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Boskovic has degrees from the University of Belgrade, Tulane University, and
the University of St. Andrews.
Aleksandar Bošković was born (because he had no alternative) on 5 June 1962 in Zemun, in what was then called "FNR Yugoslavia". Happily unmarried and no children that he could claim to be responsible for. Single, with a love interest who claims that she loves him (but, as his wise friend Ida Erstad would say, who can understand love, life and lust…). Spent some years in the so-called "pro-democracy" journalism (1983-1990), in the process spending some time in the Belgrade Student and writing for almost all of the major (mostly Belgrade-based) Yugoslav magazines at the time. (Later had articles published in Ireland (in The Fortnight Magazine, May 1997) and Germany (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 15 February 1997). Between March and September 1998 wrote a weekly column 'Treći milenijum' ("The Third Millenium") for the Belgrade daily Dnevni telegraf. Since 1997, interviewed by several alternative radios and TVs, as well as by Arkzin, Duga, Odgovor, Naša Borba, Radio Belgrade, Slobodna Dalmacija (the last one of these is available on this site), Politika, Radio Deutsche Welle, Uniforum (Norway), magazine Prestup, and Montenegrin daily Pobjeda. Most recently, interviewed by the Radio Free Europe, and appeared on the TV Mreža on 11 September 2008. Aleksandar is Director of Research ("Naučni savetnik" — equivalent to the full Professor in the academic world) and Head of the Center for Political Research and Public Opinion in the Institute of Social Sciences in Belgrade (Serbia). Previously taught at the Universities of St Andrews, Belgrade (then Yugoslavia), Brasília (Brazil), Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa), and Rhodes University (Grahamstown, South Africa). Since late 2000, Bošković is Visiting Professor of Contemporary anthropology and Anthropology and feminism in the Post-graduate Program in Anthropology of the Faculty of Social Sciences (FDV), University of Ljubljana. His first Ph.D. student, Jana Urh, successfully defended her thesis at the FDV on 11 September 2003. From late 2006 began consulting for the UNDP Belgrade. Most recently, participated at the ASA conference in Bristol, and chaired a session at the conference of Socialist Era Anthropology in the Caucasus and Central Asia at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Finished the text of the lectures on history and theory of anthropology, delivered from 12 September until 24 October 2007 in the Cultural Center “Rex” in Belgrade, which – insh’allah’ – should be published in the late 2009. His most recent published book is an edited volume, Other People’s Anthropologies: Ethnographic Practice on the Margins (New York: Berghahn Books, 2008) http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=BoskovicOther. Aleksandar discussed topics around this book in late 2008 at the anthropology departments of the University of St Andrews (3 October), University of Cambridge (17 October), and Brunel University (23 October). Being a hopeless romantic, hopelessly in love (with the woman of his dreams… but not realities), and sometimes blogs at http://passajero.blogspot.com . During the last decade, Aleksandar Bošković taught & lived in five countries on the three continents... Which also brought him an extraordinary array of wonderful friends, from the Canary Islands, to UK, Brazil, South Africa, US, Italy, Germany, Norway, and Serbia… Appreciates Scotch malt whiskey (especially Glen Garioch, but Knockando and Isle of Jura are in the top three as well) and Croatian and Slovenian wines. Multiculturalism is OK. He accepts Vuk Ćosić's dictum of being a No Land's Man.
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