SOCIETY FOR SLOVENE STUDIES

LETTER
SOCIETY FOR SLOVENE STUDIES
c/o Deptartment of Russian Bowdoin College 7900 College Station Brunswick, Maine 04011-8479

No. 71

www.slovenestudies.com

November 2012

Contents
SSS PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE THE SOCIETY AT ASEEES FROM THE SSS TREASURER SCHOLARSHIPS CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS SLOVENE ORGANIZATIONS SSS EXECUTIVE COUNCIL 1 2 4 5 6 6 7 discussion at the upcoming business meeting, so please come to make your opinions heard. Progress has also been made on having a Slovene research center established at Ohio State. SSS members are currently discussing plans with Dr. Yana Hashamova, director of the Slavic Center at Ohio State University. I will inform you of any and all future developments. As you no doubt already know, I have set up an SSS e-mail list with the help of Bowdoin Colleges Information Technology department in order to facilitate communication within our society. It will be used only to disseminate important information of general interest to the Societys membership. Please refrain from using it for personal announcements and solicitations! If you would like your name to be added or subtracted from this list, or if you have something you think should go to the SSS as a whole, please contact me personally at rmiller@bowdoin.edu. Raymond Miller

SSS PRESIDENTS MESSAGE

The Society for Slovene Studies will be well represented at this months ASEEES convention in New Orleans. No fewer than seven Slovenerelated panels have been scheduled on a rich variety of topics, from World War II partisan songs to legal and economic history. As usual, we will be joined by a number of distinguished speakers from Slovene institutions. Please note the time of this years SSS business meeting: Friday, 16 November, at 1:45 P.M. Finally, dont forget the Central Europeanists reception on Friday evening. Details on all these events appear below. Plans for marking the Societys 40th anniversary are taking shape. We hope to hold something in conjunction with the annual convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, which will be held at Columbia U. in New York on 18 20 April 2013. This will likely be a scholarly panel on Slovene-related topics, a reception, or both. This event will be a major topic of

SSS Letter 71 (November 2012) THE SOCIETY AT 2012 ASEEES CONVENTION IN NEW ORLEANS
A few notes on the upcoming ASEEES conference.

114 Recent American Translation of Slovene Novels - La Galerie 2 Chair: Raymond Miller, Bowdoin Peter Vodopivec, Institute for Modern History, "Vladimir Bartols Alamut: 11th Century Persian Ismails a Metaphor for the 20th Century Totalitarianism" Timothy Pogaar, Bowling Green State U, "Drago Janars Prose" Michael Biggins, U of Washington, "Contemporary Slovene Prose Scaling the Sheer Face of American Publishing" Disc.: John K. Cox, North Dakota State U Omer Hadziselimovic, Loyola U Chicago 130 Reviving Resistance: Partisans Songs in Post-Yugoslav Cultural Spaces - Preservation Hall Studio 5 Chair: Oto Luthar, Slovenian Academy of Sciences & Arts Ana Hofman, Slovenian Academy of Sciences & Arts, "Postsocialist Partisans: MassPerformance and Resistance Songs in the Post-Yugoslav Space" Martin Pogaar, Slovenian Academy of Sciences & Arts, "Resistance Remediated: Partisan Classics in Pop-Rock Makeovers" Gal Kirn, U of Nova Gorica, "Memory of the Partisan Struggle, or Three Partisan Poems from WWII" Disc.: Ljerka Vidic Rasmussen, Tennessee State U Thursday, 56:45 P.M. 328 Interdisciplinary Approaches to Former Yugoslavia III: Art and Popular Culture 1960s present - Preservation Hall Studio 4 Chair: Piotr Goldstein, U of Manchester (UK) Ksenya Gurshtein, U of Michigan, "The Politics of Working across Media in the Art of OHO" Helena Popovic, U of Zagreb, "Identity and Ideology in Croatian Prime Time Fiction" Hajrudin Hromadzic, U of Rijeka, "Consumer Culture, Socialism, and Transitional Consumer: An Example from the Former Yugoslavia" Disc.: Dragana Obradovic, U of Toronto Drago Momcilovic, U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 2

After a one-year hiatus, the East Central Europeanists Reception will be held again at the upcoming ASEEES convention in New Orleans. All eight participating societies unanimously agreed on the importance of this event during discussions in Washington. The event will be co-chaired by Aida Vidan, of the Croatian Studies Association, with out-going cochair Veronica Aplenc, Society for Slovene Studies.

The Societys Business Meeting will be held at the ASEEES conference on Friday, 1:453:30 P.M. in Preservation Hall Studio 10. All members at the convention are encouraged to attend.

***** Convention panels on Slovene-related themes or with Slovene content

Thursday, 12:45 P.M. 108 Crossing So Many Borders: Translating from Bosnian, Croatian, Macedonian, Serbian and/or Slovenian - (Roundtable) - Balcony N Chair: Anita Peti-Stantic, U of Zagreb Christina Elizabeth Kramer, U of Toronto Ainsley Morse, Harvard U Ivo Soljan, Grand Valley State U Aida Vidan, Harvard U

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Friday, 1011:45 A.M. 535 Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: Nesting Fields in Architecture and Urban Planning in Socialist Yugoslavia - Regent Chair: Elidor Mehilli, Columbia U Alenka Di Battista, France Stele Institute of Art History, "Development of the New Postwar Cities in Slovenia during the 20th Century" Brigitte Le Normand, Indiana U Southeast, "State of the Art: Global Urban Planning Trends and Their Influence in Socialist Belgrade" Dubravka Sekulic, "Constructing the Nonaligned Modernity: Yugoslav Construction Industries in Africa through the Example of Energoprojekt, Belgrade" Disc.: Daria Bocharnikova, European U Institute Vladimir Kulic, Florida Atlantic U Friday 1:453:30 P.M. Society for Slovene Studies business meeting. Preservation Hall Studio 10 Friday, 3:455:30 P.M. 732 Legal Framework and Societal Change in Slovenia and the Czech lands since 1918 Regent Chair: Leopoldina Plut-Pregelj, U of Maryland Yoshiyuki Morishita, "The Change of Fundamental Laws from the Second (Occupation) to the Peoples Republic in the Czech Lands" Jerca Vodusek Staric, U of Maribor, Institute of Contemporary History, "Slovenia and Yugoslavia: Law as the Promoter of an Authentic Revolutionary System" arko Lazarevi, Institute of Contemporary History, "Backgrounds and Concepts of Economic Sanctioning in Slovenia during the 20th Century" Disc.: Virg Rab, U of Pcs (Hungary) Friday Evening, 7:30 P.M. Central Europeanists Reception Bar REvolution 3 Sunday, 1011:45 A.M. 1331 Frontlines and Frontiers: Diplomatic Divides and Writings of War in Slovenia and Yugoslavia Regent Sponsored by: Society for Slovene Studies Chair: Carole Rogel, Ohio State U Robert Edward Niebuhr, Simmons College, "Construction of a Greater Slovenia: Austrian Carinthia and Tito's Early Cold War Politics" Kristina Helena Reardon, U of Connecticut, "Fragmentation on Both Sides of the Border: Hemingway and Ivan Cankar's World War I Narratives" Jurij Hadalin, Institute of Contemporary History, "Yugoslav-Albanian Relations from the End of World War II: From the Common Path to Socialism to the Long-lasting Ice Age in Neighborly Relations" Disc.: John Kayl Cox, North Dakota State U Gregor Kranjc, U of Massachusetts, Dartmouth Sunday, 121:45 P.M. 1405 Real and Imaginary Boundaries: The Yugoslav Element in Czech Society in the Second Half of the 20th Century from a Social and Cultural Perspective - Balcony K Chair: Igor Tchoukarine, Macalester College Ondrej Vojtechovsky "'Where Is My Home?' The Overcoming of Mental, Cultural and Social Boundaries by Yugoslav Immigrants in Czechoslovakia in the 1950s" Ondrej Zila, "The War Refugees from Bosnia and Herzegovina in Their New Czech Habitat and Their Desire to Return Home" Vitezslav Sommer, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic , "The Knowledge that Crossed Boundaries: 'Yugoslav Socialism' and the Czechoslovak Social Sciences from the 1950s to the 1980s" Disc.: Borut Klabjan, U of Primorska

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1409 Descriptive Approaches to East, West and South Slavic Languages - Beuregard Chair: Donald L. Dyer, U of Mississippi Papers: Grant H. Lundberg, Brigham Young U "Categorization of the Varieties of the Slovene Language" Valentina B. Lepuri, U of Mississippi "Signposts: Russian Signage as a Reflection of Contemporary Culture" Gary H. Toops, Wichita State U, "On Word Order and the Sequence of Tenses in Upper Sorbian Sentential Complements" Disc.: Cynthia M. Vakareliyska, U of Oregon 1420 Violence as a Social Practice in Yugoslavia - Mardi Gras Ballroom C Chair: Tanja Petrovic, Slovenian Academy of Sciences & Arts Radina Vucetic "The Double Game - Using Violence on the Demonstrations against the War in Vietnam in Socialist Yugoslavia" Edvin Pezo, "Violence and State (Dis)integration: A Comparison of the Rankovi Era and the Eighties in Kosovo" Robert Lucic, Centre for Contemporary History (Germany), "Violent Communities The Soldiers of the Yugoslav Peoples Army and the Outbreak of War in Croatia 1991" Disc.: Ulf Brunnbauer, U of Regensburg (Germany) The full convention program is on the ASEEES website: www.aseees.org

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FROM THE SSS TREASURER CONTRIBUTIONS TO SSS FUNDS
The Society for Slovene Studies gratefully acknowledges contributions to its special funds. The Printing Fund was established in the early 1980s with a bequest from the estate of Mary Molek. The Endowment Fund was enlarged in the early 1990s with a bequest from the estate of John Nielsen. The Rado L. Lencek and Joseph Velikonja funds honor these two founding members of the SSS. (Joseph Velikonja continues to support the latter very generously.) The Center Fund is the most recently created. Please remember that your contributions are tax deductible in the U.S. Our deepest appreciation to all contributors! Printing Fund: Dr. and Mrs. Mio Aksmanovic, Veronica Aplenc, Paul Barbarich, Linda A. Bennett, Michael D. Cummins, Charles Debevec, Robert Kromm, Jerry Lomshek, Tom Lozar, Metod Milac, Joseph Novak, Vladimir N. Pregelj, Marjeta von Rabenau, Margaret Sfamurri, Denis Sankovic, Gojko Stare, Steven Wallace, Andrea Weiser Endowment Fund: Edward F. Gabrosek, Robert Kromm, Joseph Novak, von Rabenau, Gerald Stone, Steven Wallace Joseph Velikonja Undergraduate Student Prize: Linda A. Bennett, Robert Kromm, Jerry Lomshek, Joseph Novak, Joseph Velikonja, Steven Wallace Rado L. Lencek Graduate Student Prize: Anchito Anzil, Linda A. Bennett, Robert Kromm, Nina Lencek, Robert Gary Minnich, Steven Wallace, Karen Zuga Center Fund: Robert Kromm, Jerry Lomshek, Raymond Miller, Joseph Novak, Carole Rogel Timothy Pogaar, treasurer

CALL FOR PAPERS: YOUNG SCHOLARS PANEL 2013

For the past twelve years the Society has sponsored a panel featuring younger scholars in Slovene Studies. The sessions have been very well received and provide an opportunity for the Society to learn about new researchers in the field. If you are currently doing graduate work or have recently completed a graduate degree, and wish to prepare a paper in a years time, at the 2013 meeting, please contact SSS executive council member Gregor Kranjc (gregorkranjc@ hotmail.com).

SSS Letter 71 (November 2012) SCHOLARSHIPS The SSS Rado L. Lencek Graduate Student Prize
The submission deadline for the 2013 Graduate Student Prize is 27 September 2013. The prize is $1,000. Please see www.slovenestudies.com for further details. The Rose Marie Princ Scholarship for a Graduate Student will be available to a graduate student majoring exclusively in the field of Education in alternate years. The next award will be offered in April 2014 for the 201415 academic year. The SWU Scholarship Foundation is also offering $1,000 and $2,000 college student scholarships for the 201314 academic year. Applicants for these awards must hold membership in the Slovenian Union of America three years prior to application, and must be attending an accredited college or university full time. Applications can be found on the organizations website: www.slovenianunion.org. For further information on either the Josef Princ Memorial Scholarship for a Graduate Student, or the SWU Scholarship Foundation College Student Scholarships, please contact: Mary Turvey at mturvey@aol.com 4 Lawrence Drive, Marquette, Michigan 49855 OR Marge Church at yemec1@windstream.net 1028 Skyland Drive, Macedonia. Ohio 44056

***** The SSS Joseph Velikonja Undergraduate Essay Prize

The submission deadline for the $500US 2013 Undergraduate Essay Prize is 27 September 2013. Please see www.slovenestudies.com for further details.

***** Slovenian Womens Union Scholarship Foundation announces the Josef Princ Memorial Scholarship for a Graduate Student for Academic Year 201314 in the amount of $40,000
The Josef Princ Memorial Scholarship for a graduate student will be available to a full time graduate student majoring exclusively in Science, Mathematics, or Engineering during the 201314 school year. The Scholarship will be awarded in April 2013. This scholarship is open to full-time graduate students who have one parent, grandparent, or great grandparent of Slovenian ancestry, and will be offered on alternate years. The next award will be offered during the 201617 academic year, April 2016 being the award date. Josef Princ, a native of Velika Bukovica, Illirska Bistrica, Slovenia, graduated with an engineering degree from the University of Ljubljana and continued his studies in Germany. After immigrating to the United States in l957, he continued his studies and worked for Nichols Home Shield as their chief designer and acquired a number of patents. He also was a designer for Anderson Window Company. Josef and his wife Rose Marie were married for 36 years, before he died in l999. Josef loved being an American although he was also very proud of his heritage.

***** THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIAS SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

Current international scholarship competitions are listed on the website of the Javni Sklad Republike Slovenije za Razvoj Kadrov in tipendije: www.sklad-kadri.si/si/razpisi-inobjave/ Among recent competitions is that for tipendije za Slovence v zamejstvu in Slovence po svetu za tudijsko leto 2012/2013, which provides support for persons of Slovene decent to enroll in undergraduate studies in Slovenia.

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SSS Letter 71 (November 2012) UPCOMING CONFERENCES WORKSHOPS AND

London and the British-Slovene Society, and organises many joint events with them. Some previous events include lectures and talks by Slovenian academics, businesspeople and politicians (including the prime minister and president), social events (wine tastings, networking receptions, dinners), cultural events (music performances, poetry recitals, movie screenings), trips to Slovenia and many more. For more information, feel free to get in touch with the society on su.soc.slovenian@lse.ac.uk. Igor Cesarec

49th Seminar slovenskega jezika, literature in kulture is 24 June1 July 2013, with the
possibility of a week for beginners ending 23 June. Information for beginning and advanced scholars is forthcoming on the Center za slovenino website: www.centerslo.net

***** AATSEEL conference 2013 and 2014

The annual conference of AATSEEL, the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, is held on the first ThursdaySunday following 2 January each year. The 2013 conference is in Boston. In 2014, the AATSEEL conference will be held in Chicago. The Society for Slovene Studies is an affiliate of AATSEEL.

***** THE INSTITUTE FOR SLOVENIAN STUDIES OF VICTORIA Valvasor Studies Online - J. V. Valvasor, 17th century Encyclopedian
In 2012 the Institute for Slovenian Studies of Victoria Inc. undertook the translation of Valvasorjev Zbornik (1989) into English. The translation by Aleksandra L. Ceferin has been completed and is in the process of being prepared for publication as an E-book in partnership with Zavod Neuropolis in Ljubljana. The project is funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia. Valvasorjev Zbornik, which will be titled Valvasoricon in English translation, is a collection of academic papers on various aspects of Slava vojvodine Kranjske (The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola) by foremost Slovenian scholars, covering various fields of expertise. The papers (29) were delivered at the Valvasor Symposium and published in Ljubljana on the occasion of 300th anniversary of the publication of Valvasors work. The gifting of the rare facsimile collection Iconotheca Valvasoriana, of European masters artwork collected by Valvasor, from the Government of Slovenia to the State Library of Victoria Melbourne held on 27 September 2010, was a landmark event in Australia; on the occasion of which the website www.valvasor.org was launched. It provides information in the English language about the life and work of the 17th century European polymath, and includes 6

***** Midwest Slavic Conference

The 2013 conference will be held at Ohio State University 57 April 2013. Details are forthcoming on the Midwest Slavic Associations website: http://slaviccenter.osu.edu/mwsassoc.html

***** Obdobja Symposium

The 2012 symposium, 1517 November, is devoted to Slovene drama. Details about this, past, and future symposia are at the Center za slovenino website: http://www.centerslo.net.

***** SLOVENE ORGANIZATION IN GREAT BRITAIN

http://www.aatseel.org/ The LSEsu Slovenian Society unites Slovenian students at the London School of Economics and elsewhere in London and the UK. It was founded in 2004 as Slovenia was joining the EU and as such has the longest tradition among Slovenian student societies in the UK. Events are organised throughout the year in both London and Slovenia, and are primarily aimed at students and recent graduates. The society has a good relationship with the Slovenian Embassy in

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study resources - a digital library and a collection of recent academic studies. The initiative was funded by the Office for Slovenes Abroad of the Republic of Slovenia. The project aims to foster knowledge about the encyclopedian Janez Vajkard (Johann Weihard) Valvasor, and to promote dissemination of scholarly information on Slovenian studies in general and Valvasor studies in particular. It is also intended to stimulate interest in further academic research into an exceptional contribution to knowledge of the 17th-century history of Slovenian people and Slovenian language. ISSV Inc. is an educational organisation founded in 1976 to support and promote Slovenian studies in Australia. You can find out about its activities and projects on the Thezaurus website at www.thezaurus.com/ISSV Aleksandra Ceferin President ISSV, Inc.

***** Executive Council

President: Raymond Miller (Bowdoin College) Secretary: Michael Biggins (U of Washington) Treasurer: Timothy Pogaar (Bowling Green SU) Program Coordinator: Veronica E. Aplenc (U of Pennsylvania) Editor, Slovene Studies: Timothy Pogacar (Bowling Green SU)

Elected Members
Gregor Kranjc (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth) arko Lazarevi (Institute for Contemporary History, Ljubljana) Lydia Miheli Pulsipher (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) For further information regarding the Society for Slovene Studies, membership applications, journal subscriptions, and other details, contact: Michael Biggins, secretary, Society for Slovene Studies, Suzzallo Library, Box 352900, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 7