Naško KRIŽNAR, Assoc. Prof. Dr., Research Advisor

Naško Križnar was born in 1943 in Ljubljana. He completed his studies in ethnology and archeology in 1970 at the University of Ljubljana’s Faculty of Arts. From 1972 to 1982 he worked as a curator and ethnologist at the Nova Gorica Museum. Since 1983 he has been working for the SASA Scientific Research Center, initially as head of the audiovisual laboratory and since 1999 as an associate of the research program “Ethnological Research of Culture in Slovenia and Across the Borders” and head of the ISE audiovisual laboratory section.

Between 1985 and 1990 he was chief editor of the Slovenian Ethnological Society’s newsletter. He received his doctoral degree in 1996 at the University of Ljubljana. As a visiting assistant professor he gave lectures in visual anthropology at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of Ljubljana's Faculty of Arts. Currently he is a lecturer in visual research at Koper's Faculty of Humanities. Each year he heads the Summer School of the Visual in Nova Gorica.

He is a member of the IUAES Commission for Visual Anthropology.

Awards: 2001 best short film award at the Slovenian Film Festival in Portorož; 2002 best archeological short film award at the international CineArchea festival in Kiel for The Whistle, a film about the famous archeological find at the Divje Babe site; 2005 Murko Award.

Ongoing research:
Visual space of culture: selected chapters;
Visual circles of Slovenia, preparation and management of an online digitized video archive.

Selected publications:
1982 Slovenski etnološki film - Filmografija 1905-1980. Ljubljana.
1996 Vizualne raziskave v etnologiji. Ljubljana.
1997 Etnološki film med tradicijo in vizijo (Ur.). Ljubljana.
1999 Vizualna kultura (Ur.). Ljubljana.
2002 Vizualni rokopisi. Tradit. - Inšt. slov. narodop. Ljublj., 2002, 31, 1, str. 159-190.
2003 Filmska dejavnost dveh duhovnikov. Tradit. - Inšt. slov. narodop. Ljublj. 32, 2, str. 227-256, ilustr.
2003 Po sledovih Murkovih fotografij. V: Murkova epocha slovanské filologie. Praha: Slovanský ústav: Euroslavica, str. 101-114.
2005 Vizualna kultura v vizualni antropologiji. Teorija in praksa, 2-3, str. 332-344.

2007 Portfolio of ethnographic film, visual anthropology and visual research in Slovenia. Vis. anthropol. rev., spring 2007, vol. 23, no. 1. Los Angeles, 2007, str. 100-103.

2007 Meeting visual anthropology in transit countries : Slovenian case. V: ENGELBRECHT, Beate (ur.). Memories of the origins of ethnographic film, (Menschen - Wissen - Medien, Bd. 1). Frankfurt am Main [etc.]: Peter Lang, 2007, str. 397-403.

2009 Primorska v zgodnji kinematografiji po drugi svetovni vojni. Arhivi, 2009, letn. 32, št. 1, str. 53-63.

2009 Ljubljana je filmana. V: Etnologija in regije. Ljubljana. Prestolnica v medkulturnem dialogu in filmskih podobah. (Knjižnica Glasnika Slovenskega etnološkega društva) Slovensko etnološko društvo, Ljubljana. Str. 125-133.

Tel. : +386 (0)1 4706 343
Fax: +386 (0)1 4255 253
E-mail:

nasko@zrc-sazu.si

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