Vesna Čopič, PhD

Vesna Čopič is a lecturer in cultural policy and cultural management at the University of Ljubljana, as well as an independent consultant.

She graduated from the Faculty of Law and made her Ph.D. at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana.

She is using multi-disciplinary methodology for working across professional boundaries, bridging disciplines such as cultural governance, cultural rights, cultural statistics, public administration, public finances, urban and regional planning and local self-government.

She has been engaged in several cultural policy reports in Slovenia and abroad on behalf of the Council of Europe and other national and international organisations and acts as the Slovenian correspondent of the Compendium on Cultural Policies and Trends in Europe. Throughout the 1990s she prepared legislation in the field of culture for the Slovenian Ministry of Culture.

Dr. Čopič is the author of several publications, where she has addressed cultural policies particularly in the context of transition countries. Her recent engagements include projects in the field of culture and development in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Publications in English

1. »Privatisation and Culture: How to separate cultural policy from the provision of culture?«, Journal of Social Sciences Studies Volume XV –Number 29, 1999
2. »Threat or opportunity? Slovenian cultural policy in transition« The Journal of Arts management, Law and Society Pp.42-52 volume 30, Number 1, spring 2000-12-15
3. Cultural Policy in Slovenia,1997, Council of Europe, Strasbourg.
4. Transversal Analysis on »National Cultural Institutions in Transition: Desetatisation and Privatisation« – Legal Appendix; Legal Aspects of Privatistion/Desetatisation of National Cultural Institutions DECS/CULT7POL/trans (99), Council of Europe, 1999, Strasbourg
5. »The role of civil society in the policy making process« in 22 Plus Cultural Policies, No.132
6. »Transition in Culture in Terms of Reconceptualising the Role of the State, the Profession and Civil Society« in Cultural Transitions in South-eastern Europe, Culturelink Joint Publications Series No 6, 2004, Zagreb
7. Slovenian Cultural Policy Profile in Compendium of Cultural Policies in Europe, 2007, http://culturalpolicies.net
8. »A survival concept of culture: Theatre as a temporary institution in Slovenia » in State on Stage: The impact of public policies on the performing arts in Europe, 2008, edited by Ineke van Hamersveld and Cas Smithuijsen
9. »Ideological background of empirical ignorance«, Cultural Trends, Vol.18 No.2 pp.185-202, 2009
10. “Modernizing the Slovenian public cultural sector ”, Cultural Policy Update, vol. 1, no. 1, Spring 2011 http://www.boekman.nl/EN/index.html
11. “Modernizing the Slovenian public cultural sector ”, Cultural Policy Update, vol. 1, no. 1, Spring 2011 http://www.boekman.nl/EN/index.html