodways. Among his major publications are “Who are the Bulgarians? “Race”, science and politics in fin-de-siècle Bulgaria – In: We, the people. Politics of National Peculiarities in South-East Europe (2009); Who are Our Ancestors? “Race”, Science and Politics in Bulgaria 1879-1912. (2010); Politics, Gender and Culture: Articles and Studies on Modern Bulgarian History (2010); In Searching of the Bulgarianness: The networks of national intimacy XIX-XXI (2010) Beltween Slavs and Old Bulgars: “Ancestors,” “Race” and Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century In: Geary, P., Klaniczay, G., Manufacturing Middle Ages. Entangled History of Medievalism in nineteenth-century Europe, Joep Leersen Series “National Cultivation of Culture”. (2013, pp. 347-376); Shopska salat”: The Road from an European Innovation to the National Culinary Symbol”, In: From Kebab to Ćevapčići. Eating Practices in Ottoman Europe” Interdisziplinäre Studien zum Östlichen Europa.

Michal is an Assistant Professor at the Metropolitan University Prague. He obtained his doctorate in 2017. Previously he was associated with the Institute for European Policy (IEP), Berlin and EUROPEUM, Prague. He underwent research fellowships at University of Konstanz and University of Vienna, South East European University (MK). His research focus is formation of national identity in international politics. He cooperates as a consultant with international organizations, such as OSCE.

Adam Nocek is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy of Technology and Science and Technology Studies in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering at Arizona State University. He is also the Founding Director of ASU’s Center for Philosophical Technologies. Nocek has published widely on the philosophy of media and science; speculative philosophy (especially Whitehead); design philosophy, history, and practice; and critical and speculative theories of computational media. He recently published Molecular Capture: The Animation of Biology (Minnesota, 2021), and is working on his next monograph, Governmental Design: On Algorithmic Autonomy. Nocek is the co-editor (with Tony Fry) of Design in Crisis: New Worlds, Philosophies and Practices, The Lure of Whitehead (with Nicholas Gaskill), along with several other collections and special issues, including a special issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (with Cary Wolfe) titled, “Ontogenesis Beyond Complexity.” He is a visiting researcher at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam and previously held the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Professorship.

Katja Kolšek holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Ljubljana (Slovenija) and is the author of “Chinese Script and the Semblant as Fetich” (Problemi: Journal of Culture and Societal Questions), “The Repetition of the Void and the Materialistic Dialectic” (Ed.Malden Dolar, et al. The structure of the void), “Democracy as the Philosophical Concept”, Ed. Jelica Šumič-Riha, Philosophy and Ontology: Philosophy and Philosophy), “Philosophy of Late Althusser as the Science of the Void”, (Ed.Mladen Dolar, Althusser, Problemi) and The Shift of the Gaze in Žižek’s Philosophical Writing”, Ed. Agon Hamza, Repeating Žižek, Durham/London: Duke University Press). She is a scientific researcher working in the fields of psychoanalysis, philosophy and sinology. She has held teaching positions at the Faculty of Arts University Ljubljana, Slovenija, University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenija and Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SAZU), Ljubjljana.

Dimitar Bechev is the director of the European Policy Institute, a think-tank based in Sofia, Bulgaria. Previously, he held research fellowships at Harvard University, University of Oxford and the London School of Economics, and headed the Sofia office of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). Dr. Bechev has written extensively on EU’s external relations, the politics and modern history of Turkey and the Balkans, and Russia’s foreign policy. His book Rival Power (Yale University Press, 2017) explores Russia’s role in Southeast Europe (Balkans, Greece, Cyprus, and Turkey). He is a regular contributor to Al Jazeera, the American Interest, Politico, Foreign Policy, and openDemocracy. He holds a D.Phil. (PhD) from the University of Oxford.

Dr. Bechev’s is also a fellow at The Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies at University of North Carolina, where his research project examines the foreign policy of hybrid regimes, looking at the cases of Russia and Turkey. It inquires into the impact of domestic politics and institutions on external relations.

Tihomir Topuzovski received his doctoral degree from the University of Birmingham in the UK. He also has two BAs in Philosophy and Art, and an MA in Art, and has received numerous academic achievement awards and research grants. He was also postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies in the Södertörn University in Stockholm. His research is at the intersection of philosophy, politics, environmental sciences, and the visual arts. He has published a number of papers and participated in individual and group exhibitions. His latest work includes а monograph ‘Postanarchism and Critical Art Practices’ (forthcoming – Bloomsbury Academic), an edited book: with Saul Newman The Posthuman Pandemic (2021), published by Bloomsbury Academic. His other recent works are Aesthetics technique and spatial occupation in hybrid political regimes, Baltic Worlds, Vol. XIV:3, pp 57-63 (2021), and a contribution of chapter to an edited book: Topuzovski T. & Andreas L. (2020) Political protest, temporary urbanism and the deactivation of urban spaces, in Transforming Cities Through Temporary Urbanism – A Comparative Overview, ed. ANDRES, L & ZHANG, Y , Springer. He has organized and contributed to a series of artistic projects and presentations including ‘Dis/Ordering the Art World’ and ‘Landscape of Anxiety’. Topuzovski is editor-in-chief of the journal The Large Glass (Journal for contemporary art, culture, and theory).

Jacob Henry Leveton is a materialist scholar working across art history, comparative literature, and experimental humanities. He holds a PhD in Art History from Northwestern University, where he is an alumnus of the Paris Program in Critical Theory, led by Samuel Weber. Dr. Leveton’s current research concerns art and autonomy, with projects engaging the contemporary artist Zachary Cahill’s critical USSA project, the romantic poet William Blake’s radical ecology, and Sigur Rós’s glossolalic lyrical experimentation and post-tonal music.

Zdravko Saveski (1976) is a researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities. He has PhD in Political Science from the Institute for Sociological, Political and Legal Research, at the University “St. Cyril and Methodius”. Previously, he was professor at FON University – Skopje.
He is author of Democracy: Models and Dilemmas (2011) and Beyond Uniform
Thinking: Rediscovery of the Left (2006), coauthor of several books including No pasarán: Participation of fighters from Macedonia in the Spanish Civil War (2016), Nationalism in/inside Context: Cooperation of Albanians and Macedonians from the Ilinden Uprising until the People’s Liberation War (2014), Wealth and Poverty in Macedonia (2013) and Devaluation of Labour: Analysis of Labour Law Legislation during the Period of Transition (2010), as well as editor of Strike: Experiences and Actualities (2011).
He deals with translation too. His most recent translation is Jason Hickel’s book “The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions” (Az-buki, 2019).

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Irena Cvetkovic holds a PhD in gender studies. As a younger researcher she has worked on many research projects in the fields of sociology, gender studies, and media. She is the author behind the socially engaged blog Fem Guerilla, and afterwards was a columnist in the Dnevnik newspaper. She is an activist for the human rights of marginalized communities, and has a special focus on LGBT people’s rights, drug users and sex workers. She is active in several formal and informal activist associations. At the momenth, she is the Executive Director of Coalition Margini.

Risto Karajkov holds a PhD in international development from the University of Bologna where he specialized in foreign aid to the Balkans in the period of transition, and an MS from the University of Trento. He holds several fellowship among which with the Centre for Civil Society Studies from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, US, and UNU-WIDER in Helsinki. His fields of interest include foreign assistance and donor policies with particular focus on EU pre-accession aid, international civil society and NGOs, project development and evaluation, as well as Balkans affairs. He has taught at the Integrated Business Faculty in Skopje. He has contributed as journalist/analyst to a number of international media including but not limited to the Osservatorio Balcani, The International Herald Tribune, The New York Times, European Voice, Il Riformista. He is the founder and director of DeSo, a development & management consultancy based in Skopje.