Centre for Queer Studies
CQS
An Open Discussion on Dating in the Age of Grindr, Hookup Culture, and Mental Health
Literature Theory
Morteza Hajizadeh
For centuries, literature from Islamic regions, especially Iran, celebrated male homoerotic love as a symbol of beauty, mysticism and spiritual longing. These attitudes were particularly pronounced during the Islamic Golden Age, from the mid-8th to mid-13th centuries.
Interview
A. D.
The first study on conversion practices in Serbia shows that they are most often carried out within families, educational institutions, and informal communities, frequently under the guise of care, counseling, or assistance.
Art
Dušica Popović
The photography exhibition Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg, organised by the Center for Queer Studies, was held at the European House from 15 to 19 December 2025.
Crypto-queer Norwegian photography pioneers, 15–19 December, European House in Belgrade.
Call for Participation at the Academic Conference, 4–5 June 2026 | Florence, European University Institute.
Center for Queer Studies
The lecture will discuss arguments for and against women’s priesthood in Orthodoxy, the (im)possibility of creating Orthodox feminism, the historical role of women in Christianity.
Dragana Nikoletić
The promised hot autumn has fully materialized in Belgrade’s galleries, bringing a multitude of exhibitions throughout October. Most of them present works by already established artists, shown alongside young talents whose careers are just beginning.
Ivan Medenica
If we find a suitable venue, this will almost certainly happen, and with that the vision my team and I have long hoped for will be fully realized—a free, libertarian Bitef.
Lecture announcements for the first semester.
If science and technology have enabled the creation of a human being without sex through artificial insemination (‘immaculate conception’), one may expect that they will one day also enable the disappearance of the human being without death.
In the 2026 academic year, Queer Studies will once again be a two-semester course consisting of 24 lectures, held at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory.
Ana Tasić
Wilde’s incisive reflections on false social morality perhaps have an even more piercing effect today, in a contemporary society where the boundaries between lies and truths have become still more fragile and porous, and where the obsession with bodily beauty and youth is far more tragic
Politics
K. P.
At a U.S. university, orders were issued to remove passages from Plato’s "Symposium".
