The project leader Marijan Dović has edite a thematic section "National poets and romantic (be)longing" in the established journal v Arcadia (De Gruyter). The section comprises four scholarly articles: Marijan Dović: National Poets in European Literary Cultures: An Introduction Marko Juvan: The Aesthetics and Politics of Belonging: National Poets between “Vernacularism” and “Cosmopolitanism” Sándor Hites: “Rock the Cradle”: The Making of Petőfi a National Poet Dimitar Kambourov: Hristo Botev: The Ekstasis of Non-Belonging.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 4154378Presentation of a Slovenian and a European project with a round table and launching of the website (Wednesday, September 6, 2017, ZRC Atrium, Novi trg 2, Ljubljana). Marijan Dović presented the project (which was ending at the time), its major results in Slovenian and abroad as well as its new website “National Poets and Cultural Saints of Europe”. Joep Leerssen, the editor of the "Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe", presented the ERNiE and its ground-breaking interactive website. (Writing of over 40 Slovenian entries for ERNiE was also part of the project on as well, the work being coordinated by Marijan Dović and Marko Juvan). The round table with the participation of Joep Leerssen, project team members, and authors of Slovenian entries to ERNiE, was moderated by Marijan Dović. The event had an exceptional media coverage.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 41960493A conference in Slovenian, Ljubljana, ZRC SAZU, May 14–15, 2015. The conference was organized by the project leader Marijan Dović and attended by 22 specialists mainly from Slovenia (with two guests from former Yugoslav countries). The conference explored the concepts of cultural sainthood and canonization in connection to national movements in the past two centuries in Europe and especially in Slovenia. The contributions were the following: Marijan Dović: O kulturnih svetnikih in kanonizaciji (uvod) Miran Špelič: Kanonizacijski postopki v Cerkvi v preteklosti in danes David Movrin: Evropska hagiografija med Bogom in narodom Marko Marinčič: Pesniška samoposvetitev in translatio imperii: Vergilij, Petrarka, Prešeren Marko Juvan: Svetovljenje Prešerna Alenka Koron: Življenjepisne prakse v kanonizacijskem procesu: vzorci legende v Prešernovih biografijah Andraž Jež: Slovenska recepcija Stanka Vraza in njena naddoločenost s Prešernovim kulturnim svetništvom Martina Ožbot: »La questione della lingua« in kanonizacija nekaterih italijanskih klasikov Irena Samide: Evropski kulturni svetnik Friedrich Schiller in njegova kanonizacija na Slovenskem Miha Javornik: Od ideologije do ideologije ob biografiji A. S. Puškina Urška Perenič: Književniki v poimenovanjih ulic v ožjem središču slovenskega glavnega mesta: Prostorska analiza z GPSV in Google Earth Mira Miladinović Zalaznik: Kako se je razvijal uporni kranjski grof Anton Auersperg, nemški pesnik Anastazij Grün, in kakšen vpliv je to imelo na našo podobo o njem? Monika Deželak Trojar: Kanonizacija A. M. Slomška v verskem in kulturnem kontekstu Božidar Jezernik: »Oče slovenskega naroda« Luka Vidmar: Plečnik in Gaudí: (Kulturna) svetnika? Marina Protrka Štimec (Zagreb): Komemorativne svečanosti i proizvodnja nacionalnih klasika: Primjeri iz hrvatske književnosti 19. st. Marija Šarović (Beograd): Kulturne ikone u Srbiji XIX veka Bojan Baskar: Njegoš med dvema svetništvoma: Slavljenje nacionalnega pesnika in vladarja ob dvestoti obletnici njegovega rojstva Jola Škulj: Vloga nacionalnega, kozmopolitizem in kanonizacija Nikolai Jeffs: Britanska rekanonizacija in nigerijska dekanonizacija afriške literature: Chinua Achebe, roman in biafrska vojna Klemen Senica: Znova odkriti Nakajima Atsushi: V iskanju prvega postkolonialnega avtorja Jernej Habjan: V čem je kulturni svetnik kulturen? Svetnik in poet med življenjem in delom
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COBISS.SI-ID: 279410432Thematic panel at REELC/ENCLS 6th Biennial Congress, Dublin/Galway, Ireland, 24–28 August, 2015, organizer and led by Marijan Dović. The panel explored the various ways in which the national poets in Europe have contributed to their respective “national cause” in their literary opus: how did the belonging to an imagined community and longing for its emancipation mark their texts?; how have the subsequent generations of writers, scholars, and politicians interpreted, misinterpreted or appropriated their legacy? etc. The contributions were the following: Marijan Dović: The Romantic (Be)Longing and National Poets: Introduction Marko Juvan: The Aesthetics and Politics of Belonging: Prešeren between Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism César Domínguez: Rosalía de Castro’s Familienroman. Autobiography in La hija del mar Manus O’Dwyer: The Poetics of (Non)Belonging: José Ángel Valente Jola Škulj: Longing for the Self, Longing for the Other and Canonization Sándor Hites: “Let Us Bless the Cradle that Rocked Him Hungarian”: The Making of Petőfi as a National Poet Carmen Popescu: Belonging to Several Traditions: National Heritage and Foreign Influences in Romanian Poetic Modernism Dimitar Kambourov: Hristo Botev: The Ekstasis of Non-Belonging Urška Perenič: Streets Named After National Poets and Writers in Major European Cities Katre Talviste: When the Nation Wasn’t Looking: 19th-Century Estonian Poets’ Vision of Their People and Their Mission in Private Documents Arne Merilai: Longing for Independence in 19th-Century Estonian Literature
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International Workshop, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 28–30, 2015, co-organised by the project leader Marijan Dović and Joep Leersen. This workshop aimed to identify and describe patterns in the nationally-motivated veneration of poets, writers, composers, and intellectuals in post-1789 Europe within the framework of cultural nationalism. The incredible variety of this cultural commemoration, veneration, and “hero-worship” was grasped on the basis of an expanded concept of canonization (referring both to the acknowledgement of cultural prestige and durability, and to para-religious rituals of pious commemoration) in the context of newly emerging “imagined” communities and their (collective) cultural memory. The contributions were the following: Joep Leerssen: Canonicity and Veneration: Secular Religion and National-Cultural Hero-Worship (keynote lecture) Marijan Dović: Canonizing Cultural Saints: A Model (keynote lecture) Christian Noack: The ’Plagues of Egypt’, or: the Riddles of the Shevchenko Cult Bela Tsipuria: Ilia Chavchavadze: Georgia's Cultural Saint and the Saint of Georgian Orthodox Church Bojan Baskar: Re-Canonization of Njegoš as the Montenegrin Poet Andrei Terian: Prophet, Martyr, Saint: Mihai Eminescu’s Lateral Canonization Roman Koropeckyj: Taming a Romantic: The Canonization of Adam Mickiewicz Levente Szabo: From Cultural Saints to Literary Celebrities. The Cult of Ferenc Kazinczy and the Rising Market of Hungarian Cultural Sainthood in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century David Fishelov: H. N. Bialik the Prophet and the Modern Hebrew Canon Andraž Jež: Cultural Saints, Alternatives, and Negatives. Prešeren vs. Vodnik, Koseski, and Vraz Alenka Koron: Patterns of Hagiography in Biographies of France Prešeren Jón Karl Helgason: Modern Postulators of Jónas Hallgrímsson’s Cultural Memory Simon Halink: A Story of Many Snorris: The Canonization of Snorri Sturluson in Iceland, Norway and Denmark Andreas Stynen: “Altars of the Flemish movement”: Tombstones and Rituals of Nation-Building Irena Samide: The Role of Educational Apparatus in Constituting Friedrich Schiller as the Cultural Saint in Central Europe Franca Sinopoli: Political and Literary Italian Icons: The Mazzini Case Luka Vidmar: Architects Antoni Gaudí and Jože Plečnik: Cultural and Catholic Saints? Magí Sunyer: Jacint Verdaguer as a Catalan Cultural Saint (with a response from Jaume Subirana)
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