News and information

We are cordially inviting you to the online guest lecture by prof. Shelley Rigger, Davidson College, U.S.A.: “Taiwan Strait Tensions: How worried should we be?” on Thursday, April 29, 16:30-17:30 (CET).

The Central Social Sciences Library will be closed from 26 April to 2 May due to holidays and collective holidays of the Faculty of Social Sciences.

The Embassy of Japan in Slovenia is announcing a call for scholarships from the Japanese government MEXT 2022 - scholarships for undergraduate, postgraduate research and postgraduate professional studies in Japan.

Numérique Premium brings you the best of ebooks in Humanities, Social, Legal and Political Sciences. 3,800 French language titles - in partnership with 50 publishers - to browse and read 24/7 from your library or remotely. Trial access is provided from April 20 to May 19, 2021.

The textbook “Taiwan: A Pearl in a Relentless Geopolitical Reality,” by dr. Saša Istenič Kotar was published by the Ljubljana University Press at the Faculty of Arts. The textbook provides a comprehensive and professional insight into the past and present of Taiwan and contains a more detailed analysis of its relations with China, Japan, the USA, the EU and Slovenia.

A new book by Jana S. Rošker entitled "Crisis as Danger and Hope: The Ethics of Pandemics, the Rise of Autocracies and the Dream of Autonomy in a Transcultural Perspective" was published on March 22, 2021, as part of the Studia Humanitatis Asiatica collection.

We would like to inform you that from 5 April 2021 to 11 May 2021, applications for participation in the DUO-Korea program are open. The DUO-Korea Scholarship Program was established in 2001 with the aim of promoting a balanced and lasting exchange between South Korea and 30 European countries.

You are cordially invited to a virtual tour of two Taiwanese film classics and a relaxed conversation with film experts on 22 April 2021 at 4.30 pm. Two films in different genres, spy drama and comedy, will be presented to the Slovenian audience in April as part of the Taiwan Lost Commercial Films European tour, and will offer us valuable glimpses from Taiwan's past.

We are cordially inviting you to the online guest lecture by Prof. André Laliberté (University of Ottawa): »Filial piety in Taiwan’s religious ecology« on Thursday, April 15, 16:30-17:30 (CET).

We are cordially inviting you to the online guest lecture of dr. Bi-Yu Chang (張必瑜): “Nationalisation of Nature & Landscaping the Nation in Taiwan” on Thursday, April 1, 16:30-17:30 (CET)