Marina Gržinić-Mauhler, Rado Riha, Jelica Šumič-Riha, Peter Klepec, Matjaž Vesel and Alenka Zupančič collaborated with the post-graduate program Intercultural Studies. Comparative Studies of Ideas and Cultures (Faculty for Post-Graduate Studies of the University of Nova Gorica and the Scientific Research Centre of SASA), Aleš Erjavec collaborated with the under-graduate program Cultural studies and Anthropology and postgraduate program Philosophy and Theory of Visual Culture (University of Primorska, Faculty of Humanities, Koper).
D.10 Educational activities
The conference “Emancipation and Populism”, organized by Jelica Šumič-Riha, in collaboration with the Institute of Philosophy, SRC SASA, and the graduate programme Intercultural Studies, University of Nova Gorica, has set as its objective to examine the emancipatory potential of populism. Taking as its departure point E. Laclau's theory of hegemony, the participants have explored the linguistic, philosophical, political and psychoanalytical aspects of the contemporary politics of rherotic. Five participants have taken part in this conference.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
COBISS.SI-ID: 30370349Filozofski vestnik is a journal of philosophy with an interdisciplinary character. It provides a forum for discussion on a wide range of issues in philosophy and humanities. The journal is open to different philosophical orientations, styles and schools, and welcomes theoretical dialogue between them. Filozofski vestnik is indexed/abstracted in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Editorial Board: Aleš Erjavec, Peter Klepec-Kršić Rado Riha, Jelica Šumič-Riha, Matjaž Vesel in Alenka Zupančič.
C.05 Editorial board of a national magazine
The conference on the Eternity and Change, organised by dr. Jelica Šumič-Riha, Institute of Philosophy, SRC SASA, had as its principle task to confront Badiou's transitive ontology with other, frequently incompatible attempts at the theorization of new ontologies of the multiple, in particular Deleuze's ontology of the virtual and Agamben's ontology of potnetiality. The aim of this conference was to explore to what extent the contemporary ontologies allwos for a theory and practice of an imanent radical change of the existing world. 12 philosophers have taken part in this conference.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
Marina Gržinić Mauhler is ordinary professor at the Academy for Visual Arts in Vienna (2003–2014). In her lectures she brings art, contemporary theory, and practice into relation with biopolitics. Her special focus is on the forms of connections between biopolitics and the politics of representation, and on analysing the processes of becoming human in the practice of esthetic abstraction and artistic formalization in culture and theory. Gržinč Mauhler has contributed to the international embeddedness of the research programme and to improvements in educational activities.
B.05 Guest lecturer at an institute/university