SOCIETY FOR SLOVENE STUDIES
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Indiana University BH 502
1020 E. Kirkwood Avenue
Bloomington, IN 47405-7103 USA
email: cooper@indiana.edu
David F. Stermole
Editor, SSS Letter
25 Hoseyhill Crescent
Scarborough, ON
Canada M1S 2X3
email: stermole@chass.utoronto.ca
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Once again the Society for Slovene Studies is preparing a rich array of panels and meetings for the upcoming annual gathering of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, to be held in Denver, Colorado, between 9-12 November 2000. You will find a list of events and details for registering for the conference elsewhere in this Letter: let me say here simply that we hope as many members as possible will be able to join us, particularly at the Society's annual Business Meeting, which takes place during the conference.
On a far less pleasant subject, recently someone who is not a member of the Society used a copy of our mailing list to send unsolicited copies of his book to many SSS members. This individual did not ask for the Society's permission to use its membership list in this way, and, if he had, he would have been denied it. We do not use our mailing list for any commercial purposes. We apologize to the membership for any convenience or confusion this mailing may have caused, and we note that such unsolicited mailings need not be paid for or returned.
Now once again to happier matters: the 2000 Summer Workshop in Slavic and East European Languages at Indiana University (our fiftieth anniversary, by the way) is very pleased to announce that it will once again offer intensive elementary Slovene this year 16 June-11 August, thanks to a generous grant from the American Council of Learned Societies and continuing support from Indiana University. Please contact SWSEEL Director Jerzy Kolodziej (Slavic Department, Indiana University, BH 502, Bloomington IN 47405-7103; jkolodzi@indiana.edu) for further information; on-line applications are available at www.indiana.edu/~swseel . For graduate students involved in any area of East European studies, tuition for this course is free. All other students pay only our low in-state rates.
And finally, we announce--details again are elsewhere in this Letter--the Graduate Prize in Slovene Studies, for the best research paper submitted to us by a graduate student outside Slovenia on any topic dealing with Slovene matters. We believe that this prize is an important means of attracting students to the study of Slovenia, its language, culture, history, and people. We encourage students (or their parents!) to submit their work to us. And we will provide a brief synopsis of the winning paper in next fall's issue of the Letter.
I look forward to seeing you in Denver!
Henry R. Cooper, Jr.
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The 2000 Annual Meeting of the Society for Slovene Studies will be held in conjunction with the 32nd 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. When making hotel reservations be sure to specify the AAASS conference for the best room rates.
Arrangements are in the works for a social event. When they are firmed up, they will be announced on the Conferences page.
The following SSS panels and those of related interest are scheduled for the conference. (This information was obtained from the AAASS website.)
A REMINDER TO DENVER CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS AND PANEL ORGANIZERS FROM THE AAASS REGULATIONS:
"Individuals who agree to participate in a panel or roundtable assume a professional responsibility to do so. Failure to appear, other than in emergency circumstances communicated in advance to the organizer or sent in writing to the AAASS office immediately following the convention, will disqualify defaulters from participating in AAASS national conventions for the next three years."
Theme: Phenomenological Traditions in Slovenia and Neighbourhood. To be held 20-23 August 2000 in Celje, Slovenia. For more information, see Letter No. 46 or write to Dr. Wolfgang Gombocz at wolfgang.gombocz@kfunigraz.ac.at.
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Over the past several years the Society has repeatedly expressed its interest in establishing a monetary prize for the best paper in any discipline written by a graduate student on a topic involving Slovene studies. At the SSS annual business meeting in St. Louis last year, enough of the details of this prize were worked out that we are now ready to announce this competition. We do so in the hope that this award will stimulate interest in Slovene matters among a new generation of scholars, and thereby contribute to the promotion of Slovene studies outside the borders of the Republic of Slovenia.
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The Society for Slovene Studies gratefully acknowledges contributions to its Printing and Endowment Funds. These enable the Society to carry out its mission of timely dissemination of scholarly information about Slovenia and its people. The following are all of the contributions which have been received since the publication of the previous Letter. Our deepest thanks to all contributors!
The Printing Fund: Dr. & Mrs. Miso Aksmanovic, Joseph & Maria Bernik, Mathias Bildauer, William Cebular, Alexandra Ceferin, Henry R. Cooper, Jr., Terrence Dragovan, Wolfgang L. Gombocz, Marieta Jamsek-Tehlirian, Rado L. Lencek, Joseph Novak, Patrick Patterson, Anton Pechavar, Vladimir Pregelj & Leopoldina Plut-Pregelj, Lydia Pulsipher, Darren Purcell, Anthony S. Ravnik, Ljubo Sirc, Gojko Stare, James R. Stariha, Manfred Trummer
The Endowment Fund: E. Wayles Brown, William Cebular, Henry R. Cooper, Jr., Terrence R. Dragovan, Wolfgang L. Gombocz, Lew R. Mickelson, Darren Purcell, Anthony S. Ravnik, Karl Ryavec, Gojko Stare, Arthur Vidich, Anthony J. Vahcic, Jr.
The above list reflects contributions made by 1 May 2000. Contributions made after that date will be acknowledged in the next issue of the Letter.
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Veronica Aplenc, Jasna Basaric-Keys, Roger Bove, Dominic Caristi, Geoff Husic, Rev. Gary Langensiepen, Thomas Luckmann, Jonna Sanders, Peter Stih, Marko Stuhec, Adam Such, Zvone Zigon
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Dr. Andrej Vovko, Senior Research Fellow and Head at the Institute for Biography and Bibliography of the Research Center of the SAZU in Ljubljana; from 1987 to 1993 Head of the Institute for Slovenian Emigration Studies at SAZU; from 1993 to 1998 Director of the Slovene School Museum in Ljubljana; in the academic year 1999/2000, Assistant Professor at the University of Maribor, lecturing in cultural history in the Department of Sociology in the Faculty of Pedagogy. Dr. Vovko published twelve books (some of them as co-author) and close to one thousand scholarly and popular science publications and book reviews.
Since 1993, Dr. Vovko has been a member of the Central Editorial Board of the Enciklopedija Slovenije and of the Slovene-Italian Interstate Historical-Cultural Commission and former Head of the Experts Group for minorities and emigrants of the Slovene Ministry of Culture. Congratulations!
Henry R. Cooper, Jr., and Tom Priestly are pleased to announce the publication of their translations of Pres^eren's poetry:
Pres^eren, Francè. Pesmi / Poems. Izbrala in uredila / Selected and edited by France Pibernik and Franc Drolc. Spremna beseda /Afterword by Henry R. Cooper, Jr. Prevedla / Translated by Tom M.S. Priestly and Henry R. Cooper, Jr. [Zbirka: Pres^ernov pot v svet, zvezek 4 /Series: Pres^eren in the World, vol. 4]. Kranj: Mestna obc^ina, and Klagenfurt-Ljubljana-Vienna: Hermagoras-Verlag/Mohorjeva zaloz^ba, 1999. ISBN 3-85013-702-3
The book contains 33 of Pres^eren's poems in parallel Slovene and English, with new translations in every instance except one (the Priestly-Cooper translation of Zdravljica was published in 1994). It comprises 160 pages and includes a fully rhyming version of Krst pri Savici; the new translation of Sonetni venec has an acrostic. The book concludes with a 'spremna beseda' by Henry Cooper, translated into Slovene by Marta Pirnat-Greenberg.
The book can be ordered from: dipl. ing. Franc Kattnig, urednik, Morhorjeva zaloz^ba, A-9020 Klagenfurt, Viktringer Ring 26, Austria, telephone: 0463/565 15-27; fax: 0463-514 189; e-mail: mohorjeva@magnet.at.
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This section of the SSS Letter registers recent publications in Slovene studies by members of the Society. All Society members are urged to send notification and, whenever possible, offprints of their scholarly publications to Rado L. Lencek, Society for Slovene Studies, Research and Documentation, 1232 IECE, Columbia U., 420 W. 118th St., New York, NY 10027. If you have email, it would be appreciated if you would also send the bibliographic citations to the Editor at stermole@chass.utoronto.ca. All submissions will be duly noted in the following issue of the SSS Letter.
Bukowski, Charles. "Slovenia's Transition to Democracy: Theory and Practice," East European Quarterly, March 1999, 69-96.
C^ebulj-Sajko, Breda. "Etnic^na identiteta prve povojne generacije avstraliskih Slovencev," Dve domovini/Two Homelands, Volume 10 (1999), 47-59.
Cooper, Henry R., Jr. "Afterword," in: Tom M.S. Priestly and Henry R. Cooper, Jr., eds. and trans., Francè Pres^eren: Poems/Pesmi (Klagenfurt-Ljubljana-Vienna: Hermagoras-Verlag, 1999): 172-81.
--------, "Pres^eren in the English-Speaking World," in: Proceedings of the Symposium Pres^ernovi dnevi v Kranju: Ob 150-letnici smrti dr. Franceta Pres^erna (Kranj, Slovenia: Mestna obc^ina Kranj, 2000): 313-33.
Herrity, Peter. 1998, 'Slovene' Encyclopaedia of the Languages of Europe, Oxford, 1998, pp. 444-446.
--------, [Book Review] Comrie, B., Corbett, G.G., The Slavonic Languages in Slovene Studies, 17, 1-2, 1998, pp. 197-201.
--------, [Book Review] Mikhailov, Fruhslowenische Sprachdenkmaler: Die Landschriftliche Periode der Slowenischen Sprache, Rodopi, Amsterdam and Atlanta, 1998 in The Slavonic and East European Review, 77, No. 4, 1999, pp. 732-733.
Klemenc^ic^, Matjaz^. Jurij Trunk med Koros^ko in ZDA ter zgodovina slovenskih naselbin v Leadvillu, Kolorado, in v San Franciscu, Kalifornija. Klagenfurt, Austria: Mohorjeva zaloz^ba, 1999. 509pp.
Lencek, Rado L., "S^e o S^krabc^evih pismih Janu Baudouinu de Courtenayju," S^krabc^eva Misel III., Zbornik s simpozija '98. Ed. by Joz^e Toporis^ic^. Nova Gorica: Franc^is^kanski samostan Kostanjevica, 1999. Pp. 117-126.
--------, [Book Review] "Biografski zbornik ob 6-letnici Slovenske akademije znanosti in umetnosti v Ljubljani," Ameris^ka Domovina 101/8 (Cleveland, Ohio, February 11, 1999), p. 13.
--------, "Zgodovinski memento," Ameris^ka Domovina 110/10 (Cleveland, Ohio, March 11, 1999), p. 11.
--------, "Slovenski vladni predstaviki in znanstveniki v ameris^ki enciklopediji; Pet vrstic za predsednika drz^ave," Delo XLI/21 (Ljubljana, January 28, 1999), Knjiz^evni listi, p. 18.
--------, [Participation at The Third Literary-Historical Symposium on Father Stanislav S^krabec, Nova Gorica, April 22-24, 1999, organized by Znanstvenoraziskovalni Center SAZU & Ins^titut za slovensko literaturo in literarne vede in Ljubljana, Slovenia as Dr. Lojzka Bratuz^'s co-partner in presentation of her paper: "The Slovene Manuscript of Sveti priroc^nik of the Sermons of Janez Svetokris^ki (Tobia Lionelli) [1647-1714] in his Sacrum Promptuarium (1691-1707): Devinski Rokopis (1794).
Lozar, Tom, [Book Review] Ales^ Debeljak, ed. The Imagination of Terra Incognita: Slovenian Writing 1945-1995. Slovene Studies 1 (1996), 83-88.
--------, "Kamisinaop Titigakvia Opalongaiyaktot Nunavut." Razgledi 8 (1135), April 14, 1999, 1, 17.
--------, "Nas^e ladje na tujem: Montreal." Razgledi 24 (1151), December 24, 1999, 21.
--------, "Omamana Melanija: living la vida Trumpa" Razgledi 23 (1150), December 8, 1999, 1.
--------, "Nas^e ladje na tujem: Montreal." Razgledi 21 (1148), November 10, 1999, 18.
--------, "Nas^e ladje na tujem: Boston." Razgledi 19 (1146), October 13, 1999, 17.
--------, "Nas^e ladje na tujem: Montreal." Razgledi 16 (1143), September 1, 1999, 17.
--------, "Nas^e ladje na tujem: Ljubljana." Razgledi 14 (1141), July 7, 1999, 17.
--------, "Nas^e ladje na tujem: Montreal." Razgledi 13 (1140), June 23, 1999, 17.
--------, "Nas^e ladje na tujem: Montreal." Razgledi 12 (1139), June 9, 1999, 18.
--------, "Nas^e ladje na tujem: Montreal." Razgledi 10 (1137) May 12, 1999, 18
--------, "Nas^e ladje na tujem: Montreal." Razgledi 8 (1135), April 14, 1999, 16.
--------, "Nas^e ladje na tujem: Montreal." Razgledi 6 (1133), March 17, 1999, 16.
--------, "Nas^e ladje na tujem: Montreal." Razgledi 4 (1131), February 17, 1999, 17.
--------, "Nas^e ladje na tujem: San Francisco." Razgledi 2 (1129), January 20, 1999, 17.
--------, "Nas^e ladje na tujem: Montreal." Razgledi 24 (1127), December 23, 1998, 17.
--------, "Nas^e ladje na tujem: Montreal." Razgledi 22 (1125), November 25, 1998, 17.
--------, "Nas^e ladje na tujem: Lake Placid." Razgledi 20 (1123), October 28, 1998, 17.
--------, "Nas^e ladje na tujem: Montreal." Razgledi 18 (1121), September 30, 1998, 18.
--------, "Nas^e ladje na tujem: Firence-Bled." Razgledi 16 (1119), September 2, 1998, 17.
--------, "New York." (reprint from Razgledi) Glasilo kanadskih Slovencev, July/August 1998, 19.
--------, "Nas^e ladje na tujem: Montreal." Razgledi 14 (1117), July 7, 1998, 16.
--------, "Nas^e ladje na tujem: Montreal." Razgledi 12 (1115), June 10, 1998, 16.
--------, "Nas^e ladje na tujem: Montreal." Razgledi 10 (1113), May 13, 1998, 16.
--------, "Nas^e ladje na tujem: Montreal." Razgledi 8 (1111), April 15, 1998, 16.
--------, "Nas^e ladje na tujem: Montreal." Razgledi 6 (1109), March 18, 1998, 18.
--------, "Nas^e ladje na tujem: Toronto." Razgledi 4 (1107), February 18, 1998: 18.
--------, "Nas^e ladje na tujem: New York." Razgledi 2 (1105), January 21, 1998: 24.
--------, "Nas^e ladje na tujem: Seattle." Razgledi 24, December 24, 1997: 17.
--------, "Dan mladosti v Montrealu." Razgledi 21, November 12, 1997: 8-9.
--------, "Gregor Strnis^a." Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 181: South Slavic Writers Since World War II. Ed. Vasa D. Mihailovich. Detroit: Bruccoli, 1997: 355-360.
--------, "Rajko Loz^ar in America." Zbornik ob sedemdesetletnici Franceta Bernika. Ed. Darko Dolinar et al. Ljubljana: Znanstvenoraziskovalni center SAZU, Ins^titut za slovensko literaturo in literarne vede, 1997: 351-366
--------, "Slovenija v medkanadskih razpravah." Mladina 38, September 23, 1997: 37.
--------, "Nacionalist" (Interview with François Brousseau), Mladina 38, September 23, 1997: 37-8.
--------, "Tepanjski sindrom: 'Slovene' ali 'Slovenian.'" Razgledi 15, August 6, 1997: 14.
Milac^, Metod M., "Jacobus Gallus Carniolus and the Place of His Compositions in the History of Music," Slovene Studies, 17.1-2 (1995) [published August 1998], pp. 155-171.
--------, [Book Review]: Pavle Bors^tnik, "Forgotten Story of the Slovene National Clandestine Resistance," Zapiski VI, pp. 11-15.
Plut-Pregelj, Leopoldina, Ales^ Gabric, and Boz^o Repe, The Repluralization of Slovenia in the 1980s: New Revelations from Archival Records (with an Introduction by Dennison Rusinow). Seattle: The Donald W. Treadgold Papers in Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies, The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, 2000. 90 pp. [Ed. Note: This book grew out of a session at the AAASS at Boca Raton in 1998.]
Priestly, Tom M.S. and Henry R. Cooper, Jr., trans., Francè Pres^eren: Pesmi/Poems, Klagenfurt-Ljubljana-Vienna: Hermagoras-Verlag/Mohorjeva zaloz^ba, 1999 [= Pres^ernova pot v svet/Pres^eren in the World, vol. 4]
Stermole, David F., Giuseppe Premru's Dialoghi-Gespräche-Pogovori [Gorica, 1900, 304pp.] Web Site, http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~stermole/Premru/, 2000.
S^kulj, Edo, "A Survey of the Evolution of Slovene Church Vocal Music," Slovene Studies, 17.1-2 (1995) [published August 1998], pp. 173-188.
--------, Clare vir: Ob 450-letnici rojstva Iacobusa Gallusa. Ljubljana: Izdala in zaloz^ila Druz^ina in Znanstvenoraziskovalni center SAZU, 2000.
Wachtel, Andrew Baruch. Making a Nation, Breaking a Nation. Literature and Cultural Politics in Yugoslavia. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998.
Z^igon, Zvone. "Slovenstvo v Venezueli," Dve domovini/Two Homelands, Volume 10 (1999), 21-33.
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Fink-Hafner, Danica and John R. Robbins. Making of a New Nation: The Formation of Slovenia. Brookfield, Vt. & Aldershot, UK : Dartmont Publishing, 1997. 330 pp.
Stiblar, Franjo. "The History of Nova Ljubljanska Banka (NLB) in the Framework of Slovene Experience with West-European Capital," (ed. Kostas P. Kostis) Modern Banking in the Balkans and West-European Capital in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate, 1999. 255pp.
Velkonja, Mitja [book review] "Genius Loci Sloveniae?" in L'Europe du Centre Est, Volume 26, part 2, 1999, 133-37. Kucan, Ana: Krajina kot nacionalni simbol [Landscape as a National Symbol]. Ljubljana: Znanstveno in publicistic^no sredis^c^e, 1998, 224pp.
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The Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota, which holds substantial archives pertaining to Slovene immigration to the United States, has moved to a new state-of-the-art archival center. For information about the center and its holdings contact Judith Rosenblatt. The archives new address is: 311 Andersen Library, 222 21st Avenue S., Minneapolis, MN 55455. The archives' telephone and fax numbers respectively are: 612-625-4800 and 612-626-0018. Ms. Rosenblatt's e-mail address is: rosen015@tc.umn.edu
Information about the 19th Annual Summer School of the Slovene
Language:
(Ljubljana, Slovenia -- July 2, 2000 - July 29, 2000). Contact Anton
Gogala,
Consulate of Slovenia, 1111 Chester Ave., Suite 520, Cleveland, Ohio 44114.
Telephone 216-5899-9220. Fax: 216-589-9210
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IREX offers grants and fellowships that apply to both Slovene scholars wanting to work in the United States and US scholars wishing to work in Slovenia. Deadlines for most are in November and December. For more information, contact IREX at:
International Research & Exchange Board
1616 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006
Tele: (202) 628-8188 -- Email: irex@irex.org
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Metod M. Milac^, Carole Rogel, and David F. Stermole were elected by the membership to the Executive Council in elections held this past winter.
Henry R. Cooper, Jr. (Indiana University), President (to 1 March 2001) (cooper@indiana.edu)
Metod M. Milac^ (Syracuse University), Elected Member (to 1 March 2001) & Secretary (mmilac@syr.edu)
David F. Stermole (Toronto, Canada), Elected Member to (1 March 2002) & Editor, SSS Letter, & Website Coordinator (stermole@chass.utoronto.ca)
Peter Vodopivec (University of Ljubljana), Elected Member (to 1 March 2001) (peter.vodopivec@uni-lj.si)
Carole Rogel (The Ohio State University), Elected Member (to 1 March 2003) & Treasurer (Rogel.1@osu.edu)
Lea Plut-Pregelj, Program Coordinator, ex officio (plutpreg@wam.umd.edu)
Rado L. Lencek (Columbia University), Research & Documentation, ex officio
(Society for Slovene Studies, Research and
Documentation, 1232 IECE, Columbia U., 420 W. 118th St., New York, NY
10027 USA)
Timothy Pogacar (Bowling Green State University), Editor, Slovene Studies, ex officio (pogacar@bgnet.bgsu.edu)
For further information regarding the Society for Slovene Studies,
membership applications, journal subscriptions, and other details,
contact:
Dr. Metod M. Milac^
Society for Slovene Studies
59 Kensington Place
Syracuse, NY 13210-3307 USA
email: mmilac@syr.edu
Submissions for the SSS Letter should be sent to:
David F. Stermole, Editor SSS Letter
25 Hoseyhill Crescent
Scarborough, Ontario
Canada M1S 2X3
email: stermole@chass.utoronto.ca
Created: 1 December 1999
Finalized: 18 May 2000