In the focus

PULSE: Propelling EU Platform Directive Transposition into Serbia's Legal Ecosystem

 

Seth Holmes

Seth M. Holmes, PhD, MD, is a physician and anthropologist and Chancellor's Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Division of Society and Environment and the PhD Program in Medical Anthropology. He runs the European Research Council's (ERC) project FOODCIRCUITS at the University of Barcelona and the ICREA Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Study.  He is Founder and Co-Chair of the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, Co-Director of the MD/PhD Track in Medical Anthropology coordinated between UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco, and director of the Interinstitutional Hub for Global Social Medicine at Barcelona.  A cultural and medical anthropologist and physician, he has worked on social hierarchies, health inequities, and the ways in which such asymmetries are naturalized, normalized, and resisted in the context of transnational im/migration, agro-food systems, and health care. He has received national and international awards, including the Margaret Mead Award. Since January 2024, he has been a member of the Public Policy Research Centre, where he serves as an advisor on migration, agri-food systems, and the ethics of public policy within the Just Innovation programme.

Newest publication

Reshaping Work Conference – Southeast Europe (2024). Book of Abstracts.

Eds. B. Andjelkovic, T. Jakobi, V. Vukmirovic & L. Radonjic. Belgrade: Public Policy Research Centre & Institute of Economic Sciences.

Svetlana Đurđević Lukić Fund: HUMAN SECURITY FOR THE NEW CENTURY

Uncertainty and vulnerability of the individual in the 21st century is the focus of CENTAR’s Human Security Programme. Building on foundations set by the recently departed co-founder and longtime director of CENTAR, Svetlana Đurđević Lukić, CENTAR regards security as a human right and advocates for construing a society in which every individual will have opportunities to reach their potential. Svetlana had a talent of pioneering the introduction of many topics – primarily concerned with the security of vulnerable groups – into security discourse within Serbia. Fostering this approach, starting from 2016, CENTAR, as part of its foundation named after the late Svetlana, holds a competition with the goal of inspiring young researchers to examine modern day threats.