Vlado Kotnik
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Vlado Kotnik, born February 17 in 1975, is a Slovenian anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher.
He was born in Celje, Slovenia, and lives in Ljubljana. He is assistant professor, affiliated at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Primorska (University of Littoral) in Koper-Capodistria, Slovenia. He received his B.A. (in sociology of culture and in philosophy) in 1999 from the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, and his Ph.D. in anthropology (2004) from the ISH – Ljubljana Graduate School of the Humanities.
His principal fields of research are social and historical anthropologies, media studies, anthropology of opera, anthropology of scientific worlds and academic practices, problems of social inequalities in contemporary science and research, anthropology of landscape, sport and media in social change, anthropology of intellectuals, studies on anti-intellectualism and provincialism. He was working on many scientific projects of various topics (opera, social uses of mobile telephony, everyday life in “societies of transition”, computer-mediated communication and internet discussions and chat rooms) in Slovenia as principal researcher, director of research, project co-ordinator or collaborator on project.
His books:
- Reprezentacije opere [The Representations of Opera] published 2003, brings an extensive ethnographic research of the opera system in Slovenia. This work (419 pages) also involves 10-page long English summary, and 4-page long summaries in French, Italian and German.
- Antropologija opere [The Anthropology of Opera] is a historic-anthropological and socio-anthropological study of academic and intellectual discourses about the opera. It was published at the end of the year 2005.
- Opéra dans l’arène du provincialisme et nationalisme : Un regard anthropologique sur la culture d’opéra en Slovénie. Paris: Éditions le Manuscrit, 2006.
He is a member of the editorial board of the multilingual scientific review of historical, social and other anthropologies Monitor ZSA, published by the Slovenian association TROPOS – Association for Historical, Social and Other Anthropologies and Cultural Activities.
He participated at some international scientific conferences and colloquia, and make some study visits all over the Europe: Diplomatische Akademie Wien (Vienna), Faculty of Social Sciences (Ljubljana), Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College (Buckinghamshire, UK), University of Tampere (Finland), Collegium Budapest – Institute for Advanced Studies (Budapest), Maison des sciences de l’homme (Paris), École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris). In academic year 2004/05 he was a postdoctoral fellow of the Maison des sciences de l’homme and visiting scholar at the École des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris.
In his work he uses seven different languages: Slovenian, English, French, Croatian, German, Serbian, and Italian. During his under-graduate study he took 3-year long private course of opera singing tutored by soprano Lela Radovan, a member of the well known Slovenian opera family.
Homepage: http://www2.arnes.si/~vkotni3
