Vukan Marković is a PhD Candidate at the University of Cambridge. He completed his MA at LSE and Columbia and obtained his BA at UCL. By analysing the perceived challenges of the Anthropocene for the historical discipline, his doctoral thesis explores the relationship between theories about crises of history and historical temporalities. His broader field of specialization is contemporary philosophy of history and 20th century intellectual history. Researching the changes in the understanding and meaning of history occurring over the last four decades, his research aims to ground this interplay between time and crisis in history to its philosophical origins – German interwar theory and the crisis of modernity.
For his post-doctoral project, Vukan is planning to explore the implications of the perspectives that metahistorical concepts and categories which currently serve to facilitate the continuity within historical narratives are no longer suitable to the perceived needs of the historical discipline. As such, his second project would explore the usefulness of history for envisaging and assessing various conceptions of the future.