Kindly invited to a public lecture at Cultural history study module by Zoltan Dujisin:

 

Assessing the Scholarly Foundations of Post-Communist Memory Politics.

 

Lecture will be in English language on Friday, 16th of April 2021, at 4 P.M. via ZOOM (Meeting ID: 860 4077 5268, Passcode: 561333).

 

The lecture discusses the origins of the anti-totalitarian collective memory pervading Central and Eastern Europe. It first tracks its intellectual origins in anti-communist dissidence, where liberal and conservative dissidents competed to offer the prevailing interpretation of the nature of the communist regime and then moves on to illustrate how the anti-totalitarian discourse was later co-opted by the region’s ubiquitous national memory institutes. National memory institutes are understood as hybrid bodies that stand between the field of politics and of history and who seek to impose a dominant interpretation of the communist past. While not the first such institute, Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance would emerge as the prime example for other countries to emulate across the post-communist region. The memory institute model was attractive for conservative identity politics as it allowed parties on the right to maintain the notion that post-communist societies are the product of “unfinished revolutions”, and that the remnants of the past remain in power and require countering. Moreover, it claims scientific validation: by way of scholarly co-optation (offering superior conditions to young researchers who cannot get jobs in academic institutions), their political narratives are given scholarly legitimation, and are thus ultimately “depoliticized”. But memory institutes are more than just a key element of post-communist political competition, they have also been responsible for shifting the EU’s collective memory into an increasing acceptance of the equalization of Nazi and Communist crimes.

 

Zoltán Dujisin is an FSR Incoming Postdoc at UCLouvain and is based in Brussels. His research interests include sociology of knowledge, sociology of journalism, memory politics and political sociology. He obtained his PhD in sociology from Columbia University in New York and was a Marie Curie Leading Fellow based in Erasmus University Rotterdam, where he has continued conducting research on memory institutes. Zoltan worked as a journalist for a decade, corresponding for the global news agency Inter Press Service News and leading Portuguese weekly Expresso from Ukraine, Hungary and the Czech Republic.

 

Kindly invited!

International colloquium

Re-activating Critical Thinking in Contemporary Philosophy and Theory

Friday, 15 January 2021

From 15:00 to 19:30

 

Due to Covid 19 safety regulations, the event will take place online via ZOOM.

 

The colloquium will be held in English.

 

Please join us at the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87880846829?pwd=WjJQZkF1TndyVVFnQ3cxcnRydndZZz09
Meeting ID: 878 8084 6829
Passcode: 123727

 

We are expecting you from 14:50 on.

 

We want to rethink recent or past work in theory and critical discourse that provides possibilities for strategies and options that will reflect on the present moment in societies, or in theory, and propose, or not, any possible emancipatory politics, if emancipation is still to be taken as a practice of change.

 

Participants

Nina Cvar

Katja Čičigoj

Mia and Lina Gonan

Marina Gržinić

Tjaša Kancler

Jovita Pristovšek

Piro Rexhepi

Jasmina Založnik

 

The topics of the colloquium are performativity, esthetics, politics, feminism, geopolitics, sexuality, trans*, decoloniality, technology, capital/ism, necropolitics, and racialization.

 

The international colloquium is again organized as part of the course Contemporary Theories on Art and Culture and the Esthetics of New Technologies (M. Gržinić) at the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU within the modul e Transformation of Modern Thought Philosophy,
Psychoanalysis, Culture.

 

The majority of the participants were formed and got their promotion through the course and the module of the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU.

 

The colloquium is organized by Marina Gržinić in collaboration with Jovita Pristovšek.

 

We invite you to join us on Friday, 15 January 2021.

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Program

 

15:00–15:30

Marina Gržinić

Title: Contemporary Philosophy Between Necropolitics and Thanatopolitics

The presentation will address the main changes that necropolitics (that is, sovereignty of the politics of death) has brought to capitalism and examine how necropolitics centrally defines neoliberal global capitalism, transforming it into a necrocapitalist system. Special attention will be given to a set of theoretical and philosophical changes of what is to be discussed today as life, death, humanity, democracy, and esthetics.

 

Marina Gržinić works as a research advisor at the Institute of Philosophy ZRC SAZU and is a lecturer at Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU. Since 2003, she has also been teaching at the Institute of Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She is a philosopher, theoretician, and artist from Ljubljana. Her most recent book is Border Thinking: Disassembling Histories of Racial Violence, Publication Series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vol. 21 (editor; Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2018).

 

15:30–16:00

Mia Gonan, Lina Gonan

Title: Transphobia and the Left

The presentation will address the understanding of the relationship between gender oppression and capitalist value production, related to the phenomenon of the (im)possibility of the validation of trans identity/experience by the political left. Mia and Lina Gonan will explore some concepts from traditional Marxism, such as the understanding of labor, revolutionary subjects, the progressiveness of capitalism, etc., which, in their view, present the root of the marginalization of gender issues by the left.

 

Mia Gonan has graduated from art history and sociology, Lina Gonan has graduated from art history and philosophy, both at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. They investigate the relations between queer and anti-capitalist theories and participate in a number of collectives that address the questions of sexism, transphobia, and homophobia. They are currently employed at the Multimedia Institute in Zagreb.

 

16:00–16:30

Jovita Pristovšek

Title: “Unflexible imaginations create terrible spaces for people to live in”: Necro-esthetics, Deading Bodies, and Performativity of Flesh

The contribution draws on the notion of necro-esthetics as developed by Marina Gržinić. It discusses the relationship between “deading” bodies, animism, and performativity of “flesh” to put forward a critique of Western (racial) esthetics and to map the possible paths and strategies of resistance to necropolitical reality.

 

Jovita Pristovšek holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2019–2021) and assistant professor at AVA – Academy of Visual Arts, Ljubljana (2009–present). She is the author of Strukturni rasizem, teorija in oblast (Structural Racism, Theory and Power; Sophia, 2019).

 

16:30–17:00

Piro Rexhepi

Title: Racial Capitalism and Coloniality of Desire

I want to think through some of the ways in which erotic sensibilities, encounters, and economies of sex along the Euro-Atlantic enclosures are not just conditioned by racial capitalism and colonial re-enactment of borders through sexuality – but to also look at moments and circumstances when sexual play generates new social and spatial relations. That is not to say, there aren’t moments when those conditions are collapsed in the overall erotic encounter, but to ask what kind of “otherwise” erotic solidarities and radical care emerge in the “cracks and fissures” of the coloniality of desire.

 

Piro Rexhepi holds a PhD in Politics from the University of Strathclyde. His research focuses on decoloniality, sexuality, and Islam. His recent work on racism and borders along the Balkan Refugee Route has been published in a range of mediums in and out of academia including the International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Critical Muslims, and the Guardian among others.

 

Break/Odmor 17:00–17:15

 

17:15–17:45

Jasmina Založnik

Title: The Threat of Contagion

A topology of negative and positive aspects of contagion will be presented, drawing on the use of the term contagion in selected scholarly texts (Mithe term contagion in selected scholarly texts (Michel Foucault, Isabell Lorey, etc.) in an attempt to chel Foucault, Isabell Lorey, etc.) in an attempt to answer the following questions: What threatens a particular social or political order? What answer the following questions: What threatens a particular social or political order? What strategies are currently in use for social (individual) protection? Could similar strategies be used strategies are currently in use for social (individual) protection? Could similar strategies be used also as foalso as forms of resistance? Against what dangers does one attempt to protect oneself and how? rms of resistance? Against what dangers does one attempt to protect oneself and how?

 

Jasmina Založnik, PhD, is active locally and internationally as a writer, dance publicist, dramaturge, curator, producer, moderator, consultant, researcher, and art collaborator. She is a member of the regional network Nomad Dance Academy and its local association. She is a member of the editorial board of Maska, journal for contemporary performing arts, and Dialogi, journal for culture and society. She holds the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Visual Culture, which she obtained from the University of Aberdeen, UK, in 2020 with the thesis titled “Claiming the Space of the New Performative Art Practices: Ljubljana, Belgrade, and Novi Sad (1965–1987)”. In 2015, she received the Ksenija Hribar Award for dance in the category criticism/dramaturgy/theory.

 

17:45–18:15

Tjaša Kancler

Title: Decolonial Trans*futurity

Contemporary western global politics is a continuation of the modern/colonial capitalist matrix from which it has developed. As an alternative to racial capitalism, its politics, modes of production, ways of thinking, imagining, and acting, which are reproduced globally, I will talk about the trans*formative potentialities of a new stage within long historical decolonization processes and struggles that continue today.

 

Tjaša Kancler, PhD, is an activist, artist, researcher, and associate professor at the Department of Visual Arts and Design – Section: Art and Visual Culture, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Barcelona. They are the co-founding member of t.i.c.t.a.c. – Taller de Intervenciones Críticas Transfeministas Antirracistas Combativas (www.intervencionesdecoloniales.org) and co-editor of the journal Desde el margen (www.desde-elmargen.net).

 

18:15–18:45

Nina Cvar

Title: The Brutalization of Capitalist Realism into its Necrocapitalization: The Coronized Transformation of Neoliberalism and Its Contradictions

At the height of the debt crisis in 2009, Zero Books published Mark Fisher’s book Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, where Fisher introduced the idea of capitalist realism, according to which capitalism – not neoliberal capitalism necessarily – has become the only viable reality available to us. A decade later, in a time of the state of exception incited by COVID-19, according to Étienne Balibar (2020), the medical and the political are linked to one another in the event of the pandemic crisis. We can witness not only the hegemony of capitalist realism but also its necrocapitalization, which, due to the subjection of the medical crisis to the principle of calculation, by which bodies are forced to the status of being mere capitalized objects, needs to be defined also via brutalism – used also by Achille Mbembe for his diagnosis of the contemporary (2020). These transformations urge us to rethink the relations between neoliberalism, capitalism, sovereignty, and the sovereign, and especially the conditions of emancipation for those who, as argued by Mbembe, count for nothing.

 

Nina Cvar holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana. She completed her thesis “Status of Digital Image in Global Capitalism” under the supervision of Prof. Marina Gržinić. As a professional film critic (2014–2017) and a graduate of Cultural Studies (BA) at the University of Ljubljana with honours, she held public lectures on film and film theory, with a strong focus on the convergence of analogue technologies with digitalization. Cvar has been active in the NGO sector for more than a decade. From 2017 to 2019, she was secretary-general and a researcher at the Faculty of Media. She is currently a researcher at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, where she works on different aspects of digitalization, especially on the enhancement of sustainable digital innovation ecosystems within the Interreg project Carpe Digem.

 

18:45–19:15

Katja Čičigoj

Title: “Care is not a domestic question but rather a public matter and generator of conflict.”

(Precarias a la deriva: A very careful strike, 2005).

In a context in which COVID-19 prevention measures have effectively worked to support the progressive re-privatization of (child-, health-, and elder-) care and (social and biological) reproduction, with the attendant gendered division of labor, I propose to take a look at some recent interventions into the feminist discussions on reproductive politics. Some of these interventions (see, for instance, Shatema Threadcraft’s Intimate Justice, 2016) undoubtedly bring to the fore crucial reproductive concerns that have hitherto remained at the margins of mainstream feminist movements and theories (such as black and indigenous women’s fights against sterilization abuse). Yet, I ask whether in proposing an “intimate justice” framework centered around the “intimate capacities” of individual women, these writings might not be lending a hand to liberal divisions of private and public, individual and collective, divisions that have long served to naturalize care and reproduction in a gendered way and have effectively obscured their social productivity. Is there a way to affirm and safeguard the “intimate capacities” of all gendered subjects without succumbing to a discourse of individual rights secured in “the private sphere”? Is there room for re-imagining these capacities as collective possibilities and as labors productive of the social?

 

Katja Čičigoj is a philosopher, writer, editor, and translator, currently completing her doctoral studies. She has been a visiting researcher at the CRMEP, Kingston University, London, and the CPCT, Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her work spans contemporary European philosophy, critical theory, and feminist philosophy. She is a member of the editorial boards of spol.si and Maska and has co-edited two issues on feminism in the journal Dialogi. She has been co-organizing the Feminist seminar with KUD Anarhiv and the City Library of Ljubljana since 2016. She is a lecturer in philosophy at the Faculty of Media and the Academy of Dance, Ljubljana. Most recently she has translated Shulamith Firestone’s The Dialectic of Sex and authored an accompanying research essay (*cf., 2019). She is currently co-editing a volume for *cf. on feminist utopias of care and reproduction.

 

Kindly invited!

Integrirani modeli upravljanja arheoloških parkov (Integrated Management Models for Archaeological Parks) – TRANSFER
Nov evropski projekt za trajnostni in celostni pristop pri upravljanju z arheološkimi parki

 

Februarja letos sta Mestna občina Ptuj in Podiplomska šola ZRC SAZU skupaj še z 10 partnerji iz 6 držav začeli izvajati evropski projekt Integrirani modeli upravljanja arheoloških parkov – TRANSFER pod vodstvom Univerze v Macerati (Italija). Glavni cilj projekta je razvoj trajnostnega in celostnega pristopa pri upravljanju arheoloških parkov in vzpostavitev skupnega modela upravljanja. Slovenski projektni partnerji se bodo skupaj s pridruženimi partnerji osredotočili na vzpostavitev novega arheološkega parka na Panorami na Ptuju (Arheološki park Petoviona). Panorama ponuja na eni strani pomembne vsebine iz antičnega obdobja in na drugi strani izjemen potencial za delovanje arheološkega parka, ki lahko postane vzorčni model.

 

Grič Panorama na Ptuju skriva odlično ohranjene ostanke rimskega mesta Poetovio in predstavlja eno najpomembnejših arheoloških najdišč na slovenskem prostoru. Naravno privlačno in izjemno razgledno območje meščani že sedaj uporabljajo za sprostitev in rekreacijo. V zadnjih letih Občina Ptuj ureja na Panorami Arheološki park Petoviona, katerega namen je približati antično dediščino mesta domačinom, dvigniti splošno kakovost življenja in dopolniti turistično ponudbo. Prvi koraki v smeri parka so bili že narejeni (konservatorski načrt, začasna ureditev sprehajalnih poti, informativne table, marmorne kopije rimskih spomenikov). Strokovno osnovo za oblikovanje arheološkega parka omogočajo arheološke raziskave, predvsem geofizikalni pregledi in sondiranja, ki potekajo v sodelovanju z različnimi ustanovami, med katerimi lahko izpostavimo ZRC SAZU, Zavod za varstvo kulturne dediščine Slovenije, Pokrajinski muzej Ptuj-Ormož in Podiplomsko šolo ZRC SAZU. Da bi Arheološki park Petoviona resnično lahko zaživel, manjkata še dva pomembna koraka – upravljalski načrt parka in idejna krajinska zasnova. Dolgoročno načrtovanje in trajnostni razvoj arheološkega parka predstavljata namreč velik izziv, tako v organizacijskem kot v finančnem pogledu.

 

Prav zaradi kakovosti arheoloških ostankov ter potenciala za splošno dobrobit in trajnostni razvoj je bil Arheološki park Petoviona vključen v mednarodni projekt TRANSFER – Integrirani modeli upravljanja arheoloških parkov. Projekt, ki ga vodi Univerza v Macerati (Italija), sestavlja dvanajst partnerjev iz šestih držav jadransko-jonskega območja (iz Albanije, Hrvaške, Grčije, Italije, Srbije in Slovenije). Cilj projekta je razvoj trajnostnega in celostnega pristopa pri upravljanju arheoloških parkov in vzpostavitev skupnega modela upravljanja. Le-ta bo preizkušen s pilotnimi akcijami v šestih sodelujočih arheoloških parkih, ki ležijo na območjih pomembnih antičnih mest. Poleg Petovione so to še Urbs Salvia (Italija), Antigoneja (Albanija), Dodona (Grčija), Mirine / Fulfinum na Krku in Bribirska glavica ter Velika Mrdakovica pri Šibeniku (Hrvaška). Slovenska partnerja projekta sta Mestna občina Ptuj in Podiplomska šola ZRC SAZU. Mestna občina Ptuj bo v prihodnjem letu koordinirala najpomembnješi del projekta: razvoj upravljalskih načrtov za posamezne arheološke parke in izvedbo pilotnih akcij. Arheološka dediščina bo na Panorami predstavljena tudi s pomočjo informacijsko komunikacijskih tehnologij.

 

V okviru mednarodnega projekta TRANSFER bo torej pripravljen upravljalski načrt Arheološkega parka Petoviona, kar pomeni enega od odločilnih korakov v urejanju griča Panorama in hkrati v celovitem pristopu do antične dediščine Ptuja. Praktičen model upravljalskega načrta bo uporaben tudi za druge arheološke parke v Sloveniji, saj gre za področje, ki pri nas še ni dovolj skladno urejeno in dorečeno, da bi lahko dosegali optimalne rezultate in finančno vrzdržnost.

 

Projekt z uradnim imenom Integrated Management Models for Archaeological Parks (akronim: TRANSFER) / Integrirani modeli upravljanja arheoloških parkov je sofinanciran iz evropskega transnacionalnega programa ADRION (Interreg V-B Jadransko-jonski program).

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Splošne informacije o projektu:
Trajanje: 1. 2. 2020–31. 7. 2022
Vrednost projekta: 1.664.336,80 EUR

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Projektni partnerji:
Univerza Macerata (Italija)
Playmarche (Italija)
Inštitut za arheologijo (Albanija)
Horizont (Albanija)
Mestna občina Ptuj (Slovenija)
Podiplomska šola ZRC SAZU (Slovenija)
Inštitut za filozofijo in družbeno teorijo (Srbija)
Evropski mladinski center (Srbija)
Ephorate of Antiquities of Ioannina (Grčija)
Občina Omišalj (Hrvaška)
Inštitut za računalniško tehnologijo in tisk „Diophantus“ (Grčija)
Razvojna agencija Šibeniško-kninske županije (Hrvaška)

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Za dodatne informacije:
Jasmina Kranjc, Mestna občina Ptuj, jasmina.krajnc@ptuj.si
Jana Horvat, Podiplomska šola ZRC SAZU, jana.horvat@zrc-sazu.si

On Thursday, December 10, 2020, the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU awarded doctoral certificates to ten new doctors of philosophy at 3rd level doctoral study programme Comparative study of ideas and cultures. Due to the current epidemiological situation, the ceremony will take place as soon as the circumstances will allow it.

 

Branko Kromar, MA become doctor of philosophy at Cultural history study module with the dissertation: Diplomacy and ethics: some selected aspects.
Mentors: Prof. Milan Jazbec, Ph.D. and Assist. Prof. Ana Hofman, Ph.D.

 

Simona Kostanjšek Brglez become doctor of philosophy at Cultural history study module with the dissertation: Greek and Roman mythology in Slovenian art in the 20th and 21st century.
Mentor: Assoc. Prof. Barbara Murovec, Ph.D.

 

Alan Shear, MA become doctor of philosophy at Transformation of modern thought study module with the dissertation: Martin Heidegger: place and memory in sculpture. A Heideggerian interpretation of the memorial sculptures of Bogdan Bogdanović.
Mentor: Prof. Aleš Erjavec, Ph.D.

 

Aljoša Kolenc become doctor of philosophy at Transformation of modern thought study module with the dissertation: From das Unbewusste to Une bévue.
Mentor: Prof. Alenka Zupančič, Ph.D.

 

Tanja Cukjati become doctor of philosophy at Cultural history study module with the dissertation: Building the public image of woman as a socio-economic player in the interwar period: the case of Slovenian periodicals.
Mentors: Prof. Marina Lukšič Hacin, Ph.D. and Assoc. Prof. Mirjam Milharčič Hladnik, Ph.D.

 

Magdalena Germek become doctor of philosophy at Transformation of modern thought study module with the dissertation: The dialectic of formalisation in the project of Alain Badiou’s second Critique.
Mentor: Prof. Rado Riha, Ph.D.

 

Aleksandar Matković become doctor of philosophy at Transformation of modern thought study module with the dissertation: The fascist abstraction: on the role of labor in the political economy of Fascism.
Mentors. Assoc. Prof. Peter Klepec, Ph.D. and Prof. Mladen Dolar, Ph.D.

 

Lea Kuhar become doctor of philosophy at Transformation of modern thought study module with the dissertation: The problem of the specific objectivity in Marx’s critique of political economy.
Mentor: Prof. Rado Riha, Ph.D.

 

Vanja Huzjan become doctor of philosophy at Slovene studies study module with the dissertation: Material culture of children in Ljubljana and its surroundings since the early 20th century until World War 2.
Mentor: Prof. Maja Godina Golija, Ph.D.

 

Nina Ditmajer, Ph.D. become doctor of philosophy for the second time at Literature in context study module with the dissertation: Slovenian poetry in Styria between 1758 and 1848: models, genres and reception.
Mentor: Assist. Prof. Luka Vidmar, Ph.D.

 

Congratulations to new doctors of philosophy!

 

Prof. Jelica Šumič Riha, Ph.D.
Acting dean

Doctoral study Comparative study of ideas and cultures, module Literature in Context and the ZRC SAZU Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies invite you to a guest lecture on Tuesday, 8 December 2020, at 11.30.

 

Galin Tihanov

(Queen Mary University of London)

 

will speak – via video link (Zoom link, Meeting ID: 883 2795 5020, Passcode: 188945) – on the topic:

 

Literary Theory vs. Poetics: On the Recent Skepticism towards Theory.

 

His lecture addresses some of the reasons for the resistance to theory we have been living with over the last few decades. One of these reasons is the realisation that theory (specifically literary theory in this case) has not had universal applicability. Theory has not been the primary mode of reflection on literature beyond the Western tradition (however risky in its generality, and open to accusations of essentialism, this notion might be). In other, equally powerful (but non-Western in their formation) cultural zones (China and the Middle East would be good examples), there has not been, historically speaking, much demand for theory; instead, literature would be reflected upon through the equally enabling prism of poetics – a very different prism indeed. Literary theory derives its specificity from being the outcome of a particular historical negotiation over the place literature occupies vis-a-vis the state and its institutions, vis-a-vis religion, and other important societal factors – and only in conjunction with (and sometimes in the invisible shadow of) these larger emancipatory developments does literary theory emerge as a specific mode of reflection on literature. This negotiation – or, if you prefer, emancipatory struggle – took place in the West in ways it would not occur in China or the Middle East until very recently, and even when it did occur there, the outcome has been less clear-cut and more circumspect. China and the Middle East remained over a very long time cultural zones in which sophisticated poetics thrived (and its impact in these cultures has endured), but literary theory, in the European (including Russian) understanding of it, was not a major presence. All this is just a neutral description of a historically induced difference – a profound difference – in how these cultures have related to the place and tasks of literature in society. In the rest of the lecture, I try to develop a distinction between literary theory and poetics that could accommodate the specific experience of large and powerful cultural zones, such as China and the Middle East (and to this one should also add Persia and, to some extent, the Indian Subcontinent).

 

Galin Tihanov is the George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London. He has held visiting appointments at universities in Europe, North and South America, and Asia. He is the author of five monographs, including The Birth and Death of Literary Theory: Regimes of Relevance in Russia and Beyond (Stanford UP, 2019). Tihanov’s research interests range from Russian, German, and Central-European intellectual history to world literature, cultural theory, cosmopolitanism, and exile. He is elected member of Academia Europaea, past president of the ICLA Committee on Literary Theory, and member of the Executive Board of the Institute for World Literature at Harvard University; he is also honorary scientific advisor to the Institute of Foreign Literatures, CASS (Beijing). He is currently completing Cosmopolitanism: A Very Short Introduction, commissioned by Oxford UP.

We are very happy to announce, that Platforma 2 has just come out and is available online in open access – open.

 

Platforma is a publication in which our students present their completed or ongoing research. As a collection of original scientific texts, Platforma does not constrict the authors to the same field and does not group them according to a predefined set of research topics. Its purpose is, on the opposite, to connect contributions from a wide range of fields in the humanities and social sciences and investigate a diverse range of research topics. Platforma 1 was published in 2019 and can be accessed at – open.

Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU invites you to seminars and a public lecture by Assoc. Prof. Frank Ruda:

 

Grotesque Sovereignty.

 

The lecture in English language will be on Friday, September 11, 2020 at 5 p. m. at Atrij ZRC, Novi trg 2, Ljubljana.

 

In a time when new figures of sovereignty and authority are emerging everywhere, the cognitive map of the situation seems to be lacking more than ever. The political present confronts us with types of sovereigns that are capable of surviving all scandals and seem immune to all forms of critique. The lecture will return to Marx, Hegel, Foucault and Badiou and try to gather elements for a contemporary critique of the grotesque sovereign.

 

Frank Ruda is Senior Lecturer in philosophy at the University of Dundee. He is also professor at the European Graduate School (Saas Fee / Malta) and visiting professor at the Capital Normal University in Beijing. His last publications include “The Dash – The Other Side of Absolute Knowing” (with Rebecca Comay; MIT Press 2018), “Gegen-Freiheit. Komik und Fatalismus” (Konstanz UP 2018),“Indifferenz und Wiederholung” (Konstanz UP 2018).“

 

Kindly invited!

 

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In light of preventing the spread of Covid-19, there can be a maximum of 50 people in the hall. The hall can be used in strict compliance with all instructions of the National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ) and internal instructions of PŠ ZRC SAZU and ZRC SAZU regarding the organization of events:

• mandatory use of face masks;
• hand disinfection;
• appropriate (at least 1.5 m) distance between participants.

Kindly invited to the second information day for doctoral study 2020/2021 enrolment on Tuesday, 25th Of August 2020 at 5 p.m at Atrij ZRC (Novi trg 2 street, Ljubljana).

 

Application for enrolment deadline is on 11th of September 2020.

 

On Thursday, 3rd of September 2020 at 11.00 AM, Aleksandar Matković will defend his PhD thesis with title:

 

The Fascist abstraction: on the role of labor in the political economy of Fascism.

 

Mentors: Assoc. Prof. Peter Klepec and Prof. Mladen Dolar.

 

PhD defence will be in English language via ZOOM:

Join Zoom Meeting:

Link

Meeting ID: 848 8673 1960

Passcode: 178939

 

Kindly invited!

Kindly invited to a public lecture by dr. Ana Ljubojević:

 

Cycling to Vukovar, walking to Srebrenica. Embodied post-war commemorative practices.

 

The aim of the lecture is to analyse cultural trauma related to the sites of memory of war. It approaches cultural trauma from the perspective of spatial mobility engagement and perceptions of people visiting war monuments and commemorative events. The presentation is based on an the results of the ethnographic studies of visits to memorial sites in forms of marches or cycling marathons, organised prior to the official commemorations or on a separate occasion. Marches, hikes and cycling marathons necessitate certain degree of labour and effort, therefore they are potent case studies for studying emotional investment, transmission and translation of memory. The researcher will present participant observation from following events: 1) Zagreb-Vukovar cycling marathon, 2) Tuzla-Srebrenica “Marš mira” (Peace march), 3) Perugia-Assisi “Marcia per la pace” (Peace march), and 4) Auschwitz-Birkenau March of the Living.

 

A lecture in English language will be on Monday, 27th of January 2020 at 4. p. m. at Mala Dvorana ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 4, 2nd floor, Ljubljana.

 

Ana Ljubojević is a Marie Curie fellow at the CSEES, University of Graz, Austria. Previously, she was a EURIAS postdoctoral fellow at the Polish Institute of Advanced Studies (PIAST) in Warsaw and a NEWFELPRO postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity, Citizenship and Migration (CEDIM), Faculty of Political Science in Zagreb, Croatia. She obtained her PhD in Political systems and institutional change at the Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy. She has conducted research on judicial and non-judicial mechanisms of transitional justice in Croatia and Serbia and has research interests in memory studies, cultural trauma and social production of memory.

 

Kindly invited!