Toplak – Podiplomska šola ZRC SAZU

Asst. Prof. Kristina Toplak, Ph.D.

Research Associate, Slovenian Migration Institute, ZRC SAZU

ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 2, 1. Floor, Ljubljana; ZRC SAZU, Research Station Maribor, Kajuhova ulica 12, Maribor
02/ 421 31 55
kristina.toplak@zrc-sazu.si

Education:

B.Sc. in Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology and Art history (University of Ljubljana, 2002)
Ph.D. in Ethnology (University in Ljubljana, 2008)

Fieldwork:

Australia, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, study of Slovenian Artistic Practices, 1 Month (2002)
Argentina, Buenos Aires, Mendoza, Bariloche, Cordoba, study of Slovenian Artistic Practices, 3 Months (2003)
Argentina, Buenos Aires, study of Slovenian Artistic Practices and other immigrants, 3 Months (2005/2006)
Germany, Berlin, Slovenian immigrants, 2 Weeks (2005)
Argentina, Buenos Aires, study of Artistic Practices, 1 Month (2009)
Norway, Stavanger, grant, study of Artistic Practices, 3 Months (2010)

Research Interests:

Cultural and artistic practices;
Creativity and migration;
Labour mobility and Labour migration;
Return migration;
Material culture;
South America.

Main visiting appointments

Research Scholar, University of Stavanger, Norway (2010)

Other

Editor in Chief, AEMI Journal (2020-2023)
Co-Editor in Chief, Dve domovini / Two Homelands, ZRC SAZU (2024-)
Member of the Panel of Experts, ARIS (2026)
Field Editor NSBL (2016-)
Guest Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Maribor (2016-2022, 2025)
Member of the Slovenian Ethnological Society
Member of EASA
Member of SIEF

Selected publications

Toplak, K. 2023. Intra-EU cross-border workers in the time of COVID-19 movement restrictions : cross-border and posted workers from Slovenia. In: VAH JEVŠNIK, Mojca (Ed.), TOPLAK, Kristina (Ed.). Further discussions on labour mobility in the EU. 1st ed. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, pp. 103-125.
Toplak, K. 2021. Med ustvarjalnostjo in migracijami: biografski portret umetnice in begunke Bare Remec. Dve domovini/Two Homelands: razprave o izseljenstvu. 2021, 53, pp. 45-61. https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/twohomelands/article/view/9530/8789, DOI: 10.3986/dd.2021.1.04.
Toplak, K. 2011. Zwischen den Kunstwelten von Buenos Aires und Ljubljana : die Pluralisierung von Ideen, kulturellen Praktiken und Kunstformen. In: MARINELLI-KÖNIG, Gertraud (Ed.), PREISINGER, Alexander (Ed.). Zwischenräume der Migration : über die Entgrenzung von Kulturen und Identitäten. Bielefeld: Transcript, pp. 249-267. Kultur und soziale Praxis.
Toplak, K. 2008. Lokalne, nacionalne in globalne percepcije umetnostnih svetov. Slovenci v Buenos Airesu. Traditiones: zbornik Inštituta za slovensko narodopisje. 2008, vol. 37, 1, pp. 135-153.
Toplak, K. 2008. “Buenas artes”: ustvarjalnost Slovencev in njihovih potomcev v Buenos Airesu. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, 220 pp., ilustr. Migracije, 16.
Toplak, K. 2003. From refugees to immigrants: the challenges of Slovenian resettlement to Argentina after World War II. Dve domovini/Two Homelands: razprave o izseljenstvu, 58, pp. 191-209. https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/twohomelands/article/view/13211/11550, DOI: 10.3986/dd.2023.2.10.