As part of the renovation of Oton Župančič Memorial House in Vinica (2014-2015), the new principal exhibition of this important Slovenian literary museum was designed. The new wxhibition, dedicated to Oton Župančič (1878–1949), one of the most important Slovenian poets and translators, was set up by dr. Marijan Dović from the Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies, and the visual design was contributed by the architect Jurij Kocuvan. The new exhibition seeks to use new approaches, media and technology, to present Župančič’s versatile literary mastery to various types of visitors – from children to connoisseurs. The exhibition is set bilingually (in Slovenian and English) and thus available to foreigners for the first time. The visitor is guided through three thematic sections: Children’s Poetry and Bela Krajina, Župančič’s Drawing Room, and Life and Work. Among the achievements of the new layout are the interpretations of Župančič’s poems by the actor Branko Jordan and Corcoras String Quartet, the new documentary Poet (by Nejc Gazvoda), the less known Župančič’s original paintings and drawings, the wet collodium photographic series “Župančič’s White March” by Borut Peterlin, Polona Pačnik’s new original illustrations, new English translations of Župančič’s poetry by Nada Grošelj, children’s corner (with puzzles and coloring books), freely accessible “Župančič Book Collection”, large touch screen in Župančič’s Drawing Room which allows playback of various audio and video materials, the app “Župančič’s Private Library”, and an outdoor playground that includes a beehive with Župančič’s famous riddles.
F.27 Contribution to preserving/protecting natural and cultural heritage
COBISS.SI-ID: 39446829M. Dović and L. Vidmar are co-authors of the new permanent exhibition on the life and work of Valentin Vodnik, the Slovenian poet, linguist, journalist, priest, and professor, in his birthplace in Šiška (Ljubljana). The exhibition is designed as series of chests of drawers that contain fixed and movable panels with pictures and texts from and about Vodnik’s time. Thus, the exhibition situates the poet intelligibly and in a pleasing way (especially for the younger public) in the context of European Enlightenment and cultural nationalisms. In addition, it explains Vodnik’s most important achievements, e.g., the collection of poems, the first newspaper in Slovenian, and the first grammar in Slovenian.
F.27 Contribution to preserving/protecting natural and cultural heritage
COBISS.SI-ID: 40899885Zbrana dela slovenskih pesnikov in pisateljev ('Collected writings of Slovenian poets and writers') is the most comprehensive series of critical editions in Slovenian language. It is published continuously from 1946 and contains over 270 volumes. The aim of the series, edited by Matija Ogrin, is to provide critical editions of distinguished and aesthetically important Slovenian poets, dramatists and writers. For each writer, her or his complete opus is published in several volumes: poetry, prose, and drama, followed by literary essays and letters. The text of each volume is prepared against text-critical examination of the survived primary sources: manuscripts, first publications, author's later revisions of the text concerned, etc. Currently, the series contains the complete writings by 36 Slovenian literary authors, while several others are still being published. In Slovenian literary studies, the series achieved great reputation due to the high standards of scholarly editing and aesthetic criteria for inclusion of individual authors. Because of its central role as a scholarly editing institution, the series is also informally referred to as “the Slovenian classics".
C.02 Editorial board of a national monograph
This volume, co-edited by Jernej Habjan, is an intervention in the ongoing debates about world, postcolonial, and transnational literature as they have been intensified by the impact of critical globalisation studies, world-systems analysis, Bourdieuan sociology, and theories of cosmopolitanism. Covering both close reading and world history, both literary criticism and political theory, this book attempts to tresspass conventional academic and geopolitical boundaries. The volume connects the present state of globalization to such key world-historic events as the early modern geographical and scientific explorations; the Enlightenment; the expansions of modernity in the long nineteenth and twentieth centuries; postmodernity and postcoloniality; and contemporary counter-hegemonic movements.
C.01 Editorial board of a foreign/international collection of papers/book
The presentation discusses the canonisation of Prešeren as the national poet around 1900. If, on the basis of rhetorics and practices of commemoration cults, Prešeren is interpreted as a cultural saint the opportunity arises for the biographical practices that sought to capture Prešeren’s life and work to be viewed in the intersection with hagiographies. Along with biographies, hagiographies play an important role in memory cultures: they answer questions about common origin, they establish national identity, and they mediate certain values and norms. Both can be counted as normative and formative texts of cultural memory. The second part of the presentation addresses the general generic traits and other characteristics of hagiographies and biographies, while the third part discusses hagiographic discourse in the early biographies of Prešeren.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
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