Gal Kirn

Gal Kirn was born in Ljubljana (Slovenia) and is currently working between University of Ljubljana (assistant professor of cultural sociology) and as a research leader at European University Viadrina (Germany). He was previously a postdoctoral researcher at TU Dresden, HU Berlin, JvE Academie in Maastricht, and a research fellow at ICI - Institute for Cultural Inquiry Berlin.

He has published extensively on the topic of liberation struggles, and (post)Yugoslav studies relating to history of radical art and politics, and memory of the oppressed. His books Memory of Liberation (Ljubljana University Press, 2025), The Partisan Counter Archive (De Gruyter, 2020) and Partisan Ruptures (Pluto Press, 2020) each in its own merits contributed to reflecting about the (unfinished) project of Yugoslavia and liberation. He has also (co)edited books on neoliberalism, Althusser, Yugoslav black wave cinema, theories of post-Fordism, and riots.