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From Balkanism to colonialism : The Western Balkans, Slovenia and EU

Invited lecture, University of Tokyo, 27.X.2008. Tokyo, 2008. The lecture outlines discursive patterns through which the image of the Western Balkan countries in the process of their EU accession is formed and mantained in Slovenia. It points out to the ways in which existing patterns, formed through history or by the EU institutions are reinterpreted, borrowed and maintained in specificaly Slovenian context.

B.05 Guest lecturer at an institute/university

COBISS.SI-ID: 28869165

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Evropska periferija in prenašanje kolonialnih diskurzivnih vzorcev

Lecture at the 10th Annual Conference on Conceptual History "Transnational Concepts, Transfers and the Challenge of the Peripheries", Istanbul, 2007.

B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference

COBISS.SI-ID: 27158829

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The "Western Balkans" : legacies, practices, policies and identity strategies vis-a-vis the process of nation building

Introduction to the thematic section gives an overview of included articles and points out to their theoretical grounds and issues they discuss. All included articles deal, from different viewpoints, with ethnic processes, identity strategies, policies and practices related to the nation building processes in the Western Balkans.

C.04 Editorial board of an international magazine

COBISS.SI-ID: 28246573

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'Nesting colonialisms' : new and old patterns of exclusion in the European periphery

Invited lecture at international conference "Inclusion and Exclusion in and on the Borders of Europe", Grand hotel Metropol, 6.-7.VI.2008, Portorož, 2008. It provided an analysis of political discourse referring to the process of EU accession of the countries of the “Western Balkans”, formed both within the EU institutions and by political elites in the European states.

B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference

COBISS.SI-ID: 28268077

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The idea of Europe or Europe without ideas? : discourses on "the Western Balkans" as a mirror of modern European identity

Invited lecture at postgraduate study program "Kulturen der Differenz" Universität Wien, Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung, 13.XI.2008, Vienna, 2008. The lecture highlights mechanisms through which the existing and easily recognizable patterns of exclusion, such as colonial discourse, are deployed in the new context, in which some countries are already members of the European Union while others strive for membership.