Appendix 10
country report –
Slovenia
To October 2003
1. New courses and new centres
- Canadian Fiction (graduate
reading course, MA programme; taught by Michelle
Gadpaille
2.
Conferences, conference participation
Retzhof Conference,
Leibnitz, Austria, 2002
- Victor Kennedy (University
of Maribor), “Teaching Canadian Literature and Culture in the
European Classroom”
“Across the Great Divide”:
4th Symbiosis Conference, 18-21 July 2003, Edinburgh,
Scotland
- Michelle Gadpaille
(University of Maribor), “Gothic Migrations: A Scots-Canadian Case
Study”
Novosti Stroke workshop, 17
October, 2003, Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Michelle Gadpaille
(University of Maribor), “Introduction
to Canadian Literature”
“Other Language: Otherness
in Canadian Culture” – 1st International Conference
of Canadian Studies, 18-20 October, Belgrade, Serbia
- Jason Blake (University of
Ljubljana), “Games People Play – The Schmier Game in
Robert Kroetch’s What the Crow Said”
3. Academic
publications
Michelle Gadpaille, “Visual
Metatrope in Novels by Margaret Atwood and E. Annie Proulx.” Crossing Borders: Interdisciplinary
Intercultural Interaction. ed. Bernhard Kettemann and Georg
Marko. Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1999, pp. 221-231.
Michelle Gadpaille, “Gynocritics and the Nineteenth-Centruy
North American Canon.” Aspects of
Interculturality - Canada and the United States. ed. Fritz
Peter Kirsch and Waldemar Zacharasiewicz. Vienna: Centre for Canadian
Studies, 2000, pp. 107-122.
Michelle Gadpaille, “The
Swimmer’s Moment: Canada at Fin-de-siecle and Millennium.” Canada 2000: Identity and Transformation. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
pp. 63-71.
Victor Kennedy,“Teaching
Canadian Literature and Culture in the European Classroom.” Expanding Circles, Transcending Disciplines,
and Multimodal Texts, ed. Bernhard Kettemann and Georg
Marko. Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003, pp.129-135.
Nada Sabec, “The language
and ethnicity of Slovene Americans: change and preservation.” In: Kaplan,
Jeffrey (ed.), Shackleton, Mark (ed.), Toivonen, Maarika (ed.), Migration,
preservation and change. Helsinki: Renvall Institute Publications,1998:
91-100.
Nada Sabec, “Language change in contact situation: the
case of Slovene
in North America.” Slovenski
jezik - Slovene Linguistic Studies 2 (1999): 33-46 (a journal jointly
published by Znanstvenoraziskovalni center Slovenske akademije znanosti in
umetnosti and The Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Center for the Humanities,
University of Kansas, USA).
Nada Sabec, “Second person
pronouns used by Slovene and American Slovene speakers as
linguistic markers of
personal and social (in)equality.” Acta Neophilologica 35, 1/2 (2002):
115-126.
5. Grants
An FEP grant to Michelle
Gadpaille (University of Maribor) to conduct research in the University of
Toronto library
6.
Young Canadianists
- Student diplomas
supervised
Beatrika Jernejc, Gender
and Genre in Alice Munro’s Lives
of Girls and Women, June
2003
Jure Plevnik, Characterization
and Jungian Psychology in Robertson Davies’s Fifth
Business, June 2003
Melita Kebar-Jasovec, Symbols
in Timothy Findley’s The Wars, October 2003.
Nina Pahic, Problems
connected with Aging in Lessing’s The Diary of Jane Somers and
Laurence’s The Stone Angel, April 2003
Tatjana Seneker, A Bird in
the House as Short Story Cycle, February 2003
Mojca Hrovat, Climate, Community and Contrast in Ethan Frome and The Whirlpool.
May 2003
- PhD in progress: Anglophone literature and popular
culture (1)