During the workshop, the students first learned about the literary representation of the fox and the snail in the poetry of Slovak poets Mila Haug and Eva Luka, and saw how mythological, symbolic and everyday meanings of animals are intertwined in their poetry. They explored the thematisation of the relationship between man and animal through the Macedonian prose poem The Rooster by Liljana Dirjan in the light of ecocriticism.
The selected poems were transformed into other literary types (haiku) or other media (illustration, comics, photography, meme, musicalisation).
Particularly successful literary and intermedial transpositions will be presented at the Slavic Evening on 24 May 2023 at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana and at the main event of the European Researchers’ Night on 29 September 2023. The participants of the workshop will also be awarded the Slavic Reading Badge.
The material for the workshop was from the e-anthology Humans to Animals and Animals to Humans in Contemporary Slavic Poetry, published in 2022 as part of the European Researchers’ Night – Humanities Rock! project.
Coordinators: Špela Sevšek Šramel, PhD, Namita Subiotto, PhD, Department of Slavistics, Faculty of Arts
