Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
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24 Mar 2020
Marta Verginella (Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana) gives a lecture entitled From Slovenka to Ženski svet: Slovene Feminism in Trieste between Cosmopolitism and the National Struggle, 1897-1928, in the frame of the UCL SSEES Central European Seminar Series, supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia London,
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6 Dec 2018
A lecture Innovation and Social Reality in the Plays of Ivan Cankar by Mateja Pezdirc Bartol (Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana), organised in cooperation with the Centre for Slovene as a Second/Foreign Language, supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia London,
at the World Festival of Ivan Cankar
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3 Dec 2018
A lecture/panel with art historian Beti Žerovc (Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana) entitled Learning from Yugoslavia in the frame of the exhibition Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980
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28 Nov 2018
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5 Nov 2018
6 Nov 2018
World Day of Ivan Cankar, including the screening of Amir Muratović's film Cankar and lectures by Alojzija Zupan Sosič (Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana) and Damjan Huber, Mateja Lutar, and Mojca Nidorfer Šiškovič (all Centre for Slovene as a Second and Foreign Language), supported by the Slovenian Culture and Information Centre, Vienna (SKICA) (Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Vienna),
at the World Festival of Ivan Cankar
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15 May 2018
A book presentation by the writer Jani Virk, co-organised in cooperation with Beletrina Publishing Institute, Slowenischer Lesesaal, Graz, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana and the Centre for Slovene as a Second/Foreign Language,
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14 Mar 2017
A literary evening with poet Milan Šelj, organized in cooperation with the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia London, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana and the Centre for Slovene as a Second/Foreign Language,
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16 Feb 2017
17 Feb 2017
Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo Faculty of Philosophy,Museum of Literature and Performing Arts
A lecture and literary evening with poet Barbara Korun, organised in cooperation with the Centre for Slovene as a Second/Foreign Language, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana and the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Sarajevo,
at the World Festival of Slovenian Culture
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15 Feb 2017
Fraternité and egalité among the nations of former Yugoslavia – a historical overview, a lecture by historian Božo Repe (Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana), organised in cooperation with the Centre for Slovene as a Second/Foreign Language,
at the World Festival of Slovenian Culture
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14 Feb 2017
Historical development of Central Europe – from Slovene perspective, a lecture by historian Božo Repe (Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana), within the , organised in cooperation with the Centre for Slovene as a Second/Foreign Language, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana and the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Brussels,
at the World Festival of Slovenian Culture
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2 Feb 2017
On Renaissance Beauty by Marko Uršič (Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana), a book presentation supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Zagreb,
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6 Dec 2016
A lecture on contemporary Slovene drama by Mateja Pezdirc Bartol (Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana) in the framework of World Festival of Slovene Culture, organised in cooperation with the Centre for Slovene as a Second/Foreign Language,
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5 Dec 2016
A translation workshop for Polish Students of Slovenian Language with Tatjana Jamnik participating, organised by the Polica Dubova Cultural and Artistic Association and Literary Association IA, co-organised by the Centre for Slovene as a Second/Foreign Language/Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana,
at the Golden Boat Festival
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28 Nov 2016
Josip Stritar (1836-1923), a festive academy celebrating the 180th anniversary of the birth of the writer with a leacture by Irena Samide (Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana) and readings by Nika Sommeregger, Metka Wakounig, and Dominik Urak, organised in cooperation with the Slovenian Culture and Information Centre, Vienna (SKICA), Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Vienna,
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5 Nov 2016
7 Nov 2016
A number of Slovenian writers and translators present their works, presentation of the Slovak edition of Iztok Osojnik’s selected poetry, organised by the Polica Dubova Cultural and Artistic Association, Literary Association IA, and the Blue and White Bird Union, co-organised by the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana and the Centre for Slovene as a Second/Foreign Language, supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Warsaw,
at the Golden Boat Festival
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18 Oct 2016
Readings by Nina Dragičević, Vesna Lemaić, Tibor Hrs Pandur and Iztok Osojnik, the latter holds a lecture Ecology through poetry of Jure Detela. Literary events organised by the Polica Dubova Cultural and Artistic Association, Literary Association IA, and the Blue and White Bird Union, co-organised by the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana and the Centre for Slovene as a Second/Foreign Language and I.D.I.O.T Group, supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Warsaw,
at the Golden Boat Festival
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11 May 2016
12 May 2016
A celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Slovenian language at Vilnius University accompanied by a concern by Zoran Predin and lectures by Branka Kalenić Ramšak (Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana), Marko Stabej, Mojca Nidorfer Šiškovič and Damjan Huber (Centre for Slovene as a Second/Foreign Language)
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11 Apr 2016
14 Apr 2016
Spain Granada Faculty of Philosophy and Literature,Faculty of Translation and Interpreting
A Slovenian literature translation workshop also with Laura Repovš, lectures by Dr. Marko Juvan (Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana) and a screening of Spare Parts, directed by Damjan Kozole (E-motion Film), at the Slovenian Language Week, organised by Slovenian Lectureship at the University of Granada, supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Madrid,
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5 Apr 2016
About Coffee Over Coffee, a talk with ethnologist and anthropologist Božidar Jezernik, organised in cooperation with the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana and the Centre for Slovene as a Second/Foreign Language,
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1 Mar 2016
A literary evening with Miha Mazzini, organised in conjuction with the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia London, the Centre for Slovene as a Second/Foreign Language and the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana,
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8 Oct 2015
10 Oct 2015
A number of literary events with Slovenian writers and translators Miriam Drev, Tatjana Jamnik, Aleksander Peršolja, Muanis Sinanović, and Iztok Osojnik, organised by the Polica Dubova Cultural and Artistic Association, Literary Association IA, and the Blue and White Bird Union, co-organised by the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana and the Centre for Slovene as a Second/Foreign Language, supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Warsaw,
at the Golden Boat Festival
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7 Oct 2015
12 Oct 2015
A number of literary events with Slovenian writers and translators Miriam Drev, Tatjana Jamnik, Aleksander Peršolja, Muanis Sinanović, and Iztok Osojnik, organised by the Polica Dubova Cultural and Artistic Association, Literary Association IA, and the Blue and White Bird Union, co-organised by the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana and the Centre for Slovene as a Second/Foreign Language,
at the Golden Boat Festival
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5 May 2015
A lecture by Marko Stabej (Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana), supported by the Centre for Slovene as a Second/Foreign Language and the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Paris,
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21 Apr 2015
A concert by and literary evening with Vlado Kreslin in the framework of the 19th Slovenian Book Days, co-organised by the Slowenischer Lesesaal, Graz, Centre for Slovene as a Second/Foreign Language, , and the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana,
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13 Apr 2015
7 May 2015
A screening of Class Enemy, directed by Rok Biček (Triglav Film), and A Trip, directed by Nejc Gazvoda (Perfo Production), a literary-film evening with Nejc Gazvoda, lectures by Alenka Bartulovič (Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana), Đurđa Strsoglavec (Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana) and Urban Logar, and a presentation of the Forum of Slavic Cultures International Foundation at the W samo południe Festival, supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Warsaw,
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23 Oct 2014
24 Oct 2014
A number of literary evenings with Slovene authors and artists Jure Detela, Tatjana Jamnik, Alenka Jovanovski, Dejan Koban, Iztok Osojnik, and Klemen Pisk, organised by the Polica Dubova Cultural and Artistic Association, Literary Association IA, and Zveza modro-bela ptica, co-organised by the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana and the Centre for Slovene as a Second/Foreign Language, and supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Prague,
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18 Oct 2014
22 Oct 2014
Literary evenings, a translation workshop, and lectures with Slovene authors and artists Jure Detela, Tatjana Jamnik, Alenka Jovanovski, Dejan Koban, Iztok Osojnik, and Klemen Pisk, organised by the Polica Dubova Cultural and Artistic Association, Literary Association IA, and Zveza modro-bela ptica, co-organised by the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana and the Centre for Slovene as a Second/Foreign Language, and supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Warsaw,
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25 Oct 2013
Slovene writer Andrej Blatnik (Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana) and Miha Kovač (Mladinska knjiga Publishing House) participating in the 2nd Backflow Conference on Cultural Transfer within the Danube Region EU Strategy
History
The Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana was founded in 1919, the same year as the university was established. The very first lecture at the newly established University began symbolically on the 3rd of December 1919, the birth date of the avowed Romantic poet France Prešeren.
In the beginning, the Faculty consisted of natural sciences and humanities, which included seven disciplines: Philosophy, Pedagogy, History, Geography, Art History, Slavonic Studies, Romance Studies, Germanic Studies, Classical Philology, and Comparative Linguistics. During the World Wars the Departments for Comparative Literature Studies (1925), and Ethnology (1940) were established. After the liberation, the establishing of other new Departments followed: Archaeology (1947), Psychology (1950), Sociology (1960), Musicology (1962), and Library and Information Science and Book Studies (1987), ...
Since the establishment the number of students and academic staff was growing rapidly. In the academic year 1919/20 the number of students was 245, today the total number of students is almost 8,000. Also, the number of academic and pedagogic staff increased to around 399. Together with the non-pedagogic staff and external collaborators the total number is approximately 700.
Today
To this day, the number of Departments increased to 21 altogether, along with the departmental libraries. The most recently opened Departments were Department of Asian and African Studies (1995) and Department of Translation (1997). The main characteristic of the Faculty of Arts remains the possibility to make links in courses between different departments. There is also the possibility for links between other faculties or institutes: the Faculty of Theology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis (ISH), Centre for Pedagogic Education, the International Students of History Association, the Linguistic Circle, the Union of Geographic Societies and the Association of History Teachers, and many others.
The newly established interdisciplinary doctoral programme of Humanities and Social Sciences with 62 subject tracks enables links between the Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Theology, the Faculty of Informatics and Computer Science, the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, and the Academy of Music at the University of Ljubljana.
The academic staff is included in science projects with different institutes at the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts (SAZU), which work within or outside the Faculty. The other activities of the Faculty include publishing of reference literature, scientific journals and other periodicals. In 2009, the Scientific Publishing House of the Faculty of Arts published more than 60 monographies and 12 scientific journals. The latter includes Muzikološki zbornik - Varia Musicologia, Arts & Humanitas, Keria, Documenta Praehistorica, ...
International Cooperation
The academic staff is active within several international initiatives and networks. The Faculty has intensive connections with three Central European universities: Charles University in Prague, Jagelonian University in Krakow, Comenius University in Bratislava. The Faculty is active within the Prague Network which holds the agreement with 18 different universities from around Europe. Also, the connections have been made with universities in Japan, China, and India. The Department of Slovene languages and Literature is collaborating with many universities around the globe – at more than 23 universities it is possible to gain a diploma in knowledge of Slovenian. The Department developed a Centre for Slovene as a Second/Foreign Language, which is active with in teaching Slovenian and attracts many foreigners.
The other international connections within SOCRATES/ERASMUS student exchange, managed by the International Office at the Faculty of Arts, are one of the most successful in Slovenia. In 2008, the International office at the Faculty of Arts was acknowledged for exceptional achievements by the University of Ljubljana.
So far, the Faculty hosted and co-organised many acknowledged names from the field of humanities and social science: Noam Chomsky, Vaclav Havel, Umberto Eco, Boris Pahor, Adam Michnik.
In 2007, on the occasion of awarding Umberto Eco with the honorary doctorate from University of Ljubljana, his lecture on the history of ugliness in Cankarjev dom Culture and Congress Centre attracted a big audience. The video of the lecture, provided by VideoLectures.Net, is available online.
On the occasion of the 90th Anniversary, the Journal of the Faculty of Arts (1919 – 2009) was published where there are articles dedicated to each Department. The journal is also available online.
See also
- Centres
- Departments
- Department of Archaeology
- Department of Art History
- Department of Asian and African Studies
- Department of Classical Philology
- Department of Comparative and General Linguistics
- Department of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory
- Department of English and American Studies
- Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology
- Department of Geography
- Department of German with Dutch and Swedish
- Department of History
- Department of Library and Information Science and Book Studies
- Department of Musicology
- Department of Pedagogy and Andragogy
- Department of Philosophy
- Department of Psychology
- Department of Romance Languages and Literature
- Department of Slavonic Languages and Literature
- Department of Slovene Languages and Literature
- Department of Sociology
- Department of Translation
- Libraries
- Department of Archaeology Library
- Department of Art History Library
- Department of Asian and African Studies Library
- Department of Classical Philology Library
- Department of Comparative and General Linguistics Library
- Department of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory Library
- Department of English and American Studies
- Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology Library
- Department of Geography Library
- Department of German, Dutch and Swedish Library
- Department of History Library
- Department of Library and Information Science and Book Studies Library
- Department of Musicology Library
- Department of Pedagogy and Andragogy Library
- Department of Philosophy Library
- Department of Psychology Library
- Department of Romance Languages and Literature Library
- Departments of Slovene and Slavonic Languages and Literature Library
- Department of Sociology Library
- Department of Translation Library
- Faculty of Arts Central Humanities Library
- Publications
External links
- Faculty of Arts website (in English)
- Journal dedicated to the 90th Anniversary of Faculty of Arts (in Slovenian)
- On the History of Ugliness - A lecture by Umberto Eco (in English)