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Department of Sociology
Prof. Dr. Ksenija Vidmar Horvat
Education
BA in Comparative Literature and Sociology of Culture, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 15.4. 1991;
MA, Department of Sociology, University of California, Davis, USA, 1994;
PhD, Department of Sociology, University of California, Davis, USA, 2000.
Employment
Teaching Assistant, University of California, USA, 1992-1995;
Lecturer at the Institute for Humanities, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1999- 2001;
Professor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, 2001-.
Title: full professor in the field of sociology of culture.
Leadership positions, expert committees
- member of the expert group at the European Commission, Directorate General Culture and Education (2009);
- member of the evaluation board for the call for the visit of foreign researchers, ARRS, 2010, 2011;
- chair, Dept. of sociology, 2009-2011;
- vice chair of Academic Assembly, Faculty of Arts; chair of the Nika Bohinc Film Award (2010-2011);
- chair of the scientific commmittee The Golden Stone (2011-2014).
- leader of the program group "Social contract in the 21st century" (ARRS P6- 0400, 2015-)
- Jean Monnet professor, 2012-
Scientific collaborations
prof. Dario Melossi (University of Bologna), prof. Doris Wastl-Walter (University of Bern), prof. Gerard Delanty (University of Sussex), prof. Hannu Niemenen (university of Helsinki); European Observatory on Memory (University of Barcelona); prof. Igor Štiks (Faculty of Media and Communications, Singidunum University,Belgrade, Serbia).
organization of visiting lectures in Ljubljana: Zygmunt Bauman (2010, 2016), Will Kymlicka (2012), Dennis Smith (2013), Gerard Delanty in Chris Rumford (2008), Nira Yuval- Davis (2011); Lynn Hunt (2015), Lilie Chouliaraki (2016).
Coordination of projects:
national
- "The Role of State Cultural Awards in Slovenia” (2000-2001), Slovene Ministry of Culture, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
- “The Role of Mass Media in the Construction of the Slovenian European Consciousness”, ARRS, Slovenia, 2008-2011.
- "The role of women's migrations and migrants in the construction of the Slovene national identity from national to postnational era: comparative Slovenian, European, and global aspects", ARRS 2011-2014.
- "Slovene national identity and tourist discourse" (coordinator prof. Vesna Mikolič, Scientific Centre Koper, Slovenia), ARRS, 2012-2015.
- "Theory of punishment and democratic culture in Slovenia" (coordinator prof. Rok Svetlič, Scientific Centre Koper, Slovenia), ARRS, 2018-2021.
bilateral
- “The Predicament of Intercultural Dialogue”, University of Sussex/University of Ljubljana, GB/ARRS, Slovenia, 2008-2009.
- "The Habsburg legacy in comparative Slovenian/Austrian and European perspectives", University of Ljubljana/University of Vienna, AT/ARRS, 2009-2011.
- "National audiences and the formation of the European public: a critical comparative study of media coverage of the Patria affair in Slovenia and Finland", MSFI/ARRS, 2009.
- "European public sphere and mass media: intercultural and transcultural research of potentials and problems of formation of European public", MS-FI/ ARRS, 2011-2012.
European (partner)
- EC IPA 2009-2012: The Buidling of crossborder Roma cultural?touris c transversal DROM and the development of the integral Roma cultural touristic product.
- ASO, 2010-2011: The Challenges of Europeanisa on: Mediating between National and European Identities in South Eastern Europe” (coordinator University of Vienna)
- ESS, New generation of researchers of life sciences (coordinator Institute for Chemistry, 2012-2014.
- EUROM, EUROPEAN OBSERVATORY ON MEMORIES, Univerrsity of Barcelona, Solidaritat UB, (2014-
- LLP IntlUni ,– 2012-2015: The Challenges of the Multilingual and Multicultural Learning Space in the International University (coordinator Aarhus University, Denmark).
- DANUBE BEST Network: BioEthics Standards in Translational research: an integrated approach of the Bioethics education in biomedical sciences and its role in the development of the Knowledge Society in Danube Region countries, (2015-2016).
- MEFRO, European Memories of Borders, coordinator Unioversity of Barcelona, European Observatory on Memories, 2015-2017.
European (coordinator)
- Jean Monnet: Integration of Europe, past views and future visions, 2012-2015.
Organization of international scientific conferences
2007: In-between Europe : spaces, identity and geographies of imagination : Mestni muzej /City Museum, Ljubljana, 27. 3. - 28. 3. 2007. Ljubljana: British Council [etc.].
2011:Small nations and the European public sphere : transcultural research on the formation of European public : symposium, Embassy of Finland, Ljubljana, 11-12 March 2011. Ljubljana.
2011:Women's voices on bordered Europe : international symposium, Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana, 8-9 April 2011.
2013: Dis-membered and dis-remembered:migrant women in national imagination; international symposium, 6-7 May, Ljubljana, SAZU.
2016: MEFRO, European Memory in the Making: Refugees and Global Expulsions, 26-27 October, Ljubljana, University of Ljubljana, Slovene Ethnographic Musem.
Awards/Grants:
1995/1996: UC Davis Fellowship;
1996/7: UC Davis Fellowship.
2007: ARRS-MS- 0P7: award for the successful preparation of the FP7 project.
2007-2008: Ad Futura (2006): “European Film, Multiculturalism, Transnationalism” (with Dr Polona Petek, University of Melbourne).
2008: HERA Travel Grant for the preparation of project “Collective Memories, Cultural Histories and European Identity” presented at the HERA Matchmaking Event, Paris, 19 April 2008.
2009, 2010, 2011, 2012: ARRS-MS-0P7: three awards for the successful preparation of the FP7 projects.
2010: National award for the excellence in science for the work:VIDMAR, Ksenija H. Consuming European identity: the inconspicuous side of consumerism in the EU. International journal of cultural studies, ISSN 1367-8779, 2010, št. 1, str. 25-41. [COBISS.SI-ID 40165218].
Editor of 9 translations into Slovene language of works: Delanty and Rumford (Rethinking Europe, 2008), Zemon Davis (The Return of Martin Guerre, 2009), Yuval-Davis (Gender and nation, 2009), Benhabib (The Rights of Others, 2010), Kuljić (The Culture of Remembering, 2012,) Lynn Hunt (The Invention of human rights, 2015), Zygmunt Bauman: Collateral damage, 2011; Postmodern Ethics, 2016; Sandro Mezzadra, Brett Neilson; Border as Method, 2018.
Invited lectures
VIDMAR, Ksenija H.. Austromarxism in Slovenia : "Bruckenbauer. Nachbarschaft Mitteleuropa? Festveranstaltung und wissenschaftliches Symoposium zur Grundung der Republik am 30. okt. 1918, Wien 30.-31., Oktober 2018]. Wien: Jahoda-Bauer-Institute, 2018. [COBISS.SI-ID 68201826]
VIDMAR, Ksenija H., LEŠNIK, Avgust. Female Volunteers in the Spanish Civil war : International Willi Muenzenberg Kongres, "Global Spaces for Radical Solidarity: Panel 4: "Antifaschismus und Antistalinismus in den 1930er Jahren Teil I", Berlin, Deutschland,17.-20., September 2015]. Berlin: Willi Münzenberg Forum, 2015. [COBISS.SI-ID 58505314]
VIDMAR, Ksenija H.. Memory as a Transnational Heritage of Europe : critical evaluation of the 70th commemoration of the end of WWII in Slovenia : 4 th Copernicus Graduate School Interdisciplinary Conference, "History and Politics, Remembrance as Legitimation: Session 2. "History as Instrument", Toruń, Poland,10.-11., July 2015]. Toruń: Copernicus Graduate School, 2015. [COBISS.SI-ID 58504546]
VIDMAR, Ksenija H. Migration, gender and borders: framing the debate on identity and belonging in Europe post-1989: "Eurasia's Environmental, Economic, and Geopolitical Transformations: Part X, Borders", Tampa, Florida, USA, 8.-12., April 2014]. New York: The Association of American Geographers,2014. [COBISS.SI-ID 54372706].
VIDMAR, Ksenija H.. Migration, Gender and Visual Culture : Framing the Debate on Identity and Belonging : Second Summer Institute of the Association for Cultural Studies "The Sights/Sites of Cultural Studies", Klagenfurt, 22.-27 July 2013. Klagenfurt, Austria: The Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt:Faculty of Humanities, Department of Media and Communications and the "Research Group VisualCulture": Association for Cultural Studies Institute, 24.7.2013. [COBISS.SI-ID 52546146].
VIDMAR, Ksenija H.. Europe consumed: memory, border imaginaries and consumer culture in Slovenia post 1991: Sofia: Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig, Germany.[COBISS.SI-ID 48988258].
Member of the editorial boards of international journals:
- Culture, Practice & Europeanization. Flensburg: Europa-Universität Flensburg, 2017- . ISSN 2566-7742.
- European journal of cultural studies. London: Sage Publications, 1998-. ISSN 1367-5494.
- Historia i Polityka. Toruń: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek. Toruń: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika. Toruń: Fundacja Amicus Universitatis Nicolai Copernici. Toruń: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika. ISSN 1899-5160.
- Javnost/Public. Evropski inštitut za komuniciranje in kulturo; Abingdon: Taylor & Francis, 1994-. ISSN 1318-3222.
- Revija za sociologiju : sociološki tromjesečnik. Zagreb: Hrvatsko sociološko društvo, 1971-. ISSN 0350-154X. http://hrcak.srce.hr/revija-za-sociologiju. [COBISS.SI-ID2899202]
Objave/Publications (2009-2019):
Izvirni znanstveni članki/Articles
VIDMAR, Ksenija H., PUŠNIK, Maruša. In strangers' hands : Thai massage services in Slovenia. Cultural sociology, ISSN 1749-9755, Jun. 2019, vol. 13, no. 2, str. 217-232.
VIDMAR, Ksenija H. The post-national sexual contract: An examination. Anthropological notebooks, ISSN 1408-032X. [Tiskana izd.], 2017, vol. XXIII, no. 1, str. 57-69. http://www.drustvo-antropologov.si/anthropological_notebooks_eng.html.
VIDMAR, Ksenija H. The Balkan road and the guarding of Europe : the refugee crisis on the borders of Slovenia. Dve domovini : razprave o izseljenstvu, ISSN 0353-6777. [Tiskana izd.], 2017, [Št.] 45, str. 105-119.
VIDMAR, Ksenija H. Človekove pravice v postnacionalni državi : utopična branja. Razprave in gradivo : revija za narodnostna vprašanja, ISSN 0354-0286. [Tiskana izd.], Dec. 2017, no. 79, str. 53-69.
VIDMAR, Ksenija H. Periferne vizije : grška dolžniška drama in evropski subjekt po krizi. Teorija in praksa : revija za družbena vprašanja, ISSN 0040-3598, jan.-feb. 2017, letn. 54, št. 1, str. 129-145, 190-191.
VIDMAR, Ksenija H. Evropski spomin in vizualizacija travme : vloga umetniške reprezentacije v medijskem projektu "Begunec_ka sem". V: MATAJC, Vanesa (ur.), VIRANT, Špela (ur.). Migracije = Migrations, (Ars & humanitas, ISSN 1854-9632, 10, 2). Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete: = University Press, Faculty of Arts. 2016, letn. 10, št. 2, str. 13-30, ilustr.
LEŠNIK, Avgust, VIDMAR, Ksenija H. The Spanish Female Volunteers from Yugoslavia as Example of Solidarity in a Transnacional Contex. The international newsletter of communist studies Online, ISSN 1862-698X, 2014/15, [Letn.] 20/21, [št.] 27/28, str. 37-51. http://incs.ub.rub.de/index.php/INCS/. [COBISS.SI-ID 60848226]
VIDMAR, Ksenija H. Večglasje, manjšine in postnacionalni red : evropske in nacionalne dileme medijske demokracije. Javnost, ISSN 1318-3222, 2015, vol. 22, supl., str. S91-S101. [COBISS.SI-ID 59161698]
VIDMAR, Ksenija H. (avtor, gostujoči urednik). Rebordering the perspective on the EU : a view from the Slovenian periphery. Javnost, ISSN 1318-3222, oct. 2014, vol. 21, no. 3, str. 93-108, 111. http://javnost-thepublic.org/article/2014/3/6/. [COBISS.SI-ID 56004706].
VIDMAR, Ksenija H. Kulturna globalizacija in migracije : kritično soočenje teorije na prelomu stoletja. V: SPLICHAL, Slavko (ur.). Globalizacija v dobro ali zlo? : zbornik ob 80-letnici akademika Zdravka Mlinarja, (Razprave, ISSN 0560-2955, 27). Ljubljana: Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti. 2013, str. 74-88. [COBISS.SI-ID 54189922]
VIDMAR, Ksenija H. Engendering Borders : some critical thoughts on theories of borders and migration. Klagenfurter Geographische Schriften, 2013, heft 19, str. 157-167. http://igr.aau.at/en/forschung/kgs29. [COBISS.SI-ID 53046370].
VIDMAR, Ksenija H. Migration, Gender and visual Culture : Framing the Debate on Identity and Belonging in Europe post-1989. Medien Journal : Zeitschrift für kommunikationskultur, ISSN 1025-9473, 2013, jrg. 37, nr. 3, str. 32-44. [COBISS.SI-ID 54451810]
VIDMAR, Ksenija H. The predicament of intercultural dialogue : reconsidering the politics of culture and identity in the EU. Cultural sociology, ISSN 1749-9755, 2012, vol. 6, no. 1, str. 27-44. http://cus.sagepub.com/. [COBISS.SI-ID 46280546].
VIDMAR, Ksenija H. A Wandering Paradigm, or Is Cosmopolitanism Good for Women?. Querelles-Net, ISSN 1862-054X, 2012, bd. 16. http://www.querelles.de/index.php/qjb/article/view/3. [COBISS.SI-ID 51209058]
VIDMAR, Ksenija H. Sociology of culture and cultural studies : towards a postsocialist reconciliation. Revija za sociologiju : sociološki tromjesečnik, ISSN 0350-154X, 2012, god. 42, br. 2, str. 119-140. http://hrcak.srce.hr/99190. [COBISS.SI-ID 51729506]
VIDMAR, Ksenija H. Marshall in kozmofeminizem : razmislek k sodobni teoriji državljanstva. Časopis za kritiko znanosti, ISSN 0351-4285, 2011, letn. 39, št. 246, str. 192-204. [COBISS.SI-ID 47853922]
VIDMAR, Ksenija H. From metics to the erased, or how to ground cosmopolitanism : a post-socialist perspective on current theories of cosmopolitanism. Revija za sociologiju : sociološki tromjesečnik, ISSN 0350-154X, Travanj 2011, god. 41, br. 1, str. 9-26.
VIDMAR, Ksenija H., UČAKAR, Tjaša. Multikulturalizem kot orodje spolnega podrejanja : analiza javnega diskurza o zakrivanju. Šolsko polje : revija za teorijo in raziskave vzgoje in izobraževanja, ISSN 1581-6036. [Tiskana izd.], 2011, letn. 22, št. 3/4, str. 149-170, 207-208. [COBISS.SI-ID 47286626]
VIDMAR, Ksenija H. Multiculturalism in time of terrorism : re-imagining Europe post-9/11. Cultural studies, ISSN 0950-2386, 2010, vol. 24, št. 5, str. 747-766. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t713684873. [COBISS.SI-ID 43150690].
VIDMAR, Ksenija H. Consuming European identity : the inconspicuous side of consumerism in the EU. International journal of cultural studies, ISSN 1367-8779, 2010, št. 1, str. 25-41. [COBISS.SI-ID 40165218], Nagrada: Razprava je dobila priznanje Agencije Republike Slovenije za znanost (ARRS) "Odlični v znanosti 2010" (Humanistika - področje kulturologija)
Poglavja v knjigah/Book chapters
VIDMAR, Ksenija H. Cosmopolitan Patriotism. V: SARDOČ, Mitja (ur.). Handbook of patriotism. Cham: Springer International Publishing. 2017, str. 1-14. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-3-319-30534-9_36-1, doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-30534-9_36-1. [COBISS.SI-ID 65246050].
VIDMAR, Ksenija H. Memory as a transnational heritage of Europe : a critical evaluation of Slovenia's 70th second world war commemoration. V: KĄCKA, Katarzyna (ur.), SCHATTKOWSKY, Ralph (ur.). History and politics : remembrance as legitimation, (Copernicus Graduate School Studies (CGS Studies), Vol. 6). 1. ed. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars. 2017, str. 85-100.
VIDMAR, Ksenija H. Spolna pogodba in njen postnacionalni aneks. V: VIDMAR, Ksenija H. (ur.), PATEMAN, Carole. Spolna pogodba. 1. izd. Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete. 2016, str. 5-16. [COBISS.SI-ID 60656226].
VIDMAR, Ksenija H. Remembering Dissidents: Cosmopolitan Challenges in Post-Socialist Slovenia. In: CARAUS, Tamara (ed.). Cosmopolitanism and the legacies of dissent, (Routledge studies in social and political thought). London: Routledge, 2014, 49-66. [COBISS.SI-ID 55688546].
VIDMAR, Ksenija H., UČAKAR, Tjaša. Migrant workers in post-Yugoslav Slovenia: betwen memory, solidarity and denial. In PAJNIK, Mojca (ed.), ANTHIAS, Floya (ed.). Work and the challenges of belonging: migrants in globalizing economies. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014,75-92. [COBISS.SI-ID 55344994].
VIDMAR, Ksenija H. Racing for the audience: National identity, public TV and the Roma in post-socialist Slovenia. In: IMRE, Anikó (ed.), HAVENS, Timothy (ed.), LUSTYIK, Kati (ed.). Popular television in Eastern Europe during and since socialism, (Routledge advances in internationalizing media studies, 9). New York: Routledge, 2013, 259-273. [COBISS.SI-ID 50290018].
VIDMAR, Ksenija H. Memory, citizenship, and consumer culture in postsocialist Europe. In: KOCKEL, Ullrich (ed.), CRAITH, Máiréad Nic (ed.), FRYKMAN, Jonas (ed.). A companion to the anthropology of Europe, (Blackwell companions to anthropology, 17). Oxford; Chichester; Malden (MA): Wiley-Blackwell,2012, 145-162. [COBISS.SI-ID 48750434].
VIDMAR, Ksenija H. The globalization of gender: Ally McBeal in post-socialist Slovenia: European Journal of Cultural Studies, 8,(2) May 2005, 239-55 : Volume II,. In: STEGER, Manfred B. Globalization and culture : Volume I,II, (The Globalization of the World Economy). Cheltenham, UK; Northampton. MA,USA: Edward Elgar, 2012, 403-419. [COBISS.SI-ID 50663010].
Znanstvene monografije/Books
VIDMAR, Ksenija H. Periferna Europa: Tranzitologija i postkrizni diskursi u jugoistočnoj Europi. Zagreb: Sandorf; v tisku.
VIDMAR, Ksenija H.. Periferna Evropa : tranzitologija in postkrizni diskurzi v jugovzhodni Evropi, (Zbirka Razprave FF). 1. izd. Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete, 2018. 138 str., ilustr. ISBN 978-961-06-0061-9. [COBISS.SI-ID 294310144].
VIDMAR, Ksenija H.. Imaginarna majka : rod i nacionalizam u kulturi 20. stoljeća, (Biblioteka Zirone). Zagreb: Sandorf; Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete, 2017. 245 str., ilustr. ISBN 978-953-351-016-3. [COBISS.SI-ID 289596672].
VIDMAR, Ksenija H. Zamišljena mati: spol in nacionalizem v kulturi 20. stoletja. Ljubljana: Scientific Publishing of the Faculty of Arts. 2013. [COBISS.SI-ID 271504640].
VIDMAR, Ksenija H. Imagined mother: gender and nationalism in the 20th century culture. Ljubljana.Mladinska knjiga. 2014.
VIDMAR, Ksenija H. (editor). Women away, women on the way: female migrants in the Slovene national imagination, Ljubljana: Scientific Publishing of the Faculty of Arts, 2014. [COBISS.SI-ID 275575552].
VIDMAR, Ksenija H.. Kozmopolitski patriotizem : historično-sociološki in etični vidiki neke paradigme, [Cosmopolitan patriotism: historical-sociological and ethical aspects of a paradigm] Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete, 2012. [COBISS.SI-ID 264507392].
VIDMAR, Ksenija H.. Zemljevidi vmesnosti : eseji o evropski kulturi in identiteti po koncu hladne vojne,[Maps of in-betweenness: essays on European culture and identity after the end of the Cold war]. Ljubljana: Sophia, 2009. [COBISS.SI-ID 249172224].
Urednica 9 prevodov socioloških del v slovenščino: Delanty and Rumford (Rethinking Europe, 2008), Zemon Davis (The Return of Martin Guerre, 2009), Yuval-Davis (Gender and nation, 2009), Benhabib (The Rights of Others, 2010), Kuljić (The Culture of Remembering, 2012,) Lynn Hunt (The Invention of human rights, 2015); Carole Pateman (Spolna pogodba, 2016); Zygmunt Bauman: Postnoderna etika (2016), Mezzadra in Neilson (Meja kot metoda, 2018).
