Janja Žitnik Serafin and Aleksej Kalc organised upon the 30th anniversary of Slovenian Migration Institute ZRC SAZU an international academic conference titled "Slovenian Emigration Research: New Approaches and Subject Matter". The conference was held in Ljubljana on October 21st, 2016 and it was co-financed by the Slovenian Government’s Office for Slovenians Abroad. Eighteen individually invited authors from Slovenia and abroad presented their papers. The themes of the two morning sessions were “General aspects of Slovenian migration research” and “Methodological approaches applied in case studies of individual emigrant communities”. The afternoon programme included another two sessions: “New Approaches and Subject Matter" and “Presentation of projects”, the latter consisting of presentations of research projects lead by the leader and members of the programme group. The final discussion aimed at conference conclusions pointed to the fact that the present cannot be discussed separately from the past and that contemporary immigration to Europe cannot be fully understood without a thorough insight into the history of emigration of one's own nation.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
COBISS.SI-ID: 40516653The multidisciplinary, international and bilingual academic journal Dve domovini / Two Homelands: Migration Studies is the central journal in migration studies published in Slovenia. It brings articles and book reviews in the fields of the humanities and social sciences focusing on various aspects of international migration. The journal has been published since 1990 and has an international editorial board. Abstracts and indexing: SSCI – Social Sciences Citation Index, SCOPUS, FRANCIS (Sociology/Ethnology/Linguistics of Francis), IBZ – International Bibliography of Periodical Literature, IBR – International Bibliography of Book Reviews, Sociological Abstracts, IBSS - International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, MSH-Maisons des Sciences de l’Homme, Social SciSearch, Journal Citation Reports / Social Science Edition. The journal is published and edited by the programme group of the Slovenian Migration Institute at ZRC SAZU. Dve domovini / Two Homelands homepage: http://twohomelands.zrc-sazu.si/?home&lang=en. In 2014, the journal was awarded the special recognition "Excellent in science ", conferred by the Slovenian Research Agency for top achievements in 2013 in the research field "Ethnic Studies".
C.04 Editorial board of an international magazine
COBISS.SI-ID: 3025930Within her doctoral research, Marijanca Ajša Vižintin developed an original model of the inclusion of migrant children. In 2015, she was awarded Silver Emblem of the ZRC for the best doctoral dissertation in the humanities and social sciences. The model presented in the dissertation was further introduced at the Days of Pedagogy and Andragogy, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana; National Conference KEKS, Brdo pri Kranju; 20th Anniversary of Slovenian Reading Association (published); Library FB, Kamnik; and various schools, e.g. Primary School TO Zagorje ob Savi; First Gymnasium Maribor; Bilingual Primary School Lendava [COBISS.SI-ID 1537441988, 39110189, 1851778, 39109677, 15595057, 15519281, 15833393]. The model was extremely well received and proved to be update, applicable and highly topical. Today it is used as a basis for the teachers' training conducted by the programme group in the framework of its various educational projects.
E.01 National awards
COBISS.SI-ID: 39110189International master study programme EMMIR – European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations – is a result of the programme group’s cooperation with European and African universities (from Slovenia, Germany, Norway, Czech Republic, Sudan, Uganda, and South Africa), with the support of an elite programme for international cooperation and exchange of students and professors in higher education, Erasmus Mundus. European Commission recognised this programme as unique mainly because of its interdisciplinary and intercultural perspective. Marina Lukšič Hacin is course director of this programme (http://www.emmir.org/faculty/course-directors/). Five members of the programme group are members of the Slovenian teachers' team within this study programme. In 2016, the EMMIR study programme received the "apple of quality" award (1st place) for the best project in European educational and training programmes conferred by The Centre of the Republic of Slovenia for Mobility and European Educational and Training Programmes (CMEPIUS). Between 2013 and 2016, members of the programme group gave series of lectures at the University of Stavanger, Norway, where they are in charge of several EMMIR study modules. Jure Gombač and Mirjam Milharčič Hladnik also gave lectures at the EMMIR Intensive Phase Symposium at the University of Oldenburg, Germany in September 2014. On February 12–13, 2014 members of the programme group organized in Nova Gorica an EMMIR consortium meeting at which representatives of all the partner universities participated. Members of the programme group were mentors in a number of their students’ master’s theses in 2013–2016. Students from numerous European and other countries, ranging from Norway to Italy, Iceland, Russia, Armenia, Vietnam, Brazil, Canada, Ghana, etc., were doing an internship at the Slovenian Migration Institute, spending there from two months to an entire semester each.
D.10 Educational activities
COBISS.SI-ID: 36578093On June 20, 2014, Janja Žitnik Serafin organised an international academic conference entitled Labour migrations and immigrant/minority cultural production in the countries of the former Yugoslavia. Researchers from five countries (Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Macedonia) presented their papers; the discussants though included participants from other countries of the region as well. The conference faced, for the first time, research findings on the cultural production of Slovenian ethnic associations in other countries of ex-Yugoslavia with research findings on the cultural production of Croatian, Serbian, Bosniak, Macedonian, Montenegrin and Kosovo-Albanian cultural societies in Slovenia.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
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