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Category Archives: Personal
Guest lecture at the University of Ljubljana
Coming up on what used to be the Day of Youth in former Yugoslavia is a guest lecture your correspondent will offer to students enrolled in a course on Specialized (Sports) Journalism at the University of Ljubljana, his alma mater. … Continue reading
Article for Communication & Sport Published Online
The results of an international study I co-authored with colleagues from four countries was recently published online before being printed in an upcoming issue of the Communication & Sport journal. The article entitled, “International Newspaper Coverage of the 2013 EuroBasket … Continue reading
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Tagged article, EuroBasket, media coverage, newspaper coverage, scholarship, Simon Ličen
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Media appearance on Radio Capodistria
Il Vaso di Pandora (Pandora’s Box), a radio show on Slovenian-based Italian network, Radio Capodistria, recently did a feature on soccer and politics in Slovenia and, more generally, in the Balkans. They interviewed me and we spoke about national/group identification, … Continue reading
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Tagged group identity, Il Vaso di Pandora, national identity, politics, Radio Capodistria, Simon Ličen, soccer
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Interview on TV Koper-Capodistria
I was recently interviewed for the talk, show, Izostritev, on TV Koper-Capodistria, in connection to my experience as a Slovenian researcher working in the United States. The University of Primorska – which is based in the region of Slovenia where … Continue reading
Attendance at 2015 Play the Game Conference
I recently attended Play the Game, a biennial international conference aiming to strengthen the ethical foundation of sport and promote democracy, transparency and freedom of expression in sport. Unlike in 2011, when the conference was held in Cologne in Germany, … Continue reading
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Tagged conference, governance, Play the Game, Sport Management, WSU
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Quote in The Guardian
I was recently quoted in an article on the role of moral enforcer that sport has in (American) society published by the US edition of The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2014/oct/09/-sp-problem-sports-america-isnt-what-you-think.
Interview on RTVSLO.si
The end of the Winter Olympics seemed like a good opportunity to talk about the 2013 European Basketball Championship, sport media research, sport journalism on both sides of the Atlantic, and football! I spoke about them with Slavko Jerič from … Continue reading
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Tagged interview, Jim Crawford, MMC, RTVSLO.si, Simon Ličen, Slavko Jerič
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Quote in Pacific Standard
A few months ago I was quoted in a story published on the Pacific Standard website. The story focused on politics and sport, ranging from the recent Richard Sherman controversy to Soviet sports clubs. In case you were wondering, I … Continue reading
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Tagged news, Pacific Standard, politics, quote, Richard Sherman, Simon Ličen, Sport
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Interview on Val 202
Despite the update I posted in December, www.simonlicen.com has not been updated yet. Hopefully I will be able to do so over the summer at the latest. In the meantime, readers (and listeners!) in Slovenia might be interested in an … Continue reading
Site being updated
Please note that I am in the process of updating this website. The sections of this site will be slightly rearranged, and a Slovenian version of the site will finally be introduced. The changes will likely take some time, but … Continue reading
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