Date of Birth: 10 April 1990
Education: Doctorate
Research Title: Research Assistant with PhD
University Title: Assistant
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Dr Marisa Žele's research focuses on the philosophical examination of concepts, imaginaries, problems and ruptures within the history of ideas that may occur outside philosophy but have a significant impact on the modification of its concepts and on the thinking of its own conditions. In particular, she examines how particular ideas are related to their historical and epistemological conditions. Her research is characterised by a theoretical examination of the emergence of ideas in the history of European thought, with the Middle Ages and all its offshoots at the centre of her research, which she traces up to our contemporality. The topics she explores often touch on interdisciplinary research, such as the concept of the end, mediaeval eschatology, the history of the natural sciences, literature (especially the genre of science fiction) and the history of monstrosity, with a particular interest in European conceptions of the Other. Her main areas of interest are the epistemology of the mediaeval and early modern period, the history of ideas, post-structuralism and theoretical psychoanalysis. Her current research focusses on the concept of trickery.
Articles
Siren Song to the Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Loss of the World, Filozofski vestnik, 2022, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 153-172, 229.
Izumrtje in Ponovljivost konca: Wells, Cuvier, Nietzsche [Extinction and Repeatability of the End: Wells, Cuvier, Nietzsche], Filozofski vestnik, 2021, Vol.42, No.3, pp. 77-96, 265-266.
About the Original Event: The Antichrist's Trickery and Oblivion in the Biblical Ontology, Lamella, 2021, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 11-31.
Besede in zobje - varljiva govorica, kanibalizem in solze v primeru srednjeveške pošastne rase Donester [The Words and Teeth – The Deceptive Speech, Cannibalism and Tears in the Case of the Medieval Monstrous Race of Donestre], Problemi: revija za kulturo in družbena vprašanja, 2019, Vol. 57, No. 9/10, pp. 97-122.
Antikrist in izvorna pozaba – varljivec v biblijski ontologiji [The Antichrist and the Originary Oblivion – The Trickster in Biblical Ontology], Problemi: revija za kulturo in družbena vprašanja, 2017, Vol. LV, No. 9/10, pp. 109-135.
Utelesitev sveta v alegoričnem subjektu [Embodiment of the World in the Allegorical Subject], Problemi: revija za kulturo in družbena vprašanja, 2016, Vol. 54, No. 1/2, pp. 147-178.
Monographs and chapters in monographs
Urhorde [The Primal Horde], NOLTE, Tobias (ed.), RUGENSTEIN, Kai (ed.). 365 x Freud: Ein Lesebuch für jeden Tag. 3 Aufl. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 2023, pp. 38.
Vergessen [On Forgetting], NOLTE, Tobias (ed.), RUGENSTEIN, Kai (ed.). 365 x Freud: Ein Lesebuch für jeden Tag. 3 Aufl. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 2023, pp. 351.
The Navigational Character of the Image: Re-thinking Medieval Cartography through the Maps and Diagrams of Opicinus de Canistris, SULLIVAN, Robert G. (ed.), PAGÈS, Meriem (ed.). Art and Violence in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020, pp. 120-128.
Reality, Illusion, Fiction, Truth: A Preliminary Study (fundamental research project • October 1, 2022 - September 30, 2025)
Conceptualizing the End: its Temporality, Dialectics, and Affective Dimension (fundamental research project • October 1, 2022 - September 30, 2025)
Education
2023 – Doctorate in Philosophy, Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU, Comparative Study of Ideas and Cultures (programme), The Transformation of Modern Thought – Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Culture (module), dissertation: "The Genealogy of the Idea of the End of the World Between Eschatology and Anthropocentric Expectation", supervisor: dr. Aleš Bunta
2015 – Master's degree in Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department of Philosophy, thesis: "The Monstrous Body: An Attempt at the History of the Horrid Body", supervisor: dr. Miran Božovič
2012 – Bachelor's degree in Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department of Philosophy, thesis: "The Freedom of Sad(e)istic Society", supervisor: dr. Miran Božovič
Employment and Titles
2021 – today, Research Assistant with PhD, Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU)
2019 – 2021, Research Assistant, supervisor: dr. Alenka Zupančič, Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU)
Fellowships
2022 (May/June) –, visiting researcher, "Trans-making Europe Project", Instituto Formazione Politica "Pedro Arrupe", Palermo, Sicily, Italy
2024 (8 Februar – 9 Marec) – visiting researcher, Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle University, School X, Department of Philosophy, United Kingdom.
Prizes, Awards, Scholarships
Scholarships and Grants
2021 – 2022, Fulbright Grant, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
2018 – 2019, Milan Lenarčič Grant for Highly Talented Students, The UDESIN Democratic and Social Institute
2011 – 2012, Erasmus Scholarship, Departamento de Filosofia, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Awards
2013 –, Prešeren Award (Dean's Award), Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana – for a bachelor’s thesis "The Freedom of Sad(e)istic Society"
Selected Lectures and Conference Papers
A Tale of Bones: On the Extinction and the Order of Things, MLitt Lecture, Newcastle University, School X, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 28 februar 2024.
On the Mechanism of Deceit: The Case of the Antichrist, CTP Lecture (Critical Theory and Practice), Newcastle University, School X, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 15 februar 2024.
The Primal Meal: Transubstantiation and Medieval Monstrosity, To Be Continued?... Philosophy and Psychoanalysis Today, International Conference and Workshop, 15-17 November 2023.
Historical game studies in Slovenia, Hi Games, Central and Eastern European Historical Games Workshop, Prague, Czech Republic, 21 November 2022.
“Medieval Eschatological Calculations of the End as a Form of Dissent”, 18th Annual North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies: Forms of Dissent in the Medieval and Early Modern World, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, March 2018.
“The Navigational Character of the Image: Re-thinking Medieval Cartography through the Maps and Diagrams of Opicinus de Canistris”, 39th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum: Image and Visual Experience in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Keene State College, Keene, NH, USA, April 2018.
“The Antichrist: The Trickster in Biblical Ontology”, It Thinks! Conference on psychoanalysis, philosophy, and things that think, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, December 2017.
“The Wolf and the Bürgermeister: Metamorphosis and Subjectivation”, Figures of Bureaucracy: Apparatus /Apparatchik/ Appliances, The Democratic and Social Institute UDESIN, Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 2017.