I would best describe myself as a traveler, seeking ways to open spaces for communication, intersections, meeting points of differences and similarities, various epistemologies and cosmologies, different points of views on the world, society
and life in general.

As a researcher, lecturer and NGO activist I struggle to fight various forms of social exclusion, discrimination, xenophobia and racism. My interests lie in the communication with various publics and cross disciplinary collaboration.

My research is focused on industrial workers, anthropology of postsocialism, organization of labor, meanings of work, memory and gender studies, Central/Eastern Europe
and the Balkans, intercultural communicaion. Besides my published work, I have organized and coordinated intercultural communication workshops for children, professional
trainings for professors and street actions in the field of intercultural dialogue, global education and social responsibility.


PhD degree in Social Anthropology (2006), Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis – Graduate School of the Humanities, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Bachelor degree (1999), Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, University Ljubljana, Slovenia

Affiliated Institute for Contemporary History, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Allied Humanitas Society for Human Rights and Supportive Action, Ljubljana, Slovenia


Conferences and Lectures


  • Redefining the labor and transforming the self : Industrial workers' subjectivities in Slovenia : [predavanje na mednarodni znanstveni konferenci: Resurrections, ki jo je organiziral Council for european studies at Columbian studies 15. marca 2014]. Washington, 2014.
  • Spomini in identitete : zgodbe tekstilnih delavk in delavcev : [predavanje na znanstvenem srečanju: Pomen spomina : izguba dobrin in spomin, ki jo je organizirala Pokrajina Trst skupaj z Univerzo in raznimi društvi v Trstu 6. in 7. novembra 2014]. Trst, 2014.
  •  National Identity in the Context of Global Citizenship. Global Education and Intercultural dialogue Conference, Ljubljana, 17. - 18.10.2011.
  •  From Non-Alignment to EU: the case of socialist Yugoslavia and postsocialist Slovenia, The Annual Symposium of Soyuz, The Research Network for Postsocialist Cultural Studies, University of Urbana-Champaign, March 11-12. 2011; http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/ceeresebulletin/tag/soyuz/  
  • Postsocialistične proletarke: tovarniški režimi in delavske subjektivitete, Urbana etnologija in antropologija na Slovenskem, Simpozij ob 80-letnici prof. dr. Slavka Kremenška in 70-letnici Oddelka za etnologijo in kulturno antropologijo; Ljubljana, 27.- 28. 10.2011.
  • Why social memory and not postsocialist nostalgia?, Conference at the Institute of History, Sarajevo- Rethinking Late Socialism: Socio-Cultural Change and Political Legitimacy in Eastern Bloc after 1968,  24-25 June 2010, organized by the research group ‘Socialist Dictatorship as World of Meaning’ at the Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam, and the Institute of Contemporary History, Prague, Institute for South East European Studies, Regensburg. 
  • Industrial Workers: Simply the Remains of the Socialist Past or Active Social Actors?, ASEEES 42. Annual Convention, November 18-21, 2010.
  •  Can Intercultural Dialogue set us apart? –A Slovenian’s viewpoint, ASN Conference, April 15-17. 2010, Columbia University, NYC.
  • Yesterday heroes: Textile workers on postsocialist transformations in Slovenia, Soyuz Conference, Northwestern university, Evanston, April 9.-10. 2010
  •  In the name of culture, but don't forget the individual! : On intercultural dialogue and human rights. Conference on Diversity, Inclusion and the Values of Democracy: Building Teachers' Competences for Intercultural Education, Internetwork Conference, University of Ljubljana, 28.-30.September 2009. Ljubljana, 2009.
  • From Revolutionary Workers to Victims of Socialism. British Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES), Cambridge (Fitzwilliam College), March 2009
  • Intercultural Dialogue and Development Education. SLOGA international conference: Intercultural dialogue in development education. Ljubljana, June 2008
  • Nimble Fingers or Tired Bodies: Memories of Textile Working Women of Socialism in Slovenia. 40. National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 2008.
  • Textile Workers in Slovenia: Remembering the Socialist Past. Memory, History, Morality: The Socialist Past Today, Newcastle University, New Castle, UK. September 2008.
  • Sistory.si: Ideas, Problems and Questions.  The fourth SEEDI International Conference: Digitization of cultural and scientific heritage. Belgrade, June 2008. [COBISS.SI-ID 2478708].
  • Hiša svetov [House of the Worlds]. Muzeji - stičišče medkulturnega dialoga [Museums as Places/Intersection of Intercultural Dialogue]. ICOM (International Committee of Museums), Ljubljana, May 2008.
  • Intercultural Communication in History Classes. A symposiums for history teachers -  intercultural dialogue and teaching history. Koper (Slovenia), March 2008 (http://www.mss.gov.si/si/evropsko_leto_medkulturnega_dialoga/?type=98 ).
  • Spinning Webs of Memory: Textile Workers in Postsocialist Slovenia. ISFNR Interim Conference: Folk Narrative and Society. Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina, September 2007. http://www.ut.ee/isfnr/files/santa_rosa_abstracts.pdf
  • Where did the heroines of the textile factories go?- Portraying socialist and postsocialist textile working women in Slovenia. International Federation for Research in Women's History. Sofia, Bulgaria, August 2007..
  • SI-STORY: digitalizacija slovenačke istorije [Digitization of Slovene Historical Contents]: Nove tehnologije i standardi: digitalizacija nacionalne baštine. Belgrade, June 2007.
  • Past in the Present: the Social Memory of Textile Workers. 38. National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Washington, DC, November 2006.
  • In Search for the Meaning of Anthropological Research: a Personal View. American Folklore Society "Folk culture and the public domain". Albuquerque (New Mexico). October 2003
  • The Power in the Vacuum: a discussant, roundtable, American Folklore Society, Annual Meeting, Rochester, New York. October 2002.
  • The Shape of Memory: Slovenian Textile Workers' Narratives and the Process of Documentation, American Folklore Society. Rochester, New York. October 2002.

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