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Elizabeta Vršnik

Research Assistant



01 470 65 81

elizabeta.vrsnik@zrc-sazu.si



Education:

  • B.Sc. in Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2021.
  • B.Sc. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2021.
  • Master studies of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2024.
  • Erasmus exchange programme at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, Austria, 2019-2020, 2022-2023.
  • Ph.D. student of Comparative study of ideas and cultures (Human geography) at the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU, Slovenia.

Research Fields:

Alpine landscapes, ethnography of space and place, human-environment interactions

Selected presentations and lectures:

  • "Mountain pastoralism and cheese-making in Slovenia and Solčavsko". Presented as part of a series of lectures on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Slovenian Association of Cheesemakers. Together with Špela Ledinek Lozej. Solčava, 17.9.2023.
  • "Mountains in the Solčava region - perspectives of ethnologists, conservators and local people". Presented at the Ethnological Research Camp (organized by University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology) with IPCHS conservators Saša Roškar and Maša Zajc. Solčava, 18.9.2022.
  • »Local Perception of Landscape Change in a Solčava Mountain Village«. Speaker at Experiencing Climate and Environmental Changes in and Beyond Europe symposium, ZRC SAZU. Ljubljana, 5.5.2022.
Zois scholarship for gifted students (2022-2024)