The Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies organised a symposium "Cultural Saints and Canonization: Slovenian and European context" (14 and 15 May 2015), which was chaired by Marijan Dović and attended by twenty-two experts from Slovenia and the former Yugoslavia (11 of them members of the research team). The symposium was dealing with the concept of "cultural sainthood" in particular in relation to the national movements in Europe and their selected "national poets". Special attention was also given to the concept of canonization in the religious and secular context. Presented topics: 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: 279410432The thematic panel was organized by Marijan Dović as part of REELC/ENCLS 6th Biennial Congress, Galway, Ireland, 27–28 August, 2015. The panel was dealing with national poets, a phenomenon known in many European countries that has significantly contributed to the formation of individual literary cultures throughout the long nineteenth century. The significance ascribed to particular national poets (in some cases, more candidates for this position existed) varied across Europe and usually depended on whether the emerging nations were politically or culturally subordinate. The panel explored the ways of how, in their texts, the “national poets” and other key Romantic writers imagined their respective nation and its future prospects. How do 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 the legacy of Romantic ideas during the process of canonization? Eleven presenters were participating, among them four members of the research team. Presented topics: 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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The three-day international workshop was co-organized by ZRC SAZU and University of Amsterdam (SPIN network) and held in Amsterdam (October 28–30, 2015). It was lead by Joep Leerssen and Marijan Dović. Its aim was to identify and describe patterns in the nationally-motivated veneration of poets, writers, composers, and intellectuals in post-1789 Europe. The incredible variety of this cultural commemoration, veneration, and “hero-worship” (Thomas Carlyle’s term) can be 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. Nineteen presenters were participating, the closing discussion was moderated by Ann Rigney and Joep Leerssen. Presented topics: Joep Leerssen: Canonicity and Veneration: Secular Religion and National-Cultural Hero-Worship Marijan Dović: Canonizing Cultural Saints: A Model 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 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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