SOCIETY FOR SLOVENE STUDIES
c/o Metod M. Milac
259 Kensington Place
Syracuse, NY 13210-3307 USA
email: mmilac@syr.edu
David F. Stermole
Editor, SSS Letter
25 Hoseyhill Crescent
Scarborough, ON
Canada M1S 2X3
email: stermole@chass.utoronto.ca
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The Society for Slovene Studies conference in Boston was among the most successful in recent years. Panels and roundtables were well organized and excellently presented. Because the conference took place in the beautiful historical city of Boston, the Society's events were also better attended than usual.
Representation from Slovenia was impressive, and not just in numbers. Experts from various fields joined their North American colleagues in presenting new research findings. This resulted in multiple questions and discussions following each session.
The Society members were especially pleased at having among the presenters the Slovene Ambassador to the United States, Mr. Samuel Z^bogar. At the Annual Business Meeting, the officers had the opportunity to share with the Ambassador reports of past activities and accomplishments, and to briefly outline future plans. In return, Ambassador Z^bogar expressed his appreciation for the invitation and stated that he would be interested in working with the Society in areas of common interest.
With great sadness, we received late in January the news of the death of the Society's first president and one of its founding members, Professor Dr. Rado L. Lencek. Many members of the Society were Dr. Lencek's students; to others among us he offered assistance wherever and whenever possible. Professor Rado L. Lencek will be very much missed and always remembered.
During the Boston Conference, the Hungarian Studies Association invited other Central European associations, affiliates of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), to a meeting to discuss possibilities for future closer cooperation at the AAASS Conferences. That would be done by organizing joint panels and roundtables, in addition to the programs submitted to the AAASS Program Committee by the participating associations. This informal group, consisting of Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Slovak, and Slovene affiliates of the AAASS, will start planning joint sessions for the AAASS Conference in Washington, D.C., November 2006.
It is never too early for planning 2006 panels and roundtables. The time between the annual meeting and the deadline for submissions of programs for the next conference is brief. AAASS Program Committee does not permit any exceptions to the announced deadline.
I am most pleased to announce that Marta Pirnat Greenberg and Stefan J. Kapsch were re-elected for the three-year terms on the Executive Council. Congratulations on behalf of the membership to these two very active officers of the Society.
I am also happy to announce the appointment of Marta Pirnat-Greenberg as the new Chair of the Publicity Committee. I am equally delighted that Maria K. Arko Klemenc accepted the invitation to work with Marta as a committee member.
I wish to extend an invitation to our members and to the Slovene community in Utah and the vicinity to join us at the forthcoming Annual meeting of the Society. The AAASS and the Society for Slovene Studies meetings will take place at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah, 3-6 November 2005.
Metod M. Milac^
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Slovene Studies volume 25.1-2 has been mailed to members and libraries. Volume 26 is to follow this spring. Volume 25 contains the first of a series of essays on scholarly fields in Slovenia, Peter Vodopivec's "Slovene Historiography Today." The next essay will be on ethnography. The publication of volume 27 in 2005 will bring the journal up to date. Thanks to members of the society for recommending Slovene Studies to colleagues as a forum to publish research results and reviews.
To read book reviews in a timely fashion (i.e., before publication in the journal), you can find them on our website (http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~ljubljan/reviews.html. If you are looking for a reference or information on a certain topic, try the searchable index or the tables of contents available on our website.
Timothy Pogacar
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Our web site exists to further the Society's missions of "fostering closer communication among scholars interested in Slovene studies and promoting the dissemination of scholarly information on Slovene studies".
The Publications of the Members section relies on self-reporting by our members to provide timely information. If you publish with the intent of sharing your scholarship, please send the full bibliographic details to the WebMaster.
If you have any suggestions as to how I could make the website more interesting or more useful, please feel free to pass along your ideas.
DF Stermole
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At the recent annual conference in Boston, the Society for Slovene Studies was honored to host Mr. Samuel Z^bogar, Slovenian Ambassador to the United States. The Ambassador participated in a round table on Slovenia's EU and NATO memberships, organized by Dr. Stefan Kapsch, and addressed future collaboration with the Society at its annual business meeting. The Society is very much looking forward to working together with the Ambassador, whose enthusiasm and ideas were very much welcomed.
The Society sponsored seven panels on Slovenian topics at the Boston conference on a variety of topics. Additionally, the Society was pleased to award its annual $1000 graduate student paper prize to Sean C. O'Rourke, PhD student at Yale University's Department of Linguistics, for his paper titled "On Syntactic and Prosodic Domains of Clitic Placement in Slovene." Every year, the Society has funds available for its Rado Lencek Graduate Paper Prize ($1000) and its Joseph Velikonja Undergraduate Paper Prize ($500), and encourages submissions for the upcoming year. The Society added ten new members to its ranks, and continues to enjoy financial solvency.
Veronica Aplenc
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Please be advised that the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Society for Slovene Studies will be held in conjunction with the 37th 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.
In a special undergraduate section at the 2005 Midwest Slavic Conference, which was held from 3-5 March 2005 on the campus of The Ohio State University, Bowling Green State University senior Darrell Kendall presented a paper entitled "What are the Causes for the Unprecedented Economic Development in Slovenia?".
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Please be advised that the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Society for Slovene Studies will be held in conjunction with the 38th 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.
Organizers (AAASS members or non-foreign members) should bear in mind that proposals must be for complete panels and normally involve presentation of prepared papers (no more than three). The Program Committee encourages the submission of panel proposals that include men and women. For panels sponsored by the Society for Slovene Studies, it is advised that its panels have international participation. A goal of the conference is to foster international cooperation and better understanding of the discussed region. Organizers should observe the following rules:
It is time to begin preparing (at least thinking about) proposals for the next year's panels and roundtables. Proposals should be submitted to the AAASS national office by 15 JANUARY 2006. Two hard copies of the proposal form (available in the AAASS NewsNet and http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass) and one copy of a brief C.V. for each participant should be sent to
WENDY WALKER, Convention Coordinator
AAASS, 8 STORY STREET, CAMBRIDGE, MA 02138.
For information only: (617) 495-0677; fax: (617) 495-0680; e-mail: aaass@hcs.harvard.edu
If the panels are to be sponsored by the Society for Slovene Studies or have considerable Slovene content, please send a copy also to our Program Coordinator, Veronica E. Aplenc, at vaplenc@sas.upenn.edu) to help avoid program conflicts at the convention.
Detailed information about the procedure for submitting panel/roundtable proposals can be found in NewsNet, the Newsletter of the AAASS, September 2001. For any other questions you may have or if there is a need for help in organizing a panel or roundtable, please contact the SSS program coordinator Veronica E. Aplenc at vaplenc@sas.upenn.edu. Remember, it is never too early to start organizing panels.
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For the past three years the Society has sponsored a panel featuring young scholars in Slovene Studies. The sessions have been very well received and provide an opportunity for the Society to learn about new researchers in the field. We hope to continue offering these panels annually.
If you are currently doing graduate work or have recently completed a graduate degree, and wish to prepare a paper for the 2006 Washington, DC, meeting, please contact Carole Rogel at rogel.1@osu.edu no later than December 10, 2005.
The Midwest Slavic Association, the Ohio State University Center for Slavic and East European Studies, and the OSU Office of International Affairs proudly announce the 2006 Midwest Slavic Conference, to be held at the Blackwell Hotel and Conference Center from in March 2006 on the campus of The Ohio State University.
Conference organizers are inviting proposals for panels or individual papers addressing all disciplines related to Slavic histories, political science, literatures, linguistics, sociology, economics, and other fields. Please send a one-paragraph abstract, along with a brief C.V. to csees@osu.edu by 30 January 2006. Persons proposing papers must be willing to be scheduled either Friday or Saturday. Graduate students are particularly encouraged to submit presentations. Limited funding will be available to subsidize graduate travel and hotel stays. For more information, contact the Center for Slavic and East European Studies at 614-292-8770 or at csees@osu.edu
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The Society for Slovene Studies gratefully acknowledges contributions to its Printing and Endowment Funds. (The Printing Fund was established in the early 1980s with a bequest from the estate of Mary Molek. The Endowment Fund was enlarged in the early 1990s with a bequest from the estate of John Nielsen.) 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. Please remember that your contributions are tax deductible in the U.S. Our deepest thanks to all contributors!
Printing Fund: Raymond Miller, Bogdan Novak
Endowment Fund: Marjeta von Rabenau
Rado L. Lencek Graduate Student Prize: William Derbyshire, Rada & Ivan Gorup, Metod Milac, Haydee Piedracueva, Carole Rogel, David F. Stermole, Joseph Velikonja
Joseph Velikonja Undergraduate Student Prize: Joseph Velikonja
The above list reflects contributions made since 1 October 2004. Contributions made after 1 April 2005 will be acknowledged in the next issue of the Letter.
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Jasna Fischer, Ingrid Slavec Gradis^nik, Kelly M. Kolton, Z^arko Lazarevic', Paul Nowak, Ana Skopec, Mary H. Turvey, Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia
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Professor Dr. Rado L. Lencek died peacefully 27 January 2005 during the early evening hours after a long illness. For the family, his wife Nina and two daughters, and for the extended family and his numerous friends and associates around the world, this is a great loss. The officers and members of the Society for Slovene Studies deeply mourn his passing.
As one of the founding members, the Society's first president and as an active officer throughout his professional life, Rado was the spiritus agens in all areas of constructive planning, with vision and goals for the Society's growth, development and success. It is hard to imagine future Society meetings without Rado's participation either as a presenter, discussant, chair, or organizer. His constant input of ideas and proposals for improvements and new directions at our Society's annual business meetings will be sorely missed. His enthusiasm was noted every step of the way.
We will always remember Rado with gratitude in our hearts.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Rado L. Lencek Memorial Fund, c/o The Society for Slovene Studies, Dr. Carole Rogel, 205 North Delta Drive, Columbus, OH 43214.
An article about his life was published in Delo on 28 January. Click here.
The best teachers teach by example and gentle suggestion. They praise far more often than they criticize, and when they do criticize, they do so constructively, kindly, without irony or sarcasm. The best teachers are generous to a fault, but no matter how much they give away to their students in terms of ideas, recommendations, directions, projects, contacts, perceptions, they always seem to have more to offer. The best teachers are forever opening doors. Such a teacher was Rado L. Lencek, my teacher, I am proud to say. And Rado was my teacher for far more than our relatively brief contact during my time as a graduate student at Columbia. Rado was and will always continue to be my life-long teacher, the inspiration for the academic career I have managed to fashion for myself under his gentle guidance.
Though few, the courses I took with Rado at Columbia were engaging and memorable, particularly Rado's special offering, Slavic Civilizations, that incredible panorama of Slavic life and culture from the dawn of European history to the sadly divided Cold-War world of the early 1970s. To this day I find myself echoing Rado's thoughts in my own classes on the Slavs as we discuss Herodotus' "Scythian ploughmen," or the "Cyrillo-Methodian ideology" of which Rado was a champion, or Baroque Slavism, or the reformer-linguists Vuk Karadz^ic', Ljudevit Gaj, and especially Jernej Kopitar, for whom Rado had a deep appreciation. When I returned to Columbia after a two-and-a-half-year involuntary stint in the army, it was Rado who set me to work on an array of projects -- he always had several interesting things going on at the same time -- that gave depth and perspective to my classroom learning. And it was Rado who in a most unassuming way gave me a copy of the Russian translation of France Pres^eren's Krst pri Savici. That was over thirty years ago, but it was that simple, thoughtful gift that determined a major direction of my scholarly life.
Likewise, even after I had left Columbia to take my first job, Rado continued to open doors for me. He asked me to do him a "favor," I remember, and that was to host at Northwestern a visiting Fulbright scholar from Yugoslavia. In fact it was he who did me the favor by introducing me to the Mitrovic' family, who have been my close friends ever since. He suggested we organize a conference at Northwestern: I was the de jure, but he the de facto organizer, for he generously used his many connections to bring together an impressive array of scholars for what turned into an NEH-funded international symposium that resulted in a book, our jointly edited To Honor Jernej Kopitar. Rado introduced me to Slovenia by arranging for me to participate in the Seminar slovenskega jezika, literature, in kulture, and to meet in the process scholars in Slovenia like Boris Paternu, France Bernik, Anton Slodnjak, Helga Glus^ic^, and many others, who uncovered for me the beauties of their language and literature. And in a way it was Rado, and a few of his dedicated fellow Slovene- Americans, who brought Slovenia to North America when they founded in 1973 the Society for Slovene Studies. At the time I had no inkling of how important this initiative by Rado and his colleagues would be. Their insistence that the organization be above all things scholarly -- I do believe that "scholarly" was one of Rado's favorite words -- opened wide the door for me and other non-Slovene Americans and Canadians to participate on an equal basis in this organization. No ethnic club, the Society has validated again and again the vision of its founders, in its endurance and vitality, its journal and newsletter, its panels and prizes. Rado was the Society's first president and a towering presence in it, but never so towering as to overshadow others. Rado meant for the Society to outlive him, but it will always be in his debt.
When Northwestern denied me tenure in 1980, it was Rado's calm support that helped me not only weather the crisis but to move on professionally. It was Rado who advised, indeed urged me to take the job at Indiana, and Rado, I suspect, who put in the good word for me with my predecessor here, Ante Kadic', who had another successor for himself in mind. (In later years Ante and I became very close friends and he told me this very frankly himself.) Once again I owed Rado a decisive turning in my career. I have been at Indiana for twenty-three years now, and there has never been a time, except sadly in the last year or two, when I was not able to turn to Rado for his good counsel. I could always look to him for a model, and for a standard to aspire to. And when students come to me now, I try to imitate Rado's approach: patient listening, calm encouragement, lots of suggestions, maybe even a project or two to involve them with, and genuine enthusiasm for their concerns. I have often wondered how I could repay Rado for all the many things he has done for me. I have finally realized that I never could, nor would he have ever wanted me to, I suspect. He'd simply want me to pass them on.
Henry R. Cooper, Jr.
Prof. Herbert Galton, a long-time member of the Society, passed away on 9 December 2004 at the age of 86.
Students of Professor Galton studied at just one degree of separation from the Prague Linguistic Circle and the phonological theories of Nicholas Trubetzkoy. Professor Galton's Slavic linguistics courses at the University of Kansas were as organically designed and presented as the structuralist theory that informed them: every detail and argument supported a larger picture of systemic linguistic evolution and teleologically driven structural balance that often snapped fully into place for students only toward the end of the course. Professor Galton's elegant and original theory of Slavic verbal aspect, first published in 1976, continues to gain progressively greater recognition among linguists and in new Slavic language textbooks. His students will always remain grateful for Professor Galton's gift for sharing his intellectual passion and profound knowledge of Slavic linguistics. More tributes from Professor Galton's students can be found at http://www.ku.edu/~slavic/galton.shtml
Michael Biggins
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Our congratulations to Donald F. Reindl, who successfully defended his doctoral dissertation at Indiana University 15 Dec 2004. Written in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures with Ronald Feldstein as his advisor, the thesis is entitled "The Effects of Historical German-Slovene Language Contact on the Slovene Language."
The dissertation addresses German linguistic influence on Slovene, examining areas of Slovene grammar beyond vocabulary, namely: phonology, morphology, syntax, syntagms and collocations, and semantics. This is followed by an overview of possible Slovene influence on German. The methodology combines cross-linguistic comparison with the notions of universality and markedness.
Dr. Reindl can be contacted at donald.reindl@guest.arnes.si.
Marc L. Greenberg has been honored by the Slavic Studies Society of Slovenia on October 7, 2004, during the opening ceremony of the 2004 Slovenian Slavistic Congress in Novo mesto, Slovenia, with the "Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Slovene Studies."
Michael Biggins's translation of Vladimir Bartol's Alamut has been reviewed in The Seattle Times 19 November 2004.
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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 bibliographic citations for their scholarly publications to the Editor, preferably by email to stermole@chass.utoronto.ca. All submissions will be duly noted in the following issue of the SSS Letter. [N.B. In the following citations, members are listed first; the use of "with" following the member's name indicates that he/she was not the primary author.]
Biggins, Michael, trans. Vladimir Bartol, Alamut, Scala House, Seattle, ISBN: 0-9720287-3-0, 2004. (On-line ad)
Drnovs^ek, Marjan. "Osebno in javno v izseljenski korespondenci," Dve domovini/Two Homelands, 20 (2004), 113-151.
Gantar-Godina, Irena. "Slovenski izobranz^enci na Hrvas^kem od 1850 do 1860," Dve domovini/Two Homelands, 20 (2004), 77-94.
Kolton, Kelly, et al. "Breaking Down Stereotypes: Bridging the International Gap." Web site and presentation. March 2004. http://kellykolton.com/slovenia/index.html
Luks^ic^-Hacin, Marina. "Vrac^anje Slovencev iz Argentine," Dve domovini/Two Homelands, 20 (2004), 13-34.
Milharc^ic^-Hladnik, Mirjam. S^olske izkus^ne v multikulturnem okolju Zdruz^enih drz^av Amerike skozi zgodbe slovenskih priseljenk," Dve domovini/Two Homelands, 20 (2004), 217-232.
Mlekuz^, Jernej. "Odnos Republike Slovenije do vrac^anja izseljencev in njihovih potomcev," Dve domovini/Two Homelands, 20 (2004), 53-73.
_________. "Kaj, kako in mogoc^e s^e zakaj so tako pisali o izseljevanju in izseljencih iz Benes^ke Slovenije v c^asniku Matajur v letih 1951-1960," Dve domovini/Two Homelands, 20 (2004), 175-192.
Nec'ak, Dus^an and Boz^o Repe. "O nastanku in namenu Avstrijsko-slovenske komisije zgodovinarjev (2001-2004), Zgodovinski c^asopis, 58 (2004), 415-465.
Priestly, Tom, and Klaus Detlef Olof, transl. France Balantic^. Pot brez konca/Path Without End/Weg ohne Ende. Celovec/Ljubljana/Wien: Mohorjeva zaloz^ba, 2005.
Skopec, Ana. My Life in Three Countries, Publish America, Baltimore, ISBN: 1-4137-3197-X, 169 pp., 2004. (On-line ad)
Toplak, Kristina. "'Dobrodos^li doma?' Vrac^anje izseljencev v Republiko Slovenijo," Dve domovini/Two Homelands, 20 (2004), 35-51.
Z^igon, Zvone. "Slovenska misijonarka pri Inuitih," Dve domovini/Two Homelands, 20 (2004), 233-260.
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Shiffman, Dan. Rooting Multiculturalism: The Work of Louis Adamic. Cranbury, NJ & London: Farleigh Dickinson University Press & Associated University Presses, 2003, 191 pp.
Zupanic-Slavec, Zvonka. Epigenetic Identification of Family Related Skulls: Analysis of 18 Skulls of a Central-European Medieval Noble Family, the Counts of Celje, Springer, Wien/New York, 255pp., 2004. (On-line ad)
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The Institute of Ethnomusicology (Glasbenonarodopisni ins^titut ZRC SAZU) of Ljubljana has issued a new folk music CD, Odmev prvih napisov (The Echo of the First Recordings), featuring much previously-unreleased music from the institute's archive, ranging from the earliest wax cylinder recordings to recent digital recordings. The project was headed by the institute's director, Marjetka Golez^¸ Kauc^ic^, and the over 40 tracks are accompanied by an extensive bilingual booklet of liner notes (translated by Dawn and Donald Reindl) and photographs. More information about the CD and the institute's work is available at its website: http://www.zrc-sazu.si/gni/ .
Donald F. Reindl
An immensely popular Slovenian film festival featuring fifteen of the country's most noteworthy new documentaries, feature films and short subjects; a sold-out concert by Laibach; a roundtable discussion involving younger Slovenian writers, filmmakers, and artists; a Neue Slowenische Kunst exhibit; and a public reading to a standing room only crowd from the recently published English translation of Vladimir Bartol's Alamut were highlights of a recent five-day event titled State of Art: The New Slovene Avant Garde, sponsored by the Northwest Film Forum and Scala House Publishers, both based in Seattle.
In the interests of full disclosure, I should state that the event was largely designed by Scala House as a means of generating publicity for Alamut, which it released in October in my translation. The owners of Scala House, an independent press in existence since 2001, worked nearly 18 months to plan and organize the events, which took place November 19-24.
A number of the Slovenian State of Art participants will be returning to Seattle in April 2005 to attend the opening of a major NSK exhibit at the Frye Art Museum, at 707 Terry Avenue. The Frye's newly appointed curator, Robin Held, earned her M.A. in Art History from the University of Washington with a thesis on the history of NSK, which so far remains the only monographic work in English about this important Slovenian art movement.
See the following web sites for more information.
Michael Biggins
The Economics Faculty at the University of Ljubljana is hosting a Slovenian/English bidirectional dictionary of computer-related terminology.
The dictionary provides a comprehensive vocabulary of informatics terms in Slovene, related to information technology and telecommunications, and specialist areas such as database, user interface, business informatics, object technology, artificial perception, social aspects. Words of general meaning are not included.
It can be found at http://www.islovar.org/iskanje_enostavno.asp.
Dr. Mitja Velikonja, an Associate Professor of Sociology of Culture at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and currently a Fulbright Scholar at Rosemont College, gave a lecture 22 March 2005 entitled "Those Were the Days...Nostalgia for Socialism in Post-Socialist Societies", which dealt with the social and cultural aspects of one of the most controversial issues in contemporary post-Socialist societies: nostalgia for the "old regime," as it is manifested in opinion polls, cultural production, political preferences, social critics and personal narratives.
The Slovene Language Summer Course on the Slovene Coast will run August 1-14, 2005, in Portoroz^ for the 12th year. The course is for anyone from beginners to intermediate and advanced. The minimum age is 15. Applications are due by April 30. For information about registration, housing, and cost, contact: Mojca.Butinar@zrs-kp.si or Karin.Marc@zrs-kp.si at the Center of Languages and Intercultural Communication; Science and Research Centre of Koper; Faculty of Humanities.
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The Society is pleased to announce that it has decided to award the Graduate Student Prize of US$1,000 to Sean O'Rourke of the Department of Linguistics at Yale University. His advisor was Prof. Stephen R. Anderson.
The winning paper is entitled "On Syntactic and Prosodic Domains of Clitic Placement in Slovene."
The submission deadline for the $1000US 2005 Graduate Student Prize is 15 September 2005. Please see the web page (http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~ljubljan/gradprize.html) for further details.
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The submission deadline for the $500US 2005 Undergraduate Essay Prize is 15 September 2005. Please see the web page (http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~ljubljan/undergradprize.html) for further details.
Ad futura, the Science and Education Foundation of the Republic of Slovenia, announced in the Official Gazette on 21 May 2004 grants for tuition and accommodation costs of foreign citizens who will start their doctorate studies at Slovene higher education institutions in the academic year 2004/2005. The deadline for applications is 30 October 2004. For full information visit their web site and click on "8. Call for Applications".
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) offers grants for study in East European Studies, including Slovenia. Recent categories of support have been Postdoctoral Research, Dissertation Fellowships, and Language Training Grants. For more information contact the ACLS, Office of Fellowships & Grants, 228 East 45 Street, New York, NY 10017-8898. Web site: http://www.acls.org/eeguide.htm E-mail address: grants@acls.org.
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 -- Web site: http://www.irex.org/ Email: irex@irex.org
The Fulbright Scholar Program application deadlines for 2004-2005 awards have passed. For information, visit their Web site at http://www.cies.org.
The Kenneth E. Naylor Young Scholar's Prize is offered for the best unpublished paper by a young scholar on a topic in South Slavic and Balkan Linguistics. It has a value of $500US. For full information, get the PDF file at http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~bjoseph/NaylorPrize/
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President (to 1 March 2007): Metod M. Milac^ (Syracuse University) (mmilac@syr.edu)
Secretary: William W. Derbyshire (Rutgers University) (wwdslovene@aol.com)
Treasurer: Carole Rogel (The Ohio State University) (Rogel.1@osu.edu)
Program Coordinator: Veronica E. Aplenc (University of Pennsylvania) (vaplenc@sas.upenn.edu)
Editor, Slovene Studies: Timothy Pogacar (Bowling Green State University) (pogacar@bgnet.bgsu.edu)
Book Review Editor: Donald F. Reindl (University of Ljubljana) (donald.reindl@guest.arnes.si)
Editor, SSS Letter: David F. Stermole (Toronto, ON, Canada) (stermole@chass.utoronto.ca)
WebMaster: David F. Stermole (Toronto, ON, Canada) (stermole@chass.utoronto.ca)
Stefan J. Kapsch (Reed College) (to 1 March 2008) (stefan.kapsch@reed.edu)
Marta Pirnat-Greenberg (University of Kansas) (to 1 March 2008) (mpg@ku.edu)
Karl W. Ryavec (University of Massachusetts) (to 1 March 2006) (ryavec@polsci.umass.edu)
Peter Vodopivec (Institute of Contemporary History) (to 1 March 2007) (Peter.Vodopivec@inz.si)
Henry R. Cooper, Jr. (Indiana University) (cooper@indiana.edu) Slovene Studies Center Committee (SSCC)
Marta Pirnat-Greenberg (University of Kansas) (mpg@ku.edu) Publicity Committee (PC)
For further information regarding the Society for Slovene Studies,
membership applications, journal subscriptions, and other details,
contact:
Prof. William W. Derbyshire
Society for Slovene Studies
3030 64th Avenue SW
Alki Place Unit C
Seattle, WA 98116
email: wwdslovene@aol.com
Submissions for the SSS Letter should be sent to:
David F. Stermole, Editor SSS Letter
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email: stermole@chass.utoronto.ca
Created: 16 Oct 2004
Finalized:: 4 April 2005