Visitors will be able to ask them about their research work, what attracted them to the world of science and research and much more at the stall in the Mestni trg Square between 10 am and 12 noon.

 

Participating MSCA fellows:

– Kristyna Šimkova, MSCA fellow, collaborating with the Biotechnical Faculty,

– Alema Puzović, MSCA collaborating with the Biotechnical Faculty,

– Benjamin Aaron Davis, MSCA fellow, who is collaborating with the Faculty of Pharmacy.

 

At the Science Bazaar, visitors will also have the opportunity to learn about the research work of MSCA Fellow Hans Recknagel, PhD, who is collaborating with the Biotechnical Faculty, and Irina Milisav, PhD, from the Faculty of Medicine, who has been involved in the MSCA project in the recent years.

 

You are also cordially invited to listen to an interview with Svenja Fischbach, MSCA Fellow working with the Faculty of Social Work. The interview will start at 5 pm in Pritličje, in the Mestni trg Square.

 

The works of art are on view in the school foyer, showing the relationship between humans and animals and revealing how people see themselves and try to understand themselves through animals.

 

Manipulation and sustainable development, when it comes to the wild animal world, most often do not go hand in hand, believes project coordinator Tomaž Tomažin.

 

Many times we get scared when we see wild animals. The reason is probably in man’s alienation from nature – true wilderness. Many times we identify with animals and celebrate them when we attribute to them the attributes of miraculous and fantastic creatures in which we would most often like to recognize ourselves and have their power.

 

The opening of the exhibition will be on 29 September at 2.15 pm in the lobby of Gimnazija Bežigrad secondary school. The exhibition will be on display until 10 November 2023.

 

Project coordinators: Tomaž Tomažin, GIMB and mag. Roman Makše, Faculty of Education

 

 

As pointed out by Georges Canguilhem, the distinction between the normal and the pathological in life sciences brought about important new insights, but it also brought about a rather productive »scientific imaginary«, related to Canguilhem’s epistemology of monsters and monstrosity, as elaborated further by Michel Foucault in his work on »the abnormals«.

 

Foucault has put special emphasis on the child sexuality and its regulation during the 19th century, but he was reluctant to bring Freud’s scientific revolution into the very core of his new studies.

 

The aim of the lecture and the discussion on »Man«, Animals, Monsters and Women is to bring in a new light, related to sexuality and sexual difference, as elaborated in Freud and Lacan, putting »real men« and »real women« in place of »Man« and abstract humans.

 

In this context, Freud’s discussion on the normal and the pathological seems to present a whole new »scientific gaze«, placing the female hysteria as a new starting point and a new strategic plan for subverting the whole long patriarchal philosophic and scientific tradition.

 

The event is organized in collaboration with the Society for Cultural Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

 

The lecture and debate will take place on the Zoom online platform, starting at 17:00.

 

You are cordially invited!

 

Panelists:

 

– Eva D. Bahovec, PhD, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts,

 

– Janja Cotič, National Education Institute of the Republic of Slovenia,

 

– Rajlakshmi Ghosh, PhD, Department of Language, Literature and Cultural Studies, Manipal University, Jaipur. Rajasthan, India.

 

 

 

11:30                  Animals Living in Idioms: A Linguistic Perspective

 

Coordinators: Mojca Schlamberger Brezar, PhD, and Silvana Orel Kos, PhD, Faculty of Arts.

 

 

 

12:30                  The Scientific Perspective on Nutrias – Round Table

 

Coordinator: Tadej Malovrh, PhD, Veterinary Faculty.

 

 

 

14:00                  Interview with Mirjam Mencej, PhD, ERC Project Holder

 

The interview with Mirjam Mencej, PhD, from the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the Faculty of Arts on the DEAGENCY project will be lead by Uršula Čebron Lipovec, PhD, Head of the Department.

 

 

 

16:00                 Environment and Animals – What Do Anthropologists Do? Film Screening

 

Coordinator: Ana Sarah Lumen Brunaček, PhD, Faculty of Arts.

 

 

 

17.00                  Interview with SVENJA FISCHBACH, MSCA Fellow

 

The interview with Svenja Fischach, MSCA Fellow, will be lead by Sašo Jerše, PhD, project leader of the European Reserachers’ Night – Humanities Rock! project.

 

 

 

17:30                  A Dog’s Day – Video Screening

                           

Coordinator: Rajko Muršič, PhD, Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts

 

 

 

18:00                  FOLKLORE. FAUNA. In the Park –  Screening of Two Short Videos

 

Coordinators: Petja Zorec, MA, Arijana Gadžijev, MA, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering.

 

 

You are cordially invited!

 

The guided tour, which he has already conducted at the National Gallery in the previous year in the series Curator for a Day, will this time be vividly enriched with selected veterinary artefacts.

 

You are cordially invited!

 

The number of places available is limited, so please register here.

 

Photo: detail of a painting of St George fighting a dragon, (about 1641) by Hans Georg Geiger von Geigerfeld

The art project was inspired by the 50th anniversary of the anthology of animal fairy tales from the oral tradition of Rezija, The Little Beasts of Rezija, written by the Milko Matičetov, PhD, Honorary Member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SAZU).

 

The second-year students of illustration (BA) were introduced to the fairy tales of Rezija in December 2022 by the researcher of the Faculty of Education, Milena Mileva Blažić, PhD, and then the creative work started under the mentorship of assoc. prof. Suzi Bricelj.

 

From 16 January to 13 February, the illustrations were exhibited at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, from 3 April to 5 May 2023 at the Damir Fiegel Library in Gorizia, Italy and from 24 August to 21 September at the Peti štuk Art Gallery at the premises of the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana.

 

This time they invite you to the exhibition at the Krpan Art Gallery! The exhibitors are: Gaja Aksinja Abramović, Matevž Bervar, Rea Bartulović, Zala N. Doupona, Jon Kušar, Eva Ježovnik, Nikolina Popov, Urša Volovšek, Amadeja Gvendolina Završnik.

 

Coordinators: Milena Mileva Blažić, PhD, Faculty of Education, and Suzi Bricelj, Academy of Fine Arts and Design

Coordinator of events in Cerknica: Ljoba Jenče, PAJN, Heritage House, Cerknica

In many cases, such conditions can be alleviated by so-called equine-assisted activities (EAA). In Slovenia, in contrast to EAA, equine-assisted therapy (EAT) is well established. The latter is a medically based activity. EAA are less formal and do not pursue a medical goal, but simply aim to improve the quality of life of the user.

 

There is little experience with EAA in Slovenia. Only two small studies have been carried out. In both cases, the positive impact of EAA has been demonstrated and it has been confirmed once again that the applicability of EAA is indeed broad and has many opportunities for use with a wide variety of target groups. In particular, the usefulness for young users suffering from addictions to modern technologies (screen) is highlighted.

 

At the main event of the European Researchers’ Night – Humanities Rock! project, on 29. September, equine-assisted activities will be presented at a stall and the youngest will have the opportunity to try to »lead a horse on a stick«.

 

You are cordially invited!

 

Coordinator: Klemen Potočnik, PhD, Biotechnical Faculty

 

09:00                  Illustrated Picture Stories About Forest Animals – Presentation

                            of a Picture Book by Cvetka Sokolov, PhD.

 

Coordinator: Cvetka Sokolov, PhD, Faculty of Arts.

 

 

 

10:00                  Puppet Show by the Ljubljana Waldorf School, Based on

                            the Fairy Tales by Cvetka Sokolov, PhD.

 

Coordinator: Cvetka Sokolov, PhD, Faculty of Arts.

 

 

 

11:30                  Animals Living in Idioms: A Linguistic Perspective.

 

Coordinators: Mojca Schlamberger Brezar, PhD, and Silvana Orel Kos, PhD, Faculty of Arts.

 

 

 

12:20:                 Illustrated Picture Stories About Forest Animals – Presentation

                            of a Picture Book by Cvetka Sokolov, PhD.

 

Coordinator: Cvetka Sokolov, PhD, Faculty of Arts.

 

 

 

13.00                  Cat Debate – What Does It Mean for a Cat to Be a Modern Cat?

 

Pšenica Kovačič from the Minami Kat Cat Culture Centre will talk to Vladimira Erjavec, PhD, specialist in dog and cat medicine, from the Small Animal Clinic of the Veterinary Faculty.

 

 

 

14:00                  Puppet Show by the Ljubljana Waldorf School, Based on the

                           Fairy Tales by Cvetka Sokolov, PhD.

 

Coordinator: Cvetka Sokolov, PhD, Faculty of Arts.

 

 

 

15:00                  Storytelling in the Dialect of Rezija with Luigia Negro.

 

Coordinator: Milena Mileva Blažić, PhD, Faculty of Education.

 

 

 

16:00                  Presentation of the Comic Strip The Rabbit on the Moon.

 

Coordinator: Nina Petek, PhD, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts

 

 

 

 

You are cordially invited!

 

They will be screening five videos made by students of the Department of Asian Studies at the Faculty of Arts, which each, in their own way, deal with the symbolism of animals in East Asian art, using individual East Asian objects held in Slovenian museums as examples.

 

The screening will be accompanied by a panel discussion Animal Symbolism in East Asian Art. The panel will include Helena Motoh, PhD, (ZRS Koper), Chikako Shigemori Bučar, PhD, (Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts), Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik, PhD, (Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts), Nataša Visočnik Gerželj, PhD, (Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts), and students from the Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts: Sabrina Japelj, Pia Kos and Vida Krevc.

 

At 16:00, the workshop Painting Hand Fans with East Asian Animal Motifs will start at the Slovene Ethnographic Museum and bring the experience of East Asian brush painting on an empty fan.

 

You are cordially invited!

 

Photo: Wooden statuettes of the Taoist deity Luxing, Maritime Museum “Sergej Mašera” Piran

 

Project coordinator: Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik, PhD, Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts

The event will start with a workshop on painting hand fans with East Asian animal motifs, which brings the experience of East Asian brush painting on an empty fan. Participants will learn about animals that have appeared repeatedly in East Asian art, such as birds, insects, fish, bats, tigers and dragons, and then try their hand at brush painting themselves.

 

The workshop will be led by illustrator Lili Saje Wang and is suitable for all ages (7 years and up).

 

Applications are being accepted until Thursday 28 September or until places are available. Please, register at blagajna@etno-muzej.si or tel. number 01 3008 745 (Tue-Sun: 10:00-18:00, Thu until 20:00).

 

At 17:30, the workshop will be followed by a screening of five videos prepared by students of the Department of Asian Studies at the Faculty of Arts, and a panel discussion Animal Symbolism in East Asian Art.

 

You are cordially invited!

 

Project coordinator: Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik, Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts