Tag Archives: Slovenia

My Slovenian Lit Classes

I list the classes I taught at the University of Ljubljana this past month.

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Good Company, Rich Conversations

As we visit with old friends in Slovenia, I think of how Jane Austen’s Anne Elliot values “good company.”

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On Drinking Songs as National Anthems

Slovenia’s national anthem is taken from a poem by its national poet, France Preseren. They chose the peaceful stanza, not the warlike one.

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My Upcoming Ljubljana Lectures

I share the works I will be lecturing on at the University of Ljubljana.

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The Roots of a Beautiful Marriage

Spiritual Sunday Every time I visit Slovenia (six times now, the first two for year-long Fulbrights), I learn something new. In my most recent visit, I discovered it is common for couples to live together for years before getting married (if they ever do). While I can’t speak to overall statistics, I talked with several […]

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Among Slovenian School Children

A visit to an 8th grade English class in Slovenia had me thinking of Yeats’s “Among School Children and appreciating the educational process.

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A Moving Foster Home Story

Over the weekend I stayed with a former Slovenian exchange student and his foster mother and learned about their moving story.

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V-E Day, Whitman, and My 15 Minutes

My 15 minutes: during Slovenia’s 1995 V-E Day celebration I read Walt Whitman to a national television audience.

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Reading Whitman: My 15 Minutes of Fame

My 15 minutes of fame came when I read Walt Whitman’s “Oh Captain, My Captain” to the people of Slovenia. The occasion was the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. As today is D-Day, it seems a good time to tell the story.

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