C u r r i c u l u m v i t a e

VLADIMIR CVETKOVIĆ

Address: Wiesenstraße 13, 37073 Göttingen, Germany

E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

2014– Honorary Research Fellow, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade

2013– Independent Scholar

2010-2013 Research Asssociate, Centre for the Study of Antiquity and Christianity, University of Aarhus

2009-2011 Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Systematic Theology, University of Aarhus

2008-2010 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Theology, University of Aarhus

2006-2008 Research Associate, School of Classics, University of St Andrews

2001-2006 Teaching Fellow, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Niš

EDUCATION

-PhD (2007) Department of Philosophy, University of Belgrade

-MA (2002) Department of Theology, Durham University

-BA (1997) Department of Philosophy, University of Belgrade

LANGUAGES

-Serbian (native) -English (fluent) -German (fluent) -French (reading knowledge) -Classical Greek and Church Slavonic (reading knowledge)

PUBLICATIONS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

2017-2018

-“Orthodox Theology under Communism: II. Serbia: Justin Popović”, in: Andrew Louth and Andreas Andreopoulos (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Eastern Orthodox Theology, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2018

-“Reception of Classical Philosophy in Orthodox Theology”, in: Andrew Louth and Andreas Andreopoulos (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Eastern Orthodox Theology, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2018

-“The Concept of Delimitation of Creatures in Maximus the Confessor”, Studia Patristica 2017

-“Re-interpreting Tradition: Maximus the Confessor on Creation in Ambigua ad Ioannem”, in: Peter Van Deun, Sarah Van Pee and Bram Demulder (eds.), Building the Kosmos: Greek Patristic and Byzantine Question and Answer Literature, Turnhout: Brepols, 2017 -“Eros and diastema: Transformation of desire in St. Gregory of Nyssa”, in: Henny F. Hägg, Kari Grødum, Torstein T. Tollefsen, Love: Ancient and Modern Perspectives, 2017?

-“St Justin the New (Popović) on the Church of Christ”, in: Nicholas Marinides and Seraphim Danckaert (eds.), The Body of the Living Church: The Patristic Doctrine of the Church, Crestwood, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2017

-“Maximus the Confessor’s View on Participation Reconsidered”, in: D. Haynes (ed.), A Saint for East and West: The Thought of St. Maximus Confessor in Eastern and Western Christian Theology, Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock Publishers 2016

-“The Oneness of God as Unity of Persons in the Thought of St Maximus the Confessor”, in: Sotiris Mitralexis, Georgios Steiris and Sebastian Lalla (eds.), Maximus the Confessor as a European Philosopher, Oregon: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2016.

-“Maximus the Confessor’s Reading of Origen between Origenism and Anti-Origenism”, in: A-C. Jacobsen (ed.) Origeniana Undecima: Origen and Origenism in the History of Western Tradition, Leuven: Peeters, 2016

-“The Gospel According to St Justin the New: Justin Popović on Scripture”, in: M. Baker and S. Mourechain (eds.), What is the Bible? The Patristic Doctrine of Scripture, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2016

-“Maximus the Confessor’s Geometrical Analogies Applied to the Relationship between Christ and Creation”, in G. Dragas, P. Pavlov and S. Tanev & (eds.), Orthodox Theology and the Sciences, Columbia MO: New Rome Press, 2016, 265-279. 2015

-From “Merciful Angel” to “Fortress Europe”: The Perception of Europe and the West in the Contemporary Serbian Orthodoxy, (Erfurter Vorträge zur Kulturgeschichte des Orthodoxen Christentums 13), Erfurt: University of Erfurt, 2015

-“Sveti Justin Novi (Popović) kao tumač misli Svetog Maksima Ispovednika [St Justin the New (Popovich) as an Interpreter of St Maximus the Confessor’s Thought]”, in: Aleksandar Petrović & Mikonja Knežević, (prir.), Politika, identitet, tradicija: Politics, Identity, Tradition, Kosovska Mitrovica: Faculty of Philosophy, 2015 -“The Mystery of Christ as Revived Logos Theology”, in: P. Annala, O. Hallamaa, A. Lévy, T. Lankila and D. Kaley (eds.), St Maximus the Confessor: The Architecture of Cosmos, Helsinki: Luther-Agricola-Seura, 2015, 189-221.

-“Četiri pisma Svetog Justina Novog Ćelijskog o ekumenizmu [Four Letters of St. Justin the New of Chelie on Ecumenism]”, Crkvene studije: Church Studies, 12, 2015, 243-262.

-“Mala voštanica na grobu velikog prijatelja: U spomen oca Metju Džeremi Bejkera [In memoriam: Fr Matthew Jeremy Baker 1977-2015]”, Crkvene studije: Church Studies, 12, 2015, 673-680.

(ed. and trans. with M. Djurdjević), G. V. Florovski: Еkumenski dijalog. Teologija i istorija 1 [G. V. Florovsky: An Ecumenism Dialogue. Theology and History, vol. 1], Požarevac: Odbor za prosvetu i kulturu Eparhije braničevske, 2015

(ed. and trans. with M. Djurdjević), G. V. Florovski: Еkumenski dijalog. Teologija i istorija 2 [G. V. Florovsky: An Ecumenism Dialogue. Theology and History, vol. 2], Požarevac: Odbor za prosvetu i kulturu Eparhije braničevske, 2015

-“T.F. Torrance as an Interpreter of St Athanasius”, in: Matthew Baker and Todd Speidell (eds.), T.F. Torrance and Eastern Orthodoxy: Theology in Reconciliation, Oregon: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2015, 54-91.

-“The Transformation of Neoplatonic Philosophical Notions of Procession (proodos) and Conversion (epistrophe) in the Thought of St Maximus the Confessor”, in: Mikonja Knežević (ed.), The Ways of Byzantine Philosophy, Alhambra, CA: Sebastian Press, 2015, 195-210.

-“Serbian Church and Europe at the Threshold of the Third Millennium”, in: Lars Klein and Martin Tamcke (eds.), Imagining Europe: Memory, Visions and Counter-Narratives, Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2015, 9-23. 2014

-“Tajna Hristova u Mistagogiji Svetog Maksima Ispovednika [The Mystery of Christ in the Mystagogia of St Maximus the Confessor]”, Teologikon, 3, 2014, 112-125.

-“The Reception of St Justin in Recent German Scholarship”, Sobornost: Incorporating Eastern Churches Review, 36:2, 2014, 36-55. -“New Wine and Old Wineskins: St Justin Popović on Theological Terminology”, in: Л. Тенекеджиев (ed.), Догмат и морал в православната християнска традиция [Dogma and Morality in the Orthodox Christian Tradition], София: Университетско издателство “Св. Климент Охридски”, 2014, 235-247.

-“Ново вино в стари мехове: св. Иустин Попович за богословската терминология [New Wine and Old Wineskins: St Justin Popović on Theological Terminology]”, Християнство и култура: Christianity and Culture, 97, 2014, 45-54.

-“Sveti Justin Ćelijski kao evandjeoski bogoslov [Saint Justin of Ćelije as an Evangelical Theologian]”, Crkvene studije: Church Studies, 11, 2014, 147-170. 2013

-“Sveti Justin Novi o tajni ličnosti [St Justin the New on the Mystery of Personhood]”, Teologikon, 2, 2013, 161-181.

-“T.F. Torrance as an Interpreter of St Athanasius”, Participatio: The Journal of the Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship, 4, 2013, 59-93.

-Bog i vreme: Učenje o vremenu Svetog Grigorijа Niskog [God and Time: The Teaching of St Gregory of Nyssa on Time], Niš: Centаr zа crkvene studije, 2013

-“The Reception of Augustine in the Orthodox Church after 1453”, in: Karla Pollmann, et al (eds.), Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, vol. 3, 1478-1486.

-“Učenje o kretanju kod Svetog Maksima Ispovednika [St Maximus the Confessor’s Teaching on Movement]”, Zbornik Matice Srpske za društvene nauke: Matica Srpska Journal of Social Sciences, 142, 2013, 39-54.

-“Wisdom in Maximus the Confessor Reconsidered”, in: D. Bojović (ed.), Proceedings of the Conference “St Emperor Constantine and Christianity”, Niš: Centar za crkvene studije, 2013, vol. 2, 197-215. 2012

-“St Justin the New on Integral Knowledge”, Teologikon, 1, 2012, 149-158.

-“The Serbian Tradition”, in A. Casiday (ed.), The Orthodox Christian World, Oxford-New York: Routledge, 2012, 130-140. -“The Reception of Augustine of Hippo in Orthodox Iconography”, in: K. Pollmann and M.J. Gill (eds.), Augustine beyond the Book: Intermediality, Transmediality and Reception, Leiden: Brill 2012, 39-58.

-“St Maximus the Confessor in Scandinavia: Homage to Lars Thunberg (1928- 2007): Sfântul Maxim Mărturisitorul în Scandinavia: Omagiu lui Lars Thunberg (1928-2007)”, Candela Nordului: Тhe Northern Candle, 5, 2012, 30-35. 2011

-“Odnos Bogа i vremenа u Adversus Eunomium Svetog Vаsilijа Velikog [God and the World in St Basil the Great’s Adversus Eunomium]”, Bogoslovlje: Theology, 70:2, 2011, 78-95.

-“Predeterminations and Providence in Dionysius and Maximus the Confessor”, in: F. Ivanović (ed.), Dionysius the Areopagite between Orthodoxy and Heresy, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2011, 135-156.

-“Arije i Aleksаndаr Aleksаndrijski o rođenju Sina Božijeg [Arius and St Alexander of Alexandria on the Generation of the Son of God]”, Crkvene studije: Church Studies, 8, 2011, 156-174.

-“U prilog jednoj filozofiji stvаrаnjа: Mаksim Ispovednik [Toward a Philosophy of Creation: Maximus the Confessor]”, Filozofijа i društvo: Philosophy and Society, 22:2, 2011, 127- 155.

-“Abba Justin Popović, un théologien de synthèse”, Istina, 65:1, 2011, 47-62.

-“From Adamantius to Centaur: St Methodius of Olympus’ critique of Origen”, in: S. Kaczmarek & H. Pietras (ed.) Origeniana Decima: Origen as Writter, Leuven: Peeters, 2011, 791- 802. 2010

-“St Gregory’s Argument concerning the Lack of Diastema in the Divine Activities from Ad Ablabium”, in: V.H. Drecoll & M. Berghaus (eds.), Gregory of Nyssa: The Minor Treatises on Trinitarian Theology and Apollinarism, Leiden: Brill, 2010, 369-382.

-“St Maximus on Pathos and Kinesis in Ambiguum 7”, Studia Patristica, 48, 2010, 95-104.

-“The Identity of the allotrios and his Definition in Ambiguum 7 of St Maximus the Confessor”, Studia Patristica, 48, 2010, 105-110. -“Perspektive srpske teologije u ekumenskom dijаlogu [The Perspective of Serbian Theology in the Ecumenical Dialogue: Between Bulgakov and Florovsky]”, in: B. Šijaković (ed.), Srpskа teologijа dаnаs: Serbian Theology Today, Beogrаd: Institut zа teološkа istrаživаnjа 2010, 59-68.

-“Maica Domnului in Traditia Ortodoxa [The Mother of God in the Orthodox Tradition]”, Cruce si Inviere: Parochial Journal of Romanian Orthodox Community in Aarhus, Autumn 2010, 1-7.

-“Ὁ Ἀββᾶς Ἰουστῖνος Πόποβιτς ὡς θεολόγος τῆς σύνθεσης [St Justin Popović as a Theologian of Synthesis]”, Πειραϊκή Εκκλησία: Mηνιαίο Περιοδικό Ιεράς Μητροπόλεως Πειραιώς, May 2010, 31-33.

-“Pastele Domnului: Cruce si Inviere [The Lord’s Pascha – the Cross and Resurrection]”, Cruce si Inviere: Parochial Journal of Romanian Orthodox Community in Aarhus, Easter 2010, 1-4.

-“Liturghie si Intrupare [Liturgy and Incarnation]”, Cruce si Inviere: Parochial Journal of Romanian Orthodox Community in Aarhus, Easter 2010, suppl. 1.

-“Taina Intruparii [The Mystery of Incarnation]”, Cruce si Inviere: Parochial Journal of Romanian Orthodox Community in Aarhus, Christmas 2010, 1-3. 2009

-“Stoičko učenje o vremenu [Stoic Teaching on Time]”, Lučа, 23:3-4, 2009, 447-458.

-“Introduction to the Theology of Icons”, Crkvene studije: Church Studies, 6, 2009, 385-404.

-“Patristic Studies in Serbia”, Adamantius, 15, 2009, 357-364.

-“Aspekti аntičke i moderne Prаvoslаvne Trijаdologije [Aspects of Ancient and Modern Teachings on the Holy Trinity in Orthodox Theology: Gregory of Nyssa, Augustine, Bulgakov and Zizioulas]”, in: D. Bojović (ed.), Zbornik rаdovа sа nаučnog skupа ”Prаvoslаvnа teologijа i kulturа”: Proceedings of the conference “Orthodox theology and culture”, Niš: Centаr zа crkvene studije 2009, 69-79. 2008

-“The Refutation of the Eternity of the World in the Writings of St Methodius of Olympus”, in: V. Snoj (ed.) Antiquity and Christianity: Conflict or Conciliation?, Ljubljana: Faculty of Philosophy, 2008, 57-64. 2006

-“Bog i vreme u Apologiji Evnomijа Anomejcа [God and Time in the Apology of Eunomius the Anomoean]”, Crkvene studije: Church Studies, 3, 2006, 61-79.

-“Izvori zа učenje o vremenu Svetog Mаksimа Ispovednikа [The Origins of St. Maximus the Confessor’s Teaching on Time], Luča, 21-22, 2006, 507-23.

-“Učenje o imenimа Sv. Nikite Remesijаnskog: De diversis appelationibus Christi [St Niceta of Remesiana’s Teaching on Names: De diversis appelationibus Christi]”, in: D. Bojović (ed.), Zbornik rаdovа sа konferencije o Sv. Nikiti Remesijаnskom: Proceedings of the conference on St. Niceta of Remisiana, Niš: Centаr zа crkvene studije 2006, 115-126.

-“Pregled znаčenjа pojmа logos u аntičkoj filozofiji [A Survey of the Meanings of the Term logos in Ancient Philosophy]”, Zbornik studijske grupe zа filozofiju: The Acts of the Department of Philosophy, Niš: Univerzitet u Nišu 2006, 41-73. 2005

-“The Mystical Experience of the Idea of the Good in Plato”, in: D. Barbaric (ed.), Platon über das Gute und die Gerechtigkeit: Plato on Goodness and Justice: Platone sul Bene e sulla Giustizia, Würzburg: Königshausen&Neumann, 2005, 52-62.

-“Teološke teme Vlаdete Jerotićа [The Theological Themes of Vladeta Jerotic]”, in: V. Cvetković (ed.), Vlаdetа Jerotić: Delom u vremenu (A Collection of Essays Honouring Vladeta Jerotic on His Eightieth Birthday), Niš: Centar za crkvene studije 2005, 106-123.

-“Mističko iskustvo lepote kod Plаtonа [The Mystical Experience of Beauty in Plato]”, in: M. Zurovac & N. Grubor (eds.), Položaj lepog u estetici: The place of Beauty in Aesthetics, Beograd: Estetičko društvo Srbije & Pančevo: Mali Nemo 2005, 67-80.

-(ed.) Zbornik rаdovа sа nаučnog skupа „Vlаdetа Jerotić – delom u vremenu“: Festschrift in Honor of Vladeta Jerotić on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday, Niš: Centаr zа crkvene studije 2005. 2004

-“The Concepts of Time and Eternity from Plato to Saint Maximus the Confessor”, Crkvene studije: Church Studies, 1, 2004, 54-70. -“Tаnаtologijа Mаrtinа Hаjdegerа [The Thanatology of Martin Heidegger], Teme, 28:1, 2004, 131-144.

-“Preface”, in: Jean-Claude Larchet, Put, Istinа, Život [Way, Truth, Life], Niš: Centаr zа crkvene studije & Beogrаd: Ars Libri 2004, 1-2.

-“О pesničkoj prirodi mišljenjа Mаrtinа Hаjdegerа [On the Poetic Nature of Thinking of Martin Heidegger]”, Grаdinа, 2, 2004, 252-255.

-“God and the World in the Works of St. Irenaeus of Lyon”, in M. Rakocija (ed.), Zbornik rаdovа sа međunаrodnog simpoziumа Niš i Vizаntijа: Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium “St. Constantine and St Helen”, Niš: Prosvetа 2004, 53-60.

-“Logos – put kа stvаrnosti [Logos – the Road to Reality], in: S. Laušević (ed.), Jezik i stvrаnost: Zbornik rаdovа sа Osmog filosofsko-bogoslovskog simpsionа „Sveti Kirilo i Metodije“[Language and Reality: Proceedings of the 8th Philosophical-Theological Symposium “St Cyril and St. Methodius”], Nikšić: Filozofski fаkultet & Cetinje: Bogoslovijа Svetog Petrа Cetinjskog, 2004, 69-82.

-(ed.), Žаn-Klod Lаrše [Jean-Claude Larchet], Put, Istinа, Život [The Way, the Truth, the Life], Niš: Centаr zа crkvene studije & Beogrаd: Ars Libri 2004. 2003

-“Athanasius of Alexandria: Champion of Nicene Orthodoxy”, in M. Rakocija (ed.), Zbornik rаdovа sа međunаrodnog simpoziumа Niš i Vizаntijа: Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium “St. Constantine and St Helen”, Niš: Prosvetа 2003, 170-182. 2002

-“The Logos of Human Rights”, in: C. Hărănguş & C. Valcan (ed.), O anatomie a discursului filosofic, Timisoara: Editura Eidos - Augusta 2002, 50-64.

CONFERENCES

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND LECTURES

-“Soteriology, Christology and the Mystery of Christ according to St Justin the New of Chelie” (in Serbian, with Bulgarian translation), paper presented at the Annual International Colloquium at the Faculty of Theology, University of Veliko Tarnovo, 29-30, October 2015, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria

-“Reading Ambiguum 10,36-43 of Maximus the Confessor”, workshop organized by the Department of Philosophy, University of Oslo and the Norwegian Institute at Athens, 9-10 October 2014, Athens, Greece

-“The Circle and Radii Model in Dionysius the Areopagite, Dorotheus of Gaza, and Maximus the Confessor”, International Conference ‘The Natural Science Horizons of the Eastern Christian Middle Ages’, Saint Petersburg State University, 18-19 September 2015, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

-“The Concept of Delimitation in St Maximus the Confessor”, The Seventeenth International Conference of Patristic Studies, 10-14 August 2015, Oxford, UK

-“St Justin Popović on Ecumenism”, paper presented at the Second annual conference of SOPHIE-SOPHIA, 4-7 June 2015, Hermitage of Annunciation and St Justin the New, Eiterfeld, Germany

-“Eros and Diastema: The Transformation of Love in St Gregory of Nyssa”, paper presented at the Metochi Seminar “The Concept of Love”, University of Agder, Norway and Study Centar Metochi, Lesbos, Greece, 23-30 May, 2015

-“Serbian Church and Europe on the Threshold of the Third Millennium”, lecture in the series “State and Religion/Church: Russian and Oriental Perspectives”, Georg-August- Universität Göttingen, 4 December 2014, Göttingen, Germany

-“The Concept of Time in the Homilies on Hexaemeron of Basil of Caesarea”, paper presented in absentia at the International Scholarly Colloquium ‘The Church and Time’, Faculty of Theology, University of Veliko Tarnovo, 30-31 October 2014, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria

-“The Oneness of God as Unity of Persons in the Thought of St Maximus the Confessor”, International Colloquium “Maximus the Confessor as European Philosopher”, Institut für Philosophie, Freie Universität, Berlin, 26-28 September 2014, Berlin, Germany

-“From ‘Merciful Angel’ to ‘Fortress Europe’: The Perception of Europe and the West in the Contemporary Serbian Society”, lecture given at the Graduiertenkolloquium zur Kulturgeschichte des Orthodoxen Christentums, Philosophische Fakultät, Universität Erfurt, 27 June 2014, Erfurt, Germany -“The Reception of St Justin Popović in Recent German Scholarship”, paper presented at the first constitutive meeting of the Society of Orthodox Philosophers of Europe (SOPHIE) and the Society of Orthodox Philosophers of America (SOPHIA), 19-21 June 2014, Hermitage of Annunciation and St Justin the New, Eiterfeld, Germany

-“New Wine and Old Wineskins: St Justin Popovich on Theological Terminology”, paper presented in аbsentia on the Fourth conference of the International Association of Orthodox Dogmatic Theologians, 22-24 September 2013, Sofia, Bulgaria

-“An Overview of the Patristic Studies in Serbia”, paper presented in аbsentia at the International meeting of patrologists and scholars of early Christianity “Traditio Fidei in Early Christian Church”, 12-13 September 2013 Nyíregyháza, Hungary

-“St Maximus the Confessor: The Mystery of Christ as Revived Logos Theology”, paper presented at the International Conference on St Maximus the Confessor “The Architecture of the Cosmos”, 2-4 September 2013, Helsinki, Finland

-“Maximus the Confessor’s Reading of Origen between Origenism and Anti-Origenism”, paper presented at the Eleventh international conference of the study of Origen: Origeniana Undecima, 26-31 August 2013, Aarhus, Denmark

-“Wisdom in St Maximus the Confessor reconsidered”, paper presented at the International conference “St Emperor Constantine and Christianity”, 31 May – 2 Jun 2013, Niš, Serbia

-“St Justin the New on the Mystery of the Person of the God-Man”, paper presented at the Second annual theological conference at the University of Veliko Tarnovo, 20 September 2012, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria.

-“St Justin the New (Popović) on the Church of Christ”, paper presented at the Second Annual Symposium of Fr. Georges Florovsky Society “The Body of the Living Christ: The Patristic Doctrine of the Church”, 10-11 February 2012, Princeton, USA

-“The Life of Maximus the Confessor in the Light of New Scholarly Findings” (in Serbian), public lecture given at the Cathedral of Niš, 3 February 2012, Niš, Serbia

-“St Justin Popović’s Reception of Maximus the Confessor”, paper presented at The Fourth International Conference dedicated to St Maximus the Confessor, 24-27 October 2011, Tbilisi - Tsageri - Lenthaki, Georgia -“Maximus the Confessor’s Geometrical Analogies Applied to the Relationship between Christ and Creation”, paper given at the international conference “Orthodox Theology and Sciences”, 26-30 April 2011, Sofia, Bulgaria

-“The Transformation of the Neoplatonic Notions of Procession (proodos) and Conversion (epistrophe) in the Thought of St Maximus the Confessor”, paper given at the conference “Neoplatonic Philosophy and the East”, 22-24 March 2011, Haifa, Israel

-Response to Peter Möllendorff’s “Canon as Pharmakón: Inside and Outside Discursive Sanity in Imperial Greek literature”, paper given at the conference “Invention, Rewriting and Usurpation: Discursive Fights over Religious Traditions in Antiquity”, 31 May – 4 June 2010, Ebeltoft, Denmark

-“Maximus the Confessor on Participation”, paper given at the Annual North American Patristic Society conference, 27-29 May 2010, Chicago, USA

-“Eternity in the Тheology of Icons”, lecture given at the Holberg Seminar, Danish Institute in Athens, 15 April 2010, Athens, Greece

-“Light in the Theology of Icon”, lecture given in the seminar “Icons: Theology in Colours”, at the Faculty of Theology, University of Aarhus, 2 December 2009, Aarhus, Denmark

-“Time and eternity in the theology of icons”, Internal seminar on time and eternity within the Network for Cultural Memory Studies, University of Aarhus, 4 November 2009, Aarhus, Denmark

-“From Adamantius to Centaur: St Methodius of Olympus’ Critique of Origen”, paper given at Colloquium Origenianum Decimum, Ignatianum University, 31 August – 4 September 2009, Krakow, Poland

-“Participation and Union in Maximus the Confessor”, paper given at the Seventh Annual Conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, 18-21 June 2009, Krakow, Poland

“St Maximus the Confessor on the Тhreefold Union with God”, lecture given at the Faculty of Theology, University of Veliko Tarnovo, 17 December 2008, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria

-“‘All in all’ (I Cor 15, 28): Aspects of the Unity between God and Creation according to St Maximus the Confessor”, paper given at the conference “Neoplatonism and St Maximus the Confessor”, Norwegian Institute in Athens, 11-13 December 2008, Athens, Greece

-“Introduction to the Theology of Icons”, lecture given at the Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen in the program of the “TrosForum”, 26 November 2008, Copenhagen, Denmark

-“Icon and Trinity: The Reception of St Augustine of Hippo in Orthodox Iconography and Orthodox Triadology”, lecture given in order to mark the date of Augustine’s biological birthday in the School of Classics, University of St Andrews, 13 November 2007, St Andrews, UK

-“Philoponus and Maximus: The Refutation of the Eternity of the World”, paper given at the Fifth Annual Conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, 14-16 June 2007, Helsinki, Finland

-“The Theological Contribution of St Niceta of Remesiana” (in Serbian), lecture given at the Cathedral of Nis, Serbia, with the occasion of launching the published translation of the works of St. Niceta of Remesiana, 3 May 2007, Niš, Serbia

-“Irenaeus of Lyon’s Adversus Haeresis, Book 2”, lecture given at the Faculty of Theology, University of Aarhus, as a part of a research seminar ‘The discursive fight over religious texts in antiquity’, 17 April 2007, Aarhus, Denmark

-“The Role of the Bishoprics of Thessalonica and Naissus in the Early Period of Arian Crisis: Alexander of Thessalonica and Gaudentius of Naissus”, paper given at the International Conference “Christian Macedonia, Thessalonica – Nissa”, Institute for the National Institute for the National and Religious Affairs Aristotle University of Thessalonica, 3-5 November 2006, Thessalonica, Greece

-“The Influence of the Greek Modern Theology on the Development of the Serbian Theological Thought in the Last Decades of the Twentieth Century” (in Serbian), paper given at the International Conference “Greek and Serbian Church through the Centuries”, University of Niš, 11 June 2005, Niš, Serbia.

-“The Ideas of Everlasting Movement and Ever-moving Rest in St. Maximus the Confessor”, (in Serbian) paper given at the 10th Philosophical- Theological Symposium ‘St Cyril and St. Methodius’, University of Montenegro, May 22–24, 2004, Montenegro -“Space and Memory as Elements of the Byzantine icon”, paper given at the 2nd Mediterranean Congress of Aesthetics, University of Tunisia, 6-8 March 2003, Carthage, Tunisia

-“Ancient Philosophy as Academic Discipline in Yugoslavia”, lecture given at the constitutive meeting of the Southeast-European Association for Ancient Philosophy, 19–22 July 2002, Delphi, Greece

ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA

-Co-organiser of the International Conference “Constantine the Great and Christianity”, 31 May- 2 June 2013, Niš, Serbia

-Co-organiser of the panel “Neoplatonism and Christianity in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages”, “Neoplatonic Philosophy and the East: Ex oriente lux”, 22-24 March 2011, Haifa, Israel.

-Organiser of the series of lectures “Icons: Theology in Colours”, Faculty of Theology, University of Aarhus, October – December 2009, Aarhus, Denmark

-Organiser of the workshop on “The Seventh Ambiguum of St Maximus the Confessor”, The Fifteenth International Conference of Patristic Studies, 6-11 August 2007, Oxford, UK.

-Co-organiser of the international Conference “Christian Macedonia, Thessalonica – Nissa”, Institute for the National and Religious Affairs, Aristotle University of Thessalonica and the Centre of Church Studies, 3-5 November 2006, Thessalonica, Greece

-Co-organiser of the international conference “Greek and Serbian Church through the Centuries”, The Centre of Church Studies, University of Nis and the Institute for the National and Religious Affairs, Thessalonica, 11 June 2005, Niš, Serbia

-Co-organiser of the conference “St. Niceta of Remesiana”, The Centre of Church Studies, Niš and the Brotherhood of the Monastery of St Demetrius, Divljana, 27 May 2006, Bela Palanka (Remesiana), Serbia

-Co-organiser of the symposium “UNESCO Philosophy Day”, Department of Philosophy and University of Niš, 18 November 2004, Nis, Serbia

-Co-organiser of the conference “Vladeta Jerotić – delom u vremenu” (“Vladeta Jerotić and his Work in Time”), Centar za crkvene studije, Ars Libri and The Municipal Library of Gadžin Han, 14 December 2004, Niš, Serbia

-Co-organiser of the international conference “Vizantijski koreni savremene Evrope” (“The Byzantine Roots of Modern Europe”), 3 June 2003, Niš, Serbia

-Co-organiser of the international conference “Niš i vizantijska umetnost” (“Niš and Byzantine Art”), 3 June 2003, Niš, Serbia

FELLOWSHIPS AND RESEARCH GRANTS

2008-2010 Danish Research Council of Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship, Faculty of Theology, University of Aarhus

2007 Leverhulme Visiting Fellowship, School of Classics, University of St Andrews

2006-2007 Society of the Sacred Mission doctoral studies grant

2005 Research Council of Norway Visiting Fellowship, Department of Philosophy, Classic, History of Art and History of Ideas, University of Oslo

2000-2001 Society of the Sacred Mission grant for MA studies, Faculty of Theology, University of Durham

PARTICIPATION IN RESEARCH PROJECTS

GRANTED PROJECTS

Institution Funding Person in charge Topic of Type of Project body (contact information) research/project Grant and duration amount Faculty of Danish Professor Anders- ’Time and Postdoctoral Sep 2008 Theology, Research Christian Jacobsen, Eternity in the fellowship Dec 2010 University of Council of contact person Theology of (28 Aarhus Humanities [email protected] Icons’ months) (individual project) School of Leverhulme Professor Karla Individual Visiting Oct 2006- Classics, Trust Pollmann, PI of the project: Scholar March University of general project: ‘After ‘Reception of grant 2007 St Andrews Augustine. The Augustine in the Oct 2007 - Historical Reception of Orthodox Dec 2007 Augustine from 430- Church’ (9 months) 2000’, [email protected] c.uk

Department Society of Professor Andrew PhD project: Visiting Jan 2006 – of Theology, Sacred Louth, supervisor ‘Time in research Dec 2007 Durham Mission, [email protected] Gregory of grant (two years) University Durham, UK m Nyssa and Maximus the Confessor’ Institute of Research Professor Torstein PhD project: Visiting Aug 2005 - Philosophy Council of Tollefsen, supervisor ‘Time in research Dec 2005 University of Norway torstein.tollefsen@ifikk. Gregory of grant for (one Oslo uio.no Nyssa and PhD semester) Maximus the students Confessor’ Faculty of Faculty of Prof. Miloš Arsenijević PhD project: Employed as April 2004 Philosophy, Philosophy, [email protected] ‘Time in a teaching – May University of University of Prof. Vladan Perisic, Gregory of and research 2007 Belgrade Nis [email protected] Nyssa and fellow (three academic advisors Maximus the years) Confessor’

THIRD PARTY PROJECTS Institution Topic of research project Project leader Type of Duration involvement Faculty of Theology, Orthodox Theology and Associate Professor Member of 2011 - University of Sofia Sciences (project funded Stoyan Tanev the Research 2013 And University of by Templeton foundation) [email protected] Group South Denmark

Centre for the Study Invention, rewriting and Professor Anders- Member of 2010 - of Antiquity and usurpation of traditions Christian Jacobsen, PI the Research 2013 Christianity, Arhus http://teo.au.dk/en/centre/ [email protected] Group University projects

Faculty of Theology, Project ‘Biblica et Dr Stefka Kancheva Project 2008 - University of Veliko Patristica’ (project coordinator) Associate 2010 Tarnovo [email protected]

Faculty of Theology, The Discursive Fight over Professor Anders- Project 2007- University of Aarhus Religious Texts in Christian Jacobsen, PI participant 2009 Antiquity [email protected] http://relnorm.au.dk/en/th eme1/index-theme1

Centre of Church Byzantine Influence on Professor Dragisa Project 2002 - Studies, and Serbian Medieval Bojovic, PI participant 2006 University of Nis, Literature dragisa.bojovic@filfak Serbia .ni.ac.rs

RESEARCH STAYS

2010 The Danish Institute at Athens, Athens, Greece Visiting researcher

2007 University of St. Andrews, School of Classics, Scotland, UK Leverhulme Visiting Scholar

2007 University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark Research Associate

2005 University of Oslo, Norway Visiting researcher

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Department of Culture and Society, Faculty of Arts, University of Aarhus, Denmark: 2010-2011 -Master course in Ecumenical Theology and Missiology – Continuity and Discontinuity in Contemporary Orthodox Theology: • Continuity: Theo-humanism, God-man, Personhood, Person (Solovyov, Florovsky, Popovic, Staniloae, Yannaras, Zizioulas) • Continuity: Sobornost, Philosophy of All-unity, Catholicity, (Homiakov, Solovyov, Popovic, Afanasiev, Meyendorff, Zizioulas) • Continuity: Integral knowledge, Anti-rationalism, Apophatic theology, Apophatic anthropology (Solovyev, Florensky, Popovic, Staniloae, Lossky, Ware). • Discontinuity: Ecumenical Theology (Florovsky, Zizioulas)

Department of Systematic Theology, Faculty of Theology, University of Aarhus, Denmark: 2009- 2010 -Master course in Dogmatics - Modern Orthodox Theology: • Patristic foundations of contemporary Orthodox theology • Historical overview: Dostoyevsky, Solovyev, Florensky, Bulgakov, Florovsky, Lossky, Justin Popovich, Staniloae, Meyendorff, Schmemann, Yannaras, Zizioulas, Kallistos Ware, Louth, Behr. • Dogmatic themes: Triadology, Christology, Theology of energies, Ecclesiology, Theology of Icons, Liturgical Theology

Faculty of Philosophy, University of Niš, Serbia: 2001 – 2005. Department of Serbian language and literature, Faculty of Philosophy -Undergraduate course in Introduction to Philosophy: • Introduction to Philosophy: The definition of philosophy; Philosophical questions, historical overview of philosophical problems and ideas from Plato to Wittgenstein • Serbian philosophical and theological tradition: Sts. Cyril and Methodius, St Sava, Domentijan, Inoc Isaija, Siluan, Romilo of Ravanica, Dushan’s Law Codex, Konstantin the Philosopher, Patriarch Pajsije, Gavril Stefanović Venclović, Jovan Rajić, Sava Tekelija, Dositej Obradović, Njegoš, Vuk Karadžić, Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović, Fr Justin Popović, the Philosophy of Svetosavlje

Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy -Undergraduate seminar in History of Medieval Philosophy: • Philosophy of Late Antiquity – Athenian and Alexandrian Academia (Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, Proclus, Philoponus, Stephanus of Alexandria) • Latin and Greek Patristic – 1) Origins of Patristic Philosophy (Old and New Testament, Ancient Philosophy); 2) Transition from pagan philosophy (Gnostics, Justin the Martyr, Irenaeus); 3) The formation of Christian philosophical system (Origen), Theological contributions (Athanasius, Cappadocians, Augustine, Boethius) • Byzantine Philosophy (Maximus the Confessor, John Damascene, Gregory Palamas) • Scholastics (Anselm, Abelard, Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus) • Philosophy of Renaissance (Bruno, Machiavelli)

-Undergraduate seminar in History of Aesthetics from Ancient times to nowadays: • The idea of Beauty in Ancient Philosophy (Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus) • The theory of Byzantine Icon (Damascene, Theodor the Studite) • The art of Renaissance (Leonardo) • The rise of Aesthetics as discipline (Baumgarten) • Intellectual perception (Kant, Fichte, Schelling) -Undergraduate seminar in Contemporary theories of Aesthetics: • Heidegger’s teaching on art • The Aesthetics of Hartmann • The ideas of body and sexuality in contemporary French Aesthetics (Sartre, Foucault, Merleau-Ponty, Baudrillard) -Undergraduate seminar in History of Ethics: • The notion of virtue in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (Plato, Stoics, Epicure, John Climacus). • The idea of social contract in the history of Modern Philosophy (Hobbs, Russo) • Kant’s practical philosophy • Moore’s Ethics

Department of English language and literature, Faculty of Philosophy -Undergraduate seminar: • Early modern philosophy in Britain (Bacon, Berkeley, Locke, Hume, Mill)

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

EDITORIAL DUTIES

-Member of the Editorial Board of the international journal Crkvene Studije: Church Studies -Member of the Editorial Board of the international journal Teologikon -Reviewer for the international journal Forum Philosophicum -Reviewer for the international journal Crkvene Studije: Church Studies -Editor of the series “Modern Orthodox Theology” in the Publishing Section of the Centre for Church Studies, Niš, Serbia (2002-) -Editorial assistant for Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum: Journal of Ancient Christianity, vol. 11:1, 2007, ed. Karla Pollmann

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

-South-European Association for Ancient Philosophy (founding member) -International Association of Patristic Studies (regional correspondent for Serbia) -North American Patristic Society -Society of Ecclesiastical History (UK) -Centre of Church Studies, Niš, Serbia (founding member, former secretary)

ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES

2005-2006 Council of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Niš Member

2004-2005 Department of Philosophy, University of Niš Person in charge for international cooperation

2001-2004 Department of Philosophy, University of Niš Academic Secretary