Vlado Kotnik, PhD

email: vlado.kotnik@guest.arnes.si

internet: http://www2.arnes.si/~vkotni3

born in 1975 in Celje, Slovenia, PhD in anthropology, sociologist of culture and professor of philosophy, is a director of IAR and an assistant professor of anthropology at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Primorska [University of Littoral] in Koper-Capodistria, Slovenia. He graduated in sociology of culture and in philosophy at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana in September 1999 and received his PhD in anthropology from ISH – Ljubljana Graduate School of the Humanities, Ljubljana, in March 2004. Between 2000-04 he was employed as junior researcher and as doctorand at ISH. In the academic year 2004/05 he was (as holder of the well known French post-doctoral scholarship Fernand Braudel de la Ville de Paris) a postdoctoral fellow at Maison des sciences de l’homme in Paris, and at the same time, he was also a visiting researcher at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris.

 

Research interests:

social and historical anthropologies, anthropology of opera and ideologies in opera and in opera studies of the 19th and the 20th centuries, problems of social inequality in science and research, anthropology of spectacle, anthropology of landscape, media and sport. 

 

Researcher's code:

21518

 

 

Philippe-Joseph Salazar, PhD

Internet: http://peace.concordia.ca/eventsarchives/salazar.shtml

a Distinguished Professor in Humane Letters, University of Cape Town, South Africa, studied with Emmanuel Levinas and Roland Barthes. He earned his first PhD in social and cultural anthropology from University of Paris-V, University of René-Descartes, in 1983, and his second PhD in humane letters and sciences from University of Paris – Sorbonne in 1992. As past director of the program “Rhetoric and Democracy” at Collège international de philosophie in Paris, he has written several authoritative works on the history, theory and politics of rhetoric. His early Idéologies de l'opéra (Paris, 1980; tr. Ideologije u operi, Beograd, 1984) is a reference work in opera studies. One of his most recent books is a commented edition of the Report on Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa (Amnistier l’Apartheid, Paris, 2004). His Islamic Rhetoric is scheduled for 2007 (Baylor University Press). He currently holds a Distinguished Chair in Rhetoric and Humane Letters at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

 

 

Nataša Rogelja, PhD

email: natasa.rogelja@guest.arnes.si

specialist in social anthropology, studied at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, in 1988 received her B.A. degree in ethnology and cultural anthropology and sociology of culture. In 2005, he received her PhD in social anthropology at ISH - Ljubljana Graduate School of the Humanities (Centre for the Mediterranean Studies). At ISH, she was from 1999 to 2005 employed as a junior researcher, teaching assistant and doctoral candidate in social anthropology. Currently she is working as an independent researcher in the field of social sciences and humanities.

 

Research interests:

maritime anthropology (epistemology of maritime anthropology, aqua tourism, inshore waters and multi-use conflicts, fishing communities of the Upper Adriatic), anthropology of tourism (tourist imagery, tourism and nationalism), economic anthropology and social ecology 

 

Researcher's code:

19251

 

 

Sladjana Hvalec

E-mail: sladjana.hvalec@email.si

Studied at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, in 2001 received her B.A. degree in sociology of culture and history. She is currently a PhD candidate in historical anthropology at ISH – Ljubljana Graduate School of the Humanities. At International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Geneva she was from 2004 until 2006 a researcher for history of the World War II. She is now employed as a translator at Romanian Embassy in Ljubljana.

 

Research interests:

Nazism and fascism studies, force deportations from the territory of ex-Yugoslavia and Romania to Nazi Germany, female role in the rituals of passage on the Balkans, anthropology of belief 

 

 

Lina Gebrail Tahan, PhD

email: lgt20@cam.ac.uk 

Internet: http://www.islamresearchdirectory.org/en/we/detail.php?id=451

earned her PhD in archaeology and museum studies from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. She is currently an affiliated scholar at the department of archaeology, University of Cambridge and a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre d’Histoire Sociale de l’Islam Méditerranéen (CHSIM) of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. She is an active member of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) mainly working for promoting museums in the Arab World.

 

Research interests:

(1) the representation issues within Middle Eastern museums collections, exhibitions and visitors;

(2) the history of collections and museum development in Lebanon within the political context;

(3) the definition of heritage in Lebanon and how this links to identity formation and the creation of a sense of place;

(4) the role of museums in fostering understanding in divided societies

 

 

David Gerbec, PhD

born in 1975 in Šempeter at Nova Gorica, Slovenia, holds a PhD in electrical engineering. He earned the Dipl. Eng., M.Sc and PhD degrees from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, in 2000, 2003 and 2005, respectively. In the study year 2000/01 he joined the Laboratory of Power Systems where he was in the period 2000-05 also employed as a junior researcher. As research assistant and doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering he conducted a seminar “Functioning and Planning of Power Systems”. His main interests are in the field of distribution system operation and deregulation environment. Currently he holds a position of project manager in Iskra Sistemi in Ljubljana.  

 

Researcher's code:

21357

 

 

Martin Žužek-Kres, MD

email: ma.zu.ke@gmail.com

is a project director of the Institute. He graduated in psychology at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana. He received his MD in anthropology from ISH – Ljubljana Graduate School of the Humanities where he is currently a PhD candidate exploring psychology as an object of anthropological research. Martin Žužek-Kres had graduated at the Academy of Music as well and is a permanent member of the Slovenian National Theatre Opera & Ballet orchestra in Ljubljana.