Dr. Jure Simoniti: What Remains of Hamlet After Death?
Dr. Jela Krečič: Reasons for Doubting Love

Dr. Jure Simoniti: What Remains of Hamlet After Death?
Hamlet is a play of words, about words and against words. In reinterpreting what is perhaps the world literature’s most interpreted text, we will seek to answer the question that has repeatedly puzzled its interpreters: Why is Hamlet greater than the story that puts him on stage? Why can't the story of a father’s ghost, a murderous uncle and an adulterous mother fill the heart of its hero to the brim? Beyond the manifest surface of a revenge tragedy, a play of appearances and illusions, and the Oedipal "family novel", we recognise a drama of a pre-modern consciousness seeking to construct an inner republic as the last place of immunity before the modern age finally infuses the subject’s core with mere words.

Dr. Jela Krečič: Reasons for Doubting Love
Philosophy, as well as contemporary studies of love, often contain analyses of the reasons for doubting love. Can theory serve the practice of love if love, as Alain Badiou puts it, is understood as an event that constitutes a factor crucial to the formation of a couple? What can we really know about love? Can any kind of certainty be guaranteed in love? Descartes' Meditations, and especially their Lacanian interpretation, open up a productive perspective on these questions, especially when these reflections are read alongside fictional treatments of love: from the tragic Hamlet and Ophelia to a Hollywood comedy of remarriage.

In Slovenian, with no translation.