Participants

Janja Žmavc, PhD, is a linguist, assistant professor in linguistics, research associate, and the head of the Centre for discourse studies in education at the Educational Research Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia. She has been participating in several Slovene and international research projects. Internationally, she does research and teaches at the Universities of Zagreb (HR), Oxford, Durham, King’s College London (UK), Bergen (NOR), Sofia (BG), Belgrade (SRB), and Warsaw (PL). In her research, she focuses on language in education, her interests ranging from classical languages and ancient cultures to discourse analysis, rhetoric and argumentation, and the development of didactics, pedagogic communication, pedagogic authority, and the role of the teacher in modern school; in recent years, she has also been focusing on multilingualism and the development of multilingual school environments. She has published three scientific monographs on the issues, about thirty papers and articles in various Slovene and international journals, books and proceedings.

Valerija Vendramin, PhD in Women’s Studies, is a research associate at the Educational Research Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Besides researching various aspects of gender (in)equality in education as (re)produced by neoliberal and postfeminist times, she has extensively written on the feminist reflections and theorizations of science with a special focus on feminist epistemology. She has recently started to work on the issues of posthumanism and digitalization in education and wider. She is the author of various articles on these issues and the translator of a number of relevant theoretical works. 

Sabina Autor is an assistant at the Educational Research Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She is preparing a doctoral thesis in philosophy on Transformations of Knowledge and the Legacy of the Enlightenment, which addresses the topic of knowledge in contemporary societies. Her research interests are in social philosophy, the role and aim of education and questions of (in)equality, migration and authority in education.

Lucija Zala Bezlaj is a PhD student of Sociology of Culture at the University of Ljubljana and a junior researcher at the Centre for Discourse Studies in Upbringing and Education at the Educational Research Institute in Ljubljana. Her research focuses on discursive constructions of social conceptions of childhood in Slovenian textbooks.

Igor Bijuklič (1980), Ph. D., is a research associate at the Educational Research Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Lecturer at the Master’s programme at the Faculty of Education, University of Primorska, Slovenia. His main field of research is media phenomenology, critical analysis of media techniques and philosophy of technology (in recent years through public lectures, comments and popularisation of the works of Günther Anders, 1902-1992). Through interdisciplinary integration, he places his research topic in broader questions of trans- and posthumanism and examines the implications of new anthropological assumptions, found in various ideologems and narratives (social engineering, technosphere, singularity, etc), on our understanding of education, its purposes and future.

Krzysztof Skonieczny is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales,”University of Warsaw, where he is a member of the Techno-Humanities Lab. He teaches a variety of courses focussed on contemporary continental philosophy, animal studies and environmental issues. He is the author of Immanence and the Animal: A Conceptual Inquiry (Routledge 2020) and co-editor (with Szymon Wróbel) of Atheism Revisited: Rethinking Modernity and Inventing New Modes of Life (Palgrave Macmillan 2020), Living and Thinking in the Post- Digital World: Theories,Experiences, Expectations (Universitas 2021) and Regimes of Capitalism in the Post-Digital World (Routledge 2023).

Kamil M. Wielecki is a social anthropologist at the University of Warsaw, Poland. He has done long-lasting ethnographic fieldwork research in Moldova, Kyrgyzstan and Russia (Central Siberia and Dagestan). His areas of interest include postsocialist studies, the political economy of capitalism,and economic and philosophical anthropology.