61st Seminar of Slovene Language, Literature and Culture: Trieste in Slovene Language, Literature and Culture

Authors

Urška Perenič (ed)
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Slovenia

Keywords:

Trieste, Slovenian language, multilingualism, Slovenian literature, monuments, history

Synopsis

After several decades (the Slovenian Littoral, Resia, and Austrian Carinthia were the themes of the eighth and ninth seminars), the seminar once again focused on the ethnic Slovenian cross-border area or—as the Slovenian composer, ethnomusicologist, Slovenian studies specialist, and etymologist Pavle Merkù put it—the pre-border area. Specifically, it focused on Trieste. Until the beginning of the twentieth century, this was the city with the largest ethnic Slovenian population, which the writer, lawyer, and politician Ivan Tavčar (and later Ivan Cankar) rightfully referred to as the “lungs of Slovenia” (as a counterpart to Ljubljana, which he called the “heart of Slovenia”). The seminar examined Trieste and the Trieste region from several perspectives—history, politics, economics, and, of course, culture, literature, and linguistics—and through the historical periods that were key to Slovenians: from the period of the Carolingian and Ottonian empires and the brief period under the Republic of Venice via the Habsburg Monarchy and the nineteenth century to the First and the Second World Wars and beyond, up to the present.

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Published

June 20, 2025

Online ISSN

2386-057X

Print ISSN

2386-0561

Details about this monograph

ISBN-13 (15)

978-961-297-603-3

How to Cite

Perenič, U. (Ed.). (2025). 61st Seminar of Slovene Language, Literature and Culture: Trieste in Slovene Language, Literature and Culture. University of Ljubljana Press. https://doi.org/10.4312/SSJLK.61.2386-057X