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------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 and the animal/human divide, in Interpol : the art show which divided East and Wes”t, eds. Eda Cufer and Victor Misiano, Moscow, Moscow Art Magazine, 2000
“Writing on the skin - the search for father's authority”, in Peter Greenaway's book, (Museum serendipity edition, 1), eds. Barbara Novakovic and Helena Pivec,. Ljubljana: Museum, Institute for Art Production, Distribution and Publishing, 2000
“Love and sexual difference : double partners in men and women” in. Sexuation, ed. Renata Salecl, Durham, Duke University Press, 2000
“The State as a Work of Art: the Trauma of Ceausecu’s Disneyland”, in Architecture and Revolution, ed. Neil Leach, London, Routledge, 1999
“Hollywood Melodrama Between Desire and Drive”, in Fatal Women, ed. Kjell R. Soleim, Bergen, Center for Women’s and Gender Research, 1999
“Cut-and-Dried Bodies, or How to Avoid The Pervert Trap”, in Henny Holzer, London, Phaidon, 1988
"The Silence of Feminine Jouissance", in Cogito and the Unconscious, ed. Slavoj Zizek, Durham, Duke University Press, 1998
"Identity and Memory: The Trauma of Ceausecu's Disneyland" in Architecture and Revolution, ed. Neil Leach, London, Routledge, forthcoming 1999
"The Postsocialist Moral Majority", in Transitions, Environments, Translations (Feminism and International Politics), eds. Joan W. Scott, Cora Kaplan, Debra Keates, New York, Routledge, 1997
"I can't love you unless I give you up", in Voice and Gaze as Love Objects, eds. Renata salecl and Slavoj Zizek, Durham, Duke University Press, 1996
"See No Evil, Speak No Evil: Hate Speech and Human Rights", in Radical Evil, ed. Joan Copjec, London, Verso, 1996, pp 150-168.
"National Identity and Socialist Moral Majority", in Becoming National: A Reader, eds. Geoff Eley and Ronald Grigor Suny, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp 418-425.
"How to Identify with the Suffering Other?", in Grappling with Democracy: Deliberations on Post-Communist Societies (1990-1995), ed. Elzbieta Matynia, Prague, Sociologicke Nakladatelstvi, 1996, pp 250-256.
"The Ideology of the Mother Nation in the Yugoslav Conflict", in Envisioning Eastern Europe: Postcommunist Cultural Studies, ed. Michael D. Kennedy, The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1994, pp 87-101. 8
"The Crisis of Identity and the Struggle for New Hegemony in the Former Yugoslavia", in The Making of Political Identity, ed. Ernesto Laclau, Verso, London, 1994, pp 205-232.
"Deference to the Great Other: The Discourse of Education", in Lacanian Theory of Discourse: Subject, Structure and Society, ed. Mark Bracher, Marshall Alcorn, Ronald Corthell, Francoise Kenny, NYU Press, New York, 1994, pp 163-175.
"National Identity and Socialist Moral Majority", in Space and Place: Theories of Identity and Location, eds. Erica Carter, James Donald, Judith Squires, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1993, pp 101-109.
"The Right Man and the Wrong Woman", in Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan (but were afraid to ask Hitchcock), ed. Slavoj Zizek, Verso, London, 1992
(in German)
“Der richtige Mann und die falsche Frau”, in Was Sie immer schon über Lacan wissen wollten und Hitchcock nie zu fragen wagten. Žižek Slavoj (ed.). Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp Verlag 2002
“Das Schweigen des weiblichen Geniessens”, in Der andere Schauplatz : Psychoanalyse - Kultur – Medien, eds. Marie-Luise angerer and Henry Krips, Vienna,Turia + Kant, 2001
“Kuratoren zwischen Geld und Kunst”, in Sektor 3/Kultur : Widerstand, Kulturarbeit, Zivilgesellschaft, ed. Gerard Rauning, Vienna, IG Kultur Österreich, 2000
“Die Künste des Krieges und der Krieg der Künste”, in Imagineering : Visuelle Kultur und Politik der Sichtbarkeit, (Jahresring, 47), ed. Tom Holert, Köln, Oktagon, 2000
“Sexuelle Differenz als Einschnitt in den Korper”, in Inscenierung und Geltungsdrang, eds. Jorg Huber and Martin Heller, Zurich, Museum fur Gestaltung, 1998
"Die richtige Man und die falsche Frau", in Ein Triumph des Blicks uber das Auge: Psychoanalyse bei Alfred Hitchock, ed. Slavoj Zizek, Turia und Kant, Vienna, 1992
"Utilitarismus", in Wo Es war 8, Turia und Kant, Vienna, 1996
(in Spanish)
"El hombre correcto y la mujer equivocada", in Todo lo que usted siempre quiso saber sobre Lacan y nunca se atrevio a preguntarle a Hitchcock, ed. Slavoj Zizek, Ediciones Manantial, Buenos Aires, 1994
(In French)
“Les fraudes dans le domaine de la médecine légale : à la recherche perverse de la trace matérielle de la réalité”. In: Jacques Lacan, matérialiste : le symptôme dans la psychanalyse, les lettres et la politique, (Savoirs et clinique, 2013, no. 16). Toulouse: Éditions érès, 2013 9
“Du suicide des soldats apres une guerre”, in Clinique du suicide, ed. Morel Genevieve, Ramonville Saint-Agne, Eres 2010
War trauma twenty years after - from Bosnia to St. Louis. JCFAR, ISSN 1351-5470, 2016, vol. 27, issue 27, str. 17-33
Special issues of journals, edited (in English)
The Ethics of Violence, New Formations 35, Lawrence and Wishard, London, 1999
Lacan and Love, New Formations 23, Lawrence and Wishard, London, 1994
On Democracy, New Formations 14, Routledge, London, 1992
A selection of articles in journals (in English)
-“ War trauma twenty years after - from Bosnia to St. Louis”, JCFAR 2016, vol. 27, no 27, pp. 17-33
-“ Dress anxiety”, Critical studies in fashion & beauty, 2016, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 3-17
-“ Urban anxieties in times of terrorism”, Dosi inmunhak yeon-gu, (Seoul) Oct. 2016, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 9-34
-“ What is on my mind? : the law, neuroscience and psychoanalysis”, Belgrade journal of media and communications, 2014, vol. 3, no. 6, pp. 91-110 -“Violence as a response to the ideology of choice” Cardozo Law Review, 2012, vol. 33, no.6, pp. 2275-2288 -“Perversion and forensic science : fraudulent testimonies”, Social Research., fall 2011, vol. 78, no. 3, pp. 887-906
-“Society of choice” Differences”, (Bloomingt. Indiana), Spring 2009, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 157-180
-“The nature of the event in late capitalism”, Cardozo Law Review, 2008, vol. 29, no.5, pp. 2333-2345
- “Choice and the ultimate incurable” Umbr(a) (Buffalo N.Y.), 2006, pp. 85-98.
- “Are we living in society without limits?” Almanac of psychoanalysis 5 : Names-of-the- Father in religions and cultures. [Tel Aviv]: The Israeli Group of the New Lac[a]nian! School of Psychoanalysis, 2006, pp. 140-154.
- “Worries in a limitless world”, Cardozo Review of Law, 2005, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 1139- 1158 10
- “Success in Failure: or How Hypercapitalism Relies on People’s Feeling of Inadequacy”, Parallax, 2003, vol. 9, no. 27., pp. 96-108
- “The real of crime: Psychoanalysis and infanticide”, Cardozo Review of Law, 2003, vol. 24, no. 6, pp.2467-2480
- “The exposure of privacy in today's culture”, Social research, 2002, vol. 69, no. 1, pp. 1-8.
- “Arts in the new age of anxiety”, in The role of the arts in processes of social change, eds. Schaschl Sabine and Szabo Janos Z., Budapest, Art and education network 2001, pp.19-28.
- “After the war is over”, Index on Censorship 2001/4, pp.40-47.
- “Cut in the body: from clitoridectomy to body art”, The other within. Volume I: Literature and culture. Parkin-Gounelas Ruth (ed.). Thessaloniki, Altintzis 2001, pp. 157- 173.
- “Theory: Art and catastrophe”, London, Flash Art 34/2002/225, pp.63-64.
- “Art and catastrophe”, Tel Aviv, Theory and Criticism. An Israeli Forum 2002/21, pp.201-204.
- “Love letters”, Almanac of Psychoanalysis III. The Logical Time of Ravishment. Rehovot, GIEP - The Israeli Group of the European School of Psychoanalysis - Development 2001, pp.235-248.
- “Testimony and the other : (in which authorities do we still believe?)”, Almanac of psychoanalysis II : Psychoanalytic stories after Freud and Lacan, Israel: Israeli Group of the Eyropean School of Psychoanalysis, 2000
- “Cut in the Body: From Clitoridectomy to Body Art”, New Formations 35 (1998)
- "The Sirens and Feminine Jouissance", Differences 1 (1997)
- "Love Between Desire and Drive", Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society 2 (1997)
- "The State as a Work of Art: The Trauma of Ceausescu's Disneyland", Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society 1 (1996)
- "Never, Will I Stoop to Wanting Anything Else", Lacanian Inc 10 (1995), pp. 53-66.
- "Rights in Feminist and Psychoanalytic Perspective", Cardozo Law Review (Spring 1995)
- "Love: Providence or Despair", New Formations 23 (1994), pp 12-24. 11
- "The Fantasy Structure of War: the Case of Bosnia", Praxis International 13 (1993), pp. 213-223.
- "Cogito, its Rights and Fantasies", American Journal of Semiotics 2 (1993), pp. 105- 119.
- "Crime as a Mode of Subjectivization: Lacan and the Law", Law and Critique 1 (1993), pp.3-20.
- "Nationalism and Anti-Feminism in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe", New German Critique 57 (1993), pp. 51-66.
- "The Gender of Rights", Mesotes 4, Wien (1993), pp 447-467.
- "Paradoxes of the Educational Discourse", The School Field 1/2 (1992), p.33-47.
- "Justice and Fantasy", Mesotes 2 , Wien (1992)
- "Legitimizing Violence", Mesotes 1, Wien (1992)
- "The Right Man and the Wrong Woman", Lacanian Inc. 6, New York (1992)
- "Democracy and Violence", New Formations 14, Routledge (1991) pp. 17-26
- "Towards a New Socialist Moral Majority", Emergences 2, UCLA (1990), pp. 93-101
- "Society Doesn't Exist", The American Journal of Semiotics, Indiana University Press, vol. 7. nos 1/2 (1990), pp.45-52
- "National Identity and Socialist Moral Majority", New Formations 12, Routledge (1990), pp. 25-32
- "Homage to the Great Other", Prose Studies, vol. 11, no. 3, (1988) pp. 84-93
in German
- “Universalismus und kulturelle Differenz. Argument 1, 2000, jhrg. 42, Berlin, 2000
- “Glauben wir an Autoritat?”, Lettre International 42, Berlin, 1998
- "Phantasmen des Krieges", Lettre International 21, Berlin, 1993
- "Die Gesellschaft existert nicht", Wo es war 7, Vienna, 1991
in French
-“ Le temps des égarés”, Philosophie magazine, March 2016, n. 97, pp. 64-67 12
-“ Les fraudes dans le domaine de la médecine légale : à la recherche perverse de la trace matérielle de la réalité. In: Jacques Lacan, matérialiste : le symptôme dans la psychanalyse, les lettres et la politique, (Savoirs et Clinique, no. 16). Toulouse: Éditions érès, 2013, pp. 179-189
- “Le réel du crime : une mere infanticide, in Premieres amours, Savoirs et Clinique 2, 2003
- "La structure du fantasme de guerre: le cas de la Bosnie", La Cause Freudiene - Revue de psychanaylse 31, 1995
in Slovene and other languages: more than 200 theoretical articles in scientific journals in the field of psychoanalysis, law, criminology and philosophy (full list of publication is attached)
LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS: more than 500 public lectures, keynote addresses and conference presentations; among them in the last years:
- “Ignorance in Time of Anger”, lecture at ZKM, Karlsruhe in honor of Peter Sloterdijk?s 70 birthday, June 2017
- “Ignorance and neoliberal subjectivity”, lecture at the conference The Subject's Economy and Neoliberal Discourse, Apres-Coup, The School of Visual Arts, New York, March 2017
- “The policy of choice as policy of violence”, lecture at Human rights Film Festival, Kinoteka na Makedonija, Skopje, Nov 2016
- “Law and the Perverse Belief in Science”, lecture at Cardozo School of Law, New York, Feb 2016
- “Neurosis and Dress Anxiety”, lecture for Center for Freudian Analysis, London, Oct. 2015
- “From Srebrenica to St Louis: War trauma 20 years after”, lecture for Center for Freudian Analysis, London, Oct. 2015
- “War trauma 20 years later: Symbolic, imaginary and real”, lecture at the congress of European Society of Criminology, Porto, Sept. 2015
- “On violence”, lecture at the conference Civilization and its Blisscontents, Fordham University, New York, May 2015 13
- “What emerges after ignorance?”, lecture at the Ephemera conference "Whither emergence?", Moscow, May 2015
- “From Srebrenica to St. Louis: war trauma 20 years later”, keynote lecture at the conference on the war in the former Yugoslavia, University of Stanford, May 2015
- “Crimes of fashion” lecture at and organization of two day symposium "Laws of Fashion: Between Transgression and Compliance", Cardozo School of Law, New York, April 2015
- “Secrets”, one week seminar with Bernard Harcourt, Columbia University, New York, April 2015
- Subjectivity in the 21st Century: From anxiety to ignorance”, lecture at Duke University, Durham, Feb. 2015
- “Psychoanalysis and Money”, lecture at the Center for Freudian Analysis, London, Nov 2014
- “Choice and anxiety”, lecture at Museum of Freud’s Dreams, Sankt Petersburg, Nov 2014
- “How did Freud Practice?”, lecture at the Center for Freudian Analysis, London, Oct 2014
- “The power of experts”, lecture at Law on Trial 2014, Birkbeck University of London, London, June 2014.
- “What's on my mind? Law, neuroscience and psychoanalysis”, inaugural lecture Birkbeck University of London, London, June 2014
- “Gene as the New Object of Anxiety”, lecture at Tel Aviv University, Dec 2013
- “Gene as the New Object of Anxiety”, lecture at Kings College, London, Nov 2013
- “Tyranny of Choice”, lecture at Kreisky Forum, Vienna, Sept 2013
- keynote lecture at the opening of the Bergen Bienial, Aug 2013
- “Media and forensic fraud”, lecture at University of Auckland, Aug 2013
- “Tyranny of Freedom”, debate at When the Light Gets In festival, Hay, May 2013
- “Genetics and Anxiety”, keynote lecture at the congress 60 Years of Invention of DNA, Welcome Trust, University of Cambridge, April 2013
- “Art and Violence at Times of Tyranny of Choice”, lecture for Para-site gallery, Hong Kong, March 2013
- “Passion for Ignorance”, lecture at Slought, Philadelphia, Feb 2013 14
- “Violence as a Response to the Ideology of Unlimited Possibilities”, 2012 Michael Whincop Memorial Lecture, School of Law, Griffith University, August, 2012
- “Violence as a response to the ideology of choice”, lecture at Dept. of Law, University of Technology, Sydney, August, 2012
-“Passion for Ignorance”, Magnusson Fellowship Lecture, Glasgow Caledonian University, London campus, May 2012
- “Events Between Violence and Identification”, lecture at ICI, Berlin, May 2012
- “Choice and Belief in Chance”, lecture at the conference Roling the Dice: The Art of Chance, University of Chicago, Feb. 2012
-“Fantasy and Markets”, lecture and co—organization with professor Jeanne Schroeder of the conference at Cardozo School of Law, New York, October, 2011
-“Crime Between Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience”, lecture at Dept. of Law, University of Technology, Sydney, August 2010
-“Future Perfect. Subjectivity in Times of Uncertainty”, lecture at University of Melbourne, August 2010 - lecture at Lacanian Women symposium, School of Law, Griffith University, Brisbane, August 2010
-“Law and Neuroscience”, lecture at the conference organized by European Science Foundation, Maratea, Italy, 2009
- “New Reproductive Techniques and the Psychological Dimensions of People’s Reproductive Desires”, lecture at the conference “Ethical Governance of Biological and Biomedical Research: Chinese-European Co-operation”, BIONET, 6th Framework meeting, Changsha, China, Nov. 2008
- “What is the Nature of the “Event” in Late Capitalism”, lecture at the conference Law and Event, Cardozo School of Law, New York, Nov. 2007
- “ Is late capitalism replacing rights with choices?“, lecture at the conference Debating the Evidence: Human Rights, organized bz CRASSH at St.John's College, Cambridge, April 2007 -“The Choice of Crime”, lecture at the conference, Sexe, amour et crime: Psychanalyse et criminology, ALEPH, Lille, April 2007
- lecture at symposium Mein Hous, House der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Dec. 06
- lecture at the Sao Paolo Biennial of Contemporary Art, Oct. 2006 15
- “Subjectivity in Times of New Exeptionalism”, lecture at the conference, New Exeptionalism, Cardozo School of Law, New York, Oct. 2006
- “Late Capitalism and the Anxiety of Too Much Choice”, lecture at the conference, Affect in Political Life, University of Cambridge, April 2006
- lecture at the art academy of the University of Girona, Spain, March 2006
- “Outside View on Mobile Technology”, lecture for Mobilekom Group, Portoroz, March 2006
- “Longing”, lecture for Arteleku event on Enthusiasm show by Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska, San Sebastian, Feb. 2006
- Presentation of the book On Anxiety at Slought Fundation, Philladelphia, Feb. 2006
- “Feminist Jurisprudence, Lacan and Kabbalah, debate at Cardozo School of Law, New York, Feb. 2006
- “Law and Psychoanalysis”, Lecture for Dept. of Law, McGill University. Montreal, Feb. 2006
- “Tyranny of choice: guilt and anxiety in limitless word”, lecture for Psychoanalysis and Humanities Seminars, Cambridge University, May 2005
- “Society without Limits”, lecture at Flesh and Blood, conference, LSE, London, April 2005
- “Tyranny of Choice”, public lecture at University of Ohio, Columbus, February 2005
- “Women and Law: the Case of New EU Member States”, public debate at the University of Ohio Law School, February 2005
- “Law and Tyranny of Choice”, opening lecture at the weekend retreat of LSE Law Dept., Cumberland Lodge, Jan. 2005
- “Law and tyranny of choice”, lecture at Third Space Seminar, Lund, Sweden, Nov. 2004
- “Law and art”, lecture at Museum Sequeiros, Mexico City, Mexico, Sept. 2004
- “Law and anxiety”, plenary lecture at the conference Traumas of Law, Brisbane, July 2004
- “Killing in the name of God: Law and religious delusions”, Dept of Law, Griffith University, Brisbane, July, 2004
- “When love kills”, distinguished lecture at the conference Das Geschlecht der Religion, Linz, June 2004 16
- “Human Rights in Times of High Anxiety”, conference on Religious Witnessing, NYU, May 2004
- “Nationalism and Culture in 21. Century”, lecture at Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik, April, 2004
- Remarque Workshop ‘The Margins of the West”, Senj, Poland, Feb. 2004
- “Times of High Anxiety”, lecture at Cardozo School of Law, New York, Feb. 2004
- “Why are we afraid of Hypercapitalism?”, lecture for Mediacentar, Sarajevo, Jan. 2004
- “Metenidez – Art and Violence”, lecture at Photographers Gallery, London, August 2003
- “Anxiety and guilt in today’s times”, lecture for 10 th anniversary of Birkbeck College, Dept. of Law, March 2003
- “Seductions and fears of hyper-capitalism in today’s divided world”, lecture for Dept. of Anthropology, Columbia University, New York, Feb. 2003
- “Masochism and death”, lecture for the series “The art of dying”, King’s College, London, December, 2002
- “Success in failure”, lecture at the conference “Failure in work and love”, London School of Economics, Nov. 2002
- “Seductions and fears of hypercapitalism in today’s divided world”, lecture for University of Westminister, London, Nov. 2002
- “Seduction and fear of the visual in today’s hypercapitalist culture”, lecture at the confernce The Visuality of Theory vs. The Theory of the Visual, Kunstlerhous Bremen, Oct. 2002
- “Terrorist and bacteria”, lecture at 4th Colloquium on Cross- Border Crime”, Faculty of Law, Ljubljana, Oct. 2002
- “Terrorism and bacteria – the new fears”, keynote address for Critical Legal Conference, University of North London, Sept. 2002
- “Children, chocolates, and mother’s traumas”, lecture at the comference “Fantasies of childhood”, ICA, London, June 2002
- “The real of crime”, lecture for Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, London, May 2002
- “The real of crime: Andrea Yates and the love of children”, lecture for Duke University, April 2002 17
- “Crime and the passion for the real”, lecture at the conference “Von Rechts Wegen” – Mediale Inszenierung des Rechts, Humbolt University, Berlin, April 2002
- “Seductions and fears of hyper-capitalism in post-socialism”, lecture for the New School University and NYU, March 2002
- “The real of crime”, lecture at the conference “Jouissance of transgression: Lacan and crime”, Cardozo School of Law, March 2002
- “Anxiety and fear”, lecture for Open Society Fund, Vilnius, Lithuania, Dec. 2001
- “Why would a person lie that he is a Holocaust survivor?”, lecture at the conference “Secrets and Lies”, LSE, London, Nov. 2001
- “Anxiety in arts and wars”, lecture at Barnard College, New York, Nov. 2001
- “Strah in tesnoba”, lecture in Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana, Nov. 2001
- “The anxiety of love letters”, lecture at Depot, Vienna, October 2001
- “No lack! Some reflections on contemporary culture”, lecture for “Centre for Freudian Analysis”, London, October 2001
- participation on the round table “15 Years: Hegemony and Socialist Strategy”, Tate Modern, London, June 2001
- “The fear of anxiety in post-enlightnment times”, lecture at the conference “Negating enlightnment”, UCLA, Los Angeles, May 2001
- “Art and the trauma of childhood”, lecture for Fundacio ‘la Caixa’”, Barcelona, May 2001
- “Love anxieties”, lecture for Centre for Freudian Analysis, London, May 2001
- “Lanscape of privacy”, lecture at the conference “On Privacy”, CEU, Budapest, March 2001
- “Strepnja u današnjom društvu”, “Trauma i kultura svijedočenja”, lectures for Centar za savremeno umjetnost, Beograd, March 2001
- “I can’t love you unless I give you up”, lecture at the symposium “I’ll never let you go”, Stockholm, March 2001
- “Testimony and the big Other”, “Anxiety in arts and wars”, lectures for Fundacion Mexicana de Psicoanalisis, Mexico City, Feb. 2002
- “The torture of the body in today’s art”, lecture on the exhibition “Body and the East”, Exit Art Gallery, New York, Jan. 2001 18
- “Arts in the new age of anxiety!, keynote address at the conference “The role of arts in processes of social change”, Arts and Culture Network, Budapest, Dec. 2000
- “Are we truly living in an age of anxiety”, lecture at the New School for Social Research, New York, Nov. 2000
- “Psychoanalysis and the new age of anxiety”, lecture at Duke University, Durham, Nov. 2000
- “Anxiety and the new media”, conference “The archeoleogy of the new media”, Brown University, Nov. 2000
- “Are we truly living in an age of anxiety”, lecture at George Washington University, Nov. 2000
- “Are we truly living in an age of anxiety”, conference “Anxiety, Fear and Phobia”, CFAR, London, Nov. 2000
- “Sublimation and today’s art”, conference “Way beyond the pleasure principle”, ICA, London, Nov. 2000
- “The art of war and the war of art”, lecture at the conference Bordeline Syndrom, Manifesta 3, Ljubljana, June 2000
- “Anxiety in arts and wars”, conference “Psychoanalysis and space”, Arcitectural Association, London, June 2000
- “Cultural aspects of anxiety: subjectivity in arts and wars in light of the Balkan crisis”, lecture at New School for Social Research, New York, April 2000
- “Umjetnost rata i rat umjetnosti: aspekti strepnje u umjetnosti i ratu danas”, lecture for Atelje za filuzofiju, društvene znanosti i psihoanalizu, Sarajevo, April 2000
- “The arts of war and the war of art”, lecture at the conference “Carnival in the eye of the storm”, Pacific Northwestern College of Art, April 2000
- “Cultural aspects of anxiety: subjectivity in today’s arts and wars”, keynote address at the conference “The new Europe: reconfiguring gender, ethnicity and culture”, Rutgers university, March 2000
- “Arts and social change”, opening lecture for Sector3/Kultur, Vienna, March 2000
- “The arts of war and the war of arts”, conference “War and social theory”, Florence, March 2000
- “Curators between money and art”, conference “The use value of culture”, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, Feb. 2000
- “The arts of war and the war of arts”, lecture for IASPIS, Stockholm, Feb. 2000 19
- “Cut in the body: from clitoridectomy to body art”, lecture at Sodertorns Hogskola, Stockholm, Feb. 2000
- “Why would someone pretend to be a victim of the Holocaust?”, lecture for Bard College, Feb., 2000
- “Obscene testimonies”, keynote lecture at the conference “Obscene powers: corruption, coertion and violence”, University of Southampton, Dec. 1999
- “See no evil, hear no evil: Hate speach, human rights and sexual difference”, lecture Faculty of Law, Humbolt University, July, 1999
- “Cultural aspects of violence”, conference MInoranze, marginalita e violenza nelle societa mediterranee, Napoli, June 1999
- “Testimony: In which authorities we still believe?” public lecture, Tel Aviv, 1999
- “Art and cultural difference”, lecture at Betzalel Acedemy of Arts, Jerusalem, 1999
- “Testimony and the Big Other”, plenary lecture at American Lacanian Link conference - The Subject: Encore, UCLA, March, 1999
- “Love and sexual difference: How men and women relate to their secret lovers”, lecture for Humanities Consortium Seminar Series - The Passions, UCLA, March, 1999
- “Testimony and the Big Other”, lecture at University of Buffalo, Feb., 1999
- “Testimony ond the Big Other: Traumas of yesterday and today”, distinguish lecture series, CRCEES, Rutgers University, Feb., 1999
- “Art and Cultural Differences”, lecture for Depot, Vienna, Feb., 1999
- “Femininity and violence in cultural context”, plenary lecture at the conference Women and Human Rights, Social Justice and Citizenship, IFRW, Melbourne, July, 1998
- “In which authorities we still believe?”, lecture at Monash University, Melbourne, July, 1998
- “Evil Authorities”, plenary lecture at the conference on Evil, University of Southampton, May, 1998
- "Cut in the body (from clitoridectomy to body art)", plenary lecture at the conference The Other Within, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, May, 1998
- “The disbelief in the big Other in the university and beyond”, lecture at University of Vancouver, May, 1998
- “Art and cultural differences”, IKT Meeting, Budapest, April, 1998 20
- “Hollywood Melodrama between Desire and Drive”, lecture at the conference Femme Fatale and Film Noir, University of Bergen, Nov., 1997
- "Cut in the body", planery lecture at the conference Psychoanalysis and Social Change: Violence and Agressivity, George Washington University, Washington, Nov., 1997
- "Feminist Oedipus", lecture for ICA, London, Oct. 1997
- "Law and Femininity in Cultural Context", keynot address at the Critical Legal Studies Conference, Dublin, Sept. 1997
- "The Sirens and Feminine Jouissance", conference on Sexuation, Group Nomos, Teacher College, Columbia University, April 1997
- "Love me, love my dog", plenary lecture at the Critical Legal Studies Conference, London, September 1996
- "Love me, love my dog", conference Psychoanalysis and Science, Freud Museum, Vienna, September 1996
- "Identity and Memory: The Trauma of Ceausescu's Disneyland", conference Kulturpolitik?, Saltzburg, June, 1996
- "The Violence of Words: A Psychoanalytic Perspective", lecture for the speakers series "The Letter of Law", Stanford University, March 1996
- "Love and the Question of Gender Identification"; "Cultural Relativism and Verbal Violence", Nordic Summer School, Iceland, August 1995
- "Verbal Violence and the Destruction of Identity", conference Beyond the Wall: Architecture, Ideology and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe, Bucharest, July 1995
- "The Impasses of Hate Speech", conference Sprache der Politik, Politik der Sprache, Universitat Klagenfurt, June 1995
- "Laws of Love and Hate", lecture for Birkbeck College, Dept. of Law, May, 1995
- "The Violence of Memory and the Memory of Violence", conference Cultural Memory, University of Southampton, April 1995
- "Shifting Borders: Identity and Violence", conference Beyond the Wall, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, March 1995
- "The Limits to Public Discourse in Democratic Societies: the Case of Verbal Violence", conference The Normative Fundations of the Polity, ZERP, University of Bremen, Jan. 1995
- "Racism and Hate Speech: A Psychoanalytic Approach", lecture for Cardozo School of Law, New York, Dec. 1994 21
- "Psychoanalysis and War", conference Psychoanalysis and Society, Melbourne, Avgust 1994
- "The Double Bind of the Law", lecture for Dept. of Law, Birkbeck College, London, May 1994
- "The Gender of Rights", conference on Rights in East and Central Europe, Central European University,Budapest, May, 1994
- "Political Discourse and Identification", lecture for Dept. of Media Studies, University of Sussex, Jan., 1994
- "Rights in a Psychoanalytic and Feminist Perspective", lecture for Centre for Theoretical Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Essex, Nov., 1993
- "Nationalism and Feminism: Confrontations and Intersections", conference on Gender, Nationalism and Democratization: Policy Initiatives for Central and Eastern Europe, IREX and Atlantic Council, Washington, October, 1993
- "Woman as a Symptom of Rights", CSST Faculty Seminar, University of Michigan, September, 1993
- "Rape and the Fantasy Structure of War: the Case of Bosnia", lecture for Democracy Seminar Yearly Meeting, Prague, May, 1993
- "Why do We Believe Media?", conference Law and Media in Post-Socialism, Central European University Budapest, June, 1993
- "The Fantasy Structure of Nationalist Discourse", conference What is Left?: The Left and Nationalism in the Post-socialist Age, Dept. of Government, Cornell University, Ithaca, April, 1993
MEDIA
- TED Global talk, Glasgow, June 2013
- regular monthly column in the leading Slovenian newspaper Delo
- past columns in the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia
- presented in a Slovene documentary film as one of the top Slovene scientist. Film: “X v znanosti”, presented on 04. Dec. 2007 at RTV, Ljubljana
- Sky TV, London – interviewed in their series Worst Case Scenarios (aired in July 2004)
- numerous interviews in the international media (in the last year in Le Soir (Belgium), Le Temps (Switzerland), Jutranji list (Croatia), Novosti (Croatia)) 22