Vesna Liponik is a research assistant at the Institute of Philosophy at ZRC SAZU and a PhD student at the ZRC SAZU Postgraduate School. In her master's thesis she analysed the (non)trope of anthropomorphisation. Her research interests range across the connections between politics, ontology and aesthetics, as well as literary theory and stylistics. She is particularly interested in the transformations of the concepts of 'animal' and 'human' in contemporary philosophy and aesthetics. She is writing her dissertation under the supervision of Dr. Marina Gržinić Mauhler.
Articles
The subversive construction of gender in the poetry of Kristina Hočevar. In: ZAVRL, Andrej (ed.), ZUPAN SOSIČ, Alojzija (ed.). Go East! : LGBTQ+ literature in Eastern Europe : zbornik prispevkov s konference Na Vzhod! LGBTQ+ književnost v Vzhodni Evropi. Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete, 2020.
Monographs and chapters in monographs
VIČAR, Branka, LIPONIK, Vesna. "Krivdna mrežja": antropocen v poeziji Uroša Praha. In: BALŽALORSKY ANTIĆ, Varja (ed.). Razprave o sodobni slovenski literaturi. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2021. Studia litteraria, 27.
Education
2022 – Master’s Degree in Comparative literature and literary theory, and Slovene studies, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory and Department of Slovene Studies, Anthropomorphisation: a critical analysis of a (non)trope, mentors: Dr. Vanesa Matajc and Dr. Alojzija Zupan Sosič.
Employment and titles
2022– Research Assistant, Institute of Philosophy, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, mentor: Dr. Marina Gržinić Mauhler.
Prizes, awards and scholarships
Awards
– Nahtigal Prize of the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana for the best final thesis – for the Master's thesis Anthropomorphisation: a critical analysis of a (non)trope (2022).
Lectures and conference papers
Conference papers
Degrowth, Crises and Snails. Paper presented at 9th International Degrowth Conference, Zagreb, 29 August–2 September 2023.
The persistence of tropological violence and possible ways out. . Paper presented at 8th International Animal Futures Conference, Talinn, 16–18 June 2023.
From the menacing multitude to the somatic power of political flesh. Paper presented at research symposium Kinship in Crisis, Liverpool, 7 June 2023.
"O blithe new-comer!": Detelaʼs reading of Wordsworthʼs poem "To the cuckoo". Paper presented at conference Galeb nije tica: 4. Dani kulturne animaliSTike, Split, 19–21 October 2022.
VIČAR, Branka, LIPONIK, Vesna. “Fault networks”: the anthropocene in the poetry of Uroš Prah. Paper presented at conference Re-thinking agency: non-anthropocentric approaches, Warsaw, 3.–5. februar 2022.