ALEKSA DJILAS
Serbia, 1953
writes on Yugoslavian history and politics

Aleksa Djilas

Aleksa Djilas is a writer, sociologist and historian. He studied philosophy at the universities of Belgrade, Vienna and Graz, gained a masters degree in politics and sociology at Birkbeck College in London and a doctorate in sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Because of the critical stance of his writings and his support for dissidents and political prisoners in Yugoslavia, he remained outside Yugoslavia between 1980 and 1990, and was granted political asylum in the United Kingdom. His father is Milovan Djilas, who himself was a political prisoner under Tito’s regime.

Between 1986 and 1992 Djilas co-published the German periodical Kontinent. Ost-West-Forum. Articles of his have appeared in Spectator, The New York Times and Foreign Affairs among others. Among his best-known books are The Contested Country: Yugoslav Unity and Communist Revolution, 1919-1953 (1991) and Najteze pitanje. Eseji (‘The Hardest Question. Essays’, 2005). More recently, he was involved in the publication of a a collection of letters his father and mother exchanged while his father was in prison, and of the diary his father wrote from 1989 until the end of his life in 1995.

Published in

Journal Nexus
2018

Nexus 79

Brief aan mijn leraar
Journal Nexus
2014

Nexus 67

School der beschaving
Journal Nexus
2012

Nexus 60

Verborgen schatten van het Europees humanisme
Journal Nexus
2010 or Earlier

Nexus 37

Brieven
Journal Nexus
2010 or Earlier

Nexus 36

Vrijheid en tirannie
Journal Nexus
2010 or Earlier

Nexus 34

De queeste van het leven Deel II. Het Kwaad
Journal Nexus
2010 or Earlier

Nexus 30-31

Na 11 september. Eigentijdse en oneigentijdse beschouwingen
Journal Nexus
2010 or Earlier

Nexus 26

Kosmopolitisme

Speaker at

Conference

The Idea of Europe

Past, Present and Future

2 October 2004 09.30 - 20.00 Palac Prymasowski, Warschau

Conference

Part II. Evil

The Quest for Life

11 June 2002 9.20 - 21.45 Tilburg University

Conference

Nexus Conference 1999

No Place for Cosmopolitans?

8 October 1999 9.35 - 21.45 Tilburg University