Marina Gržinić-Mauhler, Rado Riha, Jelica Šumič-Riha, Peter Klepec, Matjaž Vesel and Alenka Zupančič Žerdin 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
Conference organized by the Institute for philosophy, SRC SASA and MaMa (Zagreb). Conference was presided by J. Šumič Riha. Ljubljana, 20 June 2011. The departure point of the conference Vitalism and Anti-vitalism in Contemporay Thought is the assumption that the concept of “life” has no established account either in science or in philosophy. As a consequence of its underdetermination the concept of life continues to pose intractable problems both for scientific experimentation and theoretical reflection. The participants have criticized contemporary versions of “vital materialism” prone to describing physical forces in terms of an inherent “life of things” as they tend to obscure the problematic nature of the concept.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
COBISS.SI-ID: 8558080In 2011 Alenka Zupančič Žerdin continued her lecturing at the European Graduate School in Saas Fee, Swiss. She conducted two courses. The first, “Nietzsche and Lacan: Challenging domestification”, focused on the implications the two anti-philosophical thinkers have on the development of the contemporary philosophy. The second course, “Nietzsche: The Role of Language and Metaphysics”, focused primarily on Nietzsche and the problems of his philosophy.
B.05 Guest lecturer at an institute/university