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Slobodan Dan Paich (November 28, 1945) is an academic, actor and artist.

The courses he initiated in 1969 at the college and university level broadened the scope of art history into the History of Art and Ideas. These courses included geographies larger than the European cultural sphere and an interdisciplinary, across-time curriculum was developed that included ancient and indigenous people as differently cultured, ingenious and refined rather than primitive.

Since 2011 Slobodan Dan Paich has participated in annual conferences at the Romanian Universities of Timişoara and Sibiu and was appointed visiting professor at University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Anthropology-Cultural Studies Section, Timişoara, Romania in 2016.

Life
Slobodan Dan Paich was born in Yugoslavia after the Second World War. He lived in England from 1967 to 1985. In London S. D. Paich taught the History of Art and Ideas, Architectural Design, Design Theory and Art Studio from 1969 to1985. From1985 to1992, he taught at the University of California at Berkeley. With colleagues and concerned citizens he founded the Artship Foundation in 1992, and has been its Executive and Programmatic Director and Principal Comparative Cultural Studies Researcher ever since. He also served as a board member of the Society of Founders of the International Peace University in Europe and Asia from 1996 to 2017. From 1996 to 2002 he lectured in Berlin and Vienna and chaired the Committee on Arts and Culture.

Academic Career
Slobodan Dan Paich has delivered numerous papers at international conferences as keynote speaker and presenter based on his courses, lectures and research since 1969, which address tangible and intangible heritage, comparative cultural studies and migration of peoples, craft technics and ideas

Conference Participation 2005 - 2018
Dan Paich has presented in Western and Eastern Europe, Turkey, Mediterranean Africa, Russia, Euro Asia, Central Asia, China, Taiwan and Thailand

Published Works

 * Inherited Wisdom Sharing and Contemporary Visitors Ibn Sina Medical and Philosophic Thought as Fulcrum of Transmitted Knowledge (2018)
 * Flight Pass and Ability to Return Human - Bird Relationship - Teamwork - Mythology (2018)
 * Ecology of Mind and Ability to Maintain Relevance of Inter-Dependence of Education, Cognitive Psychology and Inherited Wisdom (2018)
 * Archaic Echoes Personifying as Voluntary and Involuntary Process of Imagination (2018)
 * Exploring Motivations to Build Gathering Places- Five examples of Emblematic Communal Buildings across time and traditions (2018)
 * Change as Inevitable Constant ASGRAD Transformation(2018)
 * Overlapping Views of the Human Body- Reflections on Medical Paradigms of Galen, Ibn-Sīnā (Avicenna) and Paracelsus (2017)
 * Unknown and Interpreted-Exploring the Need to Represent, Understand and Respond (2017)
 * Restorative Function of Opening Mythic Wound - Ancient Traditions and Contemporary Portrayal, Sharing and Releasing (2017)
 * Understanding and Misunderstanding Currents of Modern thought inclusive of transcendence (2017)
 * Displacement - Replacement - Real and Internalized Geography in the Psychology of Migration (2017)
 * Body Included - Social, ritual and expressive aspects of dance (2017)
 * Imagination as Generative Matrix of Reality Experience - Voluntary and Involuntary Processes of Cognition and Cultural Expressions (2017)
 * Confluence, Transmission, Renaming Aspects of the Mediterranean survival, circulation and osmosis of cultural forms (2017)
 * Understanding Ritual Voice in Psychological and Architectural Spaces - Chanted, Sang, Whispered and Inaudibly Uttered (2017)
 * Lives and Text Oral traditions, text fragments, legible poems and personal narratives (2016)
 * Overlapping Views of Human Body Galen - Ibn-Sīnā (Avicenna) -Paracelsus Intangible Bodies within the Body: Memories, Feelings, and Forecasts (2016)
 * Archaic Sound for Our Time (2016)
 * Halka art project (2016)
 * Music as Defining Moment - Tangible and Intangible Influences (2016)
 * Models of Continuity and Crisis of Perseverance - Contemporary Issue vis-à-vis Selected European Paradigms and Overlooked Notions (2016)
 * Image and Sound as Aspects of Seljuk Medicine - Therapeutic Music as Medical and Symbolic Imagery at Divrigi Great Mosque and Hospital (2016)
 * Intangible Coordinate of Gathering Places (2015)
 * Re-Imagining World of Ancient Shepherds (2015)
 * Paradigms of Connecting - Advancement through small spontaneous coalitions of concern people (2015)
 * Tangible and Intangible Influences in Ottoman Culture (2015)
 * Proclamations - Aspirations - Contradictions Towards Cultural History of International Relations (2015)
 * ''Bringing Cave Echoes and Sanctuary Resonances Home - Possible pilgrimage influences as remnants of prehistoric music in folkloric traditions (2015)
 * My Neighbors' Children - Reflections on Possible Curriculum Design for Mutual Care (2015)

Acting
Slobodan Dan Paich is an actor, known for Greater Circulation (2005) and Prozvan je i V-3 (1962).

Artship
Founder Slobodan Dan Paich is a lifetime member per Artship Foundation by-laws. The mission of artship is to offer broad access to the transforming powers of the creative process and to present new opportunities for breakthrough thinking and creative work. Art Ship is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, they collaborate with diverse artists, arts agencies, foundations, and other socially relevant organizations. Art Ships intent is to emancipate Culture Making as a convening force in the re-creation and re-interpretation of the "Community Commons." Our work addresses the current need to reinforce and protect the rights of people to gather and celebrate in public places.