invites you to a lecture
at Media Studies study programme by

Dr. Aleksandra Stanković

Aleksandra Stanković is a PhD graduate at ISH in 2009. She made a field research about the construction of European space in Slovenia. Her PhD thesis is a sublimation of two of her research and study interests: media and European integration.

Lecture in English language will be on

Wednesday March 17, 2010
from 16.30 to 18.00 Hours at ISH, Knafljev prehod 11, Ljubljana

Evropska identiteta in mediji
European Identity and Media

Identity has big potential for diagnosis of its own time and it is not only a problem of each single subject, but a problem of a Subject as universal category. Identity is a quality of a subject. Identification goes with figures and patterns, with which in reality we never come in contact, but only by media intervention. Subject is derailed out from its stable position; media constantly suggest identity and its changes. Modern societies are offering different possibilities to people; mobility stimulates and accelerates de-traditionalisation, connects different groups and levels and with it opens pluralism of identity and possibility for European identity existence. Construction of European identity is possible today and conditions for that construction exist. Strengthening of the European identity is solving the problems that are obsessing united Europe, such as lack of legitimacy, democracy, affiliation.
European identity is usually seen as collective identity, its individual dimensions cannot be neglected. Regarding the long tradition of individualism in Europe, we bravely claming that individual dimension of European identity is attractive for citizens.
EU depends on media, and individuals depend on EU community and media. Media have the possibility to expand mediatiased community. Actually, media now present borders for any identity formation including European.
During that process media can be excellent instrument for internal European convergence and necessary condition for that is the free flow of information over the borders, what is at the same time also condition for cultural integration. That is opportunity, but risk also exists.
Media space is space that represents potential for construction of European identity. During the construction of European identity media do not have to talk affirmative about EU and Europe, important is only the fact that they are dealing with this issue.

Kindly invited!

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INSTITUTUM STUDIORUM HUMANITATIS
FAKULTETA ZA PODIPLOMSKI HUMANISTIČNI ŠTUDIJ, LJUBLJANA
LJUBLJANA GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE HUMANITIES

Vas vabi na predavanje na Medijskih študijih, ki ga bo imela
invites you to a lecture at Media Studies study programme by

Prof. dr. Saša Vojković

Saša Vojković je izredna profesorica filmskih in medijskih študijev na oddelku za kulturne študije Filozofske fakultete Univerze na Reki. Bila je prejemnica “ASCA PhD Fellowship (Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Theory and Interpretation)” – ugledne štipendije, ki jo podeljuje “Faculty of Letters” Amsterdamske Univerze. Bila je tudi dobitnica YK Pao triletnega podoktorskega predavateljskega angažmaja na oddelku za humanistiko na Univerzi znanosti in tehnologije v Hong Kongu. Med njenimi številnimi publikacijami omenimo dve knjigi: (2009) Yuen Woo Ping’s Wing Chun. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press in (2008) Filmski medij kao transkulturalni spektakl: Hollywood, Europa, Azija. Zagreb: Hrvatski filmski savez.

Saša Vojković is associate professor of film and media at the Department of Cultural Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Rijeka. She was the recipient of the ASCA PhD Fellowship (Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Theory and Interpretation) awarded by the Faculty of Letters, University of Amsterdam. She also won a YK Pao three-year postdoctoral teaching fellowship awarded by the Department of Humanities, at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Predavanje v angleškem jeziku bo v sredo, 24. marca ob 16:30 uri na
Lecture in English language will be on Wednesday March 24, 2010
from 16.30 to 18.00 Hours at ISH, Knafljev prehod 11, Ljubljana

Zakon očeta in Tarantinov transkulturalni imaginarij
The Law of the Father and Tarantino’s Transcultural Imaginary

V predavanju bo govora o lacanovski teoriji filma v nanosu na filma Quentina Tarantina Kill Bill 1 in 2. Predavateljica bo razložila zakaj je potrebna nova konceptualizacija  Lacanove označevalnega zakona Judith Butler za raziskovanje Tarantinovega transkulturalnega univerzuma. V središču predavanja bo reprezentacija ženskosti v fikcijskem svetu, kjer tradicionalni lacanovski zakon očeta ne zdrži več.

In the lecture she will discuss Lacanian film theory as applied to Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill volume 1 and 2 and explain why Judith Butler’s reconceptualization of Lacan’s law of signification is a necessary precondition for an examination of Tarantino’s transcultural universe. The central concern is representation of femininity in a fictional world where the traditional Lacanian Law-of-the-Father does not hold.

What enables the main female character Beatrix Kiddo to execute her revengeful deeds are the fighting techniques and strategies that come from the Far East. In that sense the film’s fabula draws its logic from the transcultural imaginary, implying first of all, that Beatrix Kiddo as a character would be unthinkable without her Eastern mentors. By the same token, via this female character the traditional martial arts master from the Hong Kong imaginary acquires a prominent function in the contemporary Hollywood’s universe. This is not only the case of a postmodernist homage or recycling, as a si fu who discloses secret knowledge to the main female character, or rather the technique that will place her on top of Bill’s universe (enabling her to become the highest authority), the monk Pai Mei has a formative function in both, the film’s narrative structure, and its symbolic universe.

Vljudno vabljeni!
Kindly invited!