ASEF Podcast
The American Slovenian Education Foundation (ASEF) is the leading foundation fostering talented individuals and higher education of deserving Slovenians worldwide through its exchange Fellowship programs and promotion of Slovenian culture and language. In the ASEF Podcast, we interview professors about their research, best practices in their field, and their vision for the development of the field in Slovenia as well as collaboration amongst Slovenians worldwide.
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The podcast's introductory theme is the "C Minor Jazz Blues Backing Track" by Quist.
ASEF Podcast
Episode #6: Let's talk about Slovenian art! Polona Tratnik.
In this episode, we host Slovenian artist and researcher Dr. Polona Tratnik, who holds a bachelor’s degree in painting, a master’s degree in sculpture, and her Ph.D. is in philosophy and theory of visual culture. Polona Tratnik is Dean of New University, Faculty for Slovene and International Studies, where she is a full professor for philosophy and art; she is a research councilor at Institute IRRIS for Research, Development, and Strategies of Society, Culture and Environment. She is the president of the Slovenian Society of Aesthetics and vice-secretary general of the International Association of Aesthetics. Her bibliography comprises more than 270 entries, of which she published 34 peer-reviewed articles, 40 book chapters, and 8 monographs with one translation to Serbian, as a single author. Her research fields comprise aesthetics, philosophy of art and science, media theory, and interdisciplinary studies of fairy tales. She is a pioneer bio artist.