SAAA CONFERENCE, 22 May 2017, Melbourne

Australian and Slovenian current and future research opportunities

See PROGRAM for abstracts and biographies of the speakers.

See REPORT WITH ABSTRACTS in PDF.

SAAA Conference, 22 May 2017, EU Centre at RMIT, Melbourne (Photo: Manca Ogrizek)

On Monday, the 22nd of May, 2017, in the week of celebrating its second anniversary, the Slovenian Australian Academic Association – SAAA held its first event, the SAAA Conference 2017: Australian and Slovenian current and future research opportunities. The event, opened by H. E. Mrs Helena Drnovšek-Zorko, Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia in Australia, took place at the EU Centre RMIT (Storey Hall, Green Brain) in Melbourne.

The Conference brought together 36 participants, the majority from all Slovenian Australian communities nation-wide. Academics, researchers, students, entrepreneurs as well as members of government and non-government organisations had the opportunity listening to 17 speakers (2 of them through video from Slovenia) including two keynotes Professor Glenda Sluga, ARC Laureate Fellow, Professor of International History, FAHA, The University of Sydney, and Professor Zlatko Skrbiš, President of the University of Ljubljana Global Alumni and Associates Network (SMUL) & Vice-Provost (Graduate Education, Monash University).

This one-day conference closed with a round table titled How to improve knowledge exchange between Slovenia and Australia? The conclusions of the even and recommendations will be available in the coming months.

A photo gallery is available also on Facebook.

CONFERENCE MANAGER: Ms Lara Černetič

CONFERENCE TEAM: Dr Kaja Antlej, Matthew Coote, Franny Martens, Dr Robert Walters, Katarina Persic, Dr Maša Mikola, Manca Ogrizek, Neza Muzic de Vries, Draga Gelt OAM, Mateya Slobodnik, Jerneja Sveticic