Alenka Ambrož is a philosopher working at the intersection of political philosophy, postcolonial theory, psychoanalysis, and critical phenomenology. Her research examines how relations of interdependence, domination, and political subjectivation are shaped through language, embodiment, translation, and symbolic forms. Her current work focuses on interdependence as a psychic, social, ecological, and aesthetic problem, and on the political forms through which experiences of violence, asymmetry, and vulnerability are articulated, contested, or transformed.

Invited lectures

1. “Alienation Today: Categories of Mental Health and Politics of Self-Defense in the Series Beef”, Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Goethe University Frankfurt, May 2024.
2. “Glissant avec Lacan : lire la Philosophie de la Relation à travers l’école lacanienne slovène”, French and Francophone Philosophy Today, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, April 2024.
3. “Réécrire l’archive corporelle : autofiction au prisme de la phénoménologie critique”, seminar “Réparer l’histoire à partir du corps. Enjeux épistémologiques et politiques”, CIPh / Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, April 2024.
4. “Translation as Compromise. Response to Frank Stahnisch”, Compromise Workshop, Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Goethe University Frankfurt, October 2023.
5. “Glissant’s Poetics of Diversity”, Critical Theory of Translation Seminar Series, Columbia University, New York, October 2022.
6. “Ecosophy Today? Three Ecologies and a Double Bind”, Rethinkable Festival, Nova Gorica, October 2022.
7. “Méthodes mixtes pour dépasser l’épistémologie ethnocentrique”, seminar Angoisse méthodologique, ENS Paris, May 2021.

Selected conference papers

1. “Reimagining Self-Defense: Strategies of Non-Violence in the Era of Defensive Governance”, SOS4Democracy Conference: Resilience, Resistance, Renewal: Rethinking Democratic Politics in Times of War and Emergency, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, 24–26 June 2026.
2. “Nakba as a Legal Concept and the Postcolonial Universal”, Criminological Perspectives on Palestine: Legal Responses and Academic Complicity in Times of Genocide, Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, 9–10 April 2026.
3. “Repairing Mutuality in the Aftermath of Recognition”, Recognition and Reparations – Alliance Workshop, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 6 March 2025.
4. “Le ‘care de la relation’ entre la pensée décoloniale et le féminisme matérialiste”, Symposium Care(s) matérialistes, Université de Paris, July 2022.
5. “L’anthropocène plurilingue : les enjeux environnementaux entre les langues”, with Gaël Caignard, colloquium and summer school EUR du Grand Paris FRAPP “Imaginaires des langues : enjeux de pouvoir, nouveaux savoirs”, June 2022.
6. “La traduction en tant que paradigme relationnel chez Khatibi, Glissant et Derrida”, Approches relationnelles en philosophie, CRHI, Université Côte d’Azur, Nice, June 2022.
7. “Glissant and Derrida: Deconstructing Colonial Imaginary from Within and from Without”, International Conference Decolonization and Poststructuralism, University of Madrid, February 2022.
8. “Translation as a Form of Compassion: from Literature to Neuroscience”, Sympatheia / Einfühlung / Empathy: Understanding and Feeling Otherness, Centre of Philosophy, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, January 2022.
9. “Le langage et le corps. Perspectives féministes”, study day “Rapports au corps dans l’entrecroisement des sciences sociales et de l’art”, ENS Paris, June 2021.
10. “La traduction et les politiques du langage commun en temps de crise”, colloquium “Le paradigme de la traduction : enjeux éthiques et politiques à l’heure de la pandémie”, ENS Paris, June 2021.
11. “Traduction interculturelle comme création chez Frantz Fanon”, study day Une émancipation créatrice. Penser l’imaginaire et l’autonomie post-coloniale avec Frantz Fanon, La Colonie / University of Strasbourg, April 2019.
12. “Translation as a Tool of Identity Reconstruction in the Aftermath of Migration”, interdisciplinary study days Affirmer son identité dans et par le discours, CRILASH, Martinique, May 2019.
13. “On Translatable and Untranslatable: Ethical and Political Aspects of Translation in the Work of Francophone Thinkers between 1952 and 1996”, summer school Epistemology of Area Studies and Global Studies, EHESS-PSL / Columbia University / Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Paris, August 2018.
14. “Cultural Identities and the Question of Translation”, International Symposium Identités culturelles et mondialité, Faculty of Safi, Morocco, April 2018.
15. “On Nature and Artifice in Human Behaviour: The Caribbean Example”, Night of Philosophy, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, June 2017.
16. “Foucault’s Ethics: Engaging Antiquity”, International Conference Engaging Foucault, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, December 2014.
17. “Kant, Intuition and Contemporary Neo-Confucianism”, 4th International Philosophy Student Congress, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka, May 2013.

Selected publications

- “Kompromiss in den Wissenschaften als Übersetzung”, in Gunther Hellmann (ed.), Kompromiss, Frankfurt, Transcript, 2025.
- Ambrož, A., Vrignaud, J., Rumpikova, M., Hristov, M., “L’adaptation au prisme de la honte dans les récits transclasses”, Studia Romanica et Anglica Zagrebiensia, vol. 69, 2024.
- “La traduction, l’éthique et l’imprévisible relation : repenser la traduction avec Édouard Glissant”, Revue des Sciences Humaines, April–June 2023.
- “Gender and the (Bio)politics of Translation”, in S. Bojanić and V. Graziano (eds.), Contours of Change. A Decade of Transformative Inquiry at CAS SEE, Rijeka, 2024.
- “La traduction et les politiques du langage commun en temps de crise”, in M. Crépon et al. (eds.), Politique des traductions, Paris, Éditions Rue d’Ulm, 2023.
- “Epistemološki i metodološki temelji Homo academicusa”, in Mladenović, Zarić et al. (eds.), Pjer Burdije. Radikalna misao i praxis, Belgrade, Institute of Philosophy, 2021.
- “Les identités culturelles et la question de la traduction”, in A. Rahali et al. (eds.), Identités culturelles et mondialité, Presses universitaires de Safi, 2018.
- “Foucault’s Ethics: Engaging Antiquity”, in A. Zaharijević et al. (eds.), Engaging Foucault. Volume 1, Belgrade, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, 2015.