Gal Kirn
Gal Kirn holds a PhD in Intercultural Studies of Ideas from the University of Nova Gorica (2012). He was a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht (2008-2010), and a research fellow at ICI Berlin (2010-2012). He also received a fellowship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart (2015), and was a postdoctoral fellow of the Humboldt-Foundation (2013-2016). He has been teaching courses in film, philosophy, and contemporary political theory at the Freie Universität Berlin and at Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen. He received an open topic position at TU Dresden (Slavic and Cultural studies) with an independent research project on ‘cinema-train’ (2017-2020). He is a guest researcher affiliated to the research project Social Contract in 21st Century at the Faculty of arts, University of Ljubljana.
Kirn recently published Partisan Counter-Archive. Retracing the Ruptures of Art and Memory in the Yugoslav People’s Liberation Struggle (De Gruyter, 2020) and another book that tackles with the rise and demise of socialist Yugoslavia entitled Partisan Ruptures. Self-Management, Market Reform and the Spectre of Socialist Yugoslavia (Pluto Press, 2019).
He is a co-editor (with Natasha Ginwala and Niloufar Tajeri) of Nights of the Dispossesed. Riots Unbound (forthcoming, at Columbia University Press), and (with Marian Burchardt) of Beyond Neoliberalism: Social Analysis after 1989 (2017); (with Peter Thomas, Sara Farris, and Katja Diefenbach), Encountering Althusser (Bloomsbury, 2012), and (with Dubravka Sekulić and Žiga Testen) of Yugoslav Black Wave Cinema and its Transgressive Moments (JvE Academie, 2012). He is also editor of Postfordism and its Discontents (JvE Academie, B-Books and Mirovni Inštitut, 2010). (2020)
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