Appendix 10

country report – slovenia

October 2003 – April 2004

1. New courses and new centres

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2. Conference participation

 

19.10.04 Jason Blake. “Games People Play too Much – the Schmier game in

Robert Kroetsch’s What the Crow Said” at First International Conference on Canadian

Studies Yugoslav Association for Canadian Studies (YACS), Belgrade

 

17.10.03    Michelle Gadpaille. “An Introduction to Canadian Literature” University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana (“Novosti Stroke” – Teacher Training Seminar)

 

13-15.11.03 The Canadian Studies Centre in Maribor co-sponsored a conference with Karl-

Franzens University in Graz, Austria entitled “Canada in the Sign of Migration and Trans-culturalism” (Maribor, Graz)

 

14.11.03 Michelle Gadpaille “The Forest of Language: Tropes of Transition in Writing by

New Canadians” at ‘Canada in the Sign of Migration and Trans-Culturalism’

3. Academic publications

Jason Blake, “From Fact to Fiction – An Introduction to the Mythology of Ice Hockey in Canadian Life and Literature” in: ELOPE, vol. I/1-2, pp. 81--94. Ljubljana: Slovene Association for the Study of English, 2004.

 

Lilijana Burcar, “Mapping the Woman’s Body in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient” in: ELOPE, vol. I/1-2, pp. 105-114. Ljubljana: Slovene Association for the Study of English, 2004.

 

Michelle Gadpaille, “Metaphor and Meme in MacLennan’s Two Solitudes” in: Individual and Community: Canada in the 20th Century, proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, 26-28 October 2001, Bucharest, Romania

 

Victor Kennedy, “Canadian Identity in Popular Music”, in: Individual and Community: Canada in the 20th Century, proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, 26-28 October 2001, Bucharest, Romania

4. Visiting lecturers   -- 5. Grants -- 6. Young Canadianists ---

7. Cultural activities related to Canada

6-7.10.03                La La La Human Steps (Dance Performance) Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana

15.10.03                   Carol Ann Weaver and Rebecca Campbell. “Awakenings” (Musical

Performance based on writing by Canadian poets Dorothy Livesay and Di Brandt). Pedagoška Fakulteta, Maribor

7-21.11.04            LIFF (Ljubljana International Film Festival), including:

Ararat, Atom Egoyan

Les Invasions Barbares, Denys Arcand

23.04.04                   Compagnie Marie Chouinard (Film/Performance Art) Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana

8. Translations and special issues of journals

9. Other