AAASS SLOVENE CONFERENCE PANELS

This page contains a listing of future and recent Slovene panels at AAASS academic conferences; any changes or additions to the list should be sent to SSS Web Master.

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American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
New Orleans, Louisiana, 15-18 November 2007

Please be advised that the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Society for Slovene Studies will be held in conjunction with the 39^th National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) in New Orleans, LA, at the New Orleans Marriott Hotel, 15-18 November 2007.

The following SSS panels and those of related interest appear in the preliminary program.

• 1-06 Thursday, 15 November, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Balcony M
  The Ottoman Menace in Post-Habsburg Historiography
  Chair: Maria Todorova (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  
  • Maureen Healy (Oregon State U), "The Ottoman Menace: Austria"
  • Paul A. Hanebrink (Rutgers U), "The Ottoman Menace: Hungary"
  • Patrick H. Patterson (UC San Diego), "The Ottoman Menace: The Former Yugoslav Lands"
• 1-17 Thursday, 15 November, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Mardi Gras Ballroom A
  From Countryman to Citizen: The Roots of Slovene Regionalism
  Chair: Ramet, Sabrina Petra (Norwegian U of Science and Tech (Norway))
  
  • Boz^o Repe (U of Ljubljana (Slovenia)), "The Influence of Regional Differences on the Formation of Slovene National Identity and the Foundation of Slovene State"
  • Ales^ Gabric^ (Institute of Contemporary History (Slovenia)), "Slovene Culture between the National and the Supranational"
  • Darja Kerec (U of Ljubljana (Slovenia)), "The People of Prekmurje: Slovenes with Subtitles'"
  Discussants: Timothy Pogacar (Bowling Green State U) and Carole Rogel (Ohio State U)
• 2-05 Thursday, 15 November, 3:45-5:45 p.m. Balcony L
  'Self' as Theoretical Category (Roundtable)
  Chair: David Powelstock (Brandeis U)
  
  • Marko Juvan (Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Slovenia))
  • Alenka Koron (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Slovenia))
  • Jessie Labov (Stanford U)
  • Timothy Pogacar (Bowling Green State U)
  • Irina G. Stakhanova (Bowling Green State U)
• 2-27 Thursday, 15 November, 3:45-5:45 p.m. Preservation Hall Studio 4
  The Role of Intelligence in the Early Stages of the Cold War: Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Slovenia (Roundtable)
  Chair: Michael Kraus (Middlebury College)
  
  • Siegfried Beer (U of Graz (Austria))
  • Igor Lukes (Boston U)
  • Norman M. Naimark (Stanford U)
  • Jerca Vodus^ek Staric^ (Inst for Contemporary History (Slovenia))
• 2-34 Thursday, 15 November, 3:45-5:45 p.m. Regent Suite
  How the Work and Life of Three Important Slovene Americans was Influenced by Events in the Homeland
  Chair: Matjaz^ Klemenc^ic^ (U of Maribor (Slovenia))
  
  • Andreja Boz^ic^-Horvat (U of Maribor (Slovenia)), "Ivan Molek and the Homeland: Echoes of His Resignation as Editor of Prosveta in 1944"
  • Darko Fris^ (U of Maribor (Slovenia)), "Rev Kazimir Zakrajs^ek, OFM: His Work for the Homeland in the USA during World War II"
  • Mojca Mos^kon-Mes^l (U of Maribor (Slovenia), "Andrej Kobal: How his Work was Influenced by the Events of World War II in Slovenia"
  Discussants: Jozef Figa (Hamilton College) and Rudolph Matt Susel (American Home Publishing Co)
• 3-02 Thursday, 15 November, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Balcony I
  Home again? Return Migrations between Politics, Practice and Theory
  Chair: Z^arko Lazarevic'^ (Inst for Contemporary History (Slovenia))
  
  • Marina Luks^ic^ Hacin (Institute for Slovenian Emigration Studies SRC SASA), "Theoretical Thematization of Returning Migrations"
  • Jernej Mlekuz^ (Institut za slovensko izseljenstvo (Slovenia)), "About the Methodology Which is Annoying for the Return Migration Theory: A Migrant's Life Story"
  • Jure Gombac^ (Institut za slovensko izseljentsvo (Slovenia)) "Repatriation to Slovenia after the Second World War"
  Discussant: Zvone Z^igon (Consul General of the Republic of Slovenia)
• 3-19 Thursday, 15 November, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Mardi Gras Ballroom C
  Own Roads to Socialism? Yugoslav Cities, Urban Planning, and Regional Practices, 1960-1980
  Chair: Kimberly Elman Zarecor (Iowa State U)
  
  • Brigitte Le Normand (UCLA), "Home Sweet Home: Yugoslav-style Consumerism and the Limits of Planning in Belgrade, 1960-1970"
  • Veronica E. Aplenc (Chestnut Hill Historical Society), "State Urban Plans and Local Myths of Origin: Slovenian Socialist Suburbs in the 1970s and 1980s"
  • Vladimir Kulic (School of Architecture, U of Texas, Austin), "Foreign Policy as Urban Planner: Reconstructing Skopje after the 1963 Earthquake"
  Discussants: Heather D. DeHaan (Binghamton U, SUNY) and Patrick H. Patterson (UC San Diego)
• 3-23 Thursday, 15 November, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Mardi Gras Ballroom H
  Current Slovenian Foreign Policy: Exercising Leadership in Europe (Roundtable)
  Chair: Stefan Kapsch (Reed College)
  
  • Charles Bukowski (Bradley U)
  • Joseph Derdzinski (United States Air Force Academy)
  • James Gow (King's College)
  • Samuel Z^bogar (Slovenian Ambassador to the United States)
• 5-35 Friday, 16 November, 10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Suite 1
  New Approaches to Slovene Linguistics and Slovene Literature from Young Scholars in Slovene Studies
  Chair: Veronica E. Aplenc (Chestnut Hill Historical Society)
  
  • Leonora Flis (U of Ljubljana (Slovenia)), "Documentary Narratives in the Postmodern Epoch and Their Postmodernistic Contexts: The United States vs. Slovenia"
  • Marta Stemberger (New School), "Dynamics of Gender and Race in `Lepa Vida' (Fair Vida): An Exploration into the Origins of the Myth"
  • Nina Golob, (Tokyo U of Foreign Affairs (Japan)), "Systemic Changes in the Process of Slovene Tonal Loss"
  Discussants: Michael Edward Biggins (U of Washington) and Grant H. Lundberg (Brigham Young U)
• 6-14 Friday, 16 November, 2:00-4:00 p.m. La Galerie 4
  Serb and Slovene Yugoslavism in 1918
  Chair: Carole Rogel (Ohio State U)
  
  • Peter Vodopivec (Society for Slovene Studies) "May Declaration and the Yugoslav Movement in Slovene Provinces in 1918"
  • Ljubinka Trgovc^evic'^ Mitrovic'^ (U of Belgrade (Serbia)), "Serb Intellectuals and the Creation of Yugoslavia in 1918"
  • Mateja Ratej (Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Slovenia)), "Slovene liberal and Catholic Interpretations of May Declaration in the Interwar Period"
  Discussants: Elinor Murray Despalatovic (Connecticut College) and Dejan Djokic'^ (U of Nottingham (UK))
• Friday, 16 November, 7:30 p.m. Regent
  Society for Slovene Studies Reception
• Saturday, 17 November, 8:00-10:00 a.m. Balcony M
  Society for Slovene Studies Annual Business Meeting
• 8-03 Saturday, 17 November, 10:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Balcony J
  Perceptions of the Yugoslav Economic Space in the Historical Prospective
  Chair: Peter Vodopivec (Society for Slovene Studies)
  
  • Dragana Gnjatovic'^ (Megatrend U (Serbia)), "Common Investment Policy in Yugoslavia after WWII"
  • Ivan Bicanic (U of Zagreb (Croatia)), "20th-Century Croatian Perspective of the Yugoslav Economic Space"
  • Z^arko Lazarevic'^ (Inst for Contemporary History (Slovenia)), "Perceptions of Yugoslav Economic Space in Slovenia"
  Discussants: Catherine Albrecht (U of Baltimore) and John R. Lampe (U of Maryland)
• 8-35 Saturday, 17 November, 10:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Suite 1
  Identity Politics in the Former Yugoslavia
  
  • Francine Friedman (Ball State U), "Muslim-Jewish Cooperation in Bosnia: The Sarajevo Megillah"
  • Irena Gantar Godina (Institute for Slovenian Emigration Studies SASA), "The Slovenes: Between Myth and Loyalty: Slavdom and Dynasty"
  • David S. Hardin (Longwood U), "'My Old Serb Bones Will Rest in a Croat Town': The Conversion of Serb Settlements into Croat Ones in Croatia's Western Slavonia"
  Discussant: Leigh A. Clemons (Louisiana State U)
• 12-02 Sunday, 18 November, 10:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Balcony I
  Nation State and Diversity Management in the Enlarged Europe: Boundaries Changes in Minority and Gender Issues (Roundtable)
  Chair: Francesco Privitera (U of Bologna (Italy))
  
  • Stefano Bianchini (U of Bologna (Italy))
  • Luisa Chiodi (U of Bologna (Italy))
  • Joseph Marko (U of Graz (Austria))
  • Julie Mostov (Drexel U)
  • Mitja Z^agar (Institute for Ethnic Studies (Slovenia))
• 12-08 Sunday, 18 November, 10:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Bonaparte Suite
  Newest Research on Slovenes of Carinthia
  Chair: Metod M. Milac^ (Syracuse U)
  
  • Jernej Zupanc^ic^ (U of Ljubljana (Slovenia)), "Economic Situation of Carinthian Slovenes After World War II"
  • Matjaz^ Klemenc^ic^ (U of Maribor (Slovenia)), "The Fight of Carinthian Slovenes against the Processes of Germanization after World War II"
  • Boris Jesih (Institute for Ethnic Studies), "Development of Slovene Carinthian Organizations after World War II"
  Discussants: Klaus-Jürgen Hermanik (Karl Franzens U Graz (Austria)) and Robert G. Minnich (U of Bergen (Norway))

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American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
Washington, DC, 16-19 November 2006

Please be advised that the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Society for Slovene Studies will be held in conjunction with the 38^th National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) in Washington, DC, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, 16-19 November 2006.

The following SSS panels and those of related interest have been scheduled for the conference. The information is that available at press time.

• Thursday, 16 November, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. -- Suite 630
  1-34 Current Developments in Slovenian Foreign Policy (Roundtable)
  Chair: Carole Rogel (Ohio State U)
  
  • Joseph Derdzinski (United States Air Force Academy)
  • James Gow (King's College London)
  • Mark A. Pekala (Bureau of European & Eurasian Affairs)
  • Samuel Z^bogar (Slovenian Ambassador to the United States)
• Thursday, 16 November, 3:15 - 5:15 p.m. -- Suite 230
  2-23 Liberalism in Slovenia and Croatia between the Two World Wars
  Chair: Peter Vodopivec (Institute of Contemporary History, Slovenia)
  
  • Andrea Feldman (Open Society Institute, Croatia), "The Specific Manifestations of Liberalism in Croatia in the Inter-War Period"
  • Z^arko Lazarevic'^ (Institute of Contemporary History, Slovenia), "Economic Concepts of the Slovene Liberals in the Inter-War Period"
  • Jure Perovs^ek (Institute of Contemporary History, Slovenia), "National and Political Concepts of Slovene Liberalism between the Two Wars"
  Discussants: Pieter Judson (Swarthmore College), Jera Vodus^ek-Staric^ (Institute of Contemporary History)
• Friday, 17 November, 8:00 - 10:00 a.m. -- Suite 573
  4-33 Nationalism in South-East European Literature
  Chair: James D. West (U of Washington)
  • Kristin Leigh Vitalich (UCLA), "Lacan and Nationalism in Slovenia"
  • Michael Edward Biggins (U of Washington), "Vladimir Bartol's Alamut as a Slovenian Nationalist Icon"
  • John K. Cox (Wheeling Jesuit U), "One Nation Under Communism: Modes of Writing the Albanian Homeland in the Works of Ismail Kadare"
  Discussants: Nicholas John Miller (Boise State U)

• Friday, 17 November, 10:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. -- Suite 562
  5-32 On Writing Literary History: Slovene and Central-European Perspectives
  Chair: William Mills Todd III (Harvard U)
  
  • Marko Juvan (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts), "Literary History as a Great Genre: Its History and Future"
  • Alenka Koron (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts), "Rethinking the Narrative in Literary Historiography"
  • Timothy Pogacar (Bowling Green SU), "Historically Imagining Slovene Literature"
  Discussant: Andrew Baruch Wachtel (Northwestern U)

• Friday, 17 November, 2:15 - 4:15 p.m. -- Blue Room
  6 Society for Slovene Studies Annual Business Meeting
  This meeting is open to all members.

• Saturday, 18 November, 8:00 - 10:00 a.m. -- Congressional B
  8-10 Remembering Communism and Yugoslavia in Independent Slovenia
  Chair: Carole Rogel (Ohio State U)
  
  • Gregor Tomc (U of Ljubljana), "Remembering as Reinterpretation: Perceived Transitional Winners and Losers in Slovenia"
  • Mitja Velikonja (U of Ljubljana), "Nostalgia for Socialism as an Element of Cultural Pluralism in Slovenian Transition"
  • Nina Vodopivec (Institutum Studorium Humanitatis, Slovenia), "Past in the Present: The Social Memory of the Textile Workers"
  Discussants: Cathie Carmichael (U of East Anglia) and John K. Cox (Wheeling Jesuit U)
• Saturday, 18 November, 10:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. -- Suite 630
  9-34 Recent Research by Young Scholars in Slovene Studies: 'Erased Persons,' Anti-Semitism, and Tones in Contemporary Standard Slovene
  Chair: Robert G. Minnich (University of Bergen)
  
  • Peter Jurgec (SAZU: Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts), "Acoustic Analysis of Tones in Contemporary Standard Slovene"
  • Gregor Kranjc (U Toronto), "Obligatory Hatred? The Anti-Semitism of the Slovene Anti-Communist Opposition"
  • Hassid Laurent (U of Paris), "The Question of Slovenia's Erased Persons"
  Discussants: Patrick Patterson (UC San Diego) and Grant Lundberg (Brigham Young U)
• Saturday, 18 November, 2:15 - 4:15 p.m. -- Suite 273
  10-25The Habsburg Empire's Last War: Sacrifice and the Fate of Veterans
  • Paulina Bobic (U of Oxford), "War and Faith: Religion and the Slovenian Soldier 1914-1918"

• Saturday, 18 November, 4:15 - 6:15 p.m. -- Suite 373
  11-28 Serbian, Croatian and Slovene History Textbooks after the Collapse of Yugoslavia
  Chair: Charles Jelavich (Indiana U)
  
  • Dubravka Stojanovic'^ (U of Belgrade), "History Textbooks in Serbia since 1991"
  • Snjez^ana Koren (U of Zagreb), "History Textbooks in Croatia after the Demise of Yogoslavia"
  • Peter Vodopivec (Institute of Contemporary History), "History Textbooks in Slovenia after 1991"
  Discussants: Leopoldina Plut-Pregelj (U of Maryland), Nobuhiro Shiba (U of Tokyo)
• Sunday, 19 November, 8:00 - 10:00 a.m. -- Committee Room
  12-08 Comparing Strategies of Enterpreneurs in Slovenia before and after 1990
  Chair: Jera Vodus^ek-Staric^ (Institute of Contemporary History)
  
  • Joz^e Princ^ic^ (Institute of Contemporary History), "Successful Managers in Slovenia between 1960 and 1991"
  • Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher (U of Tennessee), "Slovenian Women Entrepreneurs in the Transition Period: Clueless Capitalists or Wise Strategists?"
  • Jurij Fikfak (ZRC SAZU), "How do Slovenian Managers/Entrepreneurs Re-Present Themselves?"
  Discussants: Jera Vodus^ek-Staric^ (Institute of Contemporary History), Thomas C. Wolfe (U of Minnesota)

In addition to these panels with Slovene content, two of our members will be participating in other sessions: Patrick Patterson will present "Defenders of Christendom? Christian Politics and the Challenge of Islam in Europe after 1989"; Sabine Rutar will participate in the Contacts and Perceptions Across the Adriatic: Mediterranean Complications in the Study of Eastern Europe round table.

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American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
Salt Lake City, Utah, 3-6 November 2005

Please be advised that the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Society for Slovene Studies will be held in conjunction with the 37^th National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the Grand America Hotel, 3-6 November 2005.

The following SSS panels and those of related interest have been proposed for the conference. Complete information was not available at press time.

• Thursday, 3 November, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. -- Versailles (GA)
  1-24 Protection of Autochthonous Ethnic Minorities and Immigrant Ethnic Groups in New Member States of EU (The Case of Slovenia)
  Chair: Sabrina Petra Ramet, Norwegian U of Science & Technology (Norway)
  
  • Jernej Zupanc^ic^, U of Ljubljana (Slovenia) "Protection of Immigrant Communities in Slovenia"
  • Matjaz^ Klemenc^ic^, U of Maribor (Slovenia) "Protection of Autochthonous Minorities in Slovenia"
  • Josef Figa, Hamilton College "Concepts of Protection of Immigrant Communities in the EU and the USA"
  Discussants: Charles Ingrao, Purdue U, & A. Ross Johnson, RFE/RL/Hoover Institution
• Thursday, 3 November, 4:15 - 6:15 p.m. -- Sussex (GA)
  2-20 Slovenia in 1945: Sixty Years After
  Chair: Metod Milac
  
  • Ales^ Grabric^, Institute for Modern History (Slovenia) "The Bolshevization of Slovenia"
  • Tadeja Tomins^ek Rihtar, Institute for Modern History (Slovenia) "The Postwar Retribution in Slovenia: Its Death Toll"
  • Peter Vodopivec, U of Ljubljana (Slovenia) "The Memory of World War II and 1945 in Slovenia"
  Discussants: Benjamin Frommer, Northwestern U, & Matt Susel, American Home Publishing Co.
• Thursday, 3 November, 4:15 - 6:15 p.m. -- Grand Ballroom B (LA)
  2-31 Spies, Files and Lies -- Central Europe
  
  • Tamara Kotar, Carleton U (Canada) "Slovenia"

• Friday, 4 November, 2:15 - 4:15 p.m. -- Flagstaff (LA)
  Society for Slovene Studies Annual Business Meeting
  This meeting is open to all members.

• Friday, 4 November, 4:15 - 6:15 p.m. -- Hermitage (GA)
  5-14 New European Union Members (Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovenia) a Year Later: Realities of Change versus Perceptions
  
  • Anna Seleny, Princeton U "Hungary and Slovenia in the European Union: Similarities and Differences"

• Friday, 4 November, 7:00 p.m.Wyoming (LA)
  Society for Slovene Studies Reception

• Saturday, 5 November, 10:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. -- Fontainbleau (GA)
  8-07 True Believers: Yugoslav Intellectuals in the 1950s
  Chair: Sarah Anne Kent, U of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
  
  • Mateja Rezek, Institute for Contemporary History, Ljubljana "Milovan Djilas -- The First Defeat of Party 'Liberalism'"
  • Nicholas John Miller, Boise State U "Dobrica C'^osic'^ in the 1950s"
  • Marijan Despalatovic, Connecticut College "Miroslav Krleza in the 1950s"
  Discussant: Joz^e Pirjevec, U of Padua
• Saturday, 5 November, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. -- Sussex (GA)
  9-20 Roundtable: Slovenia and Europe: The Impact of NATO and EU Membership
  Chair: Stefan Kapsch, Reed College
  Participants: Charles J. Bukowski, Bradley U
  Joseph Derdzinski, U of Denver
  James Gow, King's College London (UK)
  Samuel Z^bogar, Slovenian Ambassador to the United States
• Sunday, 6 November, 8:00 - 10:00 a.m. -- Sussex (GA)
  10-27 New Research by Young Scholars in Slovene Studies: The Kozolec, the EMU, and Clitics
  Chair: Carole Rogel, The Ohio State U
  
  • Toby Martin Applegate, U of Tennessee "Identity and Resistance: The Mimetic Landscape of the Kozolec"
  • Peter Mikek, Wabash College "Macroeconomic Aspects of Slovenian EMU Accession"
  • Sean O'Rourke, Yale U "Clitic Placement in Slovene as Phrasal Affixation"
  Discussant: Robert Gary Minnich, U of Bergen (Norway)
• Sunday, 6 November, 10:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. -- Envoy (GA)
  11-06 So Close Yet So Apart: Western Slavs Viewing Russia, 1809-1913
  Chair: Timothy Pogacar, Bowling Green State U
  
  • Irena Gantar-Godina, Slovene Academy of Arts and Sciences (Slovenia) "Slovenes in Russia in the 19th-century: Views of a New Homeland"
  • Raymond Harry Miller, Bowdoin College "Jernej Kopitar and the Russians"
  • Marie L. Nenderflora, Czech Academy of Sciences "Masaryk, Democracy and Russia"
  Discussant: Carole R. Rogel, The Ohio State U
• Sunday, 6 November, 10:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. -- Tuscany (GA)
  11-29 Southeastern European Romantic Literature
  • Matthew C. Curtis, Indiana U "Small Nations, Tall Tales: Three Balkan Epics and National Identity in Slovenia, Serbia, and Albania"
  Discussant: Michael Biggins, U of Washington

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American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
Boston, Massachusetts, 4-7 December 2004

Please be advised that the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Society for Slovene Studies will be held in conjunction with the 36^th National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) in Boston, 4-7 December, at the Marriott Copley Place.

The following SSS panels and those of related interest are scheduled for the conference.

• Saturday, 4 December, 3:45 - 5:45 p.m. -- Boston College
  2-01 South Slavic Literature and Ideology
  Chair: Henry R. Cooper, Jr., Indiana U
  • Marko Juvan, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Slovenia), "Parodic Writing, National Canon, and Hegemony: Literary Modernism in a Communist Context (Some Slovenian Examples)"
  • Slobodan Prosperov Novak, Yale U, "Figures of Fear in the Theater of Marin Drzic"
  • Bogdan Rakic, U of Chicago, "The Humanist as Cannibal: Borislav Pekic's `How To Quiet a Vampire'"
  Discussant: Radmila J. Gorup, Columbia U
• Saturday, 4 December, 3:45 - 5:45 p.m. -- Brandeis
  2-03 State and Development in Former Communist States
  • Karlo Basta, U of Toronto, Canada, "States and Industrial Policies in Independent Estonia and Slovenia"
• Sunday, 5 December, 8:00 - 10:00 a.m. -- Simmons
  3-08 Slovenia as a New Member of NATO and the EU: Challenges and Obligations (Roundtable)
  Chair: Stefan Kapsch
  Participants: Mirko Cigler, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Slovenia); Joseph Derdzinski, University of Denver; Charles Bukowski, Institute of International Studies, Bradley University; Patrick Hyder Patterson, University of California, San Diego

• Sunday, 5 December, 12:30 - 1:45 p.m. -- TBA
  Society for Slovene Studies Annual Business Meeting
  This meeting is open to all members.
• Monday, 6 December, 10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. -- Boston College
  7-01 Performers and Researchers of Everyday Life - Before and After 1990
  Chair: Timothy Pogacar, Bowling Green State University
  
  • Irene Portis Winner, Massachusetts College of Arts, Boston, MA, "A Village Transformed: From Agriculture to Tourist Industry. Two Paths Diverge: Youth versus Elders"
  • Ingrid Slavec Gradis^nik, Scientific Research Center SASA, Ljubljana, "From a Researcher's Workshop: On Constructing the `Proper' Culture in Socialism and After"
  • Jurij Fikfak, Scientific Research Center SASA, Ljubljana, "Performance and Research of Ritual Practice before and after 1990"
  Discussant: Noah Rost, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Monday, 6 December, 2:00-4:00 p.m. -- Boston University
  8-02 Slovene Perceptions about America in the Interwar Era
  Chair: Carole Rogel, Ohio State University
  
  • Marjan Drnovs^ek, Institute for Slovenian Emigration Studies (Ljubljana),"America in the Eyes of Boz^idar Jakac"
  • Mirjam Hladnik, Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts (Ljubljana), "The Slovene Women's Perception of America from Marie Prisland to the Present"
  • Peter Vodopivec, Institute for Contemporary History (Ljubljana), "Milan Vidmar's Reflections on Europe and America in 1937"
  Discussants: Leopoldina Plut-Pregelj, University of Maryland, and Rudolf M. Susel, American Home Publishing Co.
• Tuesday, 7 December, 8:00-10:00 a.m. -- Cape Cod
  9-12 Landscapes of Socialism: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Post-War Eastern Europe
  
  • Veronica E. Aplenc, U of Pennsylvania, "To Develop the Morally Acceptable: A Slovenian Urban Landscape under Yugoslav Socialism, 1969-1982"
• Tuesday, 7 December, 8:00-10:00 a.m. -- Massachusetts
  9-33 Economic Integration of Slovenia during the Habsburg Monarchy, the Second Yugoslavia and Independent Slovenia
  Chair: Stefan J. Kapsch, Reed College
  
  • Neven Borak, Securities Marketing Agency (Slovenia), "Independent Slovenia in European Economic Framework"
  • Z^arko Lazarevic'^, Institute for Contemporary History (Slovenia), "Economic Integration of Slovenia in Yugoslavia"
  • Andrej Panc^ur, Institute for Contemporary History (Slovenia), "Slovenian Economic Integration into the Habsburg Monarchy"
  Discussants: Catherine Albrecht, U of Baltimore, and Paul Nowak, Drury U
• Tuesday, 7 December, 10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. -- Brandeis
  10-03 Contemporary Slovene History and Politics: Recent Research by Young Scholars
  Chair: Karl Ryavec, University of Massachusetts
  
  • Alenka Barber-Kersovan, University of Hamburg, "Work in the Name of Revolution: Slovene Punks and the De-Construction of the Soviet Work Ethos"
  • Tamara Kotar, Carleton University, "Heroics versus Humble Histories: A Brief Comparative Political History of Slovenia and Croatia"
  • Charles Fletcher, Institute of Defense Analyses, "Is There a Case for Slovene Exceptionalism?"
  Discussants: Cathie Carmichael, University of East Anglia, and Sarah Kent, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

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American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
Toronto, Canada, 20-23 November 2003

Please be advised that the 2003 Annual Meeting of the Society for Slovene Studies will be held in conjunction with the 35^th National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 20-23 November 2003.

The following SSS panels and those of related interest are scheduled for the conference.

• Thursday, 20 November, 1:30 - 3:15 p.m. -- Tudor 7
  1-30 Reality in Folklore: Slavic Prose Genres
  
  • Veronica E. Aplenc, U of Pennsylvania "Socialist Discourse, Folk Practices: Everyday Talk about the Sense of Place in Contemporary Slovenia"

• Thursday, 20 November, 3:30 - 5:15 p.m. -- British Columbia
  Society for Slovene Studies Annual Business Meeting
  This meeting is open to all members.

• Friday, 21 November, 8:00 - 9:45 a.m. -- Quebec
  4-24 Culture and Cultural Organizations among Slovenes in North America
  Chair: Matjaz^ Klemenc^ic^, U of Maribor (Slovenia)
  • Darko Fris^, U of Maribor (Slovenia) "Catholic Church Sponsored Cultural Organizations among Slovene Immigrants to the U.S.A."
  • Jerneja Petric^, U of Ljubljana (Slovenia) "Literary Work of Slovene Immigrants to the U.S.A."
  • Milica Trebse-Stolfa, Slovenska izseljenska matica (Slovenia) "Cultural Organizations of the Slovenes of Canada"
  Discussants: Jozef Figa, Hamilton College & Jernej Zupanc^ic^, U of Ljubljana (Slovenia)

• Friday, 21 November, 8:00 - 9:45 a.m. -- Territories
  4-28 Historiography in the Post-Yugoslav Area
  Chair: Karl Kaser, U of Graz (Austria)
  
  • Oto Luthar, Scientific Research Center (Slovenia) "Between Reinterpretation and Revisionism: Slovenian Historiography in the 1990s"

• Saturday, 22 November, 10:00 - 11:45 a.m. -- Montibello
  9-17 Contrastive Phonology and Morphosyntax
  
  • Grant H. Lundberg, Brigham Young U "Tonemic Oppositions on the Slovene and Croatian National Border"

• Sunday, 23 November, 8:00 - 9:45 a.m. -- Board Room
  11-05 Recent Research by Young Scholars in Slovene Studies: Language, Music and Media
  Chair: Metod Milac^
  
  • Donald F. Reindl, Indiana University, "A Fungus by Any Other Name: Slovene Mycological Loan Translations"
  • Maria K. Arko Klemenc, University of California, Berkeley "Arranging the Nation in Slovenian Musical Practice"
  • Brian Pozun, Freelance Journalist, NY City "Media Prospects in Slovenia: English-Language Sources"
  Discussants: Tom Lozar, Vanier College, Montreal & Veronica E. Aplenc, University of Pennsylvania

• Sunday, 23 November, 8:00 - 9:45 a.m. -- Confederation 5
  11-09 The People Have Spoken: The EU Accession Referenda in East-Central Europe
  
  • William L. Miller, U of Glasgow (Scotland, UK) "Reluctant Joiners: Attitudes towards the EU Accession Referenda in Poland, Hungary, and Slovenia"

• Sunday, 23 November, 8:00 - 9:45 a.m. -- Manitoba
  11-16 The Significance of Education in Forming National Identity of Small Nations
  Chair: Boz^o Repe, U of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
  
  • Irena Gantar Godina, Scientific Research Center of Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts, "The Significance of Higher Education in Forming Slovene National Identity"
  • Raymond Harry Miller, Bowdoin College, "Jernej Kopitar's Views of Education: Language and Enlightment in the Slavic Renaissance"
  • Andrej Rozman, University of Ljubljana, "The Impact of Trnava University on the Forming of Slovak National Consciousness"
  Discussants: Marija Tonkova, Komensky University, Bratislava

• Sunday, 23 November, 8:00 - 9:45 a.m. -- New Brunswick
  11-18 New Perspectives on Culture and Violence in South Eastern Europe
  Chair: Marko Zivkovic, Reed College
  
  • Cathie Carmichael, U of East Anglia (UK) "Selective Memories: The Transmission of Knowledge about Violence and Atrocities in the Former Yugoslavia in the 1990s"
  • John K. Cox, Wheeling Jesuit U "Moments of Madness? Violence in Recent Slovene Literature"
  • Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers, U of London (UK) "A Reputation for Violence: Culture and Culturalist Identifications in the Case of `Albanian Criminals'"
  Discussants: Wendy Bracewell, U of London (UK) & Djordje Stefanovic, U of Toronto (Canada)

• Sunday, 23 November, 10:00 - 11:45 a.m. -- Saskatchewan
  12-27 Moving Targets--Moving Researchers: Symbolic Spaces and Rituals between Memory and Discourse in the Last Thirty Years
  Chair: Peter Scherber, U of Göttingen (Germany)
  • Jurij Fikfak, SRCSASA (Slovenia) "Winds of Change: Rituals between Tradition and Production of Local Identity"
  • Irene Portis-Winner, Massachusetts College of Arts "Social Structure and Freedom. A Semiotic Contrast. The Dialectics of Contested Conceptual Terms. The Power of Context."
  • Peeter Torop, Tartu U (Estonia) "Changed Targets--Changed Perspectives: Semiotic Research and Possibilities of Analyzing Culture"
  Discussant: Thomas G. Winner, Brown U

• Sunday, 23 November, 10:00 - 11:45 a.m. -- Territories
  12-28 Historiography since Yugoslavia's Breakup in Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia
  Chair: Carole R. Rogel, The Ohio State University
  
  • Dubravka Stojanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia "Serbian Historiography"
  • Neven Budak, University of Zagreb, Croatia "Croatian Historiography"
  • Peter Vodopivec, Research Institute of Modern History, Ljubljana, Slovenia "Slovenian Historiography"
  Discussants: Audrey H. Budding, Harvard University, & Dennison Rusinow, University of Pittsburgh

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American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 21-24 November 2002

The 2002 Annual Meeting of the Society for Slovene Studies will be held in conjunction with the 34^th National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), 21-24 November 2002 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

On Friday, Nov. 22, His Excellency Davorin Krac^un, Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia, will host a reception for the Society for Slovene Studies at 7:30 p.m. in the Brigade Room (Hilton). Ambassador Krac^un will present the Honorary Gold Medal of Freedom to Professor Carole Rogel for her professional contributions to the area of Slovene Studies. The President of Slovenia, Milan Kuc^an, announced this award last Spring.

The SNPJ (Slovene National Benefit Society) will host a reception and a social gathering at the SNPJ headquarters at Imperial (on the outskirts of Pittsburgh) for SSS members. Transportation will be provided from the Hilton Hotel. More information about this event will be announced later on this website.

The following SSS panels and those of related interest are scheduled for the conference. Others were not available at press time.

• Thursday, 21 November, 2:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. -- Benedum (Hilton)
  1-02 Slovene Women and Emigration
  Chair: John Cox, Wheeling Jesuit University
  
  • Marjan Drnovs^ek, SAZU (Ljubljana), "Emigration of Slovene Women: A Historical View"
  • Irena Milanic^, University of Ljubljana, "Slovene-American Women Writers in the 1930s: Between Literature and Social Engagement"
  • Mirjam Milharc^ic^-Hladnik, SAZU (Ljubljana), "Contemporary Stories of Slovene Women-Migrants"
  Discussants: Sophia Sluzar & Matt Rudolf Susel, American Home Publishing Co

• Friday, 22 November, 8:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. -- Allegheny (Hilton)
  3-01 Slovene Intellectuals' response to Political and Social Modernization in the Twentieth Century
  Chair: Lea Plut-Pregelj, University of Maryland
  
  • Peter Vodopivec, Institute for Contemporary History (Ljubljana), "Slovene Intellectuals Between Nationalism and Social Conservativism"
  • Bojan Godes^a, Institute for Contemporary History (Ljubljana), "Slovene Intelligentsia and the Second World War"
  • Ales^ Gabric^, Institute for Contemporary History (Ljubljana), "Slovene Intellectuals and the Communist Regime"
  Discussants: Dennison Rusinow, University of Pittsburgh & Cathy Carmichael, School for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Middlesex
• Friday, 22 November, 10:15 a.m. - 12:05 p.m. -- Rivers (Hilton)
  4-17 Recent Research by Young Scholars in Slovene Studies: Slovenia in the Nineties
  Chair: Carole Rogel, Ohio State University
  
  • Josip Moc^nik, Bowling Green State University, "U.S.-Slovene Relations: Is Slovenia a Success Story?"
  • Darren Purcell, Florida A & M University, "Constructing Cyber-Slovenia: Government Internet Sites and the State-Building Process"
  • Veronica Aplenc, University of Pennsylvania, "Everyday Housing under Socialism: The Development of the Trnovo Neighborhood in Ljubljana"
  Discussant: Patrick Hyder Patterson, University of California--San Diego
• Friday, 22 November, 10:15 a.m. - 12:05 p.m. -- King's Garden North (Hilton)
  4-13 South Slavic Americans and the Left, 1900-1950
  Chair: Charles Jelavich, Indiana University
  • Ivan C^izmic'^, University of Zagreb, "The Yugoslav Socialist Federation 1910-1919"
  • Matjaz^ Klemenc^ic^, University of Maribor, "Slovene American Leftist Organizations, 1900-1950"
  • Jason C. Vuic, The Ohio State University, "American Radicals: Steve Nelson and Stevan Dedijer"
  Discussant: Thomas Emmert, Gustavus Adolphus College

• Friday, 22 November, 4:15 p.m. - 6:10 p.m. -- King's Garden South (Hilton)
  6-12 International Recognition of Slovenia (1991-1992): Three Perspectives
  Chair: Stefan Kapsch, Reed College
  
  • Boz^o Repe, University of Ljubljana, "The View from Inside: The Slovenes, the Federation, and Yugoslavia's Other Republics"
  • Richard Caplan, Oxford University, "The View from the European Community"
  • Roderick C. Mackler, U.S. Department of State, "The View from the United States"
  Discussants: James Gow, King's College, London & Dimitrij Rupel, Foreign Ministry of Slovenia

• Friday, 22 November, 7:30 p.m. -- Brigade Room (Hilton)
  Society for Slovene Studies Reception

• Saturday, 23 November, 8:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. -- Chartiers (Hilton)
  7-01 Slovenia's Access to the European Union and NATO (Round Table)
  Chair: Karl Ryavec, U. of Massachusetts
  Presenters:
      Mirko Cigler, Foreign Ministry of Slovenia
      Charles Bukowski, Bradley University
      Joseph Derdzinski, US Air Force Academy
      James Gow, King's College, London
• Sunday, 24 November, 8:00 a.m. - 9:50 p.m. -- Phipps (Omni)
  Society for Slovene Studies Annual Business Meeting
  This meeting is open to all members.

• Sunday, 24 November, 10:15 a.m. - 12:05 p.m. -- Brigade (Hilton) 11-04 Slovene Protestant Immigrants in North America
  Chair: Arthur Keys, International Relief and Development, Inc.
  • Mihael Kuzmic^, Evangelical Theological Seminary in Osijek, "Slovenian Protestant Emigration to the USA (After the Counter Reformation) in the 17th and 18th Centuries"
  • Peter Kuzmic^, Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, "National and Religious Heritage of the Slovenian Protestant"
  • Gary J. Langenspiesen, St. John's Windish Evangelical Lutheran Church, "Slovenian Emigrants in Bethlehem, PA, in the 20th Century"
  Discussants: Mark Stolarik, University of Ottawa, & John O. Karns

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American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
Washington, D.C., 15-20 November 2001

The 2001 Annual Meeting of the Society for Slovene Studies will be held in conjunction with the 33^rd National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), 15-18 November 2001 at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City ((800) 233-1234) and the Washington National Airport Hilton ((800) 445-8667) in Arlington (Crystal City), Virginia. Arlington is located close to Washington, DC, just across the Potomac River. When making hotel reservations be sure to specify the AAASS conference for the best room rates.

The theme of this conference is "The Variety of Post-Communist Regimes and the Challenges for U.S. Foreign Policy." The following SSS panels and those of related interest are scheduled for the conference. (This information was obtained from the AAASS website.)

1. Thursday, 15 November, 4:15 p.m. - 6:10 p.m. -- BoardRoom 110 (Hilton)
   2-24 The Non-Person: The Overlooked and Ignored Intellectual in the Period of Slovene Communism
   Chair: Leopoldina Plut-Pregelj, U of Maryland
   
   • Mirjam M. Hladnik, Slovene Academy of Sciences & Arts (Slovenia) "Condemned to Oblivion -- the Quest for Erased Life and Work of Angela Vode"
   • Andrej Inkret, U of Ljubljana (Slovenia) "Edvard Kocbek between Poetry and Politics"
   • Alenka Puhar, DELO "Non-persons behind the Iron Curtain"
   Discussant: Peter Vodopivec, U of Ljubljana (Slovenia)

2. Friday, 16 November, 8:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. -- Boardroom (Hyatt)
   3-02 U.S.-Slovene Relations: Understanding the Future through the Past -- (Roundtable)
   Chair: Karl W. Ryavec, U of Massachusetts, Amherst
   Participants: Charles J. Bukowski, Bradley U; James L. Oberstar, U.S. Congress; Ernst Petric, Permanent Mission of Slovenia to UN; Mark E. Ryavec, Honorary Consul, Republic of Slovenia

3. Friday, 16 November, 10:15 a.m. - 12:05 p.m. -- Charleston II (Hilton)
   4-26 International Recognition of Slovenia (1991-1992): Three Perspectives
   Chair: Carole R. Rogel, Ohio State U
   
   • Roderick C. Mackler, Washington consultant "The View from the United States"
   • Boz^o Repe, U of Ljubljana (Slovenia) "The View from Inside: The Slovenes, the Federation, and Yugoslavia's Other Republics"
   • Karl Stuhlpfarrer, Institut fur Geschichte (Austria) "The View from Austria and Germany Regarding Independence and International Recognition of Slovenia"
   Discussants: James Gow, Kings College London (UK) & Dimitrij Rupel, U of Ljubljana (Slovenia)

4. Friday, 16 November, 2:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. -- Mt. Vernon (Hilton)
   5-36 Connecting Two Histories: Slovenes Who Left Their Homeland 1945-1947 and the Fate of Their Archival Materials
   Chair: Carole R. Rogel, Ohio State U
   
   • France M. Dolinar, Arhiv. Republike Slovenije (Slovenia) "Data and Papers on Some Leading Members of the Clerical Bloc up to 1945"
   • Matjaz^ Klemenc^ic^, U of Maribor (Slovenia) "The Epilogue: Their Exile in the U.S.A. and the Fate of Their Papers"
   • Jera Vodus^ek-Staric^, U of Maribor "The Case of Several Liberal Personalities and Their Activities up to 1945"
   Discussants: Rudolph Matt Susel, American Home Publishing Co., & Joseph Velikonja, U of Washington

5. Friday, 16 November, 4:15 p.m. - 6:10 p.m. -- Rappahannock (Hilton)
   Society for Slovene Studies Annual Business Meeting
   This meeting is open to all members.

6. Friday, 16 November, 7:30 p.m. -- Arlington & Fairfax (Hyatt)
   Reception for members of the Society for Slovene Studies, hosted by Foreign Minister Dr. Dimitrij Rupel and the Slovene Ambassador to the United States Dr. Davorin Krac^un
   

7. Saturday, 17 November, 8:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. --
   7-06 Carinthian Slovenes at the Time of Integral Nationalism (1918-1945)
   Chair: Rudolph Matt Susel, American Home Publishing Co.
   
   • Valentin Sima, U of Klagenfurt (Austria) "Integral Nationalism Ideologies in Carinthia"
   • Igor Grdina, U of Ljubljana (Slovenia) "Slovenia and Carinthian Slovenes: The Fight for Northern Border and Carinthian Plebiscite in 1920"
   • Tina Bahovec, U of Klagenfurt (Austria) "Some Examples of Slovene-German Conflict in Austria between the First and Second World Wars"
   Discussants: Dennison I. Rusinow, U of Pittsburgh, & Anton Gosar, U of Ljubljana

8. Sunday, 18 November, 8:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. -- Regency Ballroom A (Hyatt)
   10-15 NATO Enlargement and the Applicants
   Chair: Dale R. Herspring, Kansas State U
   Zoltan Barany, U of Texas, Austin "Romania and Slovenia"; Scott D. Parrish, Monterey Inst of Int'l Studies "The Baltic States and Russia's Stance"; Jeffrey Simon, National Defense U "Slovakia and Bulgaria"

9. Sunday, 18 November, 8:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. -- Dewey I (Hilton)
   10-29 Themes of Continuity and Change in Post-Communist Slovenia
   Chair: Timothy Pogacar, Bowling Green State U
   
   • Frane Adam, U of Ljubljana (Slovenia) "Elite Formation and the Future of Democracy in Slovenia"
   • Jurij Fikfak, SRCSASA (Slovenia) "Reflections on Commonsense Discourse Concerning Old and New Symbols in Slovenia and Bordering Regions"
   • Tatiana Bajuk Senc^ar, SRCSASA (Slovenia) "Negotiating Slovenia's Post-Communist Identity: The Role of Economic Discourse"
   Discussant: Irene Portis-Winner, Massachusetts College of Arts

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American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
Denver, Colorado, 9-12 November 2000

The 2000 Annual Meeting of the Society for Slovene Studies will be held in conjunction with the 32^nd National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), 9-12 November 2000, at the Adams-Mark Hotel in Denver, Colorado. Its address is 1550 Court Place, Denver, CO 80202; the local phone is 303-893-3333 and the FAX is 303-626-2542; and the toll-free reservation number for the Adams-Mark chain is 800-444-2326.

Further information about the AAASS Convention can be found at the convention web site.

1. Thursday, November 9, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. - Beverly (Plaza)
   1-15 Ten Years of Slovene Democracy (1990-2000)
   Chair: Dimitrij Rupel, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Slovenia)
   
   • Gregor Tomc, U of Ljubljana (Slovenia) "Growing Up in Public: The State of Slovene Civil Society Ten Years after Democracy"
   • Boz^o Repe, U of Ljubljana (Slovenia) "Slovenia: From Communism Toward Democracy (1980-2000)
   • Niko Tos, U of Ljubljana (Slovenia) "Slovene Parties and Public Opinion"
   Discussants: James Gow, Kings College (UK) & Stefan J. Kapsch, Reed College

2. Friday, November 10, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. - Century (Plaza)
   Society for Slovene Studies Annual Business Meeting
   This meeting is open to all members.

3. Saturday, November 11, 2000, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.- Plaza Court 4 (Tower)
   9-36 Habsburg South Slav Capitals at the Turn of the Century
   Chair: James Paul Krokar, DePaul U
   • Robert J. Donia, U of Michigan "Sarajevo"
   • Sarah Anne Kent, U of Wisconsin, Stevens Point "Zagreb"
   • Ales^ Vodopivec, U of Ljubljana (Slovenia) "Ljubljana"
   Discussant: Peter Jelavich, U of Texas, Austin

4. Sunday, November 12, 8:00 - 10:00 a.m. - Governor's Square 9 (Tower)
   10-19 Communist Slovenia and the Slovene Political Emigration
   Chair: Metod M. Milac^, Syracuse U
   • Marjan Drnovs^ek, Institute for Emigration Studies (Slovenia) "The Attitude of Slovenians to the Slovene Political Emigration Up to 1991"
   • Ales^ Gabric, Institute for Contemporary History (Slovenia) "How the Slovene Emigrant Culture was Received in Slovenia"
   • Marta Verginella, U of Ljubljana (Slovenia) "Trieste After 1945 and the Slovene Emigration"
   Discussants: Vladimir J. Rus, Cayahoga Community College & Rudolph Matt Susel, American Home Publishing Co.

5. Sunday, November 12, 8:00 - 10:00 a.m. - Plaza Court 1 (Tower)
   10-33 Prekmurje and Prekmurians in Slovenia and in the United States
   Sponsored by the Society for Slovene Studies
   Chair: Matjaz^ Klemenc^ic^, U of Maribor (Slovenia)
   • Ronald R. Hari, Hungarian Evangelical Reformed Church "Slovene Bethlehem History as Found in the Records of Interments and the Monuments in the Cemetery"
   • Mihael Kuzmic^, U of Ljubljana (Slovenia) "Slovenes of Prekmurje in Bethlehem, PA (1880-1924)"
   • Jernej Zupanc^ic^, Institute of Geography (Slovenia) "Prekmurje Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow"
   Discussants: Jozef Figa, Hamilton College & John O. Karns

6. Sunday, November 12, 10:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. - Governor's Square 9 (Tower)
   11-19 Constructing the Myth About the Origin of the Slovenes
   Sponsored by the Society for Slovene Studies
   Chair: Henry R. Cooper, Jr., Indiana U, Bloomington
   • Tom M. S. Priestly, U of Alberta (Canada) "The Veneti Theory"
   • Peter Stih, U of Ljubljana (Slovenia) "The Autochthonal Theories Among the Slovenes"
   • Peter Vodopivec, U of Ljubljana (Slovenia) "Croat, Serb, and Romanian Myths About National Origin"
   Discussants: Patrick Patterson (U of Michigan) & Marko Stuhec, U of Ljubljana (Slovenia)

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American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
St. Louis, Missouri, 18-21 November 1999

The 1999 Annual Meeting of the Society for Slovene Studies will be held in conjunction with the 31^st National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), 18-21 November 1999, at the Adams-Mark Hotel, St. Louis, Missouri. Its address is 4^th and Chestnut Sts., St. Louis MO 63102; the local phone is 314-241-7400; and the toll-free reservation number for the Adams-Mark chain is 800-444-2326.

Further information about the AAASS Convention can be found at the convention web site.

1. Thursday, Nov. 18, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. - Suite 1255
   1-28 The Experience of Multiculturalism
   
   • Argustina Budja, Folkuniversitat (Sweden) "The Sweden Multiculturalism: the Case of Slovenes in Sweden"
     
   • Breda C^ebulj-Sajko, Institute of Emigration Studies (Slovenia) "The Experience of Multiculturalism: The Case of the Austrian Slovenes"
     
   • Jan Lencznarowicz, Polonia Institute "The Polish Immigrant Community in Australia and the Evolution of the Australian Ethnic Policy From Assimilation to Multiculturalism"
     

2. Thursday, Nov. 18, 4:15 - 6:15 p.m. - Suite 855
   2-24 Balkan Migrations and Their Impact on Slovene Territory and Population (Seventeenth Century to the Present)
   Chair: John K. Cox, Wheeling Jesuit U
   
   • Boz^o Repe, U of Ljubljana, Slovenia "Serbs, Bosnians, and Albanians in Slovenia After 1945"
     
   • Vasko Simoniti, U of Ljubljana "The Turkish Wars and Serb Migrations to the West and to Slovene Territories in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries"
     
   • Peter Vodopivec, U of Ljubljana (Slovenia) "Slovenes Heading Toward the East in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"
     
   Discussants: Cathie Carmichael, Middlesex U (UK) & Sarah Anne Kent, U of Wisconsin, Stevens Point

3. Friday, Nov. 19, 8:00 - 10:00 a.m. - Suite 1455
   3-29 The Slovene Minority in Carinthia: Latest Research Findings
   Chair: Metod M. Milac, Syracuse U
   
   • Theodor R. Domej, Landesschulrat für Kärten (Austria) "Minority Schools in Carinthia"
     
   • Tom M. S. Priestly, U of Alberta (Canada) "Analysis of the Sociolinguistic Situation in Six Carinthian Localities"
     
   • Maurice Williams, Okanagan U. College (Canada) "The Other Final Solution: Friedrich Rainer, Carinthian Slovenes, and the 'Carinthian Question'"
     
   Discussants: Carole R. Rogel, Ohio State U & David Stermole, Macdonald Collegiate Institute
   

4. Friday, Nov. 19, 10:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. - Suite 1455
   4-29 Slovene Emigration Research in Slovenia at the Crossroads of the Nineties
   Chair: Ivan C^izmic'^, U of Zagreb (Croatia)
   
   • Matjaz^ Klemenc^ic^, U of Maribor (Slovenia) "Slovene Emigration Research in Slovenia at the Crossroads of the Nineties"
     
   • Darko Fris^, U of Maribor (Slovenia) "Results of Recent Research on Slovene Emigration to the United States"
     
   • Andrej Vovko, Slovene School Museum, (Slovenia) "The Achievements of the Institute for Slovene Emigration Research of the Centre of Scientific Research of the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Art"
     
   Discussants: William C. Beyer, U of Minnesota & Peter Rachleff, Macalaster College
   

5. Friday, Nov. 19, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. - Director's Row 41
   5-10 Slavic Electronic Dictionaries
   Chair: David K. Hart, Brigham Young U
   
   • David Birnbaum, U of Pittsburgh "Document Structures for Encoding, Querying, and Serving A.A. Zaliznjak's Russian Grammatical Dictionary (Plain Text, Database, SGML)"
     
   • George Hayden Fowler, Slavica Publishers "Using a Computerized Grammatical Dictionary in Research and Teaching"
     
   • Primoz^ Jakopin, Slovene Academy of Sciences (Slovenia) "Slovenian National Corpus -- From Fiction to Reality"
     
   Discussants: David Stermole, Macdonald Collegiate Institute & James L. Rader, Merriam-Webster, Inc.
   

6. Friday, Nov. 19, 4:15 - 6:15 p.m.- St. Louis C
   Society for Slovene Studies Annual General Business Meeting
   

7. Saturday, Nov. 20, 8:00 - 10:00 a.m. - Boardroom 22
   7-02 The Turning-Point Year 1918 and the Slovenes
   Chair: Robert J. Donia, Merrill Lynch
   
   • Janez Cvirn, U of Ljubljana "Experiencing a New State"
     
   • Irena Gantar-Godina, Slovene Academy of Arts and Sciences (Slovenia) "The Slovenes Between Slavism and Yugoslavism"
     
   • Jure Perovsek, Institute of Contemporary History (Slovenia) "The Slovenes on Their Way to Yugoslavia"
     
   Discussant: Timothy Pogacar, Bowling Green State U
   

8. Saturday, Nov. 20, 8:00 - 10:00 a.m. - Suite 1055
   7-26 The Three Border Regions: Slovenia - Austria - Italy -- An Area in Transition
   Chair: Tom M. S. Priestly, U of Alberta (Canada)
   
   • Anton Gosar, U of Ljubljana (Slovenia) "Economic and Social Border Effects: The Example of the Austrian-Italian-Slovene Three-Border Region"
     
   • Andreas Moritsch, U of Klagenfurt (Austria) "The Way of the Three-Border Region to Partition Into Nation States"
     
   • Friedrich Zimmerman, U of Graz "The European Way to Bring Together a Divided Multinational Area"
     
   Discussant: Robert G. Minnich, U of Bergen (Norway)
   

9. Saturday, Nov 20, 10:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. - Suite 1155
   8-27 The Nobility in the Slovene Historic Regions: Recent Historiography and Research
   Chair: Carole R. Rogel, Ohio State U
   
   • Peter Stih, U of Ljubljana (Slovenia) "The Nobility in the Slovene Lands in the Middle Ages"
     
   • Marko Stuhec, U of Ljubljana (Slovenia) "How Wealthy Were the Nobles in the Slovene Lands in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries?"
     
   • Maja Zvanut, National Museum of Slovenia "Who Were the Nobles in the Slovene Lands in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries?"
     
   Discussants: Ralph Melville, Insitut fur Europaische Geschichte & Zdenek David, Woodrow Wilson Institute, Wash., D.C.
   

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American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
Boca Raton, Florida 24-27 September 1998

As usual, the annual meeting of the Society for Slovene Studies will be held in conjunction with the annual convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, this year in Boca Raton, Florida. Here is the preliminary information currently available about the SSS panels.

Further information about the AAASS Convention can be found at the convention web site.

1. THURSDAY, 24 SEPTEMBER (Session 2-34) 2:00-4:00 2-34, Mizner 4
   SLOVENIA IN THE EIGHTIES: NEW RESEARCH EVIDENCE
   CHAIR: Carole Rogel, The Ohio State University
   PAPERS: Boz^o Repe, University of Ljubljana "Formation of New Political Parties and Their Role in Gaining Independence"
   Ales Gabric^, Institute for Contemporary History, Ljubljana "Cultural Activities as Political Action"
   Lea Plut-Pregelj, University of Maryland "Slovenia's Concerns About the Proposed Yugoslav Core Curriculum"
   DISCUSSANT: Dennison Rusinow, University of Pittsburgh

2. FRIDAY, 25 SEPTEMBER (Session 3-15) 8:00-10:00 3-15, Veranda I
   THE SLOVENE FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS: KRANJSKA SLOVENSKA KATOLIS^KA JEDNOTA
   CHAIR: Blase Chamazar, Holy Cross
   PAPERS: Darko Fris^, Univeresity of Maribor "Short Survey of History of KSKJ Local Lodge No. 8 St. Cyril and Methodius, Joliet, Illinois"
   Bogdan Kolar, University of Ljubljana "Short Survey of History of KSKJ Local Lodge No. 149: St. Joseph, Bridgeport, Connecticut"
   Andrej Vovko, School Museum of Slovenia "Review of Activity of Local Lodges of Kranjsko Slovenska Katoliska Jednota/The American Slovenian Catholic Union"
   DISCUSSANT: Rudolph Matt Susel, American Home Publishing Co.
   

3. FRIDAY, 25 SEPTEMBER (Session 4-24) 10:15-12:15 4-24, Vidal Room
   ECONOMIC CONTEXTS AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE FORMATION OF SLOVENE ETHNIC IDENTITY
   CHAIR: Karl Kaser, University of Graz
   PAPERS: Andrea Haberl-Zemljic^, University of Graz "Between Pragmatism and Silence: Economic and Linguistic Survival Strategies Among Slovene Speakers in Southern Syria"
   Robert Minnich, University of Bergen "Economies of Ethnicity and the Production of Collective Identities in Val Canale"
   Christian Promitzer, University of Graz "Eco-Types Revisited: Ethnic Identity and Dominant Agricultural Pattern in Southern Syria"
   DISCUSSANT: to be announced
   

4. FRIDAY, 25 SEPTEMBER (Session 6) 3:45-5:45 Galleria South
   SOCIETY FOR SLOVENE STUDIES BUSINESS MEETING
   

5. SATURDAY, 26 SEPTEMBER (Session 7-33) 0800-1000 Mizner3
   TRANSLATING FROM SLOVENE: PRESENTATION OR ADAPTATION OF A STRANGE CULTURE?
   CHAIR: Peter Scherber, University of Göttingen
   PAPERS: Tatjana Z^arova, State Library of Foreign Literature, Moscow "Publishing Translations From Slovene in Contemporary Russia"
   Klaus-Detlef Olof, University of Klagenfurt "A Distant Neighborhood: Slovene Literary Translations and the German-Speaking Publisher's Scene"
   Andrew Wachtel, Northwestern University "General Conditions for Slovene Literary Translations in the United States"
   DISCUSSANT: Tom Priestly, University of Alberta
   

6. SATURDAY, 26 SEPTEMBER (Session 8-23) 1015-1215 Card Room
   TRANSFORMATION OF ETHNIC IDENTITY AMONG SLOVENE IMMIGRANTS
   CHAIR: Stefan Kapsch, Reed College
   PAPERS: Breda C^ebulj-Sajko, ZRC SAZU "Ethnic Identity Among the First Generation of Australian Slovenes"
   Marina Luks^ic^-Hacin, ZRC SAZU "Process of Resocialization and Ethnic Identity: The Case of Slovenes in Sweden"
   Zvone Z^igon, ZRC SAZU "Descendants of Slovene Immigrants in Argentina and Uruguay"
   DISCUSSANTS: Frances Swyripa, Department of History, University of Alberta
   David Stermole, Toronto
   

7. SATURDAY, 26 SEPTEMBER (Session 9-24) 1230-230 Vidal Room
   SEVEN YEARS OF SLOVENE DEMOCRACY AND INDEPENDENCE
   CHAIR: Matjaz^ Klemenc^ic^, University of Maribor
   PAPERS: Jozef Figa, Hamilton College "Societal and Economic Development in Slovenian Society 1990-1997"
   Vera Klopc^ic^, Ins^titut za narodnostna vpras^anja, Ljubljana "Politics in Slovenia, 1990-97"
   Samo Kristen, Ins^titut za narodnostna vpras^anja, Ljubljana "Politics of Slovenian State Towards Its Autochthonous Minorities 1990-1997"
   DISCUSSANTS: Ljubis^a (Steven) Adamovich, Florida State University
   Ivan C^izmic'^, University of Zagreb
   

8. SATURDAY, 26 SEPTEMBER
   Evening - SOCIETY FOR SLOVENE STUDIES 25th ANNIVERSARY RECEPTION/DINNER
   Nick's Fishmarket, Boca Raton Resort and Club
   

9. SUNDAY, 27 SEPTEMBER (Session 10-19) 0800-1000 N.E. Kingman
   PLECNIK I: PLECNIK AND URBAN DESIGN
   CHAIR: Derek Sayer, University of Alberta
   PAPERS: Peter Krec^ic^, Director, Architectural Museum, Ljubljana "Plecnik's Design Intentions for Ljubljana"
   Robert G. Dyck, Virginia Technical University "Plecnik's Ljubljana: Classical Urban Design Revisited"
   William Singer, Kliment and Halsband, Architects, NYC "Plecnik and His Scholars"
   DISCUSSANT: Ales^ Vodopivec, University of Ljubljana
   

10. SUNDAY, 27 SEPTEMBER (Session 11-19) 1015-1215 N.E. Kingman
    PLECNIK II: SITUATING PLECNIK IN HIS HISTORICAL CONTEXT
    CHAIR: John K. Cox, Wheeling Jesuit University
    PAPERS: Andrew Herscher, Harvard University "Signifying Machine in Greek and Latin: Plecnik, Technology and Modernism"
    Christopher Long, University of Texas at Austin "Joze Plecnik in Vienna and Prague: The Search for Architectural and Cultural Identity"
    Debra Schafter, Trinity University, San Antonio "Archaic Modernism: Plecnik and the Lessons of Antiquity"
    DISCUSSANTS: Caroline Constant, University of Florida
    Paul Tesar, North Carolina State University
    

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American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
Seattle 20-23 November 1997

As usual, the annual meeting of the Society for Slovene Studies will be held in conjunction with the annual convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, this year in Seattle, Washington. Here is the preliminary information currently available about the SSS panels. N.B. The two panels marked with asterisks have been scheduled simultaneously. A request to AAASS for a change was denied.

1. Thursday 20 November 1515-1715: Issues in Slovene Privatization^*
   [panel composition not available at time of writing]

2. Thursday 20 November 1515-1715: Aspects of Slovene Foreign Relations^*
   Chair: Charles Jelavich (Indiana University)
   Karl Ryavec (University of Massachussetts), "Slovenia and the United States"
   Irena Gantar-Godina (Ins^titut za slovensko izseljenstvo, SAZU), "Slovenes and Czechs: An enduring friendship"
   Peter Vodpivec (University of Ljubljana), "The Slovenes and France: Wishful images and reality"
   Discussants: Dimitrij Rupel (University of Ljubljana), Rudolph M. Susel (Ameris^ka domovina)
   

3. Friday 21 November 0800-1000: Slovene Immigrant Communities and Minorities & the Independence of Slovenia
   Chair: Matjaz^ Klemenc^ic^ (University of Maribor)
   Rudolph M. Susel (Ameris^ka domovina), "Slovenian communities of Cleveland and the independence of Slovenia"
   Milan Bufon (Slovenski raziskovalni ins^titut, Trst/Trieste), "Slovenian minorities in Italy and the independence of Slovenia"
   Janez S^umrada (University of Maribor), [paper title not available]
   Discussants: Joz^e Velikonja (University of Washington), Jera Vodus^ek-Staric^ (University of Maribor)
   

4. Friday 21 November 1745-1945: Society for Slovene Studies Annual General Business Meeting

5. Saturday 22 November 1300-1445: Round Table: Slovene Literature in English Translation
   Chair: Tom Priestly (University of Alberta)
   Participants: Mirko Jurak (University of Ljubljana), Tom Loz^ar (Vanier College Montréal), Igor Maver (University of Ljubljana), Jerneja Petric^ (University of Ljubljana), Tim Pogac^ar (Bowling Green State University)
   

6. Saturday 22 November 1700-1845: Slovene Emigrants in Europe
   Chair: Tim Pogac^ar (Bowling Green State University)
   Marjan Drnovs^ek (Ins^titut za slovensko izseljenstvo, SAZU), "Attitudes of the Church and state to Slovene emigration between the two world wars"
   Marina Luksic^-Hac^in (Ins^titut za slovensko izseljenstvo, SAZU), "Slovenes in Sweden"
   Janja Z^itnik (Ins^titut za slovensko izseljenstvo, SAZU), "Slovene emigrant literature in Europe"
   Discussants: June Alexander (University of Cincinnati), John K. Cox (Wheeling Jesuit University)
   

7. Sunday 23 November 0800-1000: Slovene Linguistics
   Chair: William Derbyshire (Rutgers University)
   Marc Greenberg (University of Kansas), "Slovene-Albanian parallels and their Latin intermediary"
   Ray Miller (Bowdoin College), "My ponimali drug druga: Russian perceptions of Slovene dialects in the mid nineteenth century"
   Grant Lundberg (University of Kansas), "Vocalic oppositions in the Slovene dialect of Haloze"
   Discussants: Rado L. Lencek (Columbia University), Tom Priestly (University of Alberta)
   

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American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
Boston 14-17 November 1996

As usual, the annual meeting of the Society for Slovene Studies was held in conjunction with the annual convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, this past year at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts, Nov. 14-17. The Society's Business Meeting was held in the Longfellow Room of the Park Plaza Hotel on Saturday, Nov. 16, at 2:00 p.m. Here are the SSS panels for 1996:

1. Thurs., Nov. 14, 3:15-5:15: Rajko Lozar, an Uprooted Scholar of a Small Nation in America
   Chair: Bogdan Novak (U. of Toledo)
   Participants: Stane Gabrovec (National Museum, Ljubljana), Rado L. Lencek (Columbia U.), Tom Lozar (Vanier College), Joseph Velikonja (U. of Washington).

2. Thurs., Nov. 14, 5:30-7:30: Trends in Privatization in the Slovene Society
   Chair: Tom Priestly (U. of Alberta)
   
   • Veljko Rus (U. of Ljubljana): "Attitudes Towards Work, Ownership, and Privatization"
   • Darja Piciga (Educational Research Institute): "Private Education in the Context of Change in the Slovene Educational System"
   • Kenneth Zapp (Metropolitan State U.): "Privatization of Socially Owned Enterprises in Slovenia".
   Discussants: Evan Kraft (Salisbury State U.), Lea Plut-Pregelj (U. of Maryland)

3. Fri., Nov. 15, 3:30-5:30: Slovenia and the European Union
   Chair: Carole Rogel (Ohio State U.)
   
   • France Bucar (U. of Ljubljana): "Article 68, Par. 2 of Slovenia's Constitution as It Relates to Admission to the European Union"
   • Joze Mencinger (U. of Ljubljana): "From Yugoslavia to European Union: Economic Considerations"
   • Dimitrij Rupel (U. of Ljubljana): "Slovenia and Central Europe's March Toward the EU: The Restrictive Role of European Great Powers"
   Discussant: Jacques Rupnik (Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris)

4. Sat., Nov. 16, 4:15-6:15: Recent Slovene History: Perceptions & Dilemmas Arising from the Opening of Restricted Archives
   Chair: Bogdan Novak (U. of Toledo)
   
   • Boris Mlakar (Institute for Contemporary History): "New Documents and New Assessments of the Liberation Movement and Revolution in Slovenia, 1941-45"
   • Jera Vodusek-Staric (Institute for Contemporary History): "New Insights on Political Opposition during and after World War II in Slovenia"
   • Amy Schmidt (National Archives): "World War II Yugoslav Materials in the US National Archives"
   Discussants: Rudolf Susel (Ameriska Domovina/American Home, Cleveland), Tamara Griesser-Pecar Hamelm (Germany)

5. Sun., Nov. 17, 8:00-10:00: The History and Literature of Small Nations
   Chair: Rado L. Lencek (Columbia U.)
   
   • France Bernik (SAZU): "A Case Study of the Relation between Literature and its Time in History"
   • Lena Lencek (Reed College): "A Concrete Historic Determinant: International Horizons and Contacts of Writers and Poets"
   • Timothy Pogacar (Bowling Green State U.): "A Possible Historic Factor: The Nature of Readership before the Formation of a Society's Elite"
   Discussant: Rado L. Lencek (Columbia U.)

6. Sun., Nov. 17, 10:15-12:15: Topics in the Musicology of Slovene Lands
   Chair: Rudolf Susel (Ameriska Domovina/American Home, Cleveland)
   
   • Metod Milac (Syracuse U.): "Jacobus Gallus Carniolus & the Place of His Compositions in the History of Music"
   • Edo Skulj (U. of Ljubljana): "Survey of the Evolution of Slovene Church Vocal Music through the Centuries"
   • Vendelin Spendov (Franciscan Monastery): "Organ Music and Pipe Organs in Slovenia"
   Discussant: Joseph Velikonja (U. of Washington)