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	Majda Širca

Majda Širca

Majda Širca was born on 20 April 1953 in Postojna. She attended primary school in Štanjel and Dutovlje and grammar school in Postojna. She graduated in Art History from the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. After working at the Cultural Organisations Association, she was employed by Radio-Television Slovenia where she worked as a journalist, editor of the cultural programme, editor-in-chief of the documentary and artistic programme and the author of more than 60 episodes of the documentary film show Povečava. She has written many articles on film, audiovisual culture and the humanities. She has received many awards for her journalistic work and artistic achievements in the electronic medium.

After 1997, she was State Secretary at the Ministry of Culture and, after 2000, she spent two terms as an MP in the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia, particularly focusing on culture, education, social policy, human rights and equal opportunities. This year, she was elected to the National Assembly as a candidate on the list of Zares - New Politics. On 21 November, the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia elected her Minister of Culture.

State Secretary

	Stojan Pelko

Dr Stojan Pelko

Stojan Pelko was born on 27 September 1964. He obtained a master’s degree in philosophy, a D.E.A. (diplome d’études approfondies) in audiovisual research (Universite de la Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris III) and a doctorate in social sciences (with the doctoral thesis Podoba misli [The image of thoughts], where his mentors were Dr Ksenija Vidmar Horvat and Dr Slavoj Žižek). 

He is a film publicist, essay writer and former editor-in-chief of the film monthly Ekran (1990-1995). As an Assistant at the Department of Sociology of Culture at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana he has been lecturing  on two optional subjects, sociology of the cinema and critical analysis of media cases.

Publications: Joseph Losey (1989), Očividci. Filmski pogledi (1994) [Witnesses. Film gazes.], Pogib in počas [Im-movement and Im-time]. Premene podob Wima Wendersa (1998) [Changing Images of Wim Wenders], Vrzeli filma in arhitekture (editor of the journal, 2000) [Gaps of Films and Architecture], Filmski pojmovnik za mlade (2005) [Film Glossary for the Young], Podoba misli (2007) [Image of Thought]. Translated works from French into Slovene by Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze (L’image-mouvement, Qu'est-ce que la philosophie?), Paul Virilio (La vitesse de libération), Jean Baudrillard (Le crime parfait) and Toni Negri (Du retour).

From 2000 to 2005 he was President of the Supervisory Board of the Film Fund of the Republic of Slovenia and a member of the Council for Culture set up within the Government of the Republic of Slovenia. In 2003 and 2004, he represented Slovenia as an independent expert in the Media Plus Committee of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Education and Culture.

At the Slovenian advertising festival in 1998 he was named Creative Director of the year for his action “Delo’s Reporters”. At the Luna advertising agency, he was Creative Director of the communications project entitled “Slovenia – At home in Europe”, launched during the process of Slovenia’s accession to the European Union. In 2000, as an expert on political marketing he established the communications consulting agency Korpus. He was involved in the general election campaign, local election campaign and European election campaign of the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia (LDS) party, in the presidential campaigns of Dr Janez Drnovšek (2002) and Mr Mitja Gaspari (2007), respectively, and in the campaign of the Mayor of the Municipality of Ljubljana, Mr Zoran Janković (2006).

Organisation

Minister:

Majda Širca

Phone: + 386 1 369 59 15

fax: +386 1 369 59 02

E-mail: majda.sirca[@]gov.si

State secretary:

Dr Stojan Pelko

Phone: +386 1 369 59 89

fax: +386 1 369 59 02

E-mail: stojan.pelko[@]gov.si

Minister's Office

Head of the Office:

Petra Ložar

Phone: +386 1 300 58 06

fax: + 386 1 369 59 04

e-mail: petra.lozar1[@]gov.si

Public Relations:

Bojana Leskovar

phone: + 386 1/369 59 90

fax: + 386 1/369 59 04

e-pošta: bojana.leskovar[@]gov.si

Secretariat-General

Secretary-General: Žarko Bogunovič

Phone: + 386 1 369 56 64

Fax: + 386 1 369 59 04

e-mail: zarko.bogunovic[@]gov.si

Directorates

Arts Directorate

Phone: +386 1 369 59 48

fax: +386 1 369 59 02

by the Minister's authority: Peter Tomaž Dobrila

e-mail: gp.mk[@]gov.si

Cultural Heritage Directorate

Phone: +386 1 369 58 57

fax: +386 1 /369 59 02

Director-General: Damjana Pečnik

e-mail: damjana.pecnik[@]gov.si

Media Directorate

Phone: +386 1 369 59 85

fax: +386 1 369 59 92

Direcor general: Vojko Stopar

e-mail: vojko.stopar[@]gov.si

Directorate for European Affairs and International Cooperation

Director-General: Sonja Kralj Brvar

e-mail: sonja.kralj-brvar[@]gov.si

Divisions

Division for Minority Cultural Rights and the Development of Cultural Diversity

Phone: +386 1 478 79 44

fax: +386 1 478 79 95

Head: Dr Suzana Čurin Radovič

e-mail: suzana.curin-radovic[@]gov.si

Division for the Slovene Language

Phone: +386 1 478 79 59,

fax: +386 1 478 79 95

Head: Velimir Gjurin

e-mail: velimir.gjurin[@]gov.si

Division for European Affairs and International Cooperation

Phone: +386 1 369 59 22,

fax: +386 1 369 59 92

Main Areas of Activity

The activities of the Ministry of Culture relate to the creation, communication and protection of cultural values and media.

Bodies affiliated to the Ministry

Archive of the RS

Zvezdarska 1, 1000 Ljubljana

Phone: + 386 1 241 42 00

Fax: + 386 1 241 42 69

e-mail: ars[@]gov.si

Internet: http://www.arhiv.gov.si/index.php?id=1217&L=1 

direktor: dr. Dragan Matić

e-mail: dragan.matic[@]gov.si

Pursuant to the legislation from 1994, the Archive gained a status of an administrative unit. Its task is statutorily defined as a performance of expert duties that refer to archival and documentary materials that are created by state organisation and by other statutorily defined persons. The Archive performs expert tasks that refer to archival and documentary materials that are created by state organisation and by other statutorily defined persons.

Culture and Media Inspectorate of the RS

Metelkova 4, 1000 Ljubljana

Phone: + 386 1 400 79 01

e-mail: gp.irskm[@]gov.si

Chief inspector: Tamara Javornik

e-mail: tamara.javornik[@]gov.si

The Inspectorate oversees implementation of the provisions of the Exercising of the Public Interest for Culture Act (ZUJIK), the Cultural Heritage Protection Act, the Archives and Archives Material Act, the Libraries Act, the Public Use of the Slovene Language Act and the Media Act, as well as implementing and other regulations issued on their basis.