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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 "FNR Jugoslavija". Happily unmarried and no children that he could claim to be responsible for. As his parents are of different ethnicities (father-Serbian, mother-Macedonian), grew up in different places speaking different languages, so, as a consequence, Aleksandar considered himself as Yugoslav until 1991 and the bloody disappearance of Yugoslavia. 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 (Mladost, Vreme, NIN, Intervju, Komunist, Književna reč, interviewed in the Start in August 1988). 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. (This newspaper was shut down by the Serbian authorities in October 1998, and its owner and editor, Mr. Slavko Ćuruvija, was assassinated by the Serbian secret police in April 1999. His killers were never brought to justice.) Since 1997, interviewed by several alternative radios and TVs, as well as by Arkzin, Duga, Odgovor, Naša Borba, Radio Belgrade, and Slobodna Dalmacija (the last one of these is available on this site). Collaborated with the new series of Arkzin in 1997/1998. Also appeared in the cult radio program "Peščanik" on the Radio B92, in the TV show "Ogledalo" on the Studio B, in the radio program "Nojeva barka" on Radio Beograd 2; and gave interviews to the Radio Deutsche Welle, magazine Prestup, and Montenegrin daily Pobjeda. Most recently, gave an interview for the Norwegian magazine Uniforum, and also for the Serbian pro-government daily, Politika. In August 1990, Aleksandar embarked on the course of post-graduate studies in the US (Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana). This episode was not terribly successful ("culture shock" in various guises, combined with the horrors related to the total destruction of Yugoslavia), but did eventually get an M.A. in social/cultural anthropology in 1993 (supervised by the great Munro S. Edmonson [1924-2002]). The next research episode, taking off to St. Andrews for a Ph.D. in social anthropology in 1993, proved to be much more successful, as he was supervised by two intellectual giants, Ladislav Holy (1933-1997), and Nigel J. Rapport. St. Andrews provided a very stimulating intellectual atmosphere, some great friends, and Scotland in general occupies a very special place in the heart. Also able to rub off of some other truly brilliant people in St Andrews, like the late S. G. J. Hérvey (1942-1997), David Riches, and Roy Dilley. After doing some fieldwork among the Slovenian feminists and a fair amount of library research, Aleksandar defended his Ph.D. thesis (Constructing Gender in Contemporary Anthropology) on 1 November 1996, with Henrietta L. Moore as external and Joanna Overing (another brilliant person at St Andrews) as internal examiner. Aleksandar is Principal Research Fellow ("Naučni savetnik" — equivalent to the full Professor) in 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 conference Imagining Europe at the Vanderbilt University (Nashville, USA). Also talked to graduate students at Vanderbilt’s Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies on anthropology in Brazil. After that, gave several talks at the College of William & Mary (Williamsburg, USA) — including an anthropology seminar on different anthropological traditions, and a university lecture on Europe. Currently preparing the text of the lectures on history and theory of anthropology, delivered from 12 September until 24 October in the Cultural Center “Rex” in Belgrade, for the publication. His most recent book is an edited volume, Other People’s Anthropologies: Ethnographic Practice on the Margins (New York: Berghahn Books, 2007).In the last five years, published in Anthropos, Anuário Antropologico, Gradhiva, Ethnologia Balkanica, and Anthropology Today. Aleksandar still believes that anarchism is the best possible system, and that people should disregard all forms of authority whenever and wherever possible. He also believes that people should do their best to oppose all forms of nationalism, racism, sexism, fundamentalism and imperialism. Accepting conservative ideology and possessing any degree of intelligence is a contradiction in terms. During the last decade, 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. Curriculum Vitae + Bibliography + Lectures - Last updated: 23 February 2008
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