In addition to smaller events, such as guest visits by foreign researchers dealing with censorship in the Habsburg Monarchy, as well as lectures and media appearances by members of the project group, four major events are the focus of the project: a Slovenian conference, a panel at an international congress, a documentary film on RTV Slovenija, and an exhibition in the National and University Library.
Slovenian Literati and Imperial Censorship in the Long Nineteenth Century. Conference, Atrij ZRC, March 24-25, 2022.
Oto Luthar, Director of ZRC SAZU: Welcome greeting
Marijan Dović, project leader: Slovenian writers and imperial censorship in the long 19th century (introduction)
Monika Deželak Trojar: Linhart’s confrontation with censorship in the field of historiography and drama
Luka Vidmar: Žiga Zois on censorship
Matija Ogrin: Manuscript publications of forbidden texts: the example of Slovenian manuscripts on the Antichrist
Eva Kodrič-Dačić: Banned books in lyceum and university libraries of the pre-March period
Andrejka Žejn: A Slovenian newspaper nipped in the bud: the case of Slavinja censorship
Marko Juvan: Acrostics of love and anger: Prešeren’s sonnet writing and censorship
Andrej Pastar: Carniolia, Leopold Kordeš and the German-language newspapers in Carniola in the first half of the 19th century
Marijan Dović: Pre-March censorship in Kranjska and Bleiweis’ Novice
Nina Ditmajer: The censorship of the Krempl’s Dogodivšine štajerske zemle in Graz and Zagreb
Sonja Svoljšak: The March Revolution and the “freedom of the press”: Reverberations in Carniola (March-May 1848)
Ivan Kordiš: Events on the occasion of the publication of Kozler’s Zemljovid slovenske dežele in pokrajin
Teodor Domej: A short life and the end of newspapers Stimmen aus Innerösterreich and Slovenec
Tanja Žigon: Press cases in Carniola in the second half of the 19th century
Damir Globočnik: Brencelj and Jurij s pušo: the first Slovenian satirical newspaper before the jury court
Katja Mihurko Poniž: “Immorality in itself”: theatre censorship and moral education in the 18th and 19th centuries
Urška Perenič: Censorship and the beginnings of Slovenian theatre
Tone Smolej: “The performance is allowed if the passages marked in red are omitted”: theatre censorship of foreign repertoire in Ljubljana (1898-1912)
Andraž Jež: “The governmental censorship that made me suspect of – 62 passages!”: The Austro-Hungarian censorship of Slovenian socialists
Petra Svoljšak: The First World War: the transition of Austrian censorship from the defensive to the offensive
Jernej Habjan: Between the 19th-century erotica and the 20th-century servants
Censorship, Print, and Nations in the Habsburg Monarchy (ca. 1789–1914). The panel session held as part of the 9th Congress of The European Society of Comparative Literature (ESCL/SELC; Rome, September 5-9, 2022).
Luka Vidmar (Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts): From Rome to Vienna: Secularization of Censorship in the Habsburg Monarchy in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
Michael Wögerbauer (Czech Academy of Sciences): The “Holey” System: Habsburg Censorship, Its Centralization, and Its Gaps (1749–1848)
Orsolya Rákai (Hungarian Academy of Sciences): Cult, Criticism, Economy: Censorship as a Multilevel Tool and Language in the Emergence of Modern Social Subsystems around 1800
Norbert Bachleitner (University of Vienna): Censorship of Classics around 1800: Friedrich Schiller’s Plays in Print and on the Stage
Marijan Dović (Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts): Imperial Censorship and the Press in Carniola during the Pre-March Period
Marko Juvan (Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts): Censor’s Paradox: The Habsburg Empire and the Literary Field
Daniel Syrovy (University of Vienna): Between Policing and Literary Criticism: Habsburg Censorship of Literature in Lombardy-Venetia
Marina Protrka Štimec (University of Zagreb): Censor’s Scissors in Croatian Literature: Shaping an (Inter)national Community
Slovenci in habsburška cenzura: izobraževalno-dokumentarni film : neznana poglavja slovenske zgodovine. (Slovenians and Habsburg Censorship: a documentary). Ljubljana: RTV Slovenija, 2022. (25 min).
Exhibition Slovenians and Imperial Censorship from Joseph II to the First World War in the National and University Library (25 May – 25 November 2023)
