The purpose of the lecture to Hungarian professional audience was to present the socio-political situation in the Porabje region in the period of communist regime after the Informbiro through the research project findings. Presented were project results, including the video film showing deportation camp experience of the former deportees.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 12343117Slovenian-Croatian border is currently of paramount interest for the researchers and experts of both countries in question. The pertinent lay public is by no means excluded from that interest since it meticulously monitors every step of both political establishments. Meanwhile, the so-called European perspective of Croatia disclaims such 'public interventions' as the last phase of simultaneous preparations to advocate them before the arbitration tribunal is evolving. The provisional access to EU, however, does not ensure Croatia to enter the Schengen space consequently. Though not unexpected, the "fortress Europe" might want to accelerate that process in order to 'relocate' the complicated and screechy pocket-case border dispute between Slovenia and Croatia to lower, say regional, level. Croatia, on the contrary, has itself had unsolved border disputes with the bordering Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Montenegro. And this fact might prolong the Croatian entering into the Schengen Agreement. But what about the local population within those border pockets of no-man's land along the Slovenian-Croatian border? How do they cope with the ongoing contemporaneity of unsolved situations in different settings? The author analyzes three different cases from the same border in a comparative perspective: one at the far south-western border sector near Dragonja River and the Piran bay renowned by eternal Joško Joras's struggle; another from the far north-eastern section around Mura River; and the third lying centrally in the 'gerrymandered' border knot of several kilometers of borderline entangling the local houses and premises below the Gorjanci/ Žumberak (Uskokengebirge) mountains.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 12317005This paper presents the final results of the postdoctoral research project Evaluation of the status quo and developmental prospectives of the Slovenian national minority in Italy that was carried out between 2009 and 2012. The aim of the project was to design and operationalise a model for the comprehensive evaluation of the developmental status quo of national minorities, and to use it for the evaluation of the situation of the Slovene minority in Italy. The framework / model for the evaluation of the developmental status quo of national minorities that resulted from this project is based on the premise that a national minority can be thoroughly examined by analysing its characteristics and developmental challenges and opportunities in six fields of its life, namely: language, education, cultural activities, media, political participation and economic participation. By means of a mixed-methods model of research the proposed framework / model provides an opportunity to both assess the impact of intervening variables and examine the challenges and developmental opportunities of the national minorities under scrutiny. In the final part of the paper the author applies the model to the Slovenian minority in Italy. The selected intervening variables in this case study are Slovenia’s accession to the EU and the Schengen area and the flow of immigrants to settlements in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, where live members of the Slovene national minority. The paper examines also the developmental prospectives of the Slovenian minority in Italy.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 12368205On the invitation of the oldest and the most important center for the applied linguistics in the world the invited researcher presented the research activities of the Institute for Ethnic Studies. In the lecture she presented some important theoretical and empirical research results referring to the ethic and linguistic diversity in Slovenia. In the lecture it was especially stressed the role and the importance of the minority languages related to the socio-economic factors.
B.05 Guest lecturer at an institute/university
COBISS.SI-ID: 12342093The presentation was focused on general information on minority language situation in Slovenia. Provisions on the equal use of minority language – Italian and Hungarian in the ethnically mixed territories in Slovenia were presented. Formally guaranteed bilingualism at institutional level signifies that language diversity is respected, and that financial means for its implementation are secured. The second part of the presentation will be focused on the research data on the use of minority language in formal situation. The results showed that in ethnically mixed regions in Slovenia the processes of language accommodation run so in the direction of convergence as divergence.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
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