Lenart Škof, PhD, Science and Research Centre Koper, Institute for Philosophical Studies, Programme leader and coordinator of the philosophy team

Mateja Sedmak, PhD, Science and Research Centre Koper, Institute for Social Studies, Coordinator of the sociology team

Philosophy team:

Nadja Furlan Štante, PhD (1.1.2020 – 31.12.2021)

Gorazd Andrejč, PhD (1.1.2020 – 31.12.2021)

Carool Kersten, PhD

Aleš Erjavec, PhD

Maja Bjelica, PhD

Gašper Pirc, PhD (1.4.2022 – )

Sociology team:

Zorana Medarić, MSc

Barbara Gornik, PhD

Blaž Lenarčič, PhD (1.1.2020 – 31.12.2021)

Lucija Dežan

Scientific publications

2022

• Bjelica, Maja (2022): “Aleviness, music, and hospitality.” Muzikološki zbornik, vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 101–121.
• Bjelica, Maja (2022): “The ethics of deep listening: a practice for environmental awareness.” The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, vol. 64, no.1, p. 37–56.
• Medarić, Zorana, and Maja Zadel (2022): “‘Družina je najpomembnejša!’ Vloga družine pri integraciji priseljenih otrok v šolsko okolje.” In Socio-ekološka transformacija: Slovensko sociološko srečanje, Ljubljana, 4.–5. november 2021, ed. M. Ignjatovič et al., pp. 22–27. Ljubljana: Slovene Sociological Association.
• Medarić, Zorana, Barbara Gornik, and Mateja Sedmak (2022): “What about the family?: the role and meaning of family in the integration of migrant children: evidence from Slovenian schools.” Frontiers in Education, vol. 7, no. 1003759.
• Pirc, Gašper (2022): Kritična hermenevtika: pravno pripoznanje in politična oblast. Koper: Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče, Annales ZRS.
• Sedmak, Mateja, and Zorana Medarić (2022): “Anchoring, feelings of belonging, and the complex identities of migrant teenagers in Slovenia.” Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 99–116.
• Škof, Lenart (2022): “Democracy of breath and fire: Irigarayan meditations.” Sophia: the international journal for philosophical theology, cross-cultural philosophy of religion and ethics, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 117–133.
• ŠKOF, Lenart (2022): “Teologija religij W. C. Smitha in medreligijski dialog.” In Izzivi medreligijskih in medkulturnih stikov in možnosti vzpostavitve dialoga, eds. G. Mithans in N. Furlan Štante, pp. 53–67. Koper: Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče Koper, Annales ZRS.

2021

• Bjelica, Maja (2021): “Alevijstvo in kultura diha.” Bogoslovni vestnik: glasilo Teološke fakultete v Ljubljani, vol. 81, no. 4, pp. 999–1012.
• Bjelica, Maja (2021): “Listening: an interdisciplinary path towards letting things be.” Horizon: fenomenologičeskie issledovaniâ, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 212–231.
• Furlan Štante, Nadja (2021): “Ekofeministična teologija soodvisnosti: konstruktivistični teološki pristop k sodobni okoljski (ne)pravičnosti in ranljivosti.” Poligrafi: revija za religiologijo, mitologijo in filozofijo, vol. 26, no. 103/104, pp. 23–38.
• Furlan-Štante, Nadja (2021): “Marija kot arhetip (post)krščanske paradigme kozmične pravičnosti.” In Pravičnost, sram, nasilje in feminino: filozofski in večdisciplinarni vpogledi, eds. N. Furlan Štante, M. Bjelica and L. Škof, pp. 71–81. Koper: Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče Koper, Annales ZRS.
• Furlan-Štante, Nadja (2021): “The mother of all living: empowering women in religious (eco)peace-building.” In Women’s religious voices: migration, culture and (eco)peacebuilding, eds. N. Furlan Štante, M. Bjelica and R. J. Anić, pp. 119–135. Zürich: LIT.
• Gornik, Barbara, and Mateja Sedmak (2021): “The child-centred approach to the integration of migrant children: the MiCREATE Project.” In Migrant Children’s Integration and Education in Europe: Approaches, Methodologies, and Policies, ed. M. Sedmak et al., pp. 99–118. Barcelona: Octaedro.
• Gornik, Barbara, Lucija Dežan, Zorana Medarić, and Mateja Sedmak (2021): “Šolanje priseljenih učencev in dijakov v času pandemije Covid-19.” In Pandemična družba, Slovensko sociološko srečanje, Ljubljana, September 24–25, 2021, ed. M. Ignjatovič et al., pp. 22–27. Ljubljana: Slovene Sociological Association.
• Lenarčič, Blaž, and Lucija Dežan (2021): “I am home, wherever I may roam: ICT as a tool for the (two-way) integration of migrant youth in the European Union.” In Migrant Children’s Integration and Education in Europe: Approaches, Methodologies, and Policies, ed. M. Sedmak et al., pp. 353–373. Barcelona: Octaedro.
• Medarić, Zorana, and Blaž Lenarčič (2021): “The best of both worlds: use of information-communication technologies among teenage migrants in Slovenia.” In Towards the Actor Coordination Model: A Case of Unaccomapnied Minor Migrants in Transition to Adulthood, ed. V. Dermol, pp. 27–39. Bangkok, Celje and Lubin: ToKnowPress.
• Medarić, Zorana, Mateja Sedmak, Lucija Dežan, and Barbara Gornik (2021): “Integration of migrant children in Slovenian schools = La integración de los niños migrantes en las escuelas eslovena.” C&E, cultura y educación, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 758–785.
• Osterrieder, Anne, Lenart Škof et al. (2021): “Economic and social impacts of COVID-19 and public health measures: results from an anonymous online survey in Thailand, Malaysia, the UK, Italy and Slovenia.” BMJ open, vol. 11, no. 7, pp. 1–12.
• Sedmak, Mateja, Fernando Hernández-Hernández, Juana María Sancho, and Barbara Gornik (2021): “Reflection on migrant children’s integration and the role of education: editor’s introduction.” In Migrant Children’s Integration and Education in Europe: Approaches, Methodologies, and Policies, ed. M. Sedmak et al., pp. 17–36. Barcelona: Octaedro.
• Sedmak, Mateja, Zorana Medarić, and Lucija Dežan (2021): “‘Procesi sidranja’ in ‘sidrišča’ priseljenih mladostnikov v Sloveniji.” In Pandemična družba, Slovensko sociološko srečanje, Ljubljana, September 24–25, 2021, ed. M. Ignjatovič et al., pp. 60–64. Ljubljana: Slovene Sociological Association.
• Škof, Lenart (2021): Antigone’s sisters: on the matrix of love. SUNY series in Theology and Continental Thought. Albany: SUNY Press.
• Škof, Lenart (2021): Sëstry Antigony: o matrice ljubvi. Moscow and Sankt-Petersburg: Nestor-Istorija.

2020

• Andrejč, Gorazd (2020): “Radikalizacija in religijski ekstremizem v luči svobodne religije in prepričanja.” Časopis za kritiko znanosti, vol. 48, no. 280, pp. 72–94.
• Andrejč, Gorazd (2020): “Religious moral languages, secularity and hermeneutical injustice.” In Past and present political theology: expanding the canon, eds. D. Vanden Auwelle and M. Vassanyi, pp. 199–216. London and New York: Routledge.
• Bjelica, Maja (2020): “Listening to otherness: the case of the Turkish Alevis.” Annales: anali za istrske in mediteranske študije, Series historia et sociologia, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 367–382.
• Bjelica, Maja (2020): “O proučevanju in razumevanju turških alevijskih skupnosti: izbrani antropološki in etnografski pogledi.” Glasnik Slovenskega etnološkega društva, vol. 60, no. 2, pp. 16–29.
• Dežan, Lucija, and Mateja Sedmak (2020): “Policy and practice: the integration of (newly arrived) migrant children in Slovenian schools.” Annales: anali za istrske in mediteranske študije, Series historia et sociologia, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 559–574.
• Furlan Štante, Nadja (2020): “Christian-Muslim women in religious peacebuilding, breaking cycles of violence.” Poligrafi: revija za religiologijo, mitologijo in filozofijo, vol. 25, no. 99/100, pp. 45–55.
• Furlan Štante, Nadja (2020): “Strengths and weaknesses of women’s religious peace-building (in Slovenia).” Annales: anali za istrske in mediteranske študije, Series historia et sociologia, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 343–354.
• Gornik, Barbara (2020): “The principles of child-centred migrant integration policy: conclusions from the literature.” Annales: anali za istrske in mediteranske študije, Series historia et sociologia, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 531–542.
• Gornik, Barbara, Lucija Dežan, Mateja Sedmak, and Zorana Medarić (2020): “Distance learning in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic and the reproduction of social inequality in the case of migrant children.” Družboslovne razprave, vol. 36, no. 94/95, pp. 149–168.
• Lenarčič, Blaž, and Rok Smrdelj (2020): “Družabnost, fizična distanca in informacijsko-komunikacijske tehnologije v obdobju epidemije SARS-COV-2.” Družboslovne razprave, vol. 36, no. 94/95, pp.125–148.
• Medarić, Zorana (2020): “Migrant children and child-centredness: experiences from Slovenian schools,” Annales: anali za istrske in mediteranske študije. Series historia et sociologia. vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 543–558.
• Škof, Lenart (2020): “The third age: reflections on our hidden material core.” Sophia: the international journal for philosophical theology, cross-cultural philosophy of religion and ethics, vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 83–94.

Conferences, public lectures

2022

• Furlan Štante, Nadja (2022): “Women between violence and (religious) peace-building.” Paper at the International conference Unwounded World: a Marian Peace for Our Shared Future, Rome, ACU Villa Maria Campus, October 5–6, 2022.
• Gornik, Barbara (2022). “The Child-Centred Approach to the Integration of Migrant Children. ” Lecture given at the Master of Advanced Studies in Children’s Rights 2020–2021, University of Geneva, June 24, 2022.
• Gornik, Barbara (2022): “Legal entitlement to Education of migrant children.” Lecture given at the Master of Advanced Studies in Children’s Rights 2020–2021, University of Geneva, June 24, 2022.
• Gornik, Barbara and Mateja Sedmak (2022): “Child centred approach to integration and asylum policy. ” Presentation given at the Final Conference of the CHILD-UP research project: “Dialogue for hybrid integration narratives and promotion of agency of children with migrant background”, Brussels, June 9–10, 2022.
• Medarić, Zorana, and Maja Zadel (2022): “‘Družina je najpomembnejša!’ Vloga družine pri integraciji priseljenih otrok v šolsko okolje.” Lecture at Slovensko sociološko srečanje, Ljubljana, November 4–5, 2022.
• Pirc, Gašper (2022): “Negative dialectics, social communication and human suffering.” Paper at the conference The 10th International Philosophical Conference and Workshop of Søren Kierkegaard, Krušče, Slovenia, June 9–10, 2022.
• Pirc, Gašper (2022): “Social normatively and social communication in time after Covid-19: Critical-theoretic perspectives.” Paper at the conference Perspectives about truth, Bucharest, online, June 20–22, 2022.
• Sedmak, Mateja (2022): “Otroci priseljenci in priseljenske skupnosti v spreminjajoči se Evropi = Migrant children and Communities in a Transforming Europe.” Contribution to the conference Vključevanje, inkluzivnost in pravičnost v vzgoji in izobraževanju, Brdo pri Kranju, September 27–28, 2022 (Programme).

2021

• Gornik, Barbara, Lucija Dežan, Zorana Medarić, and Mateja Sedmak (2021): “Šolanje priseljenih učencev in dijakov v času pandemije Covid-19.” Contribution to the Roundtable Discussion at Slovensko sociološko srečanje, Ljubljana, September 24–25, 2021.
• Medarić, Zorana, Mateja Sedmak in  Lucija Dežan (2021): “I never felt that I am from a foreign country: multifaceted nature of migrant children identifications and belongings.” 2^nd International Interdisciplinary Scientific Conference of KN IDE, “(In)equality. Faces of modern Europe”, Wroclaw, November 20, 2021.
• Sedmak, Mateja (2021): “Pomen kulturnih kompetenc strokovnih delavcev na vseh ravneh izobraževanja.” Contribution to the conference Za medkulturno sobivanje v vrtcih, šolah in lokalnih okoljih, online, June 10–11, 2021.
• Sedmak, Mateja, and Barbara Gornik (2021): “The Micreate Project, The Child-Centred Approach to the Integration of Migrant Children.” 2^nd International Interdisciplinary Scientific Conference of KN IDE, “(In)equality. Faces of modern Europe”, Wroclaw, November 20, 2021.
• Sedmak, Mateja, Zorana Medarić, and Lucija Dežan (2021): “Procesi ‘sidranja’ in ‘sidrišča’ priseljenih mladostnikov v Sloveniji.” Contribution to the Roundtable Discussion at Slovensko sociološko srečanje, Ljubljana, September 24–25, 2021.

Organized events

• International conference Unwounded World: a Marian Peace for Our Shared Future, Rome, ACU Villa Maria Campus, October 5–6, 2022.

Other results

2022

• Sedmak, Mateja (2022): “Problematika sovražnega govora in nestrpnosti do manjšin.” Contribution to the TV show Dobro jutro, TV Slovenija, 1^st programme, April 1st, 2022.
• Škof, Lenart (2022): “O vojni kot smislu biti in o miru kot smislu človeštva.” Delo, 19^th Mar, 2022, vol. 64, no. 65, p. 10.
• 2021
• Furlan Štante, Nadja (2021): “Temelj za sožitje različnosti v luči migracij in begunske krize.” Primorske novice, 2^nd Jun, 2021, vol. 75, no. 125, p. 14.
• Škof, Lenart, and Miha Oražem (2021): “Skrbstvena demokracija, etika cepljenja in otroci.” Delo, 17^th  Sept, 2021, vol. 63, no. 216, p. 7.
• Škof, Lenart (2021): “Univerzalna pravica do zraka.” Delo, 24^th Dec, 2021, vol. 63, no. 299, p. 10.