Milena Šešić

Milena Dragićević Šešić, PhD

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Milena Šešić
Born	3 February 1954 Trogir, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
🎓 Alma mater	Faculty of Dramatic Arts, University of Arts, Belgrade
💼 Occupation	Cultural and Media Theorist, Professor of Cultural Management and Media, University of Arts, Belgrade ______________________________ Research Interests: cultural management, urban and regional cultural development, interculturalism and cultural memory, cultural policy, mediation and conflict resolution, media diversity and pluralism _______________________________
🏅 Awards	Commandeur dans l`Ordre des Palmes Academiques, 2002. (Ministere de l`Education Nationale, France)

Milena Dragićević Šešić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милена Драгићевић Шешић; 3 February 1954) is a cultural and media theorist and researcher, university professor, publicist, international expert and lecturer in cultural policy and management, editor, civil society activist and European networker.

She is a former Rector of the University of Arts, Belgrade (2001–2004) and the founder and currently Head of the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Policy and Management (Interculturalism and Mediation in the Balkans) at the University of Arts, Belgrade. She is also professor of Cultural Policy & Cultural Management, Cultural and Media Studies at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade.

She graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts (1975), received specialist training at the University Paris VIII Vincennes, Department: Theater, filiere: Animation socio-culturelle, etude de Doctorat du 3^eme cycle (mentor: Prof. Andre Veinstein), these: Les equipements socio-culturels et l'animation socio-culturelle en region parisienne, these de D.E.A. (diplome d'etude approfondies), University Paris VIII (1976–1977) and at the University Paris V – Rene Descartes, Department: Sociologie de l'education – etude de Doctorat du 3^eme cycle (mentor: prof. Joffre Dumazedier, 1977–1978).

She defended her M.A. thesis on Institutional System of French Cultural Policy at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade (1981), Ph.D. thesis on Literary Communication and Cultural Animation at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade (1990).

Teaching & Expertise

Dragićević Šešić works as an expert in cultural policy and management for European Cultural Foundation, Council of Europe, UNESCO, Foundation Marcel Hicter, Pro Helvetia, British Council etc. She is a permanent lecturer at European Diploma in Cultural Project Management, Brussels; Moscow School of Social and Economical Sciences; CEU Budapest; I.E.P. Grenoble; University Lyon II; Iagelonian University Krakow, Jyvaskyla University, Finland, University of Buffalo, USA, Columbia University New York, University for Culture, Riga, ECUME, Dijon; University of Skopje, etc. External examiner for the Master Programme "Art & Media Management in a European Context", Utrecht School of the Arts & Open University London; President of the Jury for the Cultural Policy Research Award (2004-2012); Member of the Expert team for Global Cultural Diplomacy Platform

Works

Books

Dragićević Šešić has published 16 books and more than 100 essays, majority of which translated in English, German, French, Russian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Polish, Macedonian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Albanian, Turkish, Arabic, Mongolian, Estonian, Georgian and Chinese.

Most important books and publications in foreign languages:

• Cultural Diplomacy: Arts, Festivals and Geopolitics, Desk Creative Europe and Faculty of Drama Arts, Belgrade 2017
• Vers les nouvelles politiques culturelles, CLIO, Fondation Marcel Hicter / UU, Brussels – Belgrade.2014  ISBN 978-86-7167-054-8
• Dragićević Šešić, M., (2015), Capacity building programs – how to keep institutional memory and regional collective consciousness alive, in: Another Europe: 15 Years of Capacity Building with Cultural Initiatives in the EU Neighbourhood, ECF, Amsterdam, (pages 41-59),
• Dragicevic Sesic, Milena, Nancy Duxbury, Svetlana Hristova, Eds. (2015) Cultural Sustainability in European Cities: Imagining Europolis (Routledge Studies in Culture and Sustainable Development), Routledge. London,
• Culture – Management, Animation, Marketing, (with B. Stojković), CLIO, Belgrade, (1^st edition, 1994), 5^th revised and enlarged edition, 2007; (in Russian), Tigra, Novosibirsk, 2000; (in Mongolian), Ulan Bator, 2001; (in Macedonian), Templum, Skopje 2003; (in Romanian), Temisoara, 2002; (in Georgian), Tbilisi 2007; (in Polish) 2010
• Cultural Policy, Nationalism and European Integrations, in: To be from/out, Kulturklamer
• Art Management in Turbulent Times: Adaptable Quality Management, (with Sanjin Dragojević), Boekmanstichting & ECF, Amsterdam, 2005 (in English); Serbian version: CLIO, Belgrade, 2005; Croatian version: Zagreb, 2008, (translated also in Arabic, Macedonian & Russian)

• Culture – Management, Animation, Marketing, (with B. Stojković), CLIO, Belgrade, (1^st edition, 1994), 5^th revised and enlarged edition, 2007; (in Russian), Tigra, Novosibirsk, 2000; (in Mongolian), Ulan Bator, 2001; (in Macedonian), Templum, Skopje 2003; (in Romanian), Temisoara, 2002; (in Georgian), Tbilisi 2007; (in Polish) 2010.

• Intercultural Mediation, (with Sanjin Dragojević), UNESCO, OKO, Sarajevo, 2004 (in English and Bosnian); 2^nd edition in English, French and Bosnian; translated and published in Albanian, Pristina/Kosovo, 2007; in Georgian, Tbilisi, 2010

• Imagined Divides (with Sanjin Dragojević) and Despite and Beyond Cultural Policy: Third and Fourth Sector Practices and Strategies in Vienna and Belgrade (with Brigitta Busch and Martina Boese), in: Transcultural Europe, ed. by Ulrike Meinhof and Anna Triandafilidoy, Palgrave Macmillan, London 2006 (pp. 43–57, 131–157)

• Between a rock and a hard place: cultural policies of and towards Serbia, in: Jozef Bátora and Monika Mokre, eds. Culture in the EU's External Relations: Bridging the Divide?, Ashgate Publishing, London, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4094-1116-1

• Cultural diversity-based projects and their effects on sustainable development (M. Dragićević Šešić, J. P. Deru, Lj. Simić), in: The Sustainability of Cultural Diversity. Nations, Cities and Organizations, Eds: Maddy Janssens, Myriam Bechtoldt, Arie de Ruijter, Dino Pinelli, Giovanni Prarolo and Vanja Stenius; Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, 2010, ISBN 978 1 84980 289 5

• Challenges of Cultural Cooperation in Southeastern Europe: the internationalization of cultural policies and practices (with Corina Suteu), The Emerging Creative Industries in Southeastern Europe, ed. by Nada Švob Đokić, Culturelink, Zagreb, 2005, ISBN 953-6096-37-4

• Cultural policy in Serbia (national report), chief editor, CDCULT (20031A), Council of Europe, Strasbourg, 2003,

• Cultural policy of Serbia and Montenegro, Compendium 2005., Cultural policy of Serbia, Compendium 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 (with Hristina Mikić & Aleksandar Brkic) – country profile – revised edition every year

• Cultural Policy, Nationalism and European Integrations, in: To be from/out, Kulturklamer, Belgrade, 2010. pp. 254–273, ISBN 978-86-912137-1-8

• Educational Programmes in Strategic Cultural Management within the Regional Context, Cultural Policy and Management (KPY) Yearbook, Boekmanstudies and Istanbul Bilgi University Press, 2009, pp. 99–108, ISBN 978-90-6650-095-2

• L'artiste et les pratiques culturelles engagees (defis pedagogiques et methodologiques et controverses)/ Artist and cultural activist practices, in: ITTACA, ed. Frederic Jacquemin, Fondation Marcel Hicter, Bruxelles, 2006 (ISBN 2-919893-60-2)

• “Shared Policies: Future of Cultural Development”, in: Dynamics of communication: new ways and new actors, edited by Biserka Cvjetičanin, Culturelink, Zagreb, 2006, pp. 103–111; ISBN 978-953-6096-39-8

• Theatre, Public Space and City Identity – Memory Politics as a Challenge in Preserving Belgrade's Multicultural Identity, in: Theatre and Identity, ed. by Jelena Lužina, Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Skopje, 2006. pp.21–47 (ISBN 978-9989-729-11-9)

• Culture as a Resource of a City Development, Culturelink, special issue, ed. by Nada Švob Đokić, Zagreb, 2006.

• State of the arts and perspectives on Intercultural competencies and skills (framework for Intercultural dialogue program), UNESCO, PARIS, 2010. (with Sanjin Dragojević, University of Zagreb)

• “Toward Europeanisation: for a New Ethic of National Cultural Institutions”, in: Kulturmanagement konkret: An Anatomy of Arts Management, Birnkrauts Geza & Wolf Karin, eds. Institut fur Kulturkonzepte, Wien, band 02, 2008. pp. 87–107, ISBN 978-3-9811437-1-3

• Education for Cultural Cooperation – One Step Towards Transnational European Space, International Conference: Education: Art & Media, Zbornik Fakulteta dramskih umetnosti br. , Beograd 2008

• Controversies and Challenges of Media Policy within Cultural Policy – Conflict of Private Interest and Public Responsibilities, in: Kultura. Rinka. Visuomene (Culture. Market. Society), Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis, n. 50, Vilnius 2008, pp. 329–350, ISSN 1395-0316

• Informal artists NGO networks: reintroducing mobility in the region of South East Europe, pp. 127–130 in: Mobility of Artists and Cultural Professionals in South Eastern Europe, ed. Dimitrije Vujadinović, Balkankult fondacija, Beograd, 2009, ISBN 978-86-84159-18-4 Politika programiranja – kulturni diverzitet i zabava na RTV Vojvodina, Kultura N^o 120–121, 2008, pp. 214–240, 654.191/.197 (497.113): 008

• Global Cultural Changes and its Impact on Curriculum Development – University of Arts in Belgrade, in: Interference, interculturality, interdisciplinarity, the ethics of living, edited by Alexandra Titu, Editura Universitatii de Vest, Timisoara, 2007, ISBN 978-973-125-149-3, pp. 17–34, 149–159

• Training in Transnational Cultural Co-Operation Projects – Reflections and Challenges on Validation and Certification, ISBN 978-92-990036-1-9

• Teaching Cultural Cooperation in Transcultural Europe, Survey of Training Tools and Methods

• Formation a la gestion de projets de cooperation culturelle transnationale – Réflexions et défis sur la validation et la certification, ISBN 987-92-990036-2-6

• The Art of Dissent, in: Theater – politics – city, case study Belgrade, Beograd, Yustat, Beograd, 2007, ISBN 978-86-910201-0-1, pp. 23–54

• Belef – Belgrade Summer Festival: Discovering the Essence of the City, in: Theater – politics – city, case study Belgrade, Yustat, Beograd, 2007, ISBN 978-86-910201-0-1, pp. 303–337

• Developpement durable et diversite culturelle : couple harmonieux ou orageux? par M. Dragicevic Sesic et Lj. Simic Deru

• La diversite culturelle, les espaces publics et la mediation, par M. Dragicevic Sesic, Lj. Simic Deru, J-P. Deru

• La culture en tant que ressource du developpement urbain, par Milena Dragicevic Sesic

• Global Cultural Challenges and Its Impact on Curriculum Development, in: Cultural Policy and Art Production, University of Arts, Belgrade, 2006, ISBN 86-7167-034-1, pp. 8–14
• Cultural policies, identities and monument building in Southeastern Europe, in: Švob Đokić & Milohnić (2011) Cultural identity politics in the post-transitional societies, Culturelink Zagreb
• Higher Education and Training in Cultural management and Cultural Policies in Southern Mediterranean countries, MedCulture EU program
• Borders and maps in contemporary Yugoslav art, in: Nada Švob Đokić, ed. Redefining cultural identities: SouthEastern Europe, Culturelink, Zagreb 2001

Research projects

"The right to culture, although proclaimed by the official UNESCO and the United Nations acts and charters, has not been fully established in any country of the world, and there are always ways to find more adequate solutions and better instruments of cultural policy that would reduce inequalities and accentuate diversities, because the richness of culture and cultural life lies precisely in the diversity of cultures, which numerous ideological, market, cultural and political and other factors try to diminish for the reasons which, at first glance, may appear to be purely humanitarian."

Dragićević Šešić (with B. Stojković) in Culture – Management, Animation, Marketing, CLIO, Belgrade, 1994.

Milena Dragićević Šešić has realized and developed more than 50 projects in cultural policy and management – policy trainings, strategic management & capacity building trainings and etc. in SEE, but also in Belgium, France, Finland, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Senegal, Russia, Latvia, Lithuania.

Most important research projects are:

· Culture and Media in the Processes of European Integrations / Kultura i mediji u procesima evropskih integracija, Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade, 2005–2010

· VANIA – Validation and Certification in the Field of European Cultural Co-operation Project Management, Leonardo Programme EU, Brussels, in the framework of the European University Consortium (London, Brussels, Helsinki, Athens)

· Monitoring of the Public Service of Vojvodina, an independent research project of the Novi Sad School of Journalism, 2006–2008

· Culture and Development in Central and Eastern Europe 20 Years after the Collapse of Communism, Budapest Observatory, Budapest (for the Council of Europe. Member of international research team: head Peter Inkei – Hungary, Baiba Tjarve – Latvia, Marek Banczyk – Poland, Milena Dragicevic Sesic – Serbia, Mikhail Gnedovsky – Russia and Cornelia Dumcke – Germany), 2008–2009

· SUS.DIV – Sustainable Development in a Diverse World, New Forms of Citizenship and Cultural Identities (2005–2010), supported by the European Commission's FP6 programme, Priority 7: Citizens and Governance in the Knowledge-Based Economy (Consortium of 35 institutions, coordinated by the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei. Participating as a member of Oracle network: partner 14 – Reseaux d`administrateurs culturels europeens – ORACLE )

· Questioning transitional dynamics in re-defining cultural identities in South-Eastern Europe, Project 2010–2011, under the auspice of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research, (Co-operation Programme with SEE: ASO-Call “Research Cooperation and Networking between Austria and South Eastern Europe“ (Executive producer Peace Institute Ljubljana, Partners: University of Vienna, Institute for International Relations Zagreb and University of Arts in Belgrade). (Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office c/o Zentrum für Soziale Innovation, Linke Wienzeile, 2461150 Wien)

· Identity and memory: Transcultural drama and media texts (Serbia 1989–2014), Research project under the Ministry of Education and Science for the period 2011–2015. Research project number: 178012

Editor

In addition to numerous activities in the field of culture and media, Dragićević Šešić was the editor-in-chief of the Kultura /Culture/ journal (1998–2001) and Proceedings for Drama Arts, annual of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts; she was a member of editorial boards of the journals Kultura (since 1984), Potkulture /Subcultures/ (1985–1988), Sociološki pregled /Sociological Review/ (1992–1994), and European Journal for Cultural Policy (1993–1997).

She was also an editor of the book series Media Studies (Foundation Soros Yugoslavia) and Apatridi (The Stateless) (1992–1993) published by Samizdat B92, and since 1992 has been an editor of Art, Culture & Media by University of Arts, Belgrade.

Other activities

As a civil society activist, Dragićević Šešić has participated in numerous public art projects and radical cultural projects and programmes in the Balkans.

She is also a European networker active within ELIA, ENCATC, IETM, ORACLE, and BAN, Balkan Express, Mediterranean networks etc.

Memberships

Dragićević Šešić has contributed to the work of many international and national bodies supporting the development of art, cultural and media scene. Here is a short selection of her activities in this field: President of the Cultural Policy Research Award, 2003–2010 (European Cultural Foundation, Amsterdam), President, now Member of the Board of the European Diploma in Cultural Project Management (Foundation Marcel Hicter, Bruxelles), Member of the Executive Committee IUC Dubrovnik, Member of the Art & Culture Sub-Board of OSI (Soros network), former ENCATC and ELIA Board Member; Advisor to the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Serbia (2007–2008), Member of the National Council for Science and Technology (2006–2010).

Awards

For her great contribution to the development of education and culture, Dragićević Šešić received a prestigious recognition – Commandeur dans l`Ordre des Palmes Academiques (Ministere de l`Education Nationale, France) / Commander of the Order of Academic Palms from the French Ministry of Education in 2002 and the Great Gold Plaque of the University of Arts in Belgrade.

See also

• ENCATC Glossary
• Culture at the Edges
• Indian theater: tradition and activism
• "We are the tail of the neoliberal model"
• The National Museum

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