The PhD thesis Native Americans in the Area of Activity of the Missionary Irenej Friderik Baraga explores the influence of activity of the Slovenian catholic missionary and bishop Irenej Friderik Baraga and his successors on Native Americans as well as white immigrants, including Slovenians in the USA. The specific and economic development of the USA in the period 1800 to 1900 and the relationship of the US Government to the Native American tribes east of the Mississippi River accelerated the material and moral ruin of Native Americans. The activities of the Slovenian missionary Irenej Friderik Baraga among the Native American tribes of Ottawa and Ojibwa familiarized the white immigrants with the culture of Native Americans; as a result, the US Government did not move the Native Americans west of the Mississippi River when implementing the Indian Removal Act in 1830. This extensive research involves Baraga%s life path and his role as missionary among the Native American tribes of Ottawa and Ojibwa in the present-day US states of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. The PhD thesis shows the process of expansion of Christian religion and literacy, which encouraged the economic and cultural progress of Native Americans in the 19th century. On the basis of an interdisciplinary research process, based on research and comparison of historical sources and literature, this thesis presents the acculturation process of the Native American tribes of Ottawa and Ojibwa, who changed their geographical position as well as their way of life in reservations. Moreover, the influence of white immigrants also resulted in the loss of the autochthonous culture.
D.09 Tutoring for postgraduate students
COBISS.SI-ID: 55565922The candidate dealt with Slovene ethnic community in the Denver, CO. Despite the fact that it is the third largest Slovene settlement in Colorado, which is defined with the relevant ethnic organizations, events and personalities, this is the first scholarly study that comprehensively addresses the emergence and development of the Slovene community and settlements in Denver; economic, societal and social engagement of the population of Slovene ethnic origin in the area; changing of its socio-economic structure and the methods of preservation and promotion of Slovene culture, language, ethnic customs and traditions. The dissertation shows the course and factors of the establishment, development, prosperity, decline and preservation of the Slovene community in Denver. Through the review of the findings which have matured and were developed on the basis of the entire interdisciplinary research process, dissertation accurately informs about the course of the development of Slovene settlements and different levels of life, organization and functioning of the Slovene emigrants in Denver.
D.09 Tutoring for postgraduate students
COBISS.SI-ID: 51759714The monograph includes 19 contributions of the authors from 7 countries on the situation and developments in the field of recording terminology in the form of printed and/or electronic lexical contributions and electronic databases. Essays show a cross section of the current situation, highlight the selected content and/or technical problems and propose solutions. The monograph represents an important contribution to the professional field of lexicography and terminography, in the same extent also in the processes of translation and interpretation, and thus in the interlingual and intercultural mediation. Especially it is necessary to highlight the contributions of eight Slovene authors which include the specific problems related to the lexicography in Slovenian language and thus places Slovene lexicography as integral part of an international scholarly debate within the chosen field.
C.01 Editorial board of a foreign/international collection of papers/book
COBISS.SI-ID: 20045064The subjects of the seminar were the phenomena of grammaticalization in Slovene under the influence of German, compared with the parallels in Slovak. The phenomena of processes of grammaticalization in Slovene under the influence of German differ among themselves according to whether completely new categories are grammaticalized (e.g., article, modal passive), or whether grammaticalization has influenced new forms for expressing existing categories (gender leveling, analytic perfect, possessive perfect, analytic genitive, subject pronouns, ''onikanje'', combinations of numbers, za as infinitive marker, verbal prefixes, recipient passive). In these processes, language signs or combinations thereof become grammatical signs, or the existing grammatical signs acquire new grammatical roles. In these processes, Slovene proves to be a language that was strongly under the influence of German, but also that of Italian (abandoning aorist and imperfect), while the influence of Hungarian as well as the possible influence of Croatian are extremely locally restricted. Unfortunately, an overview of the processes of grammaticalization opens more questions than it provides answers. It shows the area of new research that would help complete the picture with examples as well as with explanations of these phenomena.
B.05 Guest lecturer at an institute/university
COBISS.SI-ID: 20759048Tourism is an economic sector that is usually characterized with holiday, recreational and entertaining motives, which attract tourists to exotic tropical seaside resorts, preserved mountain areas and remarkable capitals. However, within this diversified sector, tourists can often find themselves visiting memorial heritage sites and tragic locations, predominantly associated with death. Concentration camps and war cemeteries, mass graves and places of battles and massacres, that represent the darkest chapters of human history, are at the same time locations of remembrance and important tourist destinations, visited by millions of tourists annually. The so-called Dark tourism, which includes travel to sites associated with death, has only recently been recognized as an important segment of the tourism sector. On the other hand, this phenomenon, also referred to as Thana tourism, can be traced back to the very beginning of modern day tourism development, as travelers and adventurer shave been visiting the Roman catacombs and pyramids in Giza – places associated with death – already in the 19th century. Several memorials and tragic historic places, which yearly attract thousands of visitors, can be found also in Slovenia and its neighbors. A significant part of them are marked by World War I and the Isonzo Front. Battles of Isonzo Front were one of the most important battles fought during the WWI. The Habsburg Empire was aware of the hundreds of years of hatreds between Slovenes and Italians in this region and they used ethnic Slovenes and other Slavs of the Empire as cannon fodder in the battles between Italian and Austro-Hungarian army. Members of all Austro-Hungarian ethnic groups fought in these battles. In the paper, authors discuss the historical meaning of these battles and give a special emphasis on selected cases of representations in the historic memories, shown in different type of monuments: Russian Chapel near Vršič road pass, Historical museum of Isonzo Front, the Charnel House at Kobarid and the Gorjansko WWI Military Cemetery. The paper focuses on the historical elements of the Isonzo Front heritage and analyzes their potentials for the international tourists and visitors, especially those coming from successor states of Habsburg Empire, Germany, Italy and Russia.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
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