Bojan Kovačević

Bojan Kovačević is full Professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Belgrade since 2022. He defended his PhD in Political Science on 'The Characteristics of Federalism in the Governance System of the European Union' at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade in 2011. He is also a graduate of the Institute of Federalism at the Faculty of Law, University of Fribourg.

He has been a visiting researcher at the University of Catania, the Luiss School of Government, Luiss Guido Carli University (Rome), and the Goethe-Institut (Berlin).

His research focuses on the history of political ideas, federalism, constitutionalism, political theory, the political system of the European Union, and the history and theory of drama and theatre."

The project

Title: Politics and Theatre in Times of Crisis

"The question of politics in contemporary France and Europe ultimately returns to the issue of the foundations of living together. This project aims to examine how this question is addressed on the stages of Paris’s three most prominent theatres: the Odéon–Théâtre de l’Europe, the Comédie-Française, and the Théâtre de la Ville. The plays selected for analysis will be chosen according to a broad criterion defined by a renowned scholar of political theatre history: “Political theatre creates situations before the audience that are important to many, to a majority of people—perhaps to all. It stages possible ways of acting in such situations, presents them in a critical light, and calls upon us to be critical” (Melchinger, 1971).

This research will engage dramatic artists in the dialogue surrounding the political. What do contemporary stagings of classical works in Parisian theatres reveal about the relationship between life and form, between freedom and order? What do today’s playwrights identify as the root causes of the current crisis? What does the new form of living together—emerging from artistic imagination—look like for the French and Europeans? And what do the scenographies of these plays disclose about the norms governing human behavior in the real lives of French citizens?

These are some of the central questions this research seeks to explore."

Hosting institution: Université Panthéon-Assas, Institut Michel Villey

Selective Bibliography

• Kovačević, B. (2024), In the theater of Machiavelli. Stories from the stage of the political.  Akademska knjiga, Novi Sad (in Serbian).
• Kovačević, B.(2017), Europe’s Hidden Federalism: Federal Experiences in the Process of European Integration, London. Routledge.
• Bojan, Kovačević (2023), ”Wayward Life and Runaway Form in the Plays of Ljubomir Simović”, Literary History- Journal for Literary Studies, Year. 55 Vol. 181.
• Slobodan,Samardžić, Bojan Kovačević, (2021), “The fog of enlargement and the agony of accession: the European Union and Serbia in the light of a reform document”, in: Stosunki miedzynarodowe.  Vol.57-
• Bojan Kovačević (2020), “The Oblivion of the Political in Light of the Ancient Greek Drama”, Literary History- Journal for Literary Studies, br.172, god 52.