THE SLOVENE NOVEL Symposion December 5-7, 2002 Miran Hladnik If you have any questions or The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the Faculty of Arts of the University of require additional information Ljubljana is organizing an international symposion entitled The Slovene Novel. The members of please contact the secretary of the organizing committee, chaired by Miran Hladnik (University of Ljubljana), are: Ada Vidovič- the symposium, Ms. Mojca Muha, Marko Juvan, Vladimir Osolnik, Franc Zadravec (all of University of Ljubljana), Timothy Nidorfer-Šiškovič Pogacar (Bowling Green University), Zvonko Kovač (University of Zagreb), Peter Scherber (
[email protected], (University of Göttingen), and István Lukács (University of Budapest). The annual event, the +386 / 1 / 241 13 21, fax +386 /1 twenty-first in the series of the symposia Obdobja, will take place December 5-7, 2002 in the / 425 70 55. halls of the high-rise at Trg republike 3 in Ljubljana. Mojca Nidorfer-Šiškovič The Title Secretary Prof. Miran Hladnik, When several years ago the series of symposia Obdobja — which since 1979 had treated sys- Chair of the Symposium tematically the Middle Ages, Reformation, Baroque, Romanticism, etc. in Slovene lands — was Obdobja 21 exhausted, the symposion opened a new, two-thematic series with the working title Methods and Genres. The first theme includes the symposia about the creative rhythms (1992) and his- torism (1999), the second the symposia about the Slovene sonnet-writing (1998), the Roman- tic epic poem (2000), and last year's symposion about the Slovene literary language. This year's topic, the Slovene Novel, is a logical continuation of research which in future years in- tends to shed light on other important forms, types, and genres in Slovene literature, langua- ge, and culture.