Presentations of doctoral dissertation topics

You are invited to attend the presentations of doctoral dissertation topics that are currently being developed or nearing completion within the framework of the 3rd Cycle Doctoral Programme in Comparative Studies of Ideas and Cultures at the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU.

 

Attendance by students enrolled in the Doctoral Programme in Comparative Studies of Ideas and Cultures at the presentations of their peers is mandatory to fulfil the study requirements of Research Seminar I (in the 1st year) and Research Seminar II (in the 2nd year). Attendance will be recorded on an attendance list.

 

On Tuesday, 10 September 2024, at 5 pm, Maruša Žibred will present her doctoral dissertation topic under the module Lexicology, Lexicography, Grammar, with the working title:

The Category of Definiteness in Adjectives from a Linguistic-Historical and Historical-Lexicographical Perspective.

Summary

Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr Alenka Jelovšek
Co-supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr Andreja Legan Ravnikar
Committee: Assoc. Prof. Dr Kozma Ahačič, Dr Špela Petric Žižić, Research Associate, and Assoc. Prof. Dr Natalija Ulčnik.

 

On the same day, at 6 pm, under the same module, Pia Rednak will present her doctoral dissertation topic with the working title:

Phonetic Phenomena at the Word or Morpheme Boundary in Loanwords in Slovene.

Summary.

Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr Helena Dobrovoljc
Co-supervisor: Dr Janoš Ježovnik
Committee: Assoc. Prof. Dr Kozma Ahačič, Asst. Prof. Dr Tina Lengar Verovnik, and Prof. Dr Hotimir Tivadar.

 

On Monday, 16 September 2024, at 4 pm, Lucija Mandić will present the conclusions of her doctoral dissertation under the module Literature in Context, titled:

Distant Reading of Slovene Narrative Prose of the Long 19th Century in the Context of Socio-Cultural Processes.

Summary.

Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr Andrejka Žejn
Co-supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr Monika Deželak Trojar
Committee: Asst. Prof. Dr. Jernej Habjan (in place of committee memberProf. Dr. Marko Juvan), Prof. Dr Katja Mihurko, and Assoc. Prof. Dr Tomaž Erjavec.

 

Also on Monday, 16 September, at 5 pm, under the module Cultural History, Vilja Lukan will present the conclusions of her doctoral dissertation titled:

Musealisation of Difficult Heritage: The Ljubelj Camp at the Intersection of Museology and Memory Studies.

Summary.

Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr Saša Poljak Istenič
Co-supervisor: Prof. Dr Oto Luthar
Committee: Prof. Dr Maja Godina Golija, Dr. Martin Pogačar, Research Associate, and Assoc. Prof. Dr Petra Svoljšak.

 

On Tuesday, 17 September 2024, at 4 pm, Lucija Kous will present her doctoral dissertation topic under the module Millennia Between the Adriatic and the Danube:

Small Roman Finds from the Ljubljanica River.

Summary.

Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr Janka Istenič
Committee: Dr Boštjan Laharnar, Senior Research Fellow (National Museum of Slovenia), Asst. Prof. Dr Edisa Lozić, and Assoc. Prof. Dr Benjamin Štular (in place of committee member Assoc. Prof. Dr Jana Horvat).

 

On the same day, Tuesday, 17 September, at 5 pm, Tjaša Cankar will present her doctoral dissertation topic, which she will be working on under the module Cultural History:

Western-centrism in Feminist Knowledge Production: Gender equality plans (GEPs) as a framework to devise gender equality measures in post-socialist SouthEast Europe.

Summary.

Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr Jovana Mihajlović Trbovc
Committee: Prof. Dr Milica Antić Gaber, Assoc. Prof. Dr Ana Hofman (in place of committee member Prof. Dr Tanja Petrović), and Assoc. Prof. Dr Mirjam Milharčič Hladnik.

 

On Wednesday, 18 September 2024, at 5 pm, Uroš Bonšek will present his doctoral dissertation topic under the module Lexicology, Lexicography, Grammar:

The Role of Terminological Agreement in Terminology.

Summary

Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr Mojca Žagar Karer
Committee: Assoc. Prof. Dr Nataša Jakop (in place of committee member Prof. Dr Andreja Žele), Asst. Prof. Dr Mateja Jemec Tomazin, and Asst. Prof. Dr Boštjan Slak (Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor).

 

The presentations will take place in the conference room at ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 2, 1st floor, Ljubljana.

 

All interested parties are welcome!

Information days for enrolment in 2024/2025

We would like to invite you to the information days of the Postgraduate school ZRC SAZU for enrolment in the Master’s and Doctoral programmes in 2024/2025.

 

At the information days the application and enrolment procedures will be described and the study programmes and courses or modules will be presented. We will answer your questions and be available for further individual explanations and discussions.

 

Schedule of information days:

For enrolment in the Master’s degree 2 in Earth and Environmental Sciences:

▶️ Second Information Day: Tuesday, 27 August 2024, at 16:00, in the ZRC SAZU meeting room, Novem trg 2, 1st floor, Ljubljana.

 

For admission to the 3rd cycle doctoral study programme Environmental and Regional Studies:

▶️ Second Information Day: Wednesday, 28 August 2024, at 16.00, in the ZRC SAZU conference room, Novem trg 2, 1st floor, Ljubljana.

 

For admission to the 3rd cycle PhD programme Comparative Study of Ideas and Cultures:

▶️ Second Information Day: Thursday, 29 August 2024, at 16:00, in the ZRC SAZU meeting room, Novem trg 2, 1st floor, Ljubljana.

 

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

 

Enrolment deadlines:

  • First enrolment period: from 15 April 2024 to 6 September 2024 (eVŠ).
  • second enrolment period: from 9 September to 17 September 2024 (eVŠ).

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Defence of Arsalan Reihanzadeh’s doctoral dissertation

Kindly invited to the public defence of Arsalan Reihanzadeh‘s doctoral dissertation on Thursday, 18 July 2024 at 11:00 on the PhD programme 3rd cycle Comparative Study of Ideas and Cultures, module Transformations of Modern Thought – Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Culture, with the title:

 

One Unites into Two: from an Onto-theological Statement to a Political Implication.

 

Summary of the PhD.

 

Mentor: Prof. Alenka Zupančič, Ph.D.

Committee: Asst. Prof. Aleš Bunta, Ph.D., Prof. Mladen Dolar, Ph.D., Asst. Prof. Tadej Troha, Ph.D.

 

The defence will take place in the Hall of the Four Seasons, ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 4, 2nd floor, Ljubljana.

 

Welcome!

 


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Defence of Gavin Keeney’s PhD thesis

Kindly invited to the public defence of Gavin Keeney‘s doctoral dissertation on Friday 31 May 2024 at 10:00 on the PhD programme 3rd cycle Comparative Study of Ideas and Cultures, module Transformations of Modern Thought – Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Culture, with the title:

 

Works for Works: “No Rights”.

 

Summary of the PhD.

 

Mentor: Prof. Jelica Šumič Riha, Ph.D.

Committee: Asst. Prof. Rok Benčin, Ph.D., Prof. Petra Čeferin, Ph.D., Cindy Zeiher, Ph.D.

 

The defence will take place in the Hall of the Four Seasons, ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 4, 2nd floor, Ljubljana.

 

You are kindly invited!

 


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Defence of Ante Jerić’s PhD thesis

Kindly invited to the public defence of Ante Jerić‘s doctoral dissertation on Tuesday 28 May 2024 at 10:00 on the PhD programme 3rd cycle Comparative Study of Ideas and Cultures, module Transformations of Modern Thought – Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Culture, with the title:

 

The Irreducibility of Consciousness.

 

 

Summary of the PhD.

 

Mentor: Prof. Jelica Šumič Riha, Ph.D.

Committee: Asst. Prof. Rok Benčin, Ph.D., Asst. Prof. Jernej Habjan, Ph.D., Cindy Zeiher, Ph.D.

 

The defence will take place in the Hall of the Four Seasons, ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 4, 2nd floor, Ljubljana.

 

You are kindly invited!

 


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Defence of Rebecca Rose’s PhD thesis

Kindly invited to the public defence of Rebecca Rose‘s doctoral dissertation on Wednesday 22 May 2024 at 10:00 on the PhD programme 3rd cycle Comparative Study of Ideas and Cultures, module Transformations of Modern Thought – Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Culture, with the title:

 

Tensing maternal time.

 

Summary of the PhD.

 

Mentor: Prof. Jelica Šumič Riha, Ph.D.

Committee: Asst. Prof. Rok Benčin, Ph.D., Asst. Prof. Jernej Habjan, Ph.D., Cindy Zeiher, Ph.D.

 

The defence in English language and will take place in the Hall of the Four Seasons, ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 4, 2nd floor, Ljubljana.

 

You are kindly invited!


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Werner Bonefeld | On the meaning of critique

Kindly invited to a public lecture at Interdisciplinary study of institutions and society in the 21st century module by guest lecturer Prof. em. Werner Bonefeld:

 

On the meaning of critique.

 

The many variations in the Marxist tradition revolve around two contrasting readings of the critique of political economy as either a critique of capitalism from the standpoint of labour or as a critique of the capitalist labour economy. According to the former, capitalism is an historically overdetermined mode of the human metabolism with nature. It understands labour economy as a transhistorical principle of human existence. Its conception of socialism is programmatic in that it proclaims for a perfected system of labour organisation by means of central planning. According to the latter, Marx’s critique does not argue from the standpoint of labour. Instead, it is a negative critique of the capitalist labour economy. His critique transforms the natural determination of the categories of political economy into categories of the historically specific capitalist social relations. Unlike the former’s programmatic conception, it conceives of communism as the movement of negation against the social conditions that cause human suffering.

 

The lecture will be in English language on Monday, 13th of May 2024, at 5 p. m. at conference room of Philosophical Institute ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 2 street, 3rd floor, Ljubljana.

 

Kindly invited!

 


Recommended readings:

  • Bonefeld, W. (2014), Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy, London: Bloomsbury, chapter 8.
  • Bonefeld, W. (2023), A Critical Theory of Economic Compulsion, London: Routledge, chapters 1, 2, 6.
  • Marx, Karl (1990), Capital, vol. I, London: Penguin, chapters 2, 6, 23, 24.1 and 24.3.

Roman Ronko | Database of the Dialectal Atlas of the Russian language

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.

Danko Šipka | Normative Authority in Slavic Monolingual Dictionaries

We invite you to a guest lecture by Prof. Danko Šipka:

 

Normative Authority in Slavic Monolingual Dictionaries.

 

The present talk will explore the micro and macro levels of normativity in select Slavic monolingual dictionaries, representing all three branches: East, West, and South, and different time periods. The analysis at the macro level will revolve around the questions of how linguistic authorities of the dictionaries in question establish, what was the justification for the publishing of said dictionaries, as well as how were these dictionaries situated in their sociocultural context, and, furthermore, how they were received in the specific discussed societies at large. At the micro level, the analysis will focus on the labels that have the effect of excluding a word, its meaning or form, compared to the standard language variety. Special attention will be devoted to the recent changes in construing normativity and deploying normative labels, whereby lexicographers tend to use indirect strategies of enforcing normativity, replacing previous direct normative interventions.

 

The lecture in English language will take place on Tuesday, 5 December 2023, at 16:00, at the ZRC SAZU conference room, Novi trg 2, 1st floor, Ljubljana.

 

Danko Šipka is a professor of Slavic languages and head of the German, Romanian, and Slavic Faculty at Arizona State University, where he teaches Slavic and general linguistics in the School of International Letters and Cultures. He also holds a titular (presidential) professorship conferred upon him by the president of the Republic of Poland. His previous experience includes stints at the universities of Sarajevo, Belgrade, Poznan, Wroclaw, Warsaw, the Jagiellonian University, and the universities of Munich and Dusseldorf. He has also completed research fellowships at Hokkaido University and the Australian National University. In 2021 he was Istvan Deak visiting professor at Columbia Unviersity and in 2022 and 2024 he is a Fulbright scholar in Belgrade, Serbia. Šipka has won various prestigious fellowships and awards (Fulbright, Humboldt, ACLS, Walton, etc.) He holds a Ph.D. in linguistics from the U. of Belgrade, a doctorate in psychology from the Polish Academy of Sciences, and an M.A. in Russian from the University of Poznan. Prof. Šipka is an ACTFL-certified Oral Proficiency Tester for Polish and English and a certified interpreter for the IRS, Homeland Security Department, and the Department of Justice. He is also a regular evaluator for the American Council on Education and the Department of Education. He was president of the NFMLTA.

Danko Šipka’s research interests include lexicography, lexicology, lexical and inflectional morphology, computational linguistics, and anthropological linguistics. His publications encompass over 150 papers and reviews as well as 30 books, including: Lexical Conflict: Theory and practice. Cambridge University Press, 2015, Lexical Layers of Identity, Cambridge University Press, 2019, The Geography of Words, Cambridge University Press, 2022, and Water, Whiskey, and Vodka: A Story of Slavic Languages, 2023. Dr. Šipka has presented invited lectures and keynote talks in the United States, Czech Republic, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Netherlands, Poland, Germany, Japan, Sweden, United Kingdom, Austria, and Serbia

 

Kindly invited!


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Doctoral seminar

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!