Prof. Dr. Ivan Šprajc’s recent archaeoastronomical studies haves shown that some important civic and ceremonial buildings in Mesoamerica were largely oriented to the extremes of the Moon's and Venus's range of risings and settings, and the vast majority to the sunrises and sunsets on specific dates. The distribution of these dates and the intervals between them reveal an unequivocal relation to the Mesoamerican calendar, especially the 260-day cycle.

About the speaker:
Prof. Dr. Ivan Šprajc graduated in archaeology and ethnology from the University of Ljubljana (1982), obtained his MA degree in history and ethnohistory at the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia in Mexico (1989), and received his PhD in anthropology from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (1997). Between 1992 and 2000, he worked as a researcher at the Mexican Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia.

Archaeological expeditions led by Prof. Dr. Ivan Šprajc in the heart of the Yucatan Peninsula for decades have led to many breakthrough discoveries, including long-lost cities that were important regional hubs.
 

About the speaker:
Prof. Dr. Ivan Šprajc graduated in archaeology and ethnology from the University of Ljubljana (1982), obtained his MA degree in history and ethnohistory at the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia in Mexico (1989), and received his PhD in anthropology from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (1997). Between 1992 and 2000, he worked as a researcher at the Mexican Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia.
 

The talk with the author, hosted by Bernarda Žarn, will be held in Slovenian without translation.

Zmaga je začetek je prva knjiga Boruta Pahorja, edinega slovenskega politika, ki je zasedal vse tri predsedniške položaje. Pahor je del slovenske politike že več kot trideset let. Od leta 1990, ko je bil prvič izvoljen v Skupščino Republike Slovenije, je bil na volitvah za različne politične položaje izvoljen kar devetkrat zapored. Bil je slovenski in evropski poslanec, predsednik parlamenta in vlade ter predsednik države. V tem smislu je najuspešnejši slovenski politik samostojne in demokratične Republike Slovenije. 

Knjiga nosi podnaslov Priročnik za politične & druge začetnike, kar pomeni, da prinaša neprecenljive nasvete in izkušnje, ki jih je Pahor nabral v svoji bogati politični karieri, obenem pa ima izrazito avtobiografsko noto. Že v uvodnem besedilu v knjigo nam zaupa svojo izkušnjo hospitalizacije leta 2011, ko si je vzel čas za premislek in pretresanje uspehov in padcev, na koncu poglavja pa ugotavlja, da se je ob odhodu iz bolnišnice »počutil notranje prerojenega in zrelega kot še nikoli poprej«.

Knjiga je sestavljena iz posameznih poglavij, ki se ukvarjajo s širšimi tematikami (na primer ljubezen, pogum, osredotočenost, navdih, intuicija, populizem, voditeljstvo), v katerih avtor razgrinja svoje poglede na delovanje v politiki, v drugi polovici pa se poglavja začnejo osredotočati tudi na bolj praktične nasvete glede javne podobe, nastopanja, govorov ipd. V knjigi spregovori o svoji zmagovalni miselnosti, o odločanju za prijaznost, o učenju iz porazov, o neomajni veri v dialog, pomembnosti dobre ekipe in o svoji želji, da na vsak način pride do ljudi, kot je med drugim pokazal v izjemno uspešni predsedniški kampanji. Prav tako nam pove več o prisotnosti in etiki na družbenih omrežjih, vprašanju politične korektnosti in kriznem komuniciranju, pri vsem pa se še enkrat izkaže kot tvorni povezovalec narodne in državljanske skupnosti. 

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This Does Not Belong To You is a novel about memories. A novel piecing together fragments of memories of Aleksandar Hemon’s childhood, a time when everything was still possible, when the future had not yet happened, and Sarajevo seemed to be an eternal city. The narrator looks back at the past with warm melancholy, reviving its material realities, children's games, loves and misunderstandings, friendships, as well as the cruelty born out of a sense of immortality. Literature, says Hemon, saves from oblivion, perhaps even keeping alive people, events, and places through eternalizing them on paper. I could have been a different person, someone who would never hurt a fly. Instead, here we are, Hemon, you and I.

Aleksandar Hemon (born 1964, Sarajevo) is a Bosnian-American writer, essayist, critic, and screenwriter. He graduated from the University of Sarajevo, and earned his master's degree from Northwestern University in 1996. He has lived in the United States since 1992. Hemon is best known for his novels Nowhere Man (2002) and The Lazarus Project (2008) and his scriptwriting as a co-writer of The Matrix Resurrections (2021). An award-winning author, he frequently publishes in The New Yorker and has also written for Esquire, The Paris Review, the Op-Ed page of The New York Times, and the Sarajevo magazine BH Dani. Hemon is currently a professor of creative writing at Princeton University. He is also a musician, distributing his Electronica work under the pseudonym “Cielo Hemon”.

The talk with the author will be hosted by Ervin Hladnik Milharčič.

The event will be held in Bosnian and Serbo-Croatian with translation into Slovenian.

In cooperation with Založba Goga
 

Pogovor bo potekal v bosanščini in srbohrvaščini s prevodom v slovenščino.

Neurologist Prof. Dr. Zvezdan Pirtošek will address the confluence of art and the past, memory, forgetfulness and memory loss.
Memory is the privilege that shapes our perception of the world and gives us a sense of continuity, integrity, the Self. Memorizing and remembering are complex biological processes that involve obtaining, storing and retrieving information in different parts of the brain. 

We would also like to draw your attention to the chamber opera Ko sem še, by Bojana Šaljić Podešva and Saška Rakef addressing the topic of a loved one afflicted with a progressive neurological disorder, dementia, turning into an empty shell.

The event will take place in Slovenian with no translation.

Lucia Cadotsch, voice; Jozef Dumoulin, piano; Phil Dunkin, double bass; Leif Berger, drums

Accomplished Swiss musician and singer-songwriter Lucia Cadotsch is making a return visit to Ljubljana, where she has already presented the projects Schneeweiss + Rosenrot and Speak Low. The critically acclaimed Speak Low toured all major music venues and prestigious international festivals, including the Jazz Festival Ljubljana. With AKI, Cadotsch is navigating new musical terrain and notching up yet another success. The songs blend Cadotsch’s idiosyncratic wordplay and imagery and the pianist’s rich, layered soundscapes. The idea to add a rhythm section was born out of the desire to expand the sonic possibilities of the group and to inject the music with new perspectives. 

 

In 2021, Lucia Cadotsch was awarded the Deutscher Jazzpreis in the category “vokal”. In 2017, she received the ECHO Jazz award for Singer of the Year (for her album Speak Low). 

Astrid-, harp, voice; Tomaž Zupančič, keyboards, electric guitar, bass; Luka Flegar, electric guitar, bass; David Nik Lipovac, drums 

Astrid- / Astrid Ana Kljun is a Slovenian alter pop artist, singer, harpist, dancer, as well as music video director and producer. She came onto the Slovenian music scene in 2019 when she released her debut single Coconut, followed by Sing to Me and Črno pero, all three written in collaboration with Jani Hace and Martin Štibernik. 

Since 2020 he has been collaborating with producer, multi-instrumentalist and regular member of the band MRFY, Tomaž Zupančič, with whom she has recently released the singles Stanovanje, DEVOJKE, Kostarika and Hey, Julie, and the Triptich EP featuring the tracks Seme, Berlin and Kostarika. The last named ranked among the top five of the 326 compositions competing for the Milan Mladenović Award. 

In March 2023, Astrid- debuted at the MENT festival with her backup band and was featured in the Europavox top ten artists list in May. In September, the band played at the Waves Festival in Vienna, as part of a delegation of three Slovenian music groups. 

Astrid Ana Kljun obtained a Master's degree in opera singing from the Ljubljana Academy of Music in 2019 under Prof. Pija Brodnik, and studied harp at the Academy under Prof. Mojca Zlobko Vajgl.

The quartet will play their original material, songs old and new, including tracks on the Triptich EP and the upcoming album 18:48, promising an atmospheric, richly textured and exciting experience. 
 

This year marks the sixth B2B conference, aimed at showcasing good and successful marketing practices from the B2B world and beyond. The conference program is focused on encouraging marketing to take on a more significant role in a company's operations and to link it with business success in the eyes of decision-makers. It is essential to understand what technology and artificial intelligence can offer us, which is also addressed in a part of the program.
 

Damir Imamović, voice, tambur, tar; Ivana Đurić, violin; Ivan Mihajlović, acoustic bass; Nenad Kovačić, percussion

We are pleased to announce that Damir Imamović is returning to Ljubljana, to play at the venue that hosted his unforgettable solo performance, the closing concert of the 2011 Druga Godba Festival. And if we have followed his glittering career from the very start, this was not so outside the borders of the former Yugoslavia. In fact, it was not until his latest two releases that attracted the interest of international audiences. With Singer of Tales Damir not only rose to worldwide prominence as a sevdah performer, but also earned himself a place in the pantheon of European artists working in traditional music. The World and All That It Holds also opens the door to the US market, as the album was released by one of the most prestigious historical labels, Smithsonian Folkways. Be that as it may, there is no reason Damir shouldn’t perform in the intimate setting of CD’s Club, his favourite concert venue in Ljubljana.

Produced by the renowned Joe Boyd and Balkan music expert Andrea Goertler (who has worked with Imamović since 2014), The World and All That It Holds draws from the traditional Bosnian style of sevdah while serving as a companion to Aleksandar Hemon’s new novel of the same name. Imamović worked closely with Hemon, the pair selecting the songs for Hemon’s novel and constructing the narrative of Imamović’s record in tandem. Using original compositions, old Sephardic songs, and reimagined sevdah classics, Imamović channelled the novel’s themes – same-sex love, war and loss, displacement and longing for home – to make an album, at times exuberant and at times mournful, which soundtracks the story of the two protagonists.