Belgrade
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Theme: Breaking the Waves

This event occurred on
May 21, 2016
Belgrade, Beograd
Serbia

The fourth TEDxBelgrade conference will be held on May 21st, in the Ilija M. Kolarac Foundation, under the slogan "Breaking the Waves". This year's event will present people with different personal stories, who, despite life's obstacles and challenges from the environment, persevere in achieving their goals and dreams, people who have changed their actions and have made a better environment in which they live and work.

Breaking the waves
Zadužbina Ilije M. Kolarca, Studentski trg 5
Belgrade, Beograd, 11000
Serbia
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Speakers

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Boban Stojanović

Human rights activist and motivational author. The founder of the organization Queeria center and Belgrade Pride Parade.
Boban Stojanović is a human rights activist and motivational author. The founder of the organization Queeria center and Belgrade Pride Parade. One of the key LGBT activists in Serbia and the region. In 2015, he was named one of the top five gay activists in the world within the prestigious awards David Kato - Vision and voice. He has been an activist for almost twenty years: from the centers for refugees, through work with victims of domestic violence to the organization of the Pride Parade in Belgrade. Over the last few years he brings elements of spirituality in his political engagement, which represents a new challenge to a dogmatic approach to activism in Serbia.

Dejan Nikolić

Co-founder of Content Insights, an editorial analytics package created by editors for editors
Dejan Nikolić is a co-founder of Content Insights, an editorial analytics package created by editors for editors. He has over 20 years of editorial experience in print and online, with a web analytics background. Founder and Editor in Chief of Njuz.net, the most popular comedy website in the Adriatic region. He is completely inexperienced in most segments of the ICT industry, even though he worked in both software and hardware companies. From the Motorola 68000 onwards does not know to program a single line of code, but has led large teams on software projects. Quite illiterate but oddly enough was the editor for three serious monthlies. Does not know any sales system but has sold a lot in his career, most of all himself. Social networks have helped him to discover how much of a bluffer he is.

Ivan Đorđević

Ivan Đorđević PhD. is a Fellow of the Ethnographic Institute of the SASA. He graduated and received his doctorate at the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, University of Belgrade. He has published three monographs and numerous scientific papers, expert reviews and papers in a variety of scientific journals and thematic collections. He is a regular contributor and lecturer at Petnica Center, and he lectured at a number of universities both in the country and abroad. His main research interest is focused on the issues of sports anthropology, political anthropology and anthropology of literature. As a result of the focus on the field of anthropology of sports, he published a monograph "An anthropologist among fans" (Biblioteka XX vek, Belgrade 2015).

Lidija Vasiljević

Graduate Psychologist with an MSc in Gender and Politics
Lidija Vasiljević is a graduate psychologist with an MSc in Gender and Politics and is about to finish PhD studies at the Faculty of Political Sciences with the thesis “anti-discriminative and gender inclusive politics of mental health”. As one of the co-founders of the Regional association for psychodrama and integrative psychotherapy and founder of the Network for application and development of gender inclusive and egalitarian approach to practice and research, she runs training groups in Serbia and in the region. She has over 15 years of international experience in working with marginalized groups and individuals using psychodrama and other action methods in both clinical and educational contexts. Subjects of her specific interest are politics of mental health, gender inclusive psychotherapy, educational and pedagogy methodology and integration of psychodrama with other modalities. She is an author of number of papers presented at national and international conferences on a subject.

Milica Knežević

Advocate for the rights and equality of persons with disabilities; author of the blog "Choose to live"
Milica Knežević is a twenty-three- year-old in a constant battle for the rights and equality of persons with disabilities; author of the blog "Choose to live". She does not admit defeat and does not tolerate prejudice. By her action seeks to educate people about life after spinal cord injury. She realizes her dreams on four wheels. She is currently working on the establishment of the first non-profit rehabilitation center for people with disabilities in Serbia.

Nikola Radojlović

Professor of History, PR, Stand-up Comedian
Nikola Radojlović, is a 28 year-old from Belgrade. He won the competition organized by the Open Mic Standup.rs in December 2015, at the Ben Akiba comedy club and since then started his career as a stand up comedian. He has dozens of public appearances with rock band San Debelih Zena. He is a professor of history and is currently working in a humanitarian non-governmental organization. In addition to stand-up, is engaged in composing, writing aphorisms, songs and scenarios.

Nikoleta Kosovac

One of the initiators of the initiative “My neighbor without a roof”, an associate of the Centre for emancipation policy, the Centre for the development of social policy -Klikaktiv and consultant for PR, communications and strategic planning of numerous civil society organizations in Serbia and the region.
Nikoleta Kosovac was born in 1983, graduated from the Faculty of Philology, Department of Scandinavian Languages and Literature. After years of working in numerous national and international magazines and radio stations, Belgrade advertising agencies Publicis and Saatchi & Saatchi, she wanted to do something she believes in, and found it in the social enterprise Liceulice – the first street magazine in Serbia. For six years as coordinator of the social enterprise comes face to face with many challenges inherent in independent media activism and work on the economic and social empowerment of the most vulnerable countrymen and women. She is one of the initiators of the initiative “My neighbor without a roof”, an associate of the Centre for emancipation policy, the Centre for the development of social policy - Klikaktiv and consultant for PR, communications and strategic planning of numerous civil society organizations in Serbia and the region.

Olga Đurović

A lawyer for the Center for the Protection and Assistance to Asylum Seekers APC / CZA
Olga Đurović is a lawyer for the Center for the Protection and Assistance to Asylum Seekers APC / CZA,a non-governmental organization that provides legal and psychosocial assistance to asylum seekers and refugees since 2008, i.e. since the beginning of the asylum system in the Republic of Serbia. She is one of the founders of the Center and is the head of the Center’s legal team since 2014.Olga represents asylum seekers in asylum proceedings, misdemeanor proceedings, administrative disputes before the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Serbia and the European Court of Human Rights. She graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade. Registered in the directory of lawyers of the Bar Association of Serbia and Bar Association of Belgrade. She loves photography, Law and long walks.

Vuk Ršumović

Studied writing for film, theatre, TV and radio at the Faculty of Drama Arts in Belgrade. Studied Analytical psychology in Belgrade and Zürich.
Vuk Ršumović was born in Belgrade in 1975. Studied writing for film, theatre, TV and radio at the Faculty of Drama Arts in Belgrade. Studied Analytical psychology in Belgrade and Zürich. He wrote scripts for numerous short films, feature documentary film "Valter" (2012), teen drama "Kosarkasi" (2005), and hit TV show "Andrija i Andjelka" (2015-16), an adaptation of popular Canadian TV show "Un gars, une fille". Furthermore, he is an active author of TV programmes. The feature film "No One's Child" is his directorial debut. The film had World Premiere in 2014 at the Venice Film Festival and won three awards there: FIPRESCI Critics Award for Best Film (Orizzonti and International Critics' Week), Best film at Critic's Week Award and FEDEORA Award for Best Script. The film has won over 35 awards all over the world, among them New Voices/New Visions Award at Palm Springs International Film Festival, Best Film Award at GoEast Film Festival, Best Director Award at Tarkovsky Film Festival.

Organizing team

Milos
Rancic

Belgrade, Serbia , Yugoslavia
Organizer