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PL : Rok temu wybuchły protesty serbskich studentów, wywołane nieszczerą reakcją rządu wobec tragicznego zawalenia się sklepienia stacji kolejowej Novi Sad. 16 osób zginęło w wyniku krytycznych niedopatrzeń w trakcie kosztownego remontu budynku. Administracja wypiera, że remont miał miejsce – jednym z głównych postulatów protestujących jest uznanie wydarzenia się tego, co sami widzieli na własne oczy. W trakcie seminarium z Dr Adrianą Zaharijević, obejrzymy film „Wake up, Serbia! Pumpaj: The Student Uprising” w reżyserii Raüla Gallego Abellána jako ilustrację koncepcji „transakcyjnego autorytaryzmu”, w którym wartości są utowarowione, prawda jest urabiana, a zwykli ludzie muszą powstać w celu obrony zdrowego rozsądku.

Adriana Zaharijević jest pracownicą naukową Instytutu Filozofii i Teorii Społecznej Uniwersytetu w Belgradzie. Jej prace łączą filozofię polityczną, teorię feministyczną i historię społeczną. Jest autorką czterech monografii (w języku serbskim): „Becoming a Woman” [2010], „Who Is an Individual? [2014, 2019], „Life of bodies” [2020] oraz „Judith Butler and politics” (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). Publikowała w czasopismach East European Politics and Societies, European Journal of Women Studies, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Redescriptions, Signs, Social Politics oraz Women’s Studies International Forum. Jej teksty zostały przetłumaczone na język albański, bułgarski, niemiecki, węgierski, włoski, macedoński, portugalski, słoweński, turecki i ukraiński, a od dwóch dekad czynnie zajmuje się tłumaczeniem teorii i filozofii feministycznej na język serbski. Regularnie pisze krótkie artykuły dla szerszej publiczności, w których porusza kwestie nierówności społecznych, antynacjonalizmu i antymilitaryzmu. Adriana jest laureatką nagrody Emma Goldman Snowball 2022

EN : A year ago, Serbian students staged protests in response to the government’s insincere reaction to the tragic collapse of the roof of the Novi Sad railway station. 16 people died as a result of critical oversights during the costly renovation of the building. The administration denies that the renovation took place—one of the main demands of the protesters is recognition of what they saw with their own eyes. During the seminar with Dr. Adriana Zaharijević, we will watch the film „Wake up, Serbia! Pumpaj: The Student Uprising“ by Raül Gallego Abellán as an illustration of the concept of ”transactional authoritarianism,” in which values are commodified, truth is manipulated, and ordinary people must rise up to defend common sense.

Adriana Zaharijević is a Principal Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade. Her work combines political philosophy, feminist theory and social history. She is the author of four monographs (in Serbian) Becoming a Woman [2010], Who Is an Individual? [2014, 2019], Life of Bodies [2020], and Judith Butler and Politics (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). She published in East European Politics and Societies, European Journal of Women Studies, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Redescriptions, Signs, Social Politics, and Women’s Studies International Forum. Her texts have been translated into Albanian, Bulgarian, German, Hungarian, Italian, Macedonian, Portuguese, Slovenian, Turkish, and Ukrainian, and she has actively translated feminist theory and philosophy into Serbian for two decades. She regularly writes short pieces for a wider public, in which she tackles social inequalities, antinationalism and antimilitarism. Adriana is the 2022 Emma Goldman Snowball awardee.

What: Guantanamo: 23 Years of America’s Ongoing War on Justice and Humanity – a talk with Mansoor Adayfi

Where: Faculty of Sociology UW, Lecture hall, room 18

When: 10.10 18:50

Cover painting credit: Sabri AlQurashi.

Mansoor Adayfi (GTMO441) is a writer, artist, human rights advocate, and former Guantanamo detainee. Kidnapped at age 18 and sold to the CIA, he was detained in Guantánamo Bay for nearly 15 years without charges or trial. He was resettled to Serbia in 2016 under an agreement between the US and Serbian governments. In 2021, he earned a bachelor’s degree in management, completing a thesis titled „Rehabilitation and Integration of Former Guantanamo Prisoners into Social Life and the Labor Market,” which became the foundation for the Guantanamo Survivors Fund, co-founded with American lawyers and US-based NGOs. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Project Management.

His first book, „Don’t Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo,” was published in 2021 by Hachette and received critical acclaim.His second work, the audiobook „Letters from Guantanamo,” was published in 2024 and was recognized as Audible’s Best Audiobook of the Year.

Mansoor’s writings also appear in the New York Times, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Middle East Monitor, The New Arab, and Common Dreams. He wrote the introduction, „Ode to the Sea: Art from Guantánamo Bay,” for the 2017–2018 exhibition at John Jay College of Justice and contributed to scholarly works including „Witnessing Torture” and ECCHR’s „Rupture and Reckoning – Guantanamo Turns 20.”

He has worked in film and media, adapting his work for television and film. His advocacy includes organizing the 2023 „Close Guantanamo” conference at the European Parliament and curating art exhibitions. He currently serves as Guantanamo Project Coordinator for CAGE International, continuing his work on human rights, the closure of Guantanamo Bay, and the pursuit of justice and accountability.