EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL

We are proud to announce that our researcher Dr Mojca M. Plesničar was successful in obtaining a prestigious ERC project. Her 5-year project Sentrix - "Sentencing architecture: building a decision-making matrix" was awarded funding of more than EUR 1.5 million. The...

You are kindly invited to Elise Kolen's lecture "Beyond Reality: Analysing the regulatory framework for combating non-consensual sexually explicit AI-generated deepfakes in the metaverse", which will take place in the framework of the Tuesday Meetings next Tuesday, 16...

We kindly invite you to a lecture by Dr. Nina Beguš entitled "Artificial Humanities: Artificial Intelligence, Fiction, Ethics", which will be organised as part of our Tuesday Meetings on Wednesday, 19 June 2024, at 11:00 in the library of the Institute of Criminology....

From 29 to 31 May, the Faculty of Law hosted the Tenth International Conference of the Surveillance Studies Network, hosted locally by the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana. More than 250 speakers from all over the world presented papers on...

We invite you to a lecture which will be held by Dr Zoran Kanduč entitled "The war psychosis of liberal democracies and other geopolitical crime stories". It will take place on Thursday, June 13th at 14.00 in the library of the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty...

Our young researcher Iva Ramuš Cvetkovič spoke about the genocide in Gaza in an interview for Radio Študent and in a column in Delo. Both can be found at the links below: Interview on Radio Študent: https://radiostudent.si/politika/apr-intervju/iva-ramus-cvetkovic...

The Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana co-organises an international symposium entitled Who Cares for the People: from socialism to post-socialism. The symposium will take place on 28 May 2024 at the SAZU Hall, Novi trg 3, Ljubljana, starting...

Dr Renata Salecl will be a guest lecturer at Hiroshima University on 22.5.2024. She will give a lecture entitled "Trauma and Ignorance: How people deal with memories of violence and war". The lecture will take place in the framework of The 31st International Peace and...

The European Court of Human Rights has elected Dr. Marko Bošnjak as its president. Dr. Bošnjak began his academic career as a junior researcher at the Institute of Criminology, where he later served as a research associate . We sincerely and proudly congratulate our...

The statement of the collective of the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana is available here. The statement was summarised for RTV Slovenia by our young researcher Iva Ramuš Cvetkovič, the summary can be found...

We kindly invite you to a Tuesday Meeting lecture by dr. Deniz Erkmen, titled »A Curveball and a Glimmer of Hope? Reflecting on 2024 Local Elections and Democratic Resilience in Turkey«, which will be held on Wednesday, 15 May, at 11.00 at the library of the Institute...

Registrations are now open for conference “Democratic backsliding in the era of permanent crises”, which we are organizing together with our partners within the project SOS4democracy. You can register here: https://form.jotform.com/240993120275354 Registration...

Dr Aleš Završnik was a guest on the Voice of Slovenian Australians Sydney on 13 April 2024. You can listen to the interview with Prof. Aleš Završnik here: https://omny.fm/shows/voice-of-slovenian-australians/voice-of-slovenian-australians-april-13-2024

Renata Salecl attended a talk at the Bitef Theatre in Belgrade on 23.4.2024. The topic of the talk was Ignorance, Denial and Forgetting. The talk was moderated by Maja Pelević.

On Monday, 22.4.2024, Dr Renata Salecl will take part in a discussion about her book "Strast za neznanjem". The talk will take place at Zenit Books, Novi Sad, at 7 pm. The discussion will be moderated by Aleksandar Fatić, professor at the Faculty of Media and...

Professor Aleš Završnik in Canberra at the Australian Judges' Training Days organised by the National Judicial College of Australia, 7 April 2024  

We are happy to invite you to a Tuesday Meeting with the recipients of the prizes for outstanding and above-average master's theses in the field of criminology and criminal law, awarded by the Society for Criminal Law and Criminology of Slovenia (DKPK). The meeting...

You are cordially invited to the Tuesday Lecture by Dr. Zoran Kanduč entitled "The Horrifying Circus of Western Liberal Democracies", which will take place on Tuesday, 26 March at 14:00 in the Library of the Institute of Criminology. The lecture will be held in...

Our researcher dr. Jasmina Arnež gave a guest lecture at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland on Wednesday, 28 February 2024 as part of The Crime, Justice & Society Seminar Series. In her lecture, she touched upon the hidden pathways of punishment and social...

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Professor Sveinung Sandberg from the University of Oslo has written a review of the book Negotiating Class in Youth Justice by our researcher Jasmina Arnež for the journal Theoretical Criminology. Jasmina's book also won the British Society of Criminology's 2023 Book...

Our researcher Dr. Kristina Čufar paid a study visit to the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg at the invitation of Slovenian judges Dr. Maja Brkan, Dr. Marko Ilešič and Dr. Damjan Kukovec. Besides taking advantage of the rich library of the CJEU,...

Our researchers Miha Hafner and Manja Skočir participated as national rapporteurs in a colloquium organised by the International Association for Criminal Law (AIDP) entitled "Artificial Intelligence and Criminal Justice", which took place in Opatija, Croatia. The...

Renata Salecl presented a French translation of her book A Passion for Ignorance in Paris. Les Éditions Stilus organized a debate between Renata Salecl and French psychoanalyst, Ronan Wellebrouck in Librairie Michèle Ignazi.

In the framework of the Tuesday meetings, a lecture by Dr. T. Deniz Erkmen entitled "Resistance under Mobile Emergency Rule: Repression and Transformation of the Protest Scene in Authoritarian Turkey" will take place on Wednesday, 6.12.2023, at 11:00 a.m. in the...

BREAKtheBIAS project seeks to address one of the most challenging problems in the international human rights system that of unequal access to human rights justice. It looks at the outcomes of thousands of international, regional, and domestic human rights cases and...

The European Project "Social Sciences for Democracy - SOS4democracy" invites you to submit paper abstracts for its first annual conference, "Democratic backsliding in the era of permanent crises." The conference will take place from 26 to 28 June 2024 at the Roma Tre...

On Friday, 20 October 2023, our researcher dr. Renata Salecl had a debate with prof. dr. Susanne Baer, former judge of The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, at the Frankfurt Book Fair. The title of the debate was On Passion for Ignorance.

On Thursday, 5 October 2023, we celebrated the 90th anniversary of dr. Alenka Šelih, long-time Director and Researcher at the Institute of Criminology, as part of the National Criminology Conference "Prevention and (In)Justice". After a welcoming address by the...

On Tuesday, 19 September 2023, our researcher dr. Renata Salecl spoke at a colloquium entitled "The legal professions towards the new technologies of production, calculation and digital surveillance", organised by the Faculty of Law, University of Buenos Aires.

On Wednesday, 20 September, our researcher dr. Renata Salecl, who is currently in Buenos Aires, will give a lecture as part of the Malba Writers' Residency activities. During the lecture, she will give the audience access to her private library and ask herself, what...

Today, on Wednesday, 13 September 2023, there will be a conversation in the framework of the MALBA Writers' Residency with our researcher dr. Renata Salecl, who is currently visiting Buenos Aires. "An exclusive interview with Renata Salecl, the fourth REM guest, will...

The AirBeletrina website has published an interview with our researcher dr. Renata Salecl, in which she discusses her latest book, Time of Roughness....

Our researcher, dr. Renata Salecl, has been chosen to participate in the Malba Writers Residence Programme, hosted in collaboration with the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires. https://rem.malba.org.ar/en/residentes/

A new book by our researcher, Dr. Renata Salecl, titled "Humanovirus," has been published by the Spanish publisher Ediciones Godot. In this book, the author reflects on the altered mechanisms of control and the new behavioral patterns of people triggered by the surge...

Our researcher, Dr. Renata Salecl, attended a discussion titled "Ignorance, Disillusionment, and the Law of the Jungle" at the Inside-Out Art Museum in Beijing on Saturday, June 24, 2023. The event featured the participation of Dr. Salecl and Wang Xiaoming, a...

The Institute of Criminology will be coordinating a new European project called "Social Sciences for Democracy: A training program to improve research on illiberal systems and find ways to build more robust democracies (SOS4democracy)". The project aims to create an...

Our researchers Mojca Plesničar and Lora Briški participated in the international workshop entitled Democratic backsliding and penal policy in Europe. They presented a paper entitled Politics and criminal justice in Slovenia: (In)competent attempts and resistance by...

The Slovenian Book Agency has published a short film about our researcher, prof. dr. Renata Salecl, which was produced on the occasion of the Frankfurt Book Fair, where dr. Salecl was the guest of honor. We invite you to watch it!...

The Director of the Institute, Prof. Dr. Aleš Završnik, was a guest on the program "Intelekta" on Radio Slovenia's First Program. The guests of the program reflected on who will benefit and who will be harmed by the new artificial intelligence, and how to use and...