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British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford
PhD, Department of Humanities and Creative Writing, Hong Kong Baptist University
MA, Department of Philosophy and Education, Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Zagreb
BA, Department of Philosophy, Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Zagreb
Research Interests
Anthropology, philosophy, history of science, technology and popular culture
Japanese culture
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Transnational anarchist digital networks: Japanese animation and civic imagination in political and cultural movements in Hong Kong
1/01/22 → 31/12/24
Project: Research project
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Between animated cells and animated cells: symbiotic turn and animation in multispecies life
Kovacic, M., Jun 2024, In: Science as Culture. 33, 2, p. 174-204 31 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review
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Opening the West with Japanese Mermaid Mummies: Ningyo in the Making of the Theory of Evolution
Kovacic, M., 30 Oct 2023, Reopening the Opening of Japan: Transnational Approaches to Modern Japan and the Wider World. Bremner, L., Dotulong, M. & Konishi, S. (eds.). Brill, p. 115–170 56 p. (Brill's Japanese Studies Library; vol. 75).Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Regulating sidewalk delivery robots as a disruptive new urban technology
Kovacic, M., Marvin, S. & While, A., 7 Nov 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Urban Geography. 45, 7, p. 1236-1255 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review
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Animation in Transnational Digital Network: Anime and Hong Kong’s Social Movement
Kovacic, M. & Zhang, Y., May 2022.Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference paper
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Urban AI in China: Social control or hyper-capitalist development in the post-smart city?
Marvin, S., While, A., Chen, B. & Kovacic, M., 11 Oct 2022, In: Frontiers in Sustainable Cities. 4, 1030318.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review
Open Access9 Citations (Scopus)
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Microorganisms and algorithms: Configurations of life in Ghost in the Shell
Mateja KOVACIC (Speaker)
2022Activity: Conference/talk/lecture/symposium/speech/workshop, etc › Event organized by non-HKBU units
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Idology in Transcultural Perspective: Anthropological Investigations of Popular Idolatry
Mateja KOVACIC (Speaker), Hiroshi Aoyagi (Speaker) & Patrick Galbraith (Speaker)
2022Activity: Conference/talk/lecture/symposium/speech/workshop, etc › Event organized by non-HKBU units
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Comparative Everyday Aesthetics: East-West Studies in Contemporary Living
Mateja KOVACIC (Participant) & Eva K W MAN (Participant)
2022Activity: Conference/talk/lecture/symposium/speech/workshop, etc › Event organized by HKBU
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Ideas, Imaginaries, Politics, Geopolitics, and Economics: A comparative cultural perspective on social robotics and AI in Japan, Dubai, and California
Mateja KOVACIC (Speaker)
2022Activity: Conference/talk/lecture/symposium/speech/workshop, etc › Event organized by non-HKBU units