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The international conference Legacies of antihumanism, which took place on December 5-7 at the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana, featured over 30 participants who discussed the humanities in an era marked by the accelerated hybridization of humans and machines, as well as by increasingly autonomous technologies.

The exhibition Images of Better Knowledge shows one of the specificities of local cultural studies - the integration of creative practices into the study and research process. Creative practices have been given special emphasis in the renewal of the BA and MA programs in Cultural Studies in 2021, making them central to several core and elective courses. In doing so, we are putting into practice the belief that the articulation of thought and socio-political change takes place not only through classical teaching but also through the arts, popular culture, mass media, and the wide variety of forms and formats of conversation. New (institutional) practices, seminars, and collective experiences offer students the opportunity to observe, analyze, question, co-create, and transform cultural trends and different ways of life through various practices and media. The exhibition consists of some of the outcomes created in the last three years in the courses Cultures of Creativity, Practicum of Cultural Production, and Creative Writing, under the mentorship of Peter Stanković, Gregor Tomc, Vasja Lebarič, Natalija Majsova, and Aljoša Pužar.

On Thursday, 24 October 2024, the Academic Reading Room of Aleš Debeljak hosted the second Fusnota – an event aimed at reviewing the results of the previous academic year and exploring the creative dimensions of cultural studies. This year's Fusnota was festive, as it was held in the context of the 30th anniversary of the Department of Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana.

The MEMPOP Loading: Regional Perspectives on Memory, Popular Culture and Cultural Studies two-day international workshop that took place on June 6-7, 2024 at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljanafeatured a selection of presentations on diverse current research and stressed the need for more interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary popular culture. The workshop concluded with an initiative to establish a regional network bringing together cultural studies scholars in and from Central and South-Eastern Europe.

Organized as part of the 30th anniversary of the Department of Cultural Studies, the two-day event offers a platform for popular culture and collective memory researchers from Central and Southeastern Europe to discuss their ongoing research on popular music, film, murals, and video games as mnemonic media embedded into complex configurations of people, technologies, policies, and markets.