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Petar Bojanić studied philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, where he completed his first Master’s thesis, “Figures of Combat,” under the mentorship of Praxis philosopher Miladin Životić. A recipient of a French government scholarship, Bojanić defended his second Master’s thesis, entitled “The Figure of Peace in Kant, Levinas, and Jünger,” in 1996 at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, under the mentorship of Jacques Derrida. He earned his PhD at the University of Paris X (Nanterre) in 2003 with the dissertation “(The Last) War and the Institution of Philosophy,” defending to a committee comprising Étienne Balibar, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Derrida, and Gérard Bensussan.

Bojanić served as the director of the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory (IFDT) at the University of Belgrade from 2011 to 2019. He is the director of the Institute for Democratic Engagement of Southeast Europe (IDESE), where he leads the Center for Ethics, Law, and Applied Philosophy (CELAP). He is also the founder and director of the Center for Advanced Studies of Southeast Europe in Rijeka (CAS SEE), an institution established to restore regional academic cooperation, disrupted by the Yugoslav Wars.

Bojanić has an extensive record of international academic collaboration, leading several research projects, focusing on themes such as war ethics, post-imperial identity, and environmental politics. In addition to his research roles, Bojanić has held a role of visiting professor or senior fellows across institutions like CNRS/ENS Fontenay-St. Cloud, Cornell University, and the University of Aberdeen’s Centre for Modern Thought, University of Bologna, University of Torino, University of Bonn’s Käte Hamburger Kolleg, Birkbeck, University of London, Sorbonne University, Ural Federal University in Yekaterinburg, University of Bari, Roma Tre University, etc.

He has been a visiting professor at the University of Rijeka’s Faculty of Philosophy since 2012 and at the International College University of Turin since 2015, in its Department of Philosophy and Education Science. Recently, he joined The European Graduate School, Division of Philosophy, Art & Critical Thought, as a Professor of Philosophy. Currently, he is a Chair of the program Bitter Victory: Is Victory Possible in the 21st Century? at The New Institute in Hamburg.