Renata Salecl - cooperating last year as the ordinary visiting professor at School of Law (Birkbeck College, University of London) and at Women Studies Program (Duke University, USA) - realized the intensive seminar at Columbia University that dealt with ways in which individuals in modern society face their own and foreign secrets.
D.01 Chairing over/coordinating (international and national) projects
COBISS.SI-ID: 1877582Zoran Kanduč was leader of program committee and co-organizer of international scientific meeting "Position of mentally troubled persons in the high technology society" that took place at the Faculty of law (in the premises of the Institute of criminology). He presented a paper entitled "Capitalism and mental disturbances". At the symposium that was organized by the Institute of criminology and the Chair for criminal law at the Rijeka Faculty of law the following lecturers appeared: R. Salecl ("Law in the head: mental illness and crime"), D. Petrovec ("Attempts and successes of the psychiatrist colonization of normality"), V. Grozdanić ("Mentally troubled persons - object or subjects of law?"), M. Ambrož ("Irresponsibility of insane persons: straight and deviant paths of legal dogmatics"), S. Zgaga ("The influence of mental disturbances on criminal responsibility in the international law"), M. Škorić ("The protection of data related to mentally disturbed people for prevention of their stigmatization"), D. Rittossa ("Person of confidence: a big advance in protecting mentally disturbed persons"), and I. Martinović ("Investigative prison for mentally disturbed persons: paradox or necessity?").
B.02 Presiding over the programming board of a conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 1847630Zoran Kanduč chared the program committee and was chief organizer of the national criminology conference "Man, machines and control" that took place at the Ljubljana Law faculty (in the premises of the Institute of criminology). He lectured on the relationships between men and machines in the sphere of work and leisure. Other lecturer were A. Završnik ("The data deluge and the change of knowledge in the criminal justice system"), M. Kovačič ("The use of data analysis for increasing transparency of the state's functioning and for the prevention of corruption"), M. Veber ("International aspects of economic cyber espionage among states in the time of peace"), S. Dolenc ("Free will in the age of big data"), S. Zgaga ("Interventions into the privacy: the perspective of European court for human rights"), M. Plesničar ("Prisons and internet"), A. Bučar Ručman ("Migrants and control"), M. Žele ("The failed domestification of a certain body"). The conference was concluded by a round table "Brain on the prisoner's bench" featuring R. Salecl, A. Bunta and A. Kravanja.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
COBISS.SI-ID: 1843534Renata Salecl lectured at Stanford University. She treated the problematic of traumatic experiences due to the conditions of war. Besides, last year she was co-organizer of tho days conference "The laws of fashion: dress between transgression and compliance" that took place at Cordozo School of Law in New York. There she had also the lecture entitled "Crimes of fashion".
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 1877326Renata Salecl edited the sicentific monograph that contains contributions of eight authors, including her own text entitled "What is on my mind? Law, neuroscience, and psychoanalysis". The work deals with various topics, such as relationship between neuroscience and philosophy (Bunta examines a tacit assumption that, in future, cognitive sciences will form a unified theory of human mind), free will and time loops (Dolenc tackles the old question of human freedom), reductionism in criminology (Kravanja discuss recent trends in neuro-criminology), neuroscience in criminal proceedings (Hafner studies the impact of latest methods of brain research on criminal law), cognitive shortcuts in sentencing (Plesničar examines the thought processes behind judicial decisions), the supposed psychic substance of crime (Ambrož suggests that jurists often turn for answers to the perpetrator's mind when they are faced with some of the key problems of substantive criminal law) and the influence of psychopathology on criminal responsibility in international criminal law (Zgaga studies the notion of sanity and diminished mental capacity in international criminal law).
C.02 Editorial board of a national monograph
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