Golež Kaučič – Podiplomska šola ZRC SAZU

Professor Marjetka Golež Kaučič, Ph.D.

Lead Research Associate, Institute of Ethnomusicology, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Office: ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 5/II/202
01 4706 266
Marjetka.Golez-Kaucic@zrc-sazu.si
Office hours: first Wednesday in every month 12-13

Education:

BA in Slovenian language and comparative literature, 1986
Master’s degree in Slovenian Literature, 1989
Ph.D. in Literary Science, 1994

Employment:

Institute of Ethnomusicology ZRC SAZU, 1986-,
Head of the Institute, 1994-2015
Research advisor, 2004-

Research interests:

folklore studies, folk song, ballad, folk heritage, women in folklore and literature
literary studies; intertextuality,
contemporary poetry, narrative, drama,
zoofolkloristics, critical animal studies, ecocritics

Editor:

from 1992 is one of the editors of the extensive corpus “Slovenian Folk Songs” (general editor of Volume 4 and 5 – 1998-2007),
editor of the two of series of scientific monographs:
Folklore studies (2012- )
Volumes in Folklore Studies (2013-).
Member of Editorial Board of journal Traditiones and guest editor in years 2018, 2021, 2024
Invited editor of the publication What to do with folklore? BASIS, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2016; Invited editor of Folklore.ee., 2016
Editor of monograph Animals in Focus, 2025

Main visiting appointments:

Researcher, Institut für MusikVorschung and Volksliedwerk, Vienna, 1988
Visiting Professor, University of Glasgow (Dumfries) in University of Edinburgh, 2006
Visiting Professor, Institut for Albanology, Pristhine, Kosovo, 2014
She organized 27th International Ballad Conference (KfV) 1997; international conference What to Do with Folklore? 2009, Ljubljana. Panels of SIEF conferences 2008 Derry, 2011 Lizbona in Zagreb 2015, Göttingen 2017,panel at American Folklore Society Conference Santa Fe, 2014.
In summer semester 2016/2017 she was guest professor at the University of Trieste and was teaching the course Slovenian literature I,II.

Work in commissions:

President of Kommmision für Volkdichutng (2020 – 2028),
Vice president of Kommmision fur Volkdichutng (2002 – ),
member of he SIEF (Société Internationale d’ Ethnologie et de Folklore) presidency (2004 – 2011) now member
member of the Academic Council of the GNI,
member of the Slovene Ethnological Society (SED),
member of the editorial board of Traditiones,
member of the Association of Slovenian researchers,
member of the Association Slovenska matica,
member of Commission for European language award 2007-2015
she was appointed in 2006 by the Ministry of Higher Education and Science for an external evaluator (from 2008-2015 she evaluated 9 international project and two centres of excellence).

Projects, selection:

From 1996 onwards she has been the principal investigator (PI) of 18 scientific projects and of 4 scientific programs.
She is PI of the research program: P6-0111 Folklore and Ethnological Research on Slovenian Folk Culture (1999 – 2003; 2004-2008; 2009-2013; 2014-2018),
J6-3129 Misliti živali: tranformativni vidiki raziskav živali v folklori, literaturi in kulturi 1.10.2021 – 30.9.2025,
J7-9426 Misliti folkloro: folkloristične, etnološke in računske perspektive in pristopi k narečju 1.7.2018 – 30.6.2022,
V5―1033 / Click to homeland: multimedia presentation of Slovenian emigrants’ folk cultural heritage on the web, 1.10.2010―30.9.2012,
J6―0145 EthnoCatalogue: creating semantic descriptions of Slovene folk song and music based melodic and metro-rythmic analysis, 1.2.2008―30.1.2011
J6―9181 Raziskave žanrskega, tipološkega in strukturnega opredeljevanja folklornega gradiva/ Research of the genre, typological, and structural definition of folklore material, 1.7.2007―30.6.2010,
V2―0216 ETNOMUZA: ETHNOMUSE: multimedia digital archive of slovenian folk music and folk dance culture, 1.10.2006―30.9.2008
J6―7005 Researching the bearers of folk and cultural phenomena, 1.9.2005―31.8.2008.

Supervisor (mentor) of the following postgraduate students:

Rebeka Kunej, Ph.D. 2007; Mojca Kovačič, Ph.D. 2009; Marjeta Pisk, Ph.D. 2012; Vladka Tucovič, Master’s degree 2009; Jerneja Vrabič, Ph.D., 2016; Tadej Kralj, Ph.D. 2021

Golež Kaučič, Marjetka. Težavna jezikovna dediščina ali različne identifikacije z rezijanščino in različno kulturno dediščino Rezije. Ethnologica Dalmatica. 2025, vol. 32, str. 41-64.
Golež Kaučič, M. Home pig slaughter, or, the redefinition of tradition and the industrial holocaust. V: GOLEŽ KAUČIČ, Marjetka (ur.), BABIČ, Saša (ur.). Animals in focus = Živali v žarišču. 1. izd. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2025. Str. 114-166,
Golež Kaučič, M. The dog in film : from reality into fiction. V: UVANOVIĆ, Željko (ur.), MARJANIĆ, Suzana (ur.). The lives of animals in words and images. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2025. Str. [200]-218.
Golež Kaučič, M. Prepoznavanje živali kot subjektov skozi osrediščeni pogled = Recognising animals as subjects through a focalised view. V: GOLEŽ KAUČIČ, Marjetka (ur.), BABIČ, Saša (ur.). Animals in focus = Živali v žarišču. 1. izd. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2025. Str. 7-30.
Golež Kaučič, M. »Človek je najhujša zver« : živali v folklori, literaturi in kulturi. 1. izd. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2023. Zbirka Folkloristika, 11.
Golež Kaučič, M. Home pig slaughter, or, the redefinition of tradition and the industrial holocaust. V: GOLEŽ KAUČIČ, Marjetka (ur.), BABIČ, Saša (ur.). Animals in focus = Živali v žarišču. 1. izd. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2025. Str. 114-166.
Golež Kaučič, M. The dog in film : from reality into fiction. V: UVANOVIĆ, Željko (ur.), MARJANIĆ, Suzana (ur.). The lives of animals in words and images. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2025. Str. [200]-218.
Golež Kaučič, M. Animals in focus : creative and social imagination. Traditiones : zbornik Inštituta za slovensko narodopisje. 2024, letn. 53, št. 1, str. 7-23.
Brooks Pribac, T., Golež Kaučič, M. Zoofolkloristics : imagination as a critical component. Animals. Mar. 2024, vol. 14, issue 6, [art. no.] 928, str. 1-18.
Golež Kaučič, Marjetka. Kočevarske in slovenske balade : kulturno in jezikovno prežemanje. V: MORIC, Anja (ur.). Pesemsko izročilo Kočevske : Adolf Hauffen: nemški jezikovni otok na Kočevskem. Zgodovina in narečje, življenjske razmere, šege in navade, pripovedke, pravljice in pesmi. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, 2024. Str. 517-557, 614-615.
Golež Kaučič, M. Pes v folklori. V: ŠKOFIC, Jožica (ur.), SNOJ, Marko. Imena slovenskih psov. 1. izd. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2023. Str. 63-73.
Golež Kaučič, M.. The Slovenian ballad : from origin to transformation. Ritsumeikan gengo bunka kenkyū. Feb. 2022, vol. 33, no. 3, str. 189-208.
Golež Kaučič, M. A multi-species world in the poetry of Alenka Jovanovski and Vesna Liponik. Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne. 2022, nr. 22, str. 161-180.
Golež Kaučič, M. From racism to speciesism : the question of freedom of the other in the works of J. M. Coetzee and Jure Detela. V: HERRERA-SOBEK, Maria (ur.), LOMELÍ, Francisco A. (ur.), KIRSCHNER, Luz Angélica (ur.). Human rights in the Americas. London; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021. Str. 265-282. Inter-American research.
Golež Kaučič, M. Jezik govora, jezik pesmi : med narečjem, nadnarečjem in standardnim jezikom. Traditiones : zbornik Inštituta za slovensko narodopisje. [Tiskana izd.]. 2021, letn. 50, št. 2, str. 55-78.
Golež Kaučič, M. “Zoopoetic dwelling” : the ecology of the connectedness of animal and human homes and dwelling through folklore and literary representations. Studia mythologica Slavica. 2020, [št.] 23, str. 205-234.
Golež Kaučič, M. Singing the other : singing in two languages and code-switching/stitching. Tautosakos darbai. 2020, 59, str. 100-119.
Golež Kaučič, M. Interdisciplinarni splet humanističnih raziskav : novi pogledi in iskanja novih raziskovalnih poti = An interdisciplinary miscellanea of humanist research : new perspectives and seeking new research paths. Traditiones,2018, letn. 47, št. 2, str. 7-15.
Golež Kaučič, M. Zoopoetika smrti živali v izbranih folklornih in literarnih besedilih. V: VIČAR, Branka (ur.). Pojmovanja živalskih smrti : antropocentrizem in (ne)možne subjektivitete. Koper: Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče, Annales ZRS, 2020. Str. 103-125.
Golež Kaučič, M. Lepa Vida in Kralj Matjaž : prek arhetipizacije v kanonizacijo. V: JEZERNIK, Božidar (ur.), SLAVEC GRADIŠNIK, Ingrid (ur.). Močni, modri in dobri : junaki v slovenski folklori. Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete, 2019. Str. 89-108.
Golež Kaučič, M. Slovenska ljudska balada. 1. naklada. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, 2018. Zbirka Folkloristični zvezki, 2.