Seminars for students
Events for doctoral students at UNG:
RCH Brunch
RCH seminar
UNG scientific afternoons
Additional seminars may be organized during the academic year based on the consultation with students who wish to present their research or dissertation to peers prior to defense.
In April 2025, students from France (CUID) were guests in our Humanities doctoral programme. We were delighted to hold a seminar with them to discuss our perception of the border between Gorizia and Nova Gorica and to observe their image of Gorizia.
CUID (Cultures et Identités Européennes) is a student association with 16 members that carried out a cultural project as part of the international EURINSA programme at INSA Lyon.
On Friday, 30 May 2025, doctoral students from the Austrian University of Innsbruck visited the University of Nova Gorica. After the introductory speeches given by Prof. Peter Purg, PhD, the dean of the School of Humanities of the University of Nova Gorica, and Prof. Ana Toroš, PhD, the director of the graduate study programme Humanities at the University of Nova Gorica, Prof. Jasna Fakin Bajec, PhD, gave a lecture on the cultural heritage of Nova Gorica. The lecture resulted in an interactive debate among the audience. After refreshments, we went to Nova Gorica, all the way to the railway station, guided by the interesting comments as well as the instructive explanations by Prof. Jasna Fakin Bajec, PhD. At the railway station, the student of the Master's study programme Histories and Cultures of Cross-Border Spaces, Jani Toplak, took over the role of the guide and guided us through the exhibition "Državna meja na Goriškem 1945-2004".
Visit by the students from the University of Washingtom, Seattle:
On 5 September 2025, the Humanities study programme of the Graduate School of the University of Nova Gorica, together with the School of Humanities of the University of Nova Gorica, hosted Michael Biggins, PhD, a professor and a librarian from the University of Washington, Seattle, who is one of the most important experts on the Slovenian literature in the United States of America as well as a renowned translator of the Slovenian literature. Among others, he also translated the Bartol’s Alamut. Michael Biggins brought with him to Slovenia a group of students from various disciplines, for example technique, politics, culture, literature and history, who are learning the Slovenian language and culture.
Within the framework of the visit, we organized a round table, where a lively discussion with our students on the differences between studying in the USA and studying in Slovenia took place. The visitors were especially interested in the life at the border, intercultural cooperation and the challenges with which the Slovenian minority faces in Italy.
Prof. dr. Ana Toroš took the visitors to Gorica, Italy, where she explained the literary multilingualism in the city to them. The visitors went to the library of Damir Feigl in Gorica, Italy, where the lecture on the history of the Trgovski dom Aleksa Kame Devetaka took place.
The visit ended with a short cultural, historical and tourist walk through Nova Gorica, guided by prof. dr. Jasna Fakin Bajec. The biggest surprise? The Trg Evrope square, where the students could stand with one leg in Slovenia and with the other in Italy.
At the end, the students helped themselves to some home-made juice by the students of the School of Viticulture and Enology of the University of Nova Gorica.
We all decided to cooperate still in future.
Thanks to all of our students for helping organise the event!
