Aleksandar Bošković is currently (2018/2019) Fellow at the Institut d’Études Avancées at the Collegium de Lyon (France), with the project on rationality in anthropology. He is Professor of anthropology at the Universities of Belgrade (Serbia) and of Donja Gorica (Montenegro). He is also Director of Research (Directeur de recherché) at the Institute of Social Sciences (Belgrade), where he coordinates Department of Anthropological Research.s
Lectures
He was Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), Visiting Professor of European Ethnology at the University of Brasília (Brazil), Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Rhodes University in Grahamstown (South Africa), and Guest Lecturer at the Universities of St. Andrews (Scotland, UK) and Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa).
Bošković
gave more than 220 guest lectures and seminars, including at the universities like Vanderbilt and College of William & Mary (USA), Cambridge, Brunel, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Goldsmiths (United Kingdom), Hamburg, Leipzig, Münster (Germany), Leiden (The Netherlands), Tohoku (Japan), Paraná (Brazil), Oslo and Bergen (Norway), Zagreb (Croatia), as well as at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Research interests
His main research interests are history and theory of anthropology, psychoanalysis, myth and religion, semiotics, ethnicity, nationalism, and gender.
Other topics
Between 2013 and 2018, Bošković was Deputy Chair of the Commission on Theoretical Anthropology (COTA) of the IUAES, and member of the Council of Commissions. He is co-founder of the History of Anthropology Network of the EASA (with Han Vermeulen), and EASA Book Series Editor (2016-2020). He is also editor of the Berghahn Books latest series, “Anthropology’s Ancestors.”
In lieu of Conclusion
A “No land’s man” (as put by Vuk Ćosić), Aleksandar believes that people (as individuals) should exercise free choice as much as possible, and take into consideration other human beings, as well as issues (ike the environment, in an old-fashioned liberal way.