Curriculum Vitae Mlado Ivanovic, Ph.D

Curriculum Vitae Mlado Ivanovic, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor Department of Philosophy 1401 Presque Isle Avenue Northern Michigan University Marquette, MI 49855 office: (616) 331-2114 [email protected]

Education Ph.D. Philosophy, Michigan State University, 2017 Graduate Specializations: Social and Political Theory Environmental Philosophy and Ethics B.H. (M.A. equivalent), Department of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia, 2008

Dissertation: Holding Hands with Death: Ethical Promises and Political Failures of our Humanitarian Present Advisors: Richard Peterson (chair), Todd Hedrick, Christian Lotz, Kyle Whyte; Amy Allen, external, Lisa Guenther, external

AOS: Social and Political Philosophy, Applied Ethics, Environmental Philosophy AOC: Social Epistemology, History of Philosophy, Peace and Justice Studies

Employment

2019 – present Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Northern Michigan University 2016 – 2019 Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, Grand Valley State University

Awards, Grants, and Honors

GVSU Office of Student Life “Outstanding Faculty Member Award,” 2019 GVSU Panhellenic Association Excellence in Teaching Award, 2018 Philosophical Dialogue on Values, Climate Change and Planning for Future Generations for the Michigan State Campus Community, 2015-16 Frank and Adelaide Kussy Memorial Scholarship, James Madison College, 2015 MSU Slaughter Research Fellowship, 2015 Iris Marion Young Award, Junior Researcher Prize, Stony Brook, 2014 MSU Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2014 MSU Provostial Research Fellowship, 2013–14 Vonne Lund Junior Researcher Prize (shared), EurSafe, 2013 NEH EDSITEment Grant for materials development, 2013 NEH Summer Institute, “Development Ethics: Questions, Challenges and Responsibilities,” 2013 MSU Excellence-in-Teaching Citation, 2013

MSU Interdisciplinary Inquiry and Teaching Research Assistantship, 2012–13 Departmental Research Commons Fellowship, 2011 MSU College of Arts and Letters Dean’s Recruitment Fellowship, 2009–10

Publications forthcoming, “Tales of Abuse and Negligence: Humanitarian Iconography of Unaccompanied Refugee Children.” (with Dr. Anna Malavisi) forthcoming, “Stubborn Realities, Shared Humanity: The State of Humanitarian Ethics Today.” forthcoming, “Echoes of the Past: Colonial Legacy and Eurocentric Humanitarianism” in “The Rest” Writes Back: Collapse of the Empire (working title) ed. Esmaeil Zeiny 2019, “Humanitarian Melancholia: Humanitarianism and the Need for Morality of Thinking“ in Refugees Now: Rethinking Borders, Hospitality, and Citizenship eds. Kelly Oliver et al. Rowman and Littlefield International Ltd., London, 43-63. 2018, “The European Grammar of Inclusion: Integrating Epistemic and Social Inclusion of Refugees in Host Societies.” in Radical Philosophy Review, 21(1), 103-127 2016, “Holding Hands With Death: The Dark Side of Our Humanitarian Present.” in Radical Philosophy Review; 19(2), 359 - 379 2015, “Lives Rendered Invisible: Bearing Witness to Human Suffering.” In Realizing Global Justice: Theory and Practice, edited by Melina Duarte and Tor Ivar Hanstad in Etikk I Praksis (2), ISSN (online) 1890-4009, Print ISSN: 1890-3991, 1-16 2014, “The Limits of our Humanitarian Present.” Review of Eyal Weizman, The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza (London: Verso, 2011), Radical Philosophy Review 17:1, 281–85 2013, “The Ethics of Consuming: Community, Agency, and Participation in Global Food Systems.” In The Ethics of Consumption: The Citizen, the Market, and the Law, edited by Helena Rocklinsberg & Per Sandin (Wageningen, The Netherlands: Wageningen Academic Publishers), co-authored with Dan Beck, Samantha Noll and Ian Werkheiser, 437 - 447 2012, “Medusa’s Gaze and the Other: Prosthetics and Aesthetics of Social Exclusion.” In The Horizons of Otherness, Zbirka Symposion, edited by Nika Škof (Gornja Radgona, Slovenia: A Priori, Birografika Bori), 25-43

Work in Progress under review, “Nature as the Silent Casualty of War: Environmental Devastation and Environmental Justice.”

Invited Lectures

“Humanity at a Crossroad: Children Refuges Between Political Rights and Humanitarian Charity.” Children on the Move: Philosophy and Children Migration, University of Salzburg, Austria, May 2019 “Humanitarian Pendulum: Refugee Crisis and Humanitarianism Today.” Understanding the

Unimaginable, Kalamazoo College Arcus Center for Social Justice, May 2018 “Humanitarianism and our Ecological Present: Climate Change and Forceful Displacement of People.” Olivet College, Olivet, Michigan, March 2018 “Stubborn Realities, Shared Humanity: Recognition of Diversity and Public Engagement.” Civil Discourse Symposium: “Immigrants and Refugees: Celebrating Our Diversity.” Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan, November 2017 “Climate Change and Forceful Displacement of People.” People’s Institute: Reconnect for Climate Action, Circle Pines Center, Delton, Michigan, September 2017 “Tales about Home: Stories and Tragedies of Displaced Persons.” MSU chapter of the Refugee Outreach Collective and Peace and Justice Minor, MSU, November, 2016 “The Ethics of Consuming: Community, Agency, and Participation in Global Food Systems.” Olivet College, Olivet, Michigan, November 2013

Conference Presentations

“Humanity at a Crossroad: Children Refuges Between Political Rights and Humanitarian Charity.” 10th meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy, University of Minho, Portugal, June 2019 “Humanitarianism and our Ecological Present: Climate Change and Forceful Displacement of People.” Refugees and Minorities Rights Conference, University of Tromsø, Norway, June 2018; IDEA-GRETHA conference, France, June 2018. “Humanitarian Pendulum: Refugee Crisis and Humanitarianism Today.” Yale Global Justice Program & ASAP, “Onslaught on the Poor.” Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, October 2017 “Nature as the Silent Casualty of War: Environmental Devastation and Environmental Justice.” Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene Symposium, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, April 2017 “The European Grammar of Inclusion: Integrating Epistemic and Social Inclusion of Refugees in Host Societies,” PDJ Conference, Active Citizenship Today: Definitions, Conditions, and Contestations, University of Tromsø, Norway, June 2016; Peace and Justice Studies Association conference, Obstructing the Old or Constructing the New?, Selkirk College, Nelson and Castlegar, Canada, September 2016; 12th Biennial Radical Philosophy Conference, 21st Century Socialism: Concepts and Visions, University of Kentucky, November 2016 “20 Years After: Genocide in Srebrenica and Limits of Moral Repair in Bosnia,“ 9th Biennial European Peace Research Association (EuPRA) Conference, University of Tromsø, Norway, September 2015; Peace and Justice Studies Association conference, Cultivating the Just and Peaceable Self, James Madison University, Virginia, October 2015 “Whistling in the Dark: Humanitarianism and the Crisis of Contemporary Moral Agency,“ The Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, May 2015 “The Spectacle of the ‘Other’: Adorno’s Critique of the Ethics of Compassion,” International Critical Theory Conference, Loyola University John Felice Center, Rome, Italy, May 2015 “Holding Hands with Death: The Dark Side of our Humanitarian Present,” 11th Biennial Radical

Philosophy Association Conference, SUNY at Stony Brook, November 2014; Peace and Justice Studies Association conference, Courageous Presence: Shifting Stories and Practices of Peace, University of California San Diego, October 2014 “Applied Ethics and its Discontents: Symbolic Challenges to Development Practices,” 10th International Conference in Ethics and Development, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica, July 2014 “To See and Remain Silent: Rethinking the Public Sphere and Formation of Public Sentiment,” Pluralism, Democracy, and Justice Research Group conference: Free Speech, Public Deliberation, and Global Affairs, University of Tromsø, Norway, June 2014 “Sleight of Hand: Adorno and the Claims of Humanity,” International Critical Theory Conference, Loyola University John Felice Center, Rome, Italy, May 2014 “Public Beyond Witnessing: The Public Representation, Trauma, Guilt, and the Failures of Human Memory,” Impression and Object conference, Graduate Center CUNY, New York, March 2014; Understanding Atrocities: Remembering, Representing and Teaching Genocide, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Canada, February 2014 “Lives Rendered Invisible: The Downsides of Realizing Human Rights Awareness Through Social Media.” Peace and Justice Studies Association conference: Peace Studies between Tradition and Innovation, Wilfrid Laurier University/University of Waterloo, Canada, October 2013; Pluralism, Democracy, and Justice Research Group conference: Realizing Global Justice, University of Tromsø, Norway, June 2013 “The Ethics of Consuming: Community, Agency, and Participation in Global Food Systems,” 11th Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics, EurSafe, Uppsala, Sweden, September 2013 “Adorno’s Critique of Reason, Power, and Reification.” International Critical Theory Conference, Loyola University John Felice Center, Rome, Italy, May 2013 “Concept of Citizenship and Democratic Iterations,” Center for Study of Citizenship conference: The Meaning of Citizenship, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, March 2013 “Reenactment and Disclosure: Challenges for Teaching Critically in an Online Environment,” Public Philosophy Conference, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, March 2013 “Between Immanence and Disclosure: The Question of Critique in Adorno’s Negative Dialectics,” 20th Annual DePaul Graduate Philosophy Conference: The Question of Critique, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, February 2013 “Medusa’s Gaze and the Other: Prosthetics and Aesthetics of Social Exclusion.” A Priori Society conference, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, November 2012 “Moral Failure and Cognitive Errors: Reification from the Standpoint of Critical Theory,” Historical Materialism Conference, York University, Toronto, Canada (in absentia) May 2012 “Philosophy Beyond Suffering: Why Adorno’s Social Criticism is Still Relevant,” Annual Graduate Philosophy Conference, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, March 2012 “Horror and Reconciliation: The Emergence of Violence in Former Yugoslavia,” EDGES Conference, MSU, March 2011

Teaching Experience

Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, Grand Valley State University:

Introduction to Environmental Studies, Winter 2018, Winter 2019 Ethics, Winter 2017, Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Fall 2018, Winter 2019 Aesthetics, Winter 2017 Introduction to Philosophy, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Winter 2018 Ethics in Professional Life, Fall 2016

Instructor, Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University: Integrative Studies Arts and Humanities: Humanitarianism, Summer 2018, 2019 Integrative Studies Arts and Humanities: Environmental Justice, Summer 2017, Integrative Studies Arts and Humanities: U.S. and the World, Summer 2016, online course Moral Issues in Humanities: Human Rights and its Discontents, Summer 2015, Peace and Justice Studies, Summer 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 online course Philosophy of Law: International Law and Human Rights, Summer 2012 Existentialism, Fall 2011 Introduction into Social and Political Philosophy, Summer 2011

Teaching Assistant, Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University: IAH: Global Climate Change, Collective Action and Citizenship, Spring 2015 Philosophy of Law, Fall 2010, Spring 2012

References

Richard T. Peterson Christian Lotz Professor emeritus Professor of Philosophy Department of Philosophy Department of Philosophy Michigan State University Michigan State University 503 SKH, 368 Farm Lane 503 SKH, 368 Farm Lane East Lansing, MI 48824 USA East Lansing, MI 48824 USA (517) 355-4490 (517) 355-4490 [email protected] [email protected]

Kyle Whyte David Vessey (teaching referee) Timnick Chair in Humanities Department Head Department of Philosophy Associate Professor of Philosophy Michigan State University Grand Valley State University East Lansing, MI 48824 Mackinac Hall B-3 201 (517) 432-1034 1 Campus Drive [email protected] Allendale, MI 49401-9403 [email protected]

Amy Allen Department Head Lisa Guenther Liberal Arts Professor of Philosophy Queen's National Scholar in Political Pennsylvania State University Philosophy and Critical Prison Studies 240 Sparks Building Department of Philosophy University Park, State College, PA 16801 Queen’s University (814) 865-1647 Kingston, Ontario, Canada [email protected] [email protected]