Kindly invited to a public lecture at Lexicology, Lexicography, Gramaticography module by guest lecturer Dr. Roman Ronko:

Database of the Dialectal Atlas of the Russian language.

The presentation will give an overview of the main functions of the Database of the Dialectal Atlas of the Russian language. Additionally, it will review three case studies conducted using this material. The first two case studies evaluate the sustainability of dialects using the database and dialect corpora. The last case study focuses on constructing a classification of Russian dialects using dialectometric methods.

Lecture will be in English language on Thursday, 29th of February 2024, at 3 p. m. at ZOOM.

Dr. Roman Vitalevič Ronko has been a researcher at the Dialectology Section at the V.V. Vinogradov Institute of the Russian Language, Russian Academy of Sciences since 2019. Since 2018, he has held a position as lecturer at the Department of Linguistics at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Higher School of Economics. In 2019, he successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis titled The Nominative Object in Old East Slavic and in Northern Russian Dialects from an Areal and Typological Perspective. His expertise lies in Russian speech morphology and syntax, as well as areal and typological linguistics. He has contributed to 15 linguistic field expeditions and has been leading the electronic dialectological atlas project of the Russian language since 2021.

You are invited to a doctoral seminar – presentation of two doctoral dissertations which are being completed in the Philosophy module of the PhD programme Comparative Study of Ideas and Cultures, 3rd cycle. The two presentations will be in English on Tuesday, 24 October 2023, from 4 p.m. onwards on ZOOM online session.

Attendance of students of the PhD programme Comparative Study of Ideas and Cultures at the presentations of their colleagues is compulsory for the completion of the Research Seminar I (1st study year) and Research Seminar II (2nd study year) and will be recorded. Summaries of the presentations are available on the links of the PhD thesis titles.

TOR, 24 Oct 2023 | 4 p.m. | Transformations of Modern Thought – Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Culture | SRD III | Ante Jerić:

The Irreducibility of Consciousness.

Mentor: Prof. Dr. Jelica Šumič Riha

Jury: Asst. Prof. Dr. Rok Benčin, Asst. Prof. Dr. Jernej Habjan, Prof. Dr. Jelica Šumič Riha.

TOR, 24 Oct 2023 | 5 p.m. | Transformation of Modern Thought – Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Culture | SRD III. | Rebecca Rose:

Tensing Maternal Time.

Mentor: Prof. Dr. Jelica Šumič Riha

Jury: Asst. Prof. Dr. Rok Benčin, Asst. Prof. Dr. Jernej Habjan, Prof. Dr. Jelica Šumič Riha.

Welcome!

You are invited to the 3rd presentation of the topics of doctoral dissertations, which are being written or completed at the doctoral study programme Comparative Study of Ideas and Cultures. The presentations will take place on Thursday, 14th, Friday, 15th and Monday, 18th September 2023 in the afternoons.

Attendance of students of the Comparative Study of Ideas and Cultures programme at the presentations of colleagues is compulsory for the completion of the Research Seminar I (1st year) and Research Seminar II (2nd year) and will be recorded by means of an attendance sheet.

Bellow are presentations, that are going to be held in English language:

THURSDAY, 14/09/23 | 16:00 | Transformation of Modern Thought – Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Culture | Dr. Gavin Keeney:

Works for Works: “No Rights”.

Mentor: Prof. Dr. Jelica Šumič Riha.

Committee: Asst. Prof. Dr. Rok Benčin, Prof. Ddr. Petra Čeferin, Prof. Dr. Jelica Šumič Riha.

FRIDAY, 15/09/23 | 15:00 | Transformation of Modern Thought – Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Culture | SRD III. | Arsalan Reihanzadeh:

One unites into two: from an onto-theological statement to a political implication.

Mentor: Prof. Dr. Alenka Zupančič

Committee: Prof. Dr. Marina Gržinić Mauhler, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tadej Troha and Prof. Dr. Alenka Zupančič.

MONDAY, 18/09/23 | 14:00 | Cultural History| ZOOM | Adriana Sabo:

“Me fancy, you nothing”: constucting femininities via matrices of Serbian popular music industry.

Mentor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ana Hofman.

Committee: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ana Hofman, Dr. Mojca Kovačič, Prof. Dr.Tanja Petrović.

MONDAY, 18/09/23 | 15:00 | Cultural History| ZOOM | Jelena Gledić:

Cultural Ties and Bilateral Relations: Sino-Serbian Cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative.

Mentor: Prof. Dr. Tanja Petrović, co-mentor: Dr. Xing Li

Committee: Asst. Prof. Dr. Martina Bofulin, Asst. Prof. Dr. Ana Hofman, Prof. Dr. Tanja Petrović.

Kindly invited!

Enrolment for the academic year 2023/2024 will take place from 18 to 29 September 2023 between 12 and 16:00.

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• Request for conditional enrolment with missing obligation addressed to the Student Affairs Commission  of the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU by 25 September 2023;
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Welcome!

We would like to invite you to the information days of the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU for enrolment in the Master and Doctoral programmes in 2023/2024.

The Dean will address you at the information days, the application and enrolment procedures will be presented, followed by presentations of the study programmes and their modules or courses. We will answer your questions and be available for further individual explanations and discussions.

Schedule of information days:

▶️ The second information day for enrolment in the 2nd cycle Master’s degree study programme Earth and Environmental Sciences will take place on Tuesday, 29 August 2023, at 4 pm, in the ZRC SAZU meeting room, Novi trg 2, 1st floor, Ljubljana.

▶️ The second information day for enrolment in the 3rd cycle PhD study programme Environmental and Regional Studies will take place on Wednesday, 30 August 2023, at 4 pm, in the conference room of ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 2, 1st floor, Ljubljana.

▶️ The second information day for enrolment in the 3rd cycle PhD programme Comparative Study of Ideas and Cultures will take place on Thursday, 31 August 2023, at 16:00, in the conference room of ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 2, 1st floor, Ljubljana.

The call for applications is available at the following link: download.

Panchronic corpus for (East) Slavic: integrating historical and modern digital resources.

Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU invites you to public seminars by Cindy Zeiher.

Cindy Zeiher is senior lecturer at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand were she teaches critical theory. Her writings explore Freudian-Lacanian interventions and interpretations concerning contemporary questions of ontology. She is currently working on a book which interrogates Vladimir Janklevitch’s radical ‘refusal’ of politics from the perspective of Lacan’s theory of the speech-act. Cindy is co-editor of CT&T: Continental Thought and Theory and is currently training as a Lacanian psychoanalyst.

SEMINAR I

17 May 2023 at 5 p. m.

Jankélévitch’s Intuitive Knowing.

Here we consider Russian-French philosopher, musician, and composer Vladimir Jankélévitch’s deliberation of ‘knowing’ as distinctive from ‘knowledge’. Specifically, his close and serious interrogation of music frames this difference as one where knowledge is necessarily inconsistent yet preciously bound up with ‘knowing’. Such difference provides for Jankélévitch’s system of ineffable‘intuition’ as intrinsic for knowing ‘how things are’.

SEMINAR II

18 May 2023, at 5 p.m.

Refusal and Negation.

This seminar puts to work the distinction between negation and refusal. Here we turn to Freud as a reader of Jankélévitch’s stoic refusal of German culture and consider his procedure of radical exclusion as a question of idealistic ‘temperament’. This marks Jankélévitch’s transition from knowledge as ‘knowing how things are’ to a different proposition which cultivates knowing ‘how things should be’.

Reading:

• Smith, C. (1957). The Philosophy of Vladimir Jankélévitch. Philosophy, 32(123), pp. 315-324.

SEMINAR III

23 May 2023 at 6 p. m.

The Limits of the Speech-Act: In/effable Knowing as Textual ‘Afterlife’.

We continue with Jankélévitch’s question, ‘how can we know what we think we know’ and consider the viability of his ‘ineffable intuition’ as specific to his wider philosophical project, particularly with regards to his later work on forgiveness. Here we compose a linguistic charge to intuition and discover that for Jankélévitch there is a necessary stoic property which one must grapple with to possess ‘knowing’ beyond the coherence of words: refusal.

Reading:

• Jankélévitch, V. & Hobart, A. (1996). Should We Pardon Them? Critical Inquiry, 22(3), pp. 552-572.

SEMINAR IV

24 May 2023, at 6 p.m.

Enter Lacan: (Un)doing Knowing with/out Knowledge.

Lacan maintains that we always act with the knowledge (we think) we have. But what do we do with all that we don’t know (be it ignorance or stupidity)? How might not-knowing be also a knowledge procedure? How might we be in a quest to un-know? This final seminar riffs Lacan with Jankélévitch making them (un)likely conversation partners who share the similar objective of putting the ethics of speech to work.

Reading:

• Jankélévitch, V. & Hobart, A. (1996). Do Not Listen to What They Say, Look at What They Do. Critical Inquiry, 22(3), pp. 549-551.
• Ragland, E. (1992). The Paternal Metaphor. Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 46(180), pp. 49-92.

All the seminars will take place at Institute of philosophy ZRC SAZU’s meeting room, Novi trg 2, 3rd floor, Ljubljana.

Kindly invited!

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Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU invites you to philosophy seminars and a public lecture by Assoc. Prof. Jan Völker.

A seminar for students on Wednesday, 29th of March 2023 at 5 p. m. at Institute of Philosophy ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 2, 3rd Floor, Ljubljana:

1) Psychomedia I.

‘In the first seminar, we will discuss Kant’s view on the world and the appearance of alien knowledge: Within the Copernican worldview, Kant restricts our knowledge to knowledge of objects in the world. The distinct difference between outer space and earth thus posits a limit for our knowledge. Nevertheless, Kant was throughout his lifetime convinced that there must be life on other planets. And furthermore, he speculated about the appearance of a new species upon the earth itself. This new species, which questions the Kantian paradigms of knowledge, we will argue, is the unconscious.

Non-mandatory reading:

• Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure reason, A 820-831/ B 848-849 (“On having opinions, knowing, and believing”).

A public lecture on Thursday 30th of March 2023 at 5 p. m. at Dvorana štirih letnih časov (Four seasons hall) ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 4, 2nd Floor, Ljubljana:

Adorno and the Anthropocene.

The notion of the Anthropocene points to the inscription of the human being into the geological structure of the earth, and furthermore it comprises the entirety of the consequences of the existence of the human being on earth. Therefore, it builds upon as well as it leads to the overcoming of the classical opposition of nature and history. But the problematic of the overcoming is as classical as the opposition: In this context, the critical idea of natural history, as it has been unfolded by Adorno and Benjamin, might receive a new interpretation. However, natural history can neither be understood as an ontological nor as a historical notion, but necessitates a dialectical reasoning. Adorno insists on this in his early talk on the ‘Idea of Natural History’ as well as in his late ‘Negative Dialectics’. In my talk, I will question the dialectical potential of the Anthropocene, starting from Adorno’s reflections. Is there a dialectic within the Anthropocene?

A seminar for students on Friday, 31st of of March 2023 at 5 p. m. at Institute of Philosophy ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 2, 3rd Floor, Ljubljana:

2) Psychomedia II.

The Copernican worldview disintegrates once a plurality of possible worlds within space is assumed to exist. Today we witness an expansion of private space missions, heading for the goal of a new, extraterrestrial colonialism. The inner drive of this expansion is the will to align wishful imagination and reality, to eradicate their difference. We will discuss three examples of these operations of psychomedia – private space travelling, new border control technologies, and the idea of the metaverse. Their common aim is, we will argue, to suppress the unconscious.

Non-mandatory reading:

• Jacques Lacan, Seminar VII, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, transl. Dennis Porter, London: Routledge, p. 80-84. (Chapter VI, Part 3).

PD Dr. Jan Völker is substitute professor for Philosophy and Aesthetics at the Bauhaus University in Weimar in the summer semester 2023. Associate Professor at the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU. Publications include: Badiou and the German Tradition of Philosophy (Bloomsbury, ed. 2019), Alain Badiou / Jean-Luc Nancy: German Philosophy. A Dialogue (MIT Press, ed. 2017), Neue Philosophien des Politischen zur Einführung (Laclau, Lefort, Nancy, Rancière, Badiou) (Junius, 2012, with Uwe Hebekus), Ästhetik der Lebendigkeit. Kants dritte Kritik (Fink, 2011).

Seminars and lecture will be in English language. Kindly invited!

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