The lecture was part of a series of invited lectures at the University of Gdansk (the second lecture was titled "Pier Paolo Vergerio between humanism and (proto-)nationalism") on January 17 and 18, 2019. The lecture raised the issue of (proto-) nationalism in relations between German Protestants and North Italian humanists in the light of the consolatory efforts to unite Europe under Charles V.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 44183853This book, based on (as yet) unpublished sources, discusses the life of vice-admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff (1827-1871), the victor of the first major naval battle, in which armored ships were engaged. An analysis of Tegetthoff's comprehension of naval warfare, the monograph also analyzes the position of the Navy in the Austrian Empire and the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and plans for its intervention in the extra-European space. In doing so, it draws attention to the "institutionalization" of Tegetthoff himself, who became a respectable figure in public life, but his views on the Navy remained largely neglected. The book received much attention and was also published in a German translation.
F.29 Contribution to the development of national cultural identity
COBISS.SI-ID: 86778881Initially a lecture (which received such a warm welcome as to be printed later in the book published by the acknowledged international publishing house), this paper addresses the special position of Slovenian drama in the second half of the 18th century, and the relationship between incentives from the Italian (Janez Damascen Dev, Jurij Japelj, Anton Tomaž Linhart), German (Linhart) and French (Linhart) basins. After his severly citcized German tragedy Miss Jenny Love, Linhart started writing in Slovene; however, in doing so, he changed not only language, but also the central paradigm: his comedy "This Happy Day" or "Matiček's Wedding" is one of many adaptation of Beaumarchais' Figaro's Wedding, but is adapted to the situation in the Habsburg monarchy and draws attention not only to the issue of feudalism, but also to Germanism. From here, the multiparty emancipatory thought of A. T. Linhart, an admirer of Montesquieu, originates.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 1632141The book explores the close association between death and poetry as it has been reflected from the beginnings of poetry till today. Although merely hinted at in the present volume, the role played by death in the history of literary production is an obvious one. Diverse approaches elaborate on the concepts of topicalisation, imagination and constellation of death-related motifs and themes in literature, thus opening up fundamental poetological crossways. Death as the basic matrix of human thought manifested in poetry becomes a poetry fixture. Paradoxically, poetry, which is capable of ontological and eschatological dimensions, replies to questions about the so-called eternal truths with life – again in the language of poetry. This forms the subject of the second half of the monograph. The book is a collection of studies and reflections authored by scholars and poets, which afford a deeper insight into the creativity of several Slovenian and non-Slovenian poets (F. Prešeren, G. Leopardi, A. S. Pushkin, C. Baudelaire, W. B. Yeats, A. Gradnik, A. Akhmatova, G. Strniša, V. Memon), transcending a monolithic conception of poetry.
F.29 Contribution to the development of national cultural identity
COBISS.SI-ID: 298432512The book includes contributions from contemporaries of the First World War, follows their experience and adoption of global military conflict and reflecting on it. A wide range of contemporaries from different social and educational levels provides a wide range of views on the war, which is a rarity in a scientific reading of the The Great War. Although scientific monograph does not want to selectively deal with people based on their uniqueness to the Slovenian social reality, since the war is precisely the time that brutally equalizes peoples' lives and deprives them of the possibility of making decisions, some of the discussed found themselves in the epicenter of the political events which built image of post-war Europe and the Slovenian space in it.
F.29 Contribution to the development of national cultural identity
COBISS.SI-ID: 280335104