​SCHOOL FOR POLITICS AND CRITIQUE 2021

The Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, Skopje, with support from the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Southeast Europe, is proud to announce the School for Politics and Critique 2021 – “Climate Justice in an Age of Unbridled Capitalism: Establishing a Unified Front Through Eco-socialism, Marxist Feminism and Critiques of Authoritarianism.” The School will take place between September 10-12, 2021, and will be held in a hybrid format, both online and offline, for those attending in person, the School will be held in Skopje, North Macedonia. We are excited to announce the following keynote speakers for this year’s School: Blair Taylor (from Seattle, WA) who will speak on eco-socialist movements in the wake of Covid-19, Zdravko Saveski (from Skopje, North Macedonia), who will speak about capitalism’s absolute inability to handle the climate crisis, Ivana Dragshich (from Skopje, North Macedonia) who will speak on eco-feminism and micro-politics, and Yavor Tarinski (from Sofia, Bulgaria/Athens, Greece) who will speak on the topic of bureaucracy and authoritarianism as obstacles to a true social-ecologist agenda, and other related issues.

WHOSE REVOLUTION?

ISSH-S is glad to announce the release of our newest publication, a follow-up of an event held on May 5-6, 2017 in Skopje – Whose Revolution? Proceedings from the event held in Kino Kultura, May 5-6, 2017, edited by Stanimir Panayotov. The publication includes contributions by Luka Matić, Katerina Kolozova, Branimir Jovanović, Vladimir Simović, Irena Cvetković, Florin Poenaru, Ivan Radenković, Ana Blazheva, Artan Sadiku, and Anastas Vangeli, and is freely downloadable from the link below .

WHOSE REVOLUTION?

The Institute of social sciences and humanities – Skopje, is proud to announce the two-day forum on the topic of Whose Revolution? Which will take place at Kino Kultura on the 5th and 6th of May. These dates are also symbolic since they represent the 2nd anniversary of massive anti-government demonstrations in Skopje. The forum will bring together local and regional activists and theorists including: Luka Matić, Katerina Kolozova, Florin Ponearu, Irena Cvetkovic, Vladimir Simović, Ana Blazeva, Artan Sadiku, Branimir Jovanovic, Ivan Radenkovic.

Full program update: Call for participants "School for politics and critique 2017"

The Institute of social sciences and humanities – Skopje, with the support of the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Southeast Europe, announces a call for participants  for the School for politics and critique with the participation of the following keynote speakers: Ray Brassier, Oxana Timofeeva, Agon Hamza, Katerina Kolozova and Davor Löffler. 

Call for participants: School for politics and critique 2017

The Institute of social sciences and humanities – Skopje, with the support of the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Southeast Europe,  announces a call for participants  the School for politics and critique with the participation of the following keynote speakers: Ray Brassier, Oxana Timofeeva, Agon Hamza and Katerina Kolozova and others to be confirmed soon. The full program with all the speakers, panelists and moderators will be announced soon. 

​"IDENTITIES" Journal Vol 13

ISSHS is proud to announce the issuing of the 13th volume of the Journal for Gender, Politics and Culture “Identities.” This issue is supported by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Southeast Europe and is part of the ISSHS project "School of Politics and Critique 2016" 

School for Politics and Critique 2016 - “Regional Political Forum on Marxist Theory and Practice in the Southeast Europe” 

The Institute of social sciences and humanities – Skopje, with the support from the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation is proud to announce the organizing of the School for politics and critique 2016 – “Regional Political Forum on Marxist Theory and Practice in the Southeast Europe” with the participation of the following speakers: Silvia Federici, Santiago Zabala, and Gal Kirn.

2015 - School for Politics and Critique

The series of four political workshops under the frames of the School for politics and critique 2015 are conceptual flow from the activities of the School for politics and critique 2014 and they aim at enabling a space both for learning on strategies of enacting large coalitions and action within them, as well as to generate new theoretical knowledge on the political challenges of the current context. The School will provide a larger group of activists an opportunity to work with experienced political activists and theorists.

2014 - School for Politics and Critique

The Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities - Skopje in collaboration with the foundation Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung is proud to present the “School for Politics and Critique.”

The "School for politics and critique" aims at strengthening the theoretical and practical skills of Macedonia's activists for the purpose to answer the challenges of the neoliberal policies that has come to over-dominate the political and everyday life. The School will directly support the activists in the development of a sustained political rhetoric through providing substantial means for delivering socially and ideologically informed analysis and critique. The seminars will provide a space for strengthening of knowledge, discussions and exchange on key topics of Marxist theory and revolutionary praxis.