In the closing session, participants were invited to participate in a debate related to current practices, legislation or protective measures needed or applied for the conservation of proteus along ...the Dinaric karst. The discussion was centred on the international cooperation among all countries hosting or researching proteus, in order to establish a better communication channel with European decision makers in research, conservation and public awareness, towards a practical protection of this endangered cave animal and its habitat. The assembly of the meeting honoured Professor David C. Culver, American University, USA, for his outstanding contributions to the study and conservation of subterranean biodiversity, and Academician Andrej Kranjc, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia, for his outstanding studies of Karst research history.
In the semi-autobiographic novel Nekropola (Necropolis, 1966) of the Slovene author Boris Pahor (born in 1913), the main character revisits the concentration camp Natzweiler-Struthof where he spent ...part of his imprisonment during the Second World War. During this visit the world of the concentration-camp prisoner and the world of the concentration-camp survivor are reunited. In both worlds the (lack of) connection between the protagonist and the surrounding characters, and the hereto related emotional spectrum of loneliness (alienation, distance, solitude) occupy a central position. Earlier research pointed out that the reunion of the concentration-camp world in the memories of the protagonist and the world he lives in now emphasizes the discrepancy between these two worlds. Based on the narrative concepts described by Michael Rothberg (timelessness, falsifiability and normality vs the extreme), this article indicates that this discrepancy actually does not only originate in the confrontation between the world of the past and the present. Illustrated by the very different and sometimes opposite effects of the constant confrontation with loneliness, distance and alienation, present paper reveals that this hiatus between past and present is embedded in the state of mind, or rather, in the identity of the main character.
The article examines the presidential campaign of Borut Pahor prior to the 2012 presidential elections by analyzing its television and online coverage. Borut Pahor then temporarily took up 46 ...different occupations, mostly involving manual labour, thus also performing a different masculinity than the one he performed before the election. Due to the mediatization of politics and eventization of his campaign, Borut Pahor changed from a new man who is mostly concerned with his looks to a working-class man who puts morality, responsibility and hard work first. By focusing on his competence as a manual worker, Pahor simultaneously helped depoliticize the presidential function. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
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