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The new, cultural-studies themed issue of Social Science Forum journal has just been published!

We are pleased to announce that the Center for Cultural and Religious Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences has been awarded a 2-year grant for the targeted research project entitled Slovenian Music between the Market, Audience, and Cultural Policy: An Empirical Analysis of the Music Ecosystem.

In April 2026, the Center for Cultural and Religious Studies will host the ACS Institute on the topic of Decolonial Strategies and Memory Work in Popular Culture.

The International Association for the Study of Popular Music – Central, Eastern and SouthEastern Europe (IASPM CESE) held its first international conference on September 11–12, 2025 at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.

Assistant Professor Jasmina Šepetavc, PhD, researcher at the Center for Cultural and Religious Studies (CCRS) and lecturer at the Department of Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, is the recipient of the prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant project.

This academic year, a Student Film Club, Kinoklub has been launched at the FSS, as a space where students are not just spectators, but actively participate, discuss and create a community of cinephiles.

On 26 May 2025, second year students of Cultural Studies (and other enthusiasts) took part in a field trip to Venice to work on their project assignments in street photography for the Cultures of Creativity course.

At the end of March 2025, Jasmina Šepetavc, a researcher at the Centre for Cultural and ReligiousStudies, participated in a short-term Erasmus+ exchange at Kyungpook National University (KNU) in Daegu, South Korea. During her visit, she gave a lecture on Slovenian popular music, with a particular focus on folk-pop music and the Centre's recently completed project Slovenian​Folk-Pop as​Politics:​Perceptions,​Receptions,​an Identities. Jasmina presented the characteristics of this musical genre to students and faculty members, and discussed how music can reflect and shape national and regional identities.

As part of the Erasmus+ project Beyond the Rainbow: Cooperation to Explore Youth Intimacies through Audio Stories, we invite you to a special online panel discussion featuring speakers from Ireland, Slovenia, Serbia, and France.

As a part of the Nakba anniversary events Free Palestine, the Department of Cultural Studies cordially invites you to the conversation with the bookstore owner, publicist, and publisher Mahmud Muna, which will be moderated by Dr. Aleš Črnič and Katja Zakrajšek. On Thursday, May 15, 2025, at 11:00 AM at the Faculty of Social Sciences (lecture hall 20), we will be discussing the Holy Land at the intersection of religions, geopolitical pressures, and anti-colonial resistance.