Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts; Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, and at the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU
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luka.vidmar@zrc-sazu.si
Luka Vidmar works on literature, art and culture in Slovenia in the periods of Baroque and the Enlightenment, especially on the Academia Operosorum, the Zois circle, cultural nationalism and forbidden books.
Ed. (w. Marijan Dović): Habsburg Censorship and Literature in the Slovenian Lands (= Slavica TerGestina 26.1 [2021]).
(W. Aleš Gabrič, Jernej Kosi and Peter Štih:) Temelji slovenstva. Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, 2019.
(W. Sonja Svoljšak:) In vendar so jih brali: prepovedane knjige na Slovenskem v zgodnjem novem veku iz zbirke Narodne in univerzitetne knjižnice / And Yet They Read Them: Banned Books in Slovenia in the Early Modern Age from the National and University Library Collection. Ljubljana: NUK, 2018.
A Slavic Republic of Letters: The Correspondence between Jernej Kopitar and Baron Žiga Zois. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2016.
Ljubljana kot novi Rim: Akademija operozov in baročna Italija. Ljubljana: SAZU, 2013.
The Roman and Viennese Indices of Prohibited Books in Austrian and Bohemian Lands under Maria Theresa. Neohelicon 50.2 (2023): 509–25.
Secularization of Book Censorship under Maria Theresa: Between Catholic Tradition and Moderate Enlightenment. Slavica TerGestina 26.1 (2021): 144–70.
The Slovenes between the Illyrian Provinces and the Kingdom of Illyria. In: The Congress of Ljubljana 1821. Ed. Andrej Rahten and Gregor Antoličič. Klagenfurt: Mohorjeva; Ljubljana: ZRC SAZU Milko Kos Historical Institute; Mengeš: Centre for European Perspective, 2021. 31–42.
Josef Strzygowski und seine Doktoranden Avguštin Stegenšek und Avgust Žigon. In: Gemeinsamkeit auf getrennten Wegen: die slowenischen Doktoranden der Grazer Philosophischen Fakultät im Zeitraum 1876–1918 und die Gründung der Universität in Ljubljana. Ed. Alois Kernbauer and Tone Smolej. Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 2021. 239–61.
Antoni Gaudí and Jože Plečnik: Two Architects on the Path from Cultural Canonization to Catholic Beatification. In: Great Immortality: Studies on European Cultural Sainthood. Ed. Jón Karl Helgason and Marijan Dović. Leiden: Brill, 2019. 313–30.
Ferrante Pallavicino in Carniola. In: Les régions slovènes entre XVIIIe et XIXe siècles. Ed. François Bouchard and Patrizia Farinelli. Paris: Le Manuscrit, 2019. 263–86.
Kopitar, Jernej. In: Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe. Ed. Joep Leerssen. Amsterdam: Huizinga Instituut, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 2017. N. pag.
Slovenian Writers and Imperial Censorship in the Long Nineteenth Century (fundamental research project • September 1, 2020 - August 31, 2023)
Forbidden Books in Slovenian Lands in the Early Modern Age (applied research project • January 1, 2016 - December 31, 2018)
History of Doctoral Dissertations by Slovene Candidates in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1872–1918) (interdisciplinary project • January 1, 2016 - December 31, 2018)
Unexplored Latin and German Literature in the Slovenian Lands in the Baroque Period (postdoctoral research project • July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2013)
Education
• BAs in art history and comparative literature, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts (2002)
• MA in art of the early modern period, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts (2005)
• PhD in literary studies, University of Nova Gorica (2009)
Academic and research titles
• Assistant Professor in literary studies, University of Nova Gorica (2007−2010)
• Research Assistant, ZRC SAZU (2004−2012)
• Research Associate, ZRC SAZU (2012−2021)
• Senior Research Associate, ZRC SAZU (2021−)
Management positions
• Coordinator of the ZRC SAZU Historical Seminar (Historični seminar, 2010−)
• Head of the Central Specialist IT Center for Humanities (OSICH, 2012−2017)
Teaching
• University of Nova Gorica, Faculty of Humanities (2006/2007)
• University of Klagenfurt, Department of Slavic Studies (2012/2013)
Research abroad
• University of Klagenfurt, Department of Slavic Studies (2019)
• The Ohio State University, Center for Slavic and East European Studies (2014)
Expert committees
• Member of the Trubar Award committee (2020−)
• Member of the Ministry of Culture expert committee for movable cultural heritage (2020−)
• Chair of the Slovenian section of the Slovenian Research Initiative, in partnership with The Ohio State University, Center for Slavic and East European Studies (2014−2018)
Scholarly association
• Founding member, member of the executive board (2008−) and secretary (2013−2019) of the Slovenian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
Editorial work
• Member of the editorial board of the book series Zbrana dela slovenskih pesnikov in pisateljev, ZRC SAZU (2011−)
• Member of the editorial board of Novi Slovenski biografski leksikon, ZRC SAZU (2011−2017, 2021−)
• Member of the editorial board of the magazine SLO – časi, kraji, ljudje, Družina press (2014−)