Name: Natalija Vrecer

Date of Birth: May 21, 1964

Place of Birth: Celje, Slovenia

Education

- 1989 B.A. in A - English language with literature and B-Ethnology, Faculty of Arts, Edvard Kardelj University, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- 1994, M.A. in cultural anthropology, the title of the thesis: The Refugee Children in Celje

Employment

- September 1990 - June 1997 a junior research fellow at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana.
- April 1998 till now a research fellow at the Peace Institute, Ljubljana

Past Activities

-  1989 - 1991 a secretary of the Slovene Anthropological Society and one of its founders
- 1992,  one of the founders of the Institute for Multicultural Research
- January - June 1998, an editor of Cefran News, The Bulletin of the Central European Forum of Refugee Assisting Organizations

Courses Taught

- the school year 1993/1994 a seminar on the Anthropological Aspects of  Refugee Problematics at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana

 - in the school year 2000/2001 I will start to teach the course Intercultural Communication at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana

Fellowships and Grants

- July 1998, grant for a summer course at CEU, Budapest, cultural anthropological course Inclusions and Exclusions out and in Europe
- July 1999, grant for a summer course at CEU, Budapest, interdisciplinary course: Human Rights and Forced Displacement
- December 1998 grant of the Open Society – Slovenia for visiting foreign institutions
- from January – June 2000 Junior Visting Fellowship at the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna
- International Policy Fellowship for the year 2000 at the Center for Policy Research, CEU, Budapest

 Congresses, Conferences (a paper presented)

-  in  1988 in Radenci, Slovenia with the paper Jewish  Identity  through  the Contemporary American Literature
- in  1991 in Lodz, Polland with the paper  Some Aspects of Psychological Anthropology
- in 1991 in Lendava with the paper Interpersonal Relations Through Social Networks
 -  in  1995 in Zagreb with the paper The Lost Way  of  Life: The Experience of Refugee Children in Celje from 1992 to 1994
 -  in  1995  in Lodz, Polland  with  the  paper  Plaidoyer  for Psychological Anthropology
- in 1997 in Trondheim, Norway with the paper From the Point  of View of Refugee Children in Slovenia
- in 1998 in Ljubljana at the International Symposium on Ethnological and Anthropological Aspects of Death, the paper: Death and Mourning in Exile: Bosnian Muslims in Slovenia
- in 1999 at the international congress of International Political Science Association at Brdo, Slovenia, the title of the paper: Refugees in Slovenia and Human Rights Issues: the Anthropological Perspective.
- in 1999 in the Slovenian Parliament at the round table discussion on European Union: A Challenge or an Opportunity, the title of the presentation: Contemporary European Refugee Policy.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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