Talk: Life on the Stargazing Hill: Belgrade Astronomical Observatory at the Intersection of Gender, Science and Culture

Presenter: Mirjana Uzelac, PhD Candidate, Anthropology

Tory 14-28 at 1PM on January 21, 2020

How do chaotic political, economic and social changes influence the lives and works of astrophysicists? The research is based on ethnographic fieldwork done at the Belgrade Astronomical Observatory, the largest institute for astronomy and astrophysics in Serbia, in the period between 2015 and 2018. Serbia is a postsocialist country: once part of socialist Yugoslavia, it has undergone numerous changes since the 1990s and is currently experiencing the chaos of neoliberal transition and “wild capitalism.”