Stanimir Panayotov: Curriculum Vitae Dec 2016
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Stanimir Panayotov: Curriculum Vitae Dec 2016 © Photo by Nada Kostić Ph.D. Candidate Working Thesis Title: Department of Gender Studies Disembodiment in Neoplatonism Central European University and New Realism Budapest, Hungary Supervisors: Ass. Prof. Eszter Timár [email protected] and Prof. István Perczel CEU: www.gender.ceu.edu/people/stanimir-panayotov Academia: www.ceu.academia.edu/StanimirPanayotov Stanimir Panayotov (1982) graduated in Philosophy from Sofia University and holds MA in Philosophy and Gender Studies from Euro-Balkan Institute, Skopje (2011) with a thesis on Plato’s natural philosophy and the problem of femininity/maternity in the ancient concept of space (chôra). He is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Gender Studies at Central European University, Budapest, working on the problem of disembodiment in the cosmologies of Neoplatonism and New Realism. His research interests and published work are in the areas of Neoplatonism, feminist and continental philosophy, non-philosophy, queer theory, and gender studies. Stanimir is also co-director of Sofia Queer Forum, and member of IPAK.Center - Research Center for Cultures, Politics and Identities in Belgrade, where he co- organizes the Summer School for Sexualities, Cultures and Politics. 1 I. EDUCATION . MA: Philosophy and Gender Studies, Euro-Balkan Institute, Skopje, Macedonia, 2011 Thesis: Khôra: Femininity and Space in Plato’s Timaeus Supervisor: Prof. Miglena Nikolchina . BA: Philosophy, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2004 Thesis: Genesis of the Problem of Civil Society: From Plato to Marx Supervisor: Prof. Emilia Mineva II. TEACHING EXPERIENCE 1) Junior Researcher and Teaching Assistant, Euro-Balkan Institute, Skopje, Macedonia, 2010-2013 . Methodologies and Epistemologies of Humanities and Social Sciences . Biopolitics (both Academic Year 2011/2012) 2) Teaching Assistant, Central European University, Department of Gender Studies . Critical Interdisciplinary Approaches to Doing Research in Gender Studies (Academic Year 2015/2016) III. AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS 1) Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Slovenian Academy of Sciences, Ljubljana, Slovenia, January-June 2013 . Supervisor: Prof. Alenka Zupančič 2) CEU Full Doctoral Scholarship, Budapest, Hungary, September 2013 - September 2016 . Supervisors: Eszter Timár and István Perczel 3) CEU Short Research Grant, Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities - Skopje, Macedonia, May-July 2016 . Supervisor: Prof. Katerina Kolozova 4) Visiting Fellow at Tema Genus, Gender Unit, Linköping University, Sweden, September-October 2015 5) ARCS South-Eastern Europe Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the American Research Center in Sofia, Bulgaria, November 2016 - May 2017 (co-funded by a CEU Supplementary Research Grant) 2 6) Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies 2017 Feminist Theory Workshop International Travel Award, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA 7) Numerous travel grants 2004-2016 for nearly all conferences listed in this CV (see below) IV. RESEARCH PROJECTS 1) New Tools for Transnational Analysis in Postgraduate Intersectional Gender Research - Towards Long-Term International Collaborations in Doctoral and Postdoctoral Training 2016-2019 (project led by Tema Genus, Gender Unit, Linköping University, Sweden) 2) Q-Files (www.qfiles.net) - Online bibliographical project in Bulgarian on LGBTIQ and sexualities issues (March 2005-terminated June 2015) 3) RESET Project: Regional Seminar in Gender/Women’s Studies and European Studies. Gender and Women’s Studies for Southeastern Europe: Rethinking Strategies and Ideologies of Their European Integration (2004-2006, Euro-Balkan Institute, Skopje) 4) Media and Marginalized Communities (2011, Coalition for the Protection of Marginalized Communities, Skopje) 5) Study Report on the Progress in Gender Balance and Equality in AREC’s Processes of Reforms (2012, Euro-Balkan Institute, Skopje) 6) Diverse Survivor Strategies of Jewish and Roma Communities in Macedonia: From Resistance to Memorialization (2012, Euro-Balkan Institute, Skopje) 7) Creating New Left Perspectives in Bulgaria (2011-2015, Social Center Haspel, Sofia) V. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 1) Occasional peer-reviewing for: Sextures: An Academic Journal for Sexualities and Cultures; Amfiteater: Journal of Performing Arts Theory 2) Summer School for Sexualities, Cultures and Politics, co-organizer, Skopje/Belgrade, 2012- 3) Sofia Queer Forum, co-director, Sofia, 2012- 4) Transeuropa Festival - Sofia, co-organizer, 2011-2013 5) Anarres Books, co-founder and editor, Sofia, 2011-2013 6) KOI Books, co-founder and editor, Sofia, 2013- 3 7) Summer School for Holocaust Studies, organizer, Ohrid, Macedonia, 2012 8) LGBT Art Fest, co-organizer, Sofia, 2009 VI. MEMBERSHIPS 1) Study Group Feminist Philosophy, Leiden, Netherlands, 2016- 2) Society for European Philosophy, London, UK, 2016- 3) ISCH COST Action IS1307 New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on “How Matter Comes to Matter” (2015-2018) 4) IPAK - Research Center for Cultures, Politics and Identities, Research and Advisory Board, Belgrade, 2013- 5) Coalition for the Protection of Marginalized Communities, Executive Board Chair, Skopje, 2011-2013 6) European Alternatives Network, member, 2011-2013 7) Social Center Haspel, co-founder and member, Sofia, 2010-2016 VII. PUBLICATONS VII.1. AUTHORED BOOKS Stanimir Panayotov, God vs. F31, Blagoevgrad: Ars/Scribens, 2013. (poetry book, in Bulgarian) . Reviewed by Marin Bodakov in: Kultura, No. 36 (2785), 31 October 2014, p. 2, www.kultura.bg/bg/article/view/22681. VII.2. EDITED BOOKS 1) Stanimir Panayotov (Ed.), Queer Art in Bulgaria, Sofia: Bilitis, 2010. (in Bulgarian/English) . Reviewed by Marin Bodakov in: Kultura, No. 32 (2605), 24 September 2010, p. 2, www.kultura.bg/bg/article/view/17424. 2) Haralambi Panitsidis, Emilia Mineva and Stanimir Panayotov (Eds.), Marx: Heterogenous Readings from the XXth Century, Sofia: Anarres, 2012. (in Bulgarian) . Reviewed by Boris Popivanov, “Marx in Readings,” in: Kultura, No. 44 (2706), 21 December 2012, www.kultura.bg/bg/article/view/20440. 3) Boryana Rossa and Stanimir Panayotov (Eds.), Sofia Queer Forum 2012, Sofia: Anarres, 2013. (in Bulgarian/English) 4 . Reviewed by Marin Bodakov in: Kultura, No. 25 (2731), 5 July 2013, p. 2, www.kultura.bg/bg/print_article/view/21147. 4) Nikolay Karkov and Stanimir Panayotov (Eds.), Autonomism and Marxism: From the Paris Commune to the World Social Forum, Sofia: Anarres, 2013. (in Bulgarian) . Reviewed by Ognian Kassabov, “Autonomy as Labour and Theory,” in: Kultura, No. 18 (2767), 16 May 2014, p. 8, www.kultura.bg/bg/article/view/22193. 5) Stanimir Panayotov and Ana Koncul (Eds.), Proceedings from the Summer School for Sexualities, Cultures and Politics 2014, Belgrade: IPAK.Center, 2015. 6) Mirjana Stošić and Stanimir Panayotov (Eds.), Proceedings from the Summer School for Sexualities, Cultures and Politics 2015, Belgrade: IPAK.Center, 2016. 7) Daniel Lukes and Stanimir Panayotov (Eds.), Black Metal Rainbows (ongoing, forthcoming in 2018) VII.3. GUEST-EDITED JOURNALS 1) Literaturen Vestnik, No. 20 (2003), Special Issue: Power, Culture, Gender, Sofia: Literaturen Vestnik Foundation. (in Bulgarian) 2) Katerina Kolozova and Stanimir Panayotov (Eds.), Identities: Journal for Gender, Politics and Culture, Vol. 8, No. 2 (2011), Special Issue: Heretical Realisms, Skopje: Euro-Balkan Press. 3) Sextures: An Academic Journal for Sexualities and Cultures, Special Issue: Queer Balkans (ongoing). VII.4. ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS 1) “The Normative Problem of the Homosexual Subject: Gay and Lesbian Studies and Queer Theory,” in: Kritika i humanizam, Vol. 17, No. 1 (2004), pp. 191-206; republished revised version in: LiterNet, No. 2 (63), 15 February 2005, www.liternet.bg/publish2/spanajotov/queer/normativniat.htm. (in Bulgarian) 2) “The Binary Code (Notes on The Celebrating of Homosexuality),” in: Identities: Journal for Gender, Politics and Culture, Vol. 8-9, No. 1 (2005), pp. 165-178. (in English, translated by Petar Hadjidochev; in Macedonian, translated by Rodna Ruskovska) 5 3) “Heart’s Unreason: A Reading of Edelman’s Anti-Futurism through Bataille,” in: Identities: Journal for Gender, Politics and Culture, Vol. 8, No. 2 (2011), pp. 129- 138. 4) “Displaced Emplacement,” in: Piron, Vol. 10 (2014), Special Issue: Julia Kristeva. The Form and Meaning of Revolt, edited by Darin Tenev and Kamelia Spassova, pp. 1-13. (in Bulgarian) 5) “Indifference in the Service of Difference” (under consideration in philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism) VII.5. BOOK CHAPTERS 1) “De/legitimization of Activism and the Dilemma of Integration or Assimilation,” in: Žarko Trajanoski (Ed.), Media and Marginalized Communities, Skopje: Coalition for the Protection of Marginalized Communities, 2011, pp. 140-157. (in English; in Macedonian, translated by Julija Micova) 2) “On ‘Self-Changing,’” in: Haralambi Panitsidis, Emilia Mineva, Stanimir Panayotov (Eds.), Marx: Heterogenous Readings from the XXth Century, Sofia: Anarres, 2012, pp. 652-657. (in Bulgarian) 3) “Neutralizing Visibility: Bulgarian Strategies of Justifying Inequality,” in: Nárcisz Fejes and Andrea P. Balough (Eds.), Queer Visibility in Post-socialist Cultures, Bristol: Intellect Books, 2013, pp. 155-172. 4) “No-one’s χώρα: Fragments on Nikolchina via Kristeva,” in: Maria Kalinova, Darin Tenev and Kamelia Spassova (Eds.), The Parahuman: Grace and Gravitation. Festschrift in Honor of Prof. Miglena Nikolchina, Sofia: Sofia University Press, 2015 (forthcoming, backdated). (in