Anyone who today crosses the threshold of the famous house of Mother Teresa in Calcutta will see the face of Betka Kajnč in an exhibition room showing the life of one of the greatest humanitarian icons of the 20th century - a woman born in Velika Nedelja near Ormož, who in 1928 accompanied young Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu to India as another Loreto Sister. Who was this “other” woman who spent the remaining 57 years in India as Sister Magdalena without once returning to her native place? The answers were presented at the exhibition in the Regional Museum Ptuj-Ormož between May 18 and September 10, 2018, drawing on rich archival documentation, oral testimonies, photographs and letters.
F.28 Organising an exhibition
COBISS.SI-ID: 48754179En evening of conversation with the Slovene missionary and award-winning Gujarati author Marija Sreš about her latest book of essays, broaching controversial subjects of proselytization, legacies of colonialism, patriarchal Church and society, position of women in India and Slovenia, etc. Event took place in the atrium of ZRC SAZU and was conducted by Ana Jelnikar.
F.29 Contribution to the development of national cultural identity
COBISS.SI-ID: 48176131This presentation at a conference organized annually by the Centre for Catholic Studies (Durham University) in collaboration with University of Notre Dame focuses on two 20th-century sisters who were also (non-)fiction writers: one Slovene-born and the other Flemish speaking. The presenter explored the importance of writing in these two women religious’ lives, whose designated roles were to serve concretely rather than to write creatively. What need did their writing fulfil as part of their missionary work with the underprivileged? What was the reception to their work within and outside their religious communities? To address these questions, she analyzed the staunchly self- reflexive and bold (auto)biographical mode of these two women religious, seeing their writing as a gendered discourse designed to challenge and undermine the outdated strictures of a hierarchical and non-egalitarian Church.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 48178947Membership in the board of European Association for Chinese Philosophy (EACP), an international scholarly association, which focuses on research, organisation of conferences and publication in the field of Chinese philosophy and intercultural philosophy.
D.03 Membership in foreign/international boards/committees