Academic Unit of Cultural Studies

Cultural Studies is an exciting field at the intersection of the humanities and social sciences. It offers energetic new takes on everyday life and culture, and encourages creativity, critical thought, and social responsibility. Cultural Studies provides tools for observing, grasping, and intervening into trends and transformations in the ways we live our lives; at home, in the workplace, and out in the streets, online and off the grid. It is passionate about justice, equality, and sustainability, and committed to interrogating power relations in the modern world.

The Chair of Cultural Studies at the University of Ljubljana’s Faculty of Social Sciences was established in 1994. It develops and runs BA, MA, and PhD Cultural-Studies programs. Inspired by life, our programs are designed to prepare you for life, today and in the new world, the one that we see forming in front of our eyes. We will help you on your way to make it more just, more sustainable, and more fun.

Our programs are built around courses that encourage you to understand the world from the perspectives of cultural anthropology, media, film, and game studies, science and technology studies, gender studies, religion studies, ethnic studies, philosophy, and critical theory. These perspectives are supported by courses designed to develop your creative skills by engaging with classical and new media - from cinema to TikTok; and formats - from novels to memes.

In short, while broadening their intellectual horizons and acquiring interdisciplinary research skills, our students write, design, and create content. Offering transferable skills and developing flexibility and strong interdisciplinary analytical skills, our BA and MA programs are ideal for content creators of various kinds, including influencers, social activists, and media editors. They are a great starting point for future specialists in the quickly developing fields of the creative and media industries, heritage protection, interpretation, and management, and cultural tourism. Our graduates are successful in various workplaces, from small and large media companies to galleries and museums; from institutions managing cultural heritage to those that work in tourism; from diplomatic services to various NGOs and research institutions.

Are you interested in our programs but worried about the language barrier?

We encourage diversity, and our undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs are open to applicants from abroad.

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The undergraduate Cultural-Studies program is offered in the Slovenian language.

Non-Slovenian nationals are welcome to enrol, but intermediate (B2) command of Slovenian is required to follow the undergraduate program.

It takes approximately two semesters of Slovenian language courses for students, offered by the University of Ljubljana’s Centre for Slovene as a Second and Foreign Language (our recommended institution for this purpose).

Information for foreign applicants

The Master’s program in Cultural Studies is open to students who are not proficient Slovenian-speakers, should they commit to a taking an intensive Slovenian language course in their first year.

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Publications

KOSI, Teja. “Dramatic”, “crazy”, and “unworthy” women: endometriosis and the (medical) perceptions of female pain. Družboslovne razprave. 2025, letn. 41, št. 108/109, str. 43-64. https://www.sociolosko-drustvo.si/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/DR108-109-Kosi.pdf, DOI: 10.51936/dr.41.108-109.43-64.

BOBNIČ, Robert, KOSTANJEVEC, Jan. Yugowave and Serbwave on Youtube: audience analysis by community detection. Družboslovne razprave, 2025, letn. 41, št. 108/109, str. 199-225. https://www.sociolosko-drustvo.si/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/DR108-109-Bobnic_Kostanjevec.pdf, DOI: 10.51936/dr.41.108-109.199-225.

KALUŽA, Jernej; MAJSOVA, Natalija. Moderne, postmoderne in metamoderne strukture občutenja: velikopodatkovna analiza spominov na Josipa Broza – Tita v 21. stoletju. Družboslovne razprave, 2025, 41(108/109), pp. 145–173.

NARDONI, Maruška. Archiving labour reconceptualisations : scaling up' with technological means. Feminist encounters : a journal of critical studies in culture and politics. 2025, vol. 9, issue 2, article no. 23, 13 str. ISSN 2468-4414. DOI: 10.20897/femenc/16781.

ŠEPETAVC, Jasmina. Monsters, victims and rebels: transitions of post‑Yugoslav Slovenian queerness on film. Studies in World Cinema, 2025, vol. 5, issue 1, pp. 116–139.
PUŽAR, Aljoša. The infrastructures of diversion: doing cultural studies in post-communist Balkans. In Andrew Davis (ed.), Better stories: mapping cultural studies with Lawrence Grossberg. Lancaster (PA); Vancouver: Imbricate! Press, 2025, pp. 141–150.

ŠTERK, Karmen. Gossiping going south : anthropological insights into gossip on a Dalmatian island. Annales : anali za istrske in mediteranske študije. Series historia et sociologia. 2024, letn. 34, št. 1, str. 1-16, ilustr. https://zdjp.si/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/ASHS_34-2024-1_%C5%A0terk-1.pdf, DOI: 10.19233/ASHS.2024.01.

STANKOVIĆ, Peter (ur.), MAJSOVA, Natalija (ur.). Alpenecho: slovenska narodnozabavna glasba v sodobnih kulturnih, političnih in medijskih kontekstih. Ljubljana: Fakulteta za družbene vede, Založba FDV, 2024. Knjižna zbirka Kult. DOI: 10.51936/9789612951115.

KOMEL, Mirt. Alan Ford goes to Yugoslavia : from tautology to ideology. Anthropos : časopis za psihologijo in filozofijo ter za sodelovanje humanističnih ved. 2024, letn. 56, št. 1, str. 197-209. https://www.hippocampus.si/ISSN/2630-4082/56.197-209.pdf, DOI: 10.26493/2630-4082.56.197-209.

VELIKONJA, Mitja. Ukrajinske vinjete: eseji o kulturi bližnje vojne. Dob: Miš, 2024.

ČRNIČ, Aleš; FORTUNA, Taja. »Vsi smo malo videli, da bog tudi prek socialnih omrežij deluje«: vpliv intenzivirane rabe digitalnih tehnologij na izbrane slovenske religijske skupnosti. Poligrafi, 2024, 29(115/116), pp. 141–162.

MALI, Franc. Vloga in pomen znanstveno-tehnološke transdisciplinarnosti pri vrednotenju razvojnih potencialov novih naprednih tehnologij. V: SPLICHAL, Slavko (ur.). Od tržne konkurenčnosti tehnologije k družbeni tehnološki zrelosti. Ljubljana: Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti: Fakulteta za družbene vede, Založba FDV, 2025. Str. 43-56, tabela. https://ebooks.uni-lj.si/ZalozbaUL/catalog/view/810/1203/12047.

TOMC, Gregor. Music as a spandrel of evolutionary adaptation for speech: the doors of imagination. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2023. ISBN 978-1-5275-1877-3. http://nukweb.nuk.uni-lj.si/login?url=https://www.vlebooks.com/product/openreader?id=unilj&accId=9486805&isbn=9781527518773.

ŠABEC, Ksenija. Between home and the world : (banal) nationalism and representations of a nation in Slovenian folk-pop music. Družboslovne razprave<. 2023, 39, [št.] 102, str. 106-126.dCOBISS, DOI: 10.51936/dr.39.102.105-126.