We kindly invite you to a lecture by prof. dr. Darja Zaviršek entitled “Forced and Early Marriages of Roma Girls in Slovenia”, which will take place as part of the Tuesday Meetings series on Tuesday, 24 March 2026, at 11:00, in the library of the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana.
At the upcoming Tuesday Meeting, Dr Zaviršek will present the issue of early and forced marriages of children as a form of harmful social norms that are often justified as a cultural practice of a particular community.
In this way, processes of culturalization, ethnicization, and the pathologization of people belonging to minority groups are reproduced, further reinforcing social distance. In Slovenia, such harmful social norms occur mostly in some Roma families, reproducing transgenerational poverty and violence. Awareness, the use of legal mechanisms, and multisectoral forms of intervention remain weak and need to be strengthened.
Prof. Dr. Darja Zaviršek is employed at the Faculty of Social Work, where she leads the Chair for the Study of Social Inclusion and Justice and the Center for the Research of the History of Social Work. In 2002, she was awarded the title of Honorary Professor at Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin. In 2013, at the same university, she co-founded the international master’s program “Social Work as a Human Rights Profession”, where she has also served as a visiting professor since then. She is a member and national reporter to the European Commission in the field of disability within the Academic Network of Disability Experts (ANED). She lectures at numerous universities worldwide and is a member of several professional associations, including the board of the International Association of Schools of Social Work.
Contact person and event moderator: dr. Jasmina Arnež.
Video and audio recording of the event is not allowed.
