Book cover: Jožica Čeh Steger Views on Slovenian ModernismVIEWS ON SLOVENIAN MODERNISM: MONOGRAPH PRESENTATION

12.03.25

Wednesday, 19 March 2025, 5 p.m., Glazer Hall 

The scientific monograph Views on Slovenian Modernism by researcher Dr. Jožica Čeh Steger is subtitled National, Multicultural, and Intercultural Concepts, Short Prose and Poetry and presents studies of literary creators from various literary movements at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. 
 
From the perspective of various research approaches (intercultural literary studies, comparative studies, media theory, constructs of femininity, cognitive metaphor theory), the monograph complements and expands research on canonical authors (e.g. Cankar, Župančič) and pays special attention to previously under-researched or entirely overlooked authors, such as Kraigher, Šorli, Iz. Cankar, Govekar, Meško, Finžgar, Maister, Poljanec, Šuler, Remec, and others. Through research on G. Stridsberg, A. Wambrechtsamer, and R. H. Bartsch, the monograph broadens the national concept of Slovenian modernism into the realm of Slovenian-German bilingualism and interculturality. 
 
The conversation will be moderated by Dr. Blanka Bošnjak. 
 
We look forward to your visit!

 

Book cover: Simon Šerbinek Life in the SubconsciousLIFE IN THE SUBCONSCIOUS: BOOK PRESENTATION

12.03.25

Thursday, 20 March 2025, 5 p.m., Glazer Hall 

As part of the Sessions with Books series, the event will present the autobiographical novel Fighter – Diary of a Coward by Simon Šerbinek. The book explores the life of a man struggling with mental health issues, seeking to come to terms with his past and start anew. With the support of a psychiatrist and interactions with other characters, the novel vividly describes the states of psychosis and regression experienced during psychiatric treatment. 
 
“The book serves as the author’s sensitive testimony of his psychotic experience, where—despite its painful aspects—his optimism and belief in the meaning of life remain evident. Through this perspective and his creativity, the author demonstrates that even severe mental distress, such as psychosis, can be a challenge and an opportunity for greater personal maturity and overall mental well-being” (Bojan Filipič, MD, psychiatrist, and psychotherapist). 
 
The conversation will be moderated by dr. Andreja Erdlen. 
 
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Poetry connects 2025POETRY CONNECTS 2025

12.03.25

Friday, 21 March 2025, 12 p.m., in front of the University of Maribor (Slomšek Square) 

On World Poetry Day, University of Maribor Library, Maribor Library, and Pivec Publishing House invite the people of Maribor to a public poetry reading in front of the University of Maribor on Slomšek Square. Distinguished guests from Maribor will interpret poems of their own choosing. 
 
This public reading is held in honour of three special occasions: World Poetry Day, the birthday of poet Janko Glazer, and the beginning of spring. The initiator of this annual reading event is the ambassador Zora A. Jurič. Each invited guest will read one poem from Slovenian poetry and one from the global treasury of poetry. 
 
This year’s poetry readers include: Zdenka Gajser (storyteller and poet), Gabrijela Kolbič (librarian), Zala Kralj (singer), Rene Maurin (theatre director), Aleš Maver (historian and philologist), Franjo Naji (doctor and writer), Mateja Pucko (actress), Dejan Pušenjak (journalist), Majda Rižnar (retired professor), Simon Šerbinek (actor), Vesna Vončina (actress). The event will feature music by singer-songwriter Leon Ašenberger – Aši and will be moderated by Zora A. Jurič.  
 
We warmly invite you to join us in celebrating poetry and the arrival of spring! 
 
Photo by Branimir Ritonja. 

 

 

Graphics of a female characterWOMEN FOR PEACE

07.03.25

Thursday, 13 March 2025, 5 PM, Glazer Hall 

For the 90th Remembrances event, two guests will be joining us: Sonja Lokar, a professor of French and sociology, a journalist and a researcher, a politician, and an activist in the international women's movement; and Dr. Lev Kreft, a doctor of philosophy, Slovenian politician, university professor, and researcher in the fields of aesthetics, political philosophy, ethics, and the sociology of culture. 
 
Every second death in armed conflicts in 2023 was a woman. Women's rights are the first casualty of war. Military historiography rarely even mentions women, and together with children, they fall into what S. Bauman called "collateral damage in a society driven by profit maximization." Women are absent from war declarations and peace negotiations—men make all the decisions. Wars have never liberated women, and the level of gender equality achieved in the eight decades since World War II is the result of the efforts of successive generations of women. However, many of their achievements are now in danger and some have already been lost. 
 
Wars are a current reality and society's indifference to their victims aligns with the deteriorating status of women. 
 
The 90th Remembrances event also marks twenty years since the first gathering on March 5, 2005, which was dedicated to the centenary of the birth of Academician Bratko Kreft, and at which Dr. Lev Kreft participated in the discussion. 

We look forward to your visit. 

Book Cover: A System So Magnificent It Is BlindingAMANDA SVENSSON IN SLOVENIA

06.03.25

Tuesday, 11 March 2025, at 5 PM, Glazer Hall 

Amanda Svensson, the author of the novel titled A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding, will be interviewed in English by Kristian Koželj, the book’s editor. Svenson’s novel was in 2023 nominated for the prestigeous Booker Prize. 
 
In a masterfully woven tale about an unusual Swedish family that pieced together before our eyes like a puzzle, the author blinds us. Just as our vision begins to adjust, she blinds us again—and again. And when, at the very end, she pulls out her final trump card, leaving us convinced that we have finally connected all the dots, she leaves us speechless. All the while, she reveals new worlds and delights us in ways beyond words. The novel was translated by Iva Klemenčič. 
 
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