Research associate at the Institute of Ethnomusicology at ZRC SAZU. Lecturer of the course Heritagisation of Folk Music, module Heritage and heritage processes in a critical Perspective
ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 5, 2nd floor
01 4706 272
mojca.kovacic@zrc-sazu.si
Qualifications
2009 PhD in Ethnomusicology, Comparative Study of Ideas and Cultures, University of Nova Gorica,
2002 BA in Music Pedagogy, Academy of Music, University of Ljubljana.
Research interests
folk and popular music practices
Cultural, heritage, and sound policies
Nationalism and music
Music in migration contexts
Language choices in popular music
Sound studies
Affect and music
Other activities
Head of the Institute of Ethnomusicology (2019-);
Member of the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance (ICTMD) (2005-);
National representative at the ICTMD (2011-);
Member of the European Seminar in Ethnomusicology;
Member of KED Folk Slovenia;
Member of the Slovenian Musicological Society;
Member of the Slovenian Ethnological Society;
Expert associate of the Public Fund of the Republic of Slovenia for Cultural Activities (2009-2019);
Lecturer in Introduction to Music Folklore, Academy of Music, University of Ljubljana;
Member of the editorial boards of the international scientific journals Traditiones, Musicologist
Occasional guest editor of the journals Traditiones and Muzikološki zbornik/Musicological Annual;
Editor of the online platform for collections and materials of the Institute of Ethnomusicology Etnomuza, member of the editorial boards of the collections Etnofon, DigGNI, and Folkloristični zvezki;
Kovačič, Mojca, Urša Šivic. 2023. »Migracije nacionalizacije glasbe: od ljudske k narodnozabavni«. Dve domovini: razprave o izseljenstvu 58: 103-123. DOI: 10.3986/2023.2.06.
Kovačič, Mojca. 2023. »From polka dance to polka mass: polka in the (trans-)cultural identity context among the Slovenian diaspora in the USA«. In: AHMEDAJA, Ardian (ed.). Diverging ontologies in music for dancing: European voices V. Wien: Böhlau: 77-94. https://www.vr-elibrary.de/doi/pdf/10.7767/9783205217657
Kovačič, Mojca, Ana Hofman. 2023. »Slovenian Trubači: the economies of affect within and beyond ethno-racialized difference«. V: Hofman, Ana (ed.), et al. Affect’s social lives : post-Yugoslav reflections. 1st ed. Zbirka Kulturni spomin, 10. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU: 109-138. DOI: 10.3986/9789610507291_04
Kovačič, Mojca. 2022. »Zakaj, zakoj, warum, or why?: multilingualism in Austrian Carinthian popular music«. Traditiones 51/2: 119-138. DOI: 10.3986/Traditio2022510206.
Kovačič, Mojca. 2021. »’Kje se kaj začne in kje se kaj neha?’: različni pogledi na manjšinsko etničnost skozi glasbo in ples«. V: Pettan, Svanibor (ed.). Glasba in etnične manjšine : (trans)kulturna dinamika v Sloveniji po letu 1991 = Music and ethnic minorities : (trans)cultural dynamics in Slovenia after the year 1991. Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete: 43-63. https://ebooks.uni-lj.si/ZalozbaUL/catalog/download/293/428/6520?inline=1
Office: ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 2, 4th floor
Ph.: 01 4706486
luksic@zrc-sazu.si
Education
PhD in Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, 1998
MA in Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana 1994
BA in Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, 1989
Academic and research positions
Research advisor, 14. 10. 2010, Znanstveni svet ZRC SAZU
Senior research fellow, 6. 6. 2005, Znanstveni svet ZRC SAZU
Research fellow, 30. 5. 2000, Znanstveni svet ZRC SAZU
Associate professor, Sociology, University of Nova Gorica (first appointment: 26.5. 2008 – 25.5. 2013; second appointment : 11. 7. 2014 – 10. 7. 2019)
Assistant professor, Social and Political Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana (2000 – 2008)
Assistant, Social and Political Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana (1993-2000)
Employment
ZRC SAZU, Slovenian Migration Institute; permanent position (15. 11. 1989 – )
University of Nova Gorica, School of humanities; part time (1. 9. 2008 – )
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences; part time (2004-2006)
Leadership and competences:
1999 – Head of the Slovenian Migration Institute ZRC SAZU
2010 – Director of the international MA study ‘European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations’ at the School of Humanities, University of Nova Gorica
2010 – Consortium committee member of the Europan Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations (Erasmus Mundus programme)
2011- Editor-in-charge of a scientific journal Dve domovini/Two Homelands (SSCI, SCOPUS)
2010 – Member of the Senate of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Nova Gorica
2014- Member of the Scientific Council of Humanities III, University of Nova Gorica
2004 – 2010 Member and vice president of the Board of Directors ZRC SAZU
2005-2013 Consortium committee member of the Joint MA study programme ‘Migration and Intercultural relations’
Project leader
International projects:
2002 – 2005 National coordinator of a Comenius project ‘Migration and Intercultural relations: Challenge for European Schools Today’ (leading partner: Stavanger University College, Norway)
2003 – 2006 National coordinator of a Comenius project ‘Www-supported Learning in Migration/Intercultural Relations – a Joint MA Programme for Collaborative Learning and Cultural Awareness 2005 – 2008 National coordinator of a Comenius project ‘Learning Migration’ (leading partner: Stavanger University College, Norway)
Projects financed by the European Social Fund:
2008 Project leader: Encouraging Intercultural Dialogue through Migration Research (for the Ministry of the Interior)
2009-2011 Project coordinator: Professional Bases, Strategies and Theoretical Frameworks of Education for Intercultural Relations and Active Citizenship (for the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports)
2016-2021 Project leader: Strengthening Educational Staff’s Social and Civic Competences – Only (with) others we are (for the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports)
Bilateral projects with neighbouring countries
2011-2014 National project coordinator: EDUKA – Educating for Diversity (Slovenia-Italy)
National projects
2000 Expert report: ‘Strategy for emigrants’, financed by the governmental Office for Slovenians Abroad
2001 – 2004 Project leader: The Role and the Significance of Women in the Preservation of Cultural Tradition among Emigrants
2009-2010 Project Leader: Equal Opportunities in Slovenian Diplomacy (for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia)
2018-2020 Project Leader : Social, economic and cultural history of the Slovenian emigration 1945-2015
Educational activity:
Norway
2012-2019 Module leader at Faculty of Arts and Education, University of Stavanger, Norway; Study programme “European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations” (Erasmus Mundus programme): Module 1 – Theorising Migration and Integration (2012- 2018); Module 2: Multiculturalizm, Citizenship and Education (2013 – 2018) and Module 3: Contoversies over Multiculturalism (2018-2019).
Slovenia:
1992-2000 University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Education, module: Sociology of education, assistant
1993-1999 University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, module: Civilisations, assistant
1999- 2007 University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, module: Civilisations, module leader
2001-2004 University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Education, module: Sociological aspects of the professional identity of the teaching profession, module leader
2008-2010 University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, module: Culture, globalisation and multiculturalism (graduate level), module leader
2004- 2012 University of Nova Gorica, study programme: Comparative Study of Ideas and Cultures, module: Slovenian emigrants between tradition and modernity, module leader
2006- 2012 University of Nova Gorica, study programme Joint MA in Migration and Intercultural Relations, module: Slovenian emigrants between tradition and modernity, module leader
2012- 2019 Postgraduate School of ZRC SAZU, module: Slovenian expatriates between tradition and Modernity, module leader
Module leader, graduate study programmes at the Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Social Sciences University of Ljubljana:
2005/2006 Department of Slovenian studies, Faculty of Arts: Emigration of Slovenians to Argentina – political economic perspective
2006-2008 Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts: Slovenian emigrants
2007- 2010 Department of History, Faculty of Arts: Politics of migration
2007- 2010 Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts: Slovenian emigrants between tradition and modernity
2010-2012 Faculty of Social Sciences: Multiculturalism and integration
Supervisions:
Supervisions/mentorships at various faculties of the University of Ljubljana, the University of Nova Gorica and the University of Stavanger:
BA thesis: 30 (27 as mentor, 3 as co-mentor)
MA thesis: 7 (6 as mentor, 1 as co-mentor)
PhD dissertations: 5 (4 as mentor, 1 as co-mentor)
Research supervisor at the Slovenian Migration Institute ZRC SAZU to three researchers.
Awards:
Mentor to Maša Mikola, who was awarded Prešernova nagrada(University award) for her BA thesis: Ethnic choice: from Australian Slovenians to Slovenian Australians (Faculty of Social Sciences UL) *Mentor to Miralem Zec, who was awarded Prešernova nagrada (Faculty award) for his BA thesis: Teacher’s (lack of) power when dealing with deviant behaviour in a group: qualitative analysis of selected cases (Faculty of Education UL)
Mentor to Mojca Vah, who was awarded Prešernova nagrada (Faculty award) for her BA thesis: The New Transnational Social Spaces: The impact of Transnationalisation of Space on Habitats of Meaning (Faculty of Social Sciences).
Mentor to Mojca Vah Jevšnik, who received an award for the overall performance during the MA study programme JMMIR at the University of Nova Gorica.
Editor, editorial board:
2008 – 2012 member of the editorial board Thesis Kosova
2010 – editor-in-charge Dve domovini /Two homelands
2014- member of the editorial board book series Thought, society, culture. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang
2018 – member of the editorial board Družboslovne razprave
Membership in expert committees in Slovenia and abroad:
2003-2006 member of the expert core group of the national research field Narodno vprašanje
2004-2006 status of a migration expert at the Ministry of Education and Sports
2006-2011 member of the ARRS team of evaluators, call for papers ‘Knowledge for Safety and Peace’
2005-2012 consortium committee member, Joint Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations (JMMIR)
2010 – consortium committee member, European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations (Erasmus Mundus programme)
2013 – member of the committee for selection of research programme evaluators for social sciences
2013 – member of the team of experts, implementation of the strategy of cooperation between Slovenia and Slovenian emigrants
2015 – member of the ARRS Scientific Research Council for Social Sciences
Membership in international associations:
Society for Slovene Studies
Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism
Association for Teacher Education in Europe
Association of European Migration Institutions
International Sociological Association
Membership in Slovenian associations:
Slovenian Sociological Association
Slovene Anthropological Society
Expert activity with international impact:
2008 Invited by the Ministry of Health as an expert in migration and multiculturalism to give a lecture on the intercultural dialogue at the ‘Horizontal working group on drugs,’ Council of the European Union, 12. 6. 2008.
2008 Invited by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to organise training at the ‘School of Diplomacy’ – Module 5 of the 8th European diplomatic programme, Brdo pri Kranju, 15. – 17. 5. 2008; the training was implemented by myself and the ZRC SAZU research team
2008 Providing a seminar on the intercultural dialogue in education to professors from the former Yugoslavian republic, during Slovenian EU presidency
2011 Invited by the president of the Republic of Slovenia, Danilo Turk, to attend the international conference Living together: combining diversity and freedom in 21st century Europe (Bled 2011)
2011 Introductory lecture at the Parliament of the Republic of Slovenia about integration of immigrants and education
2012 Introductory lecture at the Parliament of the Republic of Slovenia as part of the meeting of Slovenians Abroad.
2015 Economic prospects of the Western Balkans: invited lecture at the European Parliament conference in Ljubljana “What is the (new) European perspective of the Western Balkans?”, 27. XI.2015
LUKŠIČ-HACIN, Marina. Zgodbe in pričevanja : Slovenci na Švedskem. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, 2001.
LUKŠIČ-HACIN, Marina. Ko tujina postane dom : resocializacija in narodna identiteta pri slovenskih izseljencih, (Zbirka Sophia, 1995, 7). Ljubljana: Znanstveno in publicistično središče, 1995.
LUKŠIČ-HACIN, Marina. Refugees as a part of the global socio-political-economic migration triangle of causality. V: ŽAGAR, Igor Ž. (ur.), et al. The disaster of European refugee policy : perspectives from the “Balkan route”. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2018, str. 55-65.
LUKŠIČ-HACIN, Marina. Selitvena dinamika slovenskega prostora v zgodovinski perspektivi. Dve domovini : razprave o izseljenstvu, 2018, št. 48, str. 55-72.
LUKŠIČ-HACIN, Marina. Sociologija mednarodnih selitev in njeni začetki v Sloveniji skozi tematizacije slovenskih izseljencev. V: ŽITNIK SERAFIN, Janja (ur.), KALC, Aleksej (ur.). Raziskovanje slovenskega izseljenstva : vidiki, pristopi, vsebine. 1. izd. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU. 2017, str. 37-48.
LUKŠIČ-HACIN, Marina. Refugee flows and the complexity of social relations : the case of Slovenia. V: ZENNER, Hans-Peter (ur.), ŠELIH, Alenka (ur.). Human rights and refugees, (Nova acta Leopoldina, ISSN 0369-5034, Neue Folge, Nr. 415). Halle (Saale): Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften; Stuttgart: Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft. 2017, neue Folge, nr. 415, str. 31-37.
LUKŠIČ-HACIN, Marina. Theorizing the concept of multiculturalism through Taylor’s ‘politics of recognition’. Dve domovini : razprave o izseljenstvu, 2016, št. 44, str. 79-91.
LUKŠIČ-HACIN, Marina. Izseljevanje Slovencev od devetnajstega stoletja do osamosvojitve Slovenije = Emigration of Slovenians from the nineteenth century to Slovenia’s attainment of independence. Geografija v šoli, 2016, letn. 24, št. 2/3, str. 32-43
LUKŠIČ-HACIN, Marina. Women migrants and gender relations : patriarchy in the time of aleksandrinke. V: MILHARČIČ-HLADNIK, Mirjam (ur.). From Slovenia to Egypt : Aleksandrinke’s trans-Mediterranean domestic workers’ migration and national imagination, (Transkulturelle Perspektiven, Bd. 13). Göttingen: V&R Unipress. cop. 2015, str. 157-171.
LUKŠIČ-HACIN, Marina, TOPLAK, Kristina. Teoretizacija multikulturalizma in etnične ekonomije v luči ohranjanja kulturne dediščine med migranti. Dve domovini : razprave o izseljenstvu, 2012, št. 35, str. 107-117.
LUKŠIČ-HACIN, Marina, MILHARČIČ-HLADNIK, Mirjam. Kulture, civilizacije, nacionalne kulture. V: LUKŠIČ-HACIN, Marina (ur.), MILHARČIČ-HLADNIK, Mirjam (ur.), SARDOČ, Mitja (ur.). Medkulturni odnosi kot aktivno državljanstvo. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU. 2011, str. 23-29.
MILHARČIČ-HLADNIK, Mirjam, LUKŠIČ-HACIN, Marina. Identitete, pripadnosti, identifikacije. V: LUKŠIČ-HACIN, Marina (ur.), MILHARČIČ-HLADNIK, Mirjam (ur.), SARDOČ, Mitja (ur.). Medkulturni odnosi kot aktivno državljanstvo. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU. 2011, str. 31-39.
LUKŠIČ-HACIN, Marina. Teorije, politike in strategije sobivanja v raznolikosti. V: LUKŠIČ-HACIN, Marina (ur.), MILHARČIČ-HLADNIK, Mirjam (ur.), SARDOČ, Mitja (ur.). Medkulturni odnosi kot aktivno državljanstvo. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU. 2011, str. 127-136.
LUKŠIČ-HACIN, Marina. Multikulturalizem kot spoštljivo sobivanje v raznolikosti. V: LUKŠIČ-HACIN, Marina (ur.), MILHARČIČ-HLADNIK, Mirjam (ur.), SARDOČ, Mitja (ur.). Medkulturni odnosi kot aktivno državljanstvo. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU. 2011, str. 147-159.
VAH JEVŠNIK, Mojca, LUKŠIČ-HACIN, Marina. Theorising immigrant/ethnic entrepreneurship in the context of welfare states. Migracijske i etničke teme, 2011, br. 2, str. 249-261
LUKŠIČ-HACIN, Marina. Migracije v teoretskem diskurzu. V: ŠTIH, Peter (ur.), BALKOVEC, Bojan (ur.). Migracije in slovenski prostor od antike do danes, (Zbirka Zgodovinskega časopisa, ISSN 1408-3531, 39). Ljubljana: Zveza zgodovinskih društev Slovenije. 2010, str. 8-23
LUKŠIČ-HACIN, Marina. Večkulturno državljanstvo in večetični patriotizem?!. V: GABER, Slavko (ur.), et al. Za manj negotovosti : aktivno državljanstvo, zdrav življenjski slog, varovanje okolja. V Ljubljani: Pedagoška fakulteta. 2009, str. 59-74.
VAH JEVŠNIK, Mojca, LUKŠIČ-HACIN, Marina. Contemporary implications of multiculturalism policies for European welfare states. Dve domovini : razprave o izseljenstvu, 2008, št. 28, str. 7-21.
LUKŠIČ-HACIN, Marina. Tematizacija pojmov povratnik in povratništvo. V: LUKŠIČ-HACIN, Marina (ur.). Spet doma? : povratne migracije med politiko, prakso in teorijo, (Migracije, 11). Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU. 2006, str. 133-144.
Institute for Slavic Studies, Vienna University, Austria (2013/14, 2014/15).
Associate Director of the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (September 2003 – January 2005);
Secretary of the Programme Council of the Forum of Slavic Cultures (January-September 2006);
Associate Dean for International Co-operation and Development UP FHŠ (February 2006 – April 2012);
Chair of the Dept. of Slovenian Studies UP FHŠ (October 2008 – October 2012);
Member of the Council of the Slovenian Theatre Institute (2009-2014);
Member of the Editorial Board of the intercultural literature book series Pont Annales (Koper, 2012-);
Member of the Committee for Performing Arts at the Ministry of Culture of the Rep. of Slovenia (since 2014).
Awards:
Decoration Chevalier de l’Ordre national des palmes académiques by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of France (2011);
Faculty-level Prešeren Award for B. A. at the Department of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory (1995).
Contemporary Tragedy : the Tragic Subject in B.-M. Koltès, S. Pollock and D. Greig, (Bibliothèque de Littérature générale et comparée, 130). Paris: Honoré Champion, 2015;
Tragedy as the ethical pointer of the contemporary world. V: Henriques, Bruno M., Camões, José, Almeida, Maria João (ur.). Théâtre : esthétique et pouvoir. Tome 2, XXe et XXIe siècles. Paris: Éditions Le Manuscrit. 2016, str. 397-416.
Medkulturnost v luči literarne vede. Slavica litteraria, ISSN 1212-1509, 2016, ročník 19, číslo 1, str. 7-16.
The Re-Appearance of Tragedy in Contemporary Drama. V: JOCHMANOVÁ, Andrea (ur.). Current issues in performance analysis : proceedings of the International Theatrological Conference (Theatre Faculty of Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts Brno, 21-22 November 2014) : in memoriam prof. Ph.D.r. Bořivoj Srba, DrSc.. 1st ed. Brno: The Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts. 2017, str. 51-59.
Rozwój współczesnego systemu organizacji teatrów w Słowenii. V: PRYKOWSKA-MICHALAK, Karolina (ur.). System organizacji teatrów w Europie. Warszawa: Instytut Teatralny im. Zbigniewa Raszewskiego. 2016, str. 251-261.
Zofia, czyli mądrość : Simona Semenič i współczesna dramaturgia słoweńska. Dialog, feb. 2016, 61/2 (711), str. 217-225;
O utopiji in sreči ali zakaj ju človek (še) vedno išče?. V: Pagon, Neda (ur.), Pagon, Saša (ur.), Borak, Neven. Utopije – še vedno : zbornik o utopijah v 21. stoletju. Ljubljana: Studia humanitatis, 2015, str. 163-179, 510;
Tragedija kot pozicijski vektor novega sveta. Dialogi 2014, 50/1-2, 96-107;
“Avangardistički divlji lovac” : dvojnik avangardnog pjesnika. V: Kovač, Zvonko, Kozak, Krištof Jacek, Pregelj, Barbara (ur.). Obzorja jezika – obnebja jezika : poezija Tomaža Šalamuna. Zagreb: FF Press, 2014, 65-77;
Orientalističeskij vzgljad na Rossiju v slovenskoj putevoj literature. V: Lipatov, Aleksandr Vladimirovič (ur.), Sozina, Julija Anatol´evna (ur.). Rossija i russkij čelovek v vosprijatii slavjanskih narodov. Moskva: Centr knigi Rudomino, 2014, 192-217;
“Tekučaja sovremennost´” slovenskoj dramaturgii : raspad mira po merke čeloveka. Vestnik Evropy, 2013, tom 37, 204-215;
With Pregelj, Barbara. The reception of Federico García Lorca in Slovenia. IberoSlavica, 2011, 92-100;
“Pod egido ruskega orla” ali orientalistični izleti A. Aškerca. Primerjalna književnost 2011, 34/3, 153-172;
Politika književnosti i međukulturalnost. Sarajevske sveske 2011, 32/33, 151-162;
Privlačna fatalnost : subjekt i tragedija, (Biblioteka Književne nauke, umetnost i kultura, Kolekcija Znak). Beograd: Službeni glasnik, 2010;
Contemporary Slovenian drama between postmodernism and neo-realism. V: Bayerdörfer, Hans-Peter (ur.). Vom Drama zum Theatertext? : Zur Situation der Dramatik in Ländern Mitteleuropas, (Theatron, Zv. 52). Tübingen: M. Niemeyer, 2007, 103-108;
Nine circles of hell or the freeing of comedy. Maske und Kothurn, ISSN 0025-4606, 2005, jg. 51, h. 4, str. 41-50;
Research Adviser, Institute of Slovenian Ethnology, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and Profesor at Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor
Office: ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 5/II
01 4706 294
maja.godina@zrc-sazu.si
Office hours: Wednesday 13-15
Education:
B.Sc. Ethnology and Philosophy (University of Ljubljana, 1986)
M.Sc. Ethnology (University of Ljubljana, 1990)
Ph.D. Ethnology (University of Ljubljana, 1995)
Fieldwork:
Slovenia: Styria (Maribor, Celje, Prlekija, Slovenske Gorice, Dravsko in Ptujsko polje, Pohorje, Savinjska dolina), Prekmurje, Koroška, Kras, Bohinj…
Italy – Friuli Venetia Giulia
Research in Serbia, Hungary, Poland, Estonia, Ireland.
Research projects:
Protected Areas along the Slovenian-Hungarian Border. Challenges of Cooperation and Sustainable Development (2017―2020);
ALPFOODWAY: a cross-disciplinary approach to food cultural heritage, Interreg Alpine Space (2016―2019);
Food Culture Within Social Changes of 20thand the Beginning of 21stCentury
(Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb) (2007― 2013);
Srbi in Slovenci: izseljenci, manjšina, kolektivne identitete in spomini/ Serbs and Slovenes: emigrants, minorities, collective identities and memories (2011―2013);
Tradicija in njeni po‐ustvarjalci/Tradition and its po-creators (2005―2008);
ETNOFOLK ― Preservation and Enhancement of Folk Cultural Heritage (European Territorial Co-operation, Central Europe Program) ( 2011―2014);
Etnološke raziskave kulture v Sloveniji in v zamejstvu/ Ethnological research in culture in Slovenia and abroad (1999―2003);
Etnološke in folkloristične raziskave v slovenskem in evropskem kulturnem prostoru/ Ethnological and folklore research in the Slovenian and European cultural space (2003―2008);
Preučevanje kulturne ustvarjalnosti na Slovenskem/Study of cultural creativity in Slovenia (1988―1995).
Research interests:
Food culture
Urban Ethnology
Material Culture
German Population in Slovenia
Industrial Heritage
History of Ethnology
Ethnological Methodology
Research Student, Department of Ethnology, Karl University Prague (1989);
Research Student, Department of Ethnology, University of v Łodz (1990);
Ph.D. Student and Researcher, Institute of Ethnology and Institute of Economic and Social History, Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster (1991–1993);
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Ethnology and Institute of Economic and Social History,
Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster (1997);
Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Irish Folklore, Dublin (2007);
Visiting Professor, Department of Irish Folklore, Dublin (2010);
Visiting Research Fellow, Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu (2011);
Visiting Research Fellow,Department of Ethnology and cultural Anthropolgy, University of Łodz (2014);
Visiting Professor, Institut fürempirische Kulturwissenschaften/ Fach Kulturanthropologie/Volkskunde, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (2017).
Drugo:
Member of the Committee for the Study of National Minorities of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (1996-1998);
Organizer of the conference of the International Commission for Ethnological Food Research (ICEFR) in Slovenia in 2000, in cooperation withSIEF;
Member of the editorial board of the International ethnological bibliography DEMOS;
Editor-in-chief Traditiones;
Member of the Coordination Committee of the Historical Seminar of the ZRC SAZU;
Member of the Editorial board of Etnolog magazine;
Member of the Editorial board Bealoideas. Dublin: Folklore Society of Ireland;
Member of the Editorial Board of the Glasnik Ethnographic Institute, SANU, Belgrade;
Member of the Presidency of the International Commission of European Food History (ICREFH);
Member of the Scientific Council of ZRC SAZU;
An invited reviewer for the field of ethnology at the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAV);
Member of the ARRS Scientific Council for Humanities;
Head of Research Station ZRC Maribor and Research Centers ZRC Prekmurje (2010-2016);
Vice President of the International Commission for Ethnological Food Research at the International organization of ethnologists and folklorists of SIEF.
Godina Golija, M. 2017. Novi Maribor. Maribor: Založba Premzl.
Godina Golija, M. 2016. Povednost materialnega: slovenske praznične jedi in Slovenci v Srbiji.
Glasnik Etnografskog instituta, 64, [sv.] 1, str. 65–75.
Godina Golija M. et. al. 2016. Taste of Maribor. Maribor: Višja strokovna šola za gostinstvo in turizem.
Godina Golija M. et. al. 2015. Maribor in Mariborčani. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC.
Godina Golija, M. 2015. The impact of weather on rhythms and structure of meals in Slovenia. V: Becker, K. (ur.), Moriniaux, V. (ur.), Tabeaud, M. (ur.). L’alimentation et le temps qu’il fait /Food and weather. Paris: Hermann: 329–338.
Godina Golija, M. 2015.Die dingliche Welt der Marburger Deutschen von der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg. V: Heppner, H. (ur.), Miladinović Zalaznik, M. (ur.). Provinz als Denk- und Lebensform: der Donau-Karpatenraum im langen 19. Jahrhundert. Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang: 91–107.
Godina Golija, M. 2014. Hrana in praznovanja: meso in mesne jedi v prazničnih jedilnih obrokih na Slovenskem. Etnolog 24 (75): 59–79.
Godina Golija, M. 2014. Potica in njene zgodbe: Slovenci v Srbiji in simbolni pomen hrane. Dve domovini, 39: 55–66.
Godina Golija, M. 2012. Contemporary appropriations of culinary tradition in Slovenia. Traditiones 41 (2): 91–104.
Godina Golija, M. 2011. Hunger and misery: the influence of the First World War on the diet of Slovenian civilians. V: Zweiniger-Bargielowska, I. (ur.). Food and war in twentieth century Europe. Farnham: Ashgate: 85–97.
Godina Golija, M. 2011.Slovenia. V: Albala, K. (ur.). Food cultures of the world encyclopedia. Santa Barbara; Denver; Oxford: Greenwood, vol. 4: 339–346.
Godina Golija, M. 2006. Prehranski pojmovnik za mlade. Maribor: Aristej.
Godina Golija, M. 2004. The influence of cookbooks on food culture in Slovenia in the nineteenth century and at the beginning of the twentieth century. V: Lysaght, P. (ur.). Changing tastes: food culture and the processes of industrialization. Basel: Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Volkskunde; Dublin: Department of Irish Folklore, University College: 191–197.
Godina Golija, M. 2003. Food culture in Slovene urban inns and restaurants between the end of the nineteenth century and World War II. V: Scholliers, P. (ur.), Jacobs, M.Eating out in Europe : picnics, gourmet dining and snacks since the late eighteenth century. Oxford; New York: Berg: 125–135.
Godina Golija, M. 1996. Prehrana v Mariboru v dvajsetih in tridesetih letih 20. stoletja. Maribor: Obzorja.
Godina Golija, M. 1992. Iz mariborskih predmestij: o življenju in kulturi mariborskih delavcev v letih od 1919 do 1941. Maribor: Obzorja.
Godina Golija, M. 1986. Maribor 1919-1941: oris družabnega življenja. Maribor: Obzorja.
Member of the Academia Europaea and Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, a Principal Research Associate at the ZRC SAZU Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies, and Professor of Slovenian Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Ljubljana and Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU
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Education
1993, June 15 – PhD Literary Studies, University of Ljubljana.
1990, January 19 – MA Slovenian Literature, Faculty of Letters, University of Ljubljana.
1985, March 14 – BA Slovenian and Comparative Literature, Faculty of Letters, University of Ljubljana.
Additional training
1996, June – Postdoctoral stay, University of München.
1989/90 (summer semester) – Postgraduate courses, University of Tübingen.
Employment, positions
2011–2020 – Head of the ZRC SAZU Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies.
Since 2007 – Full Professor of Slovenian Literature, Department of Slovenian Studies, University of Ljubljana.
since 2006 – Principal Research Associate, The Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies, ZRC SAZU
2002–07 – Associate Professor of Literary Theory and Slovenian Literature, Department of Slovenian Studies, University of Ljubljana.
2001–06 – Senior Research Associate, ZRC SAZU.
1996–2001 – Research Associate, Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Sciences, ZRC SAZU.
1994–2002 – Assistant Professor of Literary Theory and Slovenian Literature, Department for Slavic Languages and Literatures, Faculty of Letters, University of Ljubljana.
1986–94 – Teaching Assistant, Department for Slavic Languages and Literatures, Faculty of Letters, University of Ljubljana.
Visiting professor
2009 –Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
2006 –Zagreb University, Croatia.
Research interests
Literary and cultural theory, comparative literature (intertextuality, literary discourse, cultural identity, literary field, systems theory, world literature studies, peripheral/minor literatures, literary geography), European Romanticism, Slovenian literature, East-Central European literatures, modernism and neo-avant-gardes.
(Co-)organization of international conferences
2019 – From May 1968 to November 1989: Transformations of the World, Literature and Theory / Od maja 1968 do novembra 1989: transformacije sveta, literature in teorije (co-organizer), ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana.
2013 – Perspectivizing World Literature, a panel, 128th Convention of the MLA, Boston.
2012 – The Spatial Turn in Literary Studies / Prostorski obrat v literarni vedi, (co-organizer), international colloquium of the Slovenian Comparative Literature Association, Lipica.
2011 – Cultural Saints of the European Nation States, (co-organizer), a panel, 4th Congress of the REELC/ENCLS, Skopje & Ohrid.
2010 – Knjiga: ekonomija kulturnih prostorov / The book: An Economy of Cultural Spaces (co-organizer), REELC/ENCLS, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana.
2009 – Esej in singularnost / The Essay and Singularity (co-organizer), Ljubljana, Slovenian Comparative Literature Association and ZRC SAZU.
2008 – Responding to Cosmopolitanism: The New Identities of Literary Theory (co-organizer), ICLA Committee on Literary Theory International Colloquium, Ljubljana
2007 – Comparative Literature in the 20th Century (co-organizer), ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana.
2005 – Hybridizing Theory and Literature (co-organizer, with Jelka Kernev Štrajn), Slovenian Comparative Literature Association, Lipica, Slovenia.
2002 – How to Write Literary History Today? (co-organizer, with Darko Dolinar), ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana.
2000 – Puškin/Prešeren (co-organizer), Lomonosov State University, Moscow.
2000 – The Romantic Epic Poem (organizer), University of Ljubljana.
1995 – Bakhtin and the Humanities (co-organizer), University of Ljubljana.
Guest lectures at foreign universities
München (1996), Budapest (2000, 2021), Hamburg (2003), Prague (2005, 2017), Zagreb (2005), Reykjavik (2010), Vienna (2012), Ghent (2014), Novi Sad (2014), České Budějovice (2015), Granada (2016), Luxembourg (2017), Graz (2017), Institute for World Literature at Harvard University (2020), Gour Banga (2020), Bratislava (2023), Nitra (2023).
Leadership of national research projects and programs (funded by Slovenian Research Agency)
Investigations into Literary History, Literary Theory and Methodology. 2009–14, 2015–21, 2022–27.
May ’68 in Literature and Theory: The Last Season of Modernism in France, Slovenia, and the World, 2018–21.
The Space of Slovenian Literary Culture: Literary History and the GIS-Based Spatial Analysis. 2011–14.
The “Slovenian” World Literature: Locating World Literature in a National Literary System. 2010–13.
Coordination of bilateral exchange/research projects
2018–20 – Coordinator of the Slovenian-Serbian Research Project “Slovenian and Serbian Student Movements in 1968: Avant-garde Practices in Theory and Literature”
2010 – Coordinator of the Icelandic – Slovenian Exchange Project “Icelandic and Slovenian Cultural Saints,” EEA Grants, Norway Grants (partner institution: University of Iceland)
2007–08 – Coordinator of the Slovenian-Czech Research Project “Comparative Studies of Czech and Slovenian Literary Fields in Central European Context” (partner institution: Masaryk University, Brno)
2003–05 – Coordinator of Slovenian-Czech Research Project “National Literatures, Central Europe, Europe, and the World” (partner institution: Masaryk University, Brno)
2001–03 – Coordinator of the Slovenian-Czech Research Project “Literary Theory and Comparative Literature” (partner institution: Masaryk University, Brno)
Academic leadership, supervision, administration
Since 2025 – Member of the ICLA Committee on Digital Comparative Literature
2019–25 – Member of the Executive Committee of the ICLA/AILC
Since 2017 – Member of Advisory Board of the Institute for World Literature at Harvard University
2013–17 – Member of the Section Committee for Literary and Theatrical Studies, Academia Europaea, London.
2008–14 – Member of the ICLA Committee on Literary Theory
2007–11 – Member of the Executive Committee of the REELC/ENCLS
2002–06 – President of the Slovenian Comparative Literature Association
1998–2002 – Vice-president of the Slovenian Comparative Literature Association
Supervision of junior researchers
Jernej Habjan, 2008–2010
Marijan Dović, 2000–2005
Supervision of doctoral theses
Jernej Kusterle (co-mentor), 2022
Luka Vidmar (co-mentor), 2009
Vita Žerjal-Pavlin, 2007
Barbara Zorman, 2007
Marijan Dović, 2005
Alojzija Zupan Sosič, 2000
Editorial boards
Since 2017 – the journal Arcadia (Berlin in Boston: de Gruyter)
Since 2014 – the book series Thought, society, culture (Frankfurt/Main: P. Lang)
Since 2012 – Literaturna misal (Sofia)
Since 2011 – Context (Skopje), Slavica litteraria (Brno)
Since 2004 –co-editor of the book series Studia litteraria (Ljubljana)
Since 1999 – Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal (Purdue UP)
1997–2011 – the journal Slavistična revija (Ljubljana)
Since 1997 – the journal Primerjalna književnost (Ljubljana)
1989–96 – journals Literatura, Jezik in slovstvo (Ljubljana)
Awards
2025 – Anton Ocvirk prize for the best monograph in comparative literature
2023 – Associate member of the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts
2018 – Anton Ocvirk prize for the best monograph in comparative literature
2014 – “Golden Sign of ZRC SAZU” for outstanding research achievements
2012 – Member of Academia Europaea
1991 – Kidrič prize for young researchers for the book Imaginarij Krsta v slovenski literaturi.
Single-authored books (selection)
Zadnja sezona modernizma in maj ’68: svet, Pariz, Ljubljana (The Last Season of Modernism and May ’68). Ljubljana: Literarno-umetniško društvo Literatura, 2023.
Worlding a Peripheral Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Hibridni žanri: Študije o križancih izkustva, mišljenja in literature (Hybrid Genres: Crossing Literature with Thinking and Experience). Ljubljana: LUD Literatura, 2017.
Prešernovska struktura in svetovni literarni sistem (The Prešernian Structure and the World Literary System). Ljubljana: LUD Literatura, 2012.
Literary Studies in Reconstruction: An Introduction to Literature. Frankfurt a/M. etc.: P. Lang, 2011.
History and Poetics of Intertextuality. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue UP, 2008.
Literarna veda v rekonstrukciji (Literary Studies in Reconstruction). Ljubljana: LUD Literatura, 2006. (Novi pristopi). – Serbian translation: Nauka o književnosti u rekonstrukciji. Transl. Miljenka Vitezović. Beograd: Službeni glasnik, 2011.
Vezi besedila (Textual Ties). Ljubljana: LUD Literatura, 2000. (Novi pristopi).
Domači Parnas v narekovajih: Parodija in slovenska književnost (Domestic Parnassus in Quotation Marks: The Parody and Slovenian Literature). Ljubljana: LUD Literatura, 1997. (Novi pristopi).
Edited books (selection)
Od intimizma do reizma: spremembe literarnega subjekta (From Intimism to Reism: Transformations of the Literary Subject). Ed. Marko Juvan. Ljubljana: ZRC, 2025.
Med majem ’68 in novembrom ’89: transformacije sveta, literature in teorije (From May 1968 to November 1989: Transformations of the World, Literature and Theory). Ed. Marko Juvan. Ljubljana: ZRC, 2021.
Prostori slovenske književnosti (Spaces of Slovenian Literature). Ed. Marko Juvan. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, 2016.
Svetovne književnosti in obrobja (World Literatures and Peripheries). Ed. Marko Juvan. Ljubljana: ZRC, 2012.
Writing Literary History: Selected perspectives from Central Europe. Eds. Darko Dolinar, Marko Juvan. Frankfurt a/M. etc.: P. Lang, 2006.
Peer-reviewed articles and chapters (selection, since 2015)
Irony and sentiment in the literary field: Prešeren’s sonnets and the Slovenian alphabet-censorship war. Neohelicon: acta Comparationis litterarum universarum. 2023, vol. 50. ISSN 0324-4652. DOI: 10.1007/s11059-023-00714-9.
Wordliness, worlds, and worlding of literature. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory. 2022, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 5-22. DOI: 10.24193/mjcst.2022.13.01.
Das Welten einer kleinen Literatur und Asymmetrien des Übersetzens : der slowenische Nationaldichter France Prešeren und sein Weg in die Welt. In: Ponzi, Mauro, and Jeanne E. Glesener (eds.). Weltliteratur und kleine Literaturen. Würzburg: Königshausen & Newmann, 2022. Pp. 95-112.
Censorship and the literary field: Kopitar, Čop, and Krajnska čbelica. Slavica Tergestina. 2021, vol. 26, 1, pp. 244-267, DOI: 10.13137/2283-5482/32516.
Literature, theory and politics of the long ’68: the last season of modernism and peripherality. European review, 2020. doi: 10.1017/S1062798720000848.
The Invisible Other?: Slovene comparative literature and Yugoslav literature. In: Marčetić, Adrijana (ed.), et al. Jugoslovenska književnost: prošlost, sadašnjost i budućnost jednog spornog pojma = Yugoslav Literature: the Past, Present and Future of a Contested Notion. Beograd: Čigoja štampa. 2019, pp. 63-78.
Ein- und Mehrsprachigkeit literarischer Systeme. In: Leben, Andrej and Koron, Alenka (eds.). Literarische Mehrsprachigkeit im österreichischen und slowenischen Kontext, Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto. 2019, pp. 29-46.
Peripheries and the world system of literature: a Slovenian perspective. In: Dehoux, Amaury (ed.). Centres et périphéries de la littérature mondiale : une pensée connectée de la diversité. Saint-Denis: Connaissances et Savoirs, 2018, pp. 91-118.
The charisma of theory. In: Mihailescu, Calin Andrei and Yokota-Murakami, Takayuki (eds.). Policing literary theory, (Textxet, ISSN 0927-5754, vol. 86). Leiden; Boston: Brill Rodopi. 2018, pp. 89-110.
Perspectivizing world literature. Literaturna mis”l, ISSN 0324-0495, 2018, vol. 61, issue 1, pp. 3-19.
Literature and the Politics of Denial: Slovenian Novels on »The Erasure«. Claiming the Dispossession: The Politics of Hi/storytelling in Post-imperial Europe. Ed. Vladimir Biti. Leiden: Brill, 2017, pp.194-223.
The aesthetics and politics of belonging: national poets between “Vernacularism” and “Cosmopolitanism”. Arcadia : Zeitschrift fur vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, ISSN 0003-7982, 2017, vol. 52, iss. 1, pp. 10-28.
From political theater in Yugoslav socialism to political performance in global capitalism: the case of Slovenian Mladinsko theater. European review, ISSN 1474-0575, feb. 2016, vol. 24, issue 1, pp. 72-82.
The nation between the epic and the novel: France Prešeren’s The Baptism on the Savica as a compromise “world text”. Canadian review of comparative literature, ISSN 0319-051X, 2015, vol. 42, iss. 4, pp. 382-395.
From spatial turn to GIS-mapping of literary cultures. European review, ISSN 1062-7987, Feb. 2015, vol. 23, issue 1, str. 81-96.
In the background of the ‘alphabet war’: Slovenian-Czech interliterary relations and world literature. Interlitteraria, ISSN 1406-0701, 2015, vol. 20, suppl. 1, pp. 148-158.
