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RENATA SALECL Office: Institute of Criminology Faculty of Law 1 ------------------------------------- RENATA SALECL Office: Institute of Criminology Faculty of Law University of Ljubljana Poljanski nasip 2 1000 Ljubljana Slovenia -386-1-4203247 (phone) 4203245 (fax) email: [email protected] Home: Kotnikova 12 -386-1-4343315 1000 Ljubljana Slovenia EDUCATION 1991 PhD, University of Ljubljana, Department of Sociology, Program: Sociology of Culture, Dissertation: Ideology and Social Control 1988 M.A., University of Ljubljana, Department of Sociology, Program: Sociology of Culture, Dissertation: Discipline and Punishment in School 1986 B.A., University of Ljubljana, Department of Philosophy and Department of Sociology, Thesis: The Notion of Power in the Work of Michel Foucault PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Current position 2 Professor, Senior Researcher (Principal Investigator), Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana (start of employment in 1986 – position of Junior Researcher from 1986-1989 and later Researcher and Senior Researcher; 2004 habilitation into Professor by University of Ljubljana) Professor, School of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London (0.2 appointment from January 2013) Member of Slovene Academy of Science (since 2017) Visiting positions Recurring Visiting Professor, Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, New York Visiting Fellow, Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine, Kings College, University of London Adjunct Professor, School of Law, Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia Past research and part time teaching visiting positions - Summer 2016, Visiting Professor, School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University (six week course “The Right to Ignorance: Psychoanalysis and Secrets in Times of Surveillance”) - April 2015, Visiting Fellow, Center for Contemporary Critical Thought, Columbia University, New York - 2015 (January and February), Visiting Professor, Women’s Studies Program, Duke University - 2013 summer, Visiting Professor, School of Law, Griffith University, Brisbane, University of Technology, Sydney, Department of Sociology, University od Auckland - 2009-2012 Visiting Professor, BIOS Centre, London School of Economics - 2005-2009 Centennial Professor, Dept. of Law and Dept. of Sociology, London School of Economics - 2000-2004 Centennial Professor, Department of Law, London School of Economics - 2003/4 and 2004/5 Oversees Fellow, Churchill College, University of Cambridge 3 - from 2001 onwards every year Visiting Professor at Cardozo School of Law (teaching for 7 weeks in the Spring Semester) - 2000 (Fall) Visiting Professor of Human Sciences, George Washington University, Washington DC - 1999 (Spring) Visiting Professor, Humbolt University, Law School, Berlin - 1998 (Fall) co-convener of seminar on Violence and Ethics, International Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - 1997/8 Fellow at Wissenschafskolleg, Berlin - 1997 (Summer) teaching at the Summer School of Central European University, Budapest - 1997 (Spring) Visiting Professor, New School for Social Research, New York, and Adjunct Professor at Cardozo School of Law, New York - 1996 (Summer) teaching at the Summer School of Central European University, Budapest - 1995 (Fall) Visiting scholar, Adjunct Professor, New School for Social Research, New York, and Cardozo School of Law, New York - 1994 (Fall) Visiting scholar (grant by IREX, Washington), Adjunct Professor, New School for Social Research, New York - 1993 (Fall) Visiting Scholar (grant by European Community), Dept. of Government, University of Essex and Dept. of Law, Birkbeck College, London - 1993 (Spring) Visiting Scholar (grant by Ministry of Science, Slovenia), Adjunct Professor, New School for Social Research, New York - 1991-2 Visiting Fellow (grant by Ministry of Science, Slovenia), Jacob Burns Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, Cardozo School of Law, New York Editorial 2008- Subjectivities, advisory editorial board (Great Britain) 2004- Crime, Media and Culture, advisory editorial board (Great Britain) 2004- Law, Culture and the Humanities, advisory editorial board (USA) 2000- Savoir et Clinique, editorial board, France 1994- Savoir, editorial board (Canada) 4 1994- Constellations, international editorial board (USA) 1992- Problemi, editorial board (Slovenia) 1988- New Formations, editorial board (Great Britain) RESEARCH Law and brain: criminological, philosophical and psychoanalytic findings about subjectivity in the era of neuro-science (principal investigator) – ongoing research project Social control, criminal justice system, violence and prevention of victimization in highly technological society (principal investigator) – ongoing research project Social control and punishment in information society (principal investigator) - completed 2011 Crime in post-modern society – new challenges and new responses (principal investigator) - completed 2008 Cyber-crime – emergence of new criminal acts (principal investigator) - completed 2007 Psychoanalysis and crime (principal investigator) – completed 2004 Cultural aspects of violence (principal investigator) – completed 2001 Ideological control and political violence between totalitarianism and democracy (principal investigator) – completed 1995 Ideology and social control (junior researcher) - completed 1990 School as a mechanism of social control and disciplining (junior researcher) - completed 1988 TEACHING Some of the courses thought in the last years: Secrets (Columbia University) Feminist Theory Workshop (Duke University) Law between Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience” (Cardozo School of Law) Law, Crime and Psychology (School of Law, Birkbeck College) Psychoanalysis and Law (Cardozo School of Law) 5 Neuroscience and Law (Cardozo School of Law) Psychoanalysis and Crime (MA course at Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana) Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Society (Dept. of Sociology, LSE) AWARDS AND HONORS - Magnusson Fellow, Glasgow Caledonian University, 2012 - Woman of the Year, Magazine Ona, Ljubljana, 2011 - Woman Scientist of the Year, Magazine Jana, Ljubljana, 2010 - Zois Science Award, Ministry of Science, Slovenia, 2002 - Sperans Graduate Study Award, University of Ljubljana, 1987 PUBLICATIONS Books Tyranny of Choice (Profile Books, London 2010) Translated into: French, Italian, Slovenian, Chinese, Korean, Croatian, Danish, German, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Serbian. Forthcoming in Spanish. Sobre a felicidade : ansiedade e consumo na era do hipercapitalismo (Alamedo, Sao Paulo, 2005) On Anxiety (Routledge, London, 2004) Translated into Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish, German, Turkish, Russian, Korean, Spanish. Was Sie immer schon über Lacan wissen wollten und Hitchcock nie zu fragen wagten (with Miran Bozovic, Mladen Dolar, Stojan Pelko, Slavoj Zizek and Alenka Zupancic), (Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Wissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main, 2002) Protiv ravnodušnosti (Zagreb, Arkzin, 2002) (Per)versions of Love and Hate (Verso, London, 1998) Translated into German, Russian, Spanish, Korean, Serbian, Chinese, Polish, Slovenian Rosten och blicken som karleksobjekt (with Slavoj Zizek), transl. Maria Fitger, John Swedenmark, B. Ostlings (NSU, Malmo, 1997) The Spoils of Freedom: Psychoanalysis and Feminism After the Fall of Socialism (Routledge, London, 1994) Translation into Korean. 6 Die Politik des Phantasmas: Nationalismus, Feminismus und Psychoanalyse, Turia und Kant, Vienna, 1994 Why do we Obey Power? Social Control, Ideology and Ideological Fantasies (Drzavna zalozba, Ljubljana, 1993) Discipline as the Condition of Freedom (KRT, Ljubljana, 1991, reprinted in 2008) Books, edited Brain in Court: Law and Neuroscience (GV Založba, Ljubljana, 2015) Sexuation (Duke University Press, Durham, 2000) Voice and Gaze as Love Objects (co-edited with Slavoj Zizek (Duke University Press, Durham,1996) A selection of articles in books (in English) “Hypercapitalism as the replacement of old nationalist fears” in After Yugoslavia : identities and politics within the successor states, eds. Robert Hudson and Glen Bowman, Houndmills; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, cop. 2012 “Life as a work of art”, in Prayer for (passive?) resistance. Xenia Kalpaktsoglou (ed.) Athens: Biennial, 2007, str. 57-68. “The exposure of privacy in today's culture”, in Taking sides : clashing views on controversial global issues. 3rd ed., J. Harf and M.O. Lombardi (eds..), Dushkin/McGraw-Hill, cop. 2004. “The Anxiety of Love Letters”, in Lacan and Contemporary Film, eds. Todd McGowan, Sheila Kunkle, The Other Press, New York, 2004. “Why are we afraid of hyper-capitalism”, in What, how & for whom : on the occasion of 152nd anniversary of the Communist Manifesto. Zagreb, Arkzin, 2003. “Why is a women a symptom of rights?”, in Selected papers : Belgrade women's studies journal : anniversary issue 1992/2002, eds. Jelisaveta Blagojevic, Dusan Mileusnic, Belgrade, Centar za ženske studije, 2002. “Love anxieties”, in Reading seminar XX.Lacan´s major work on love, knowledge, and feminine sexuality, eds. Suzanne Barnard and Bruce Fink, Albany, State University of New York Press 2002 “Art and catastrophe”, in Theory and criticism : an Israeli forum, (Israeli Forum, no. 21, Fall), Y. Shenhau (ed.), Tel Aviv, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, 2002. “Besede in nasilje” in Žrtve, viktimizacije in viktimološke perspective,.Z. Kanduc (ed.), Ljubljana, Inštitut za kriminologijo pri Pravni fakulteti, 2002. 7 “Cut in the body : from clitoridectomy to body art”, in Thinking through the skin, eds. Sara Ahmed and Tracy Stacey, London; New York: Routledge, 2001 “Love me, love my dog : psychoanalysis
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