Preliminary Announcement

SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL DOSTOEVSKY SYMPOSIUM IN LJUBLJANA, JULY 22—29 1989

Aleksander Skaza, Chairman of the Organizing Committee

At its meeting on August 13 1986 at Nottingham, the General Assembly of the International Dostoevsky Society agreed that the next Symposium should be held at the Edvard Kardelj University of Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, and that it would be organized by the Faculty of Philosophy of this University. Subseqently the Organizing Committee has been informed by Professor Nadine Natov and by Professor Rudolf Neuhäuser that the next Symposium should be held at the end of July 1989. This was also confirmed by the President of the IDS Michel Cadot in a letter of 27 September 1987. According to the suggestion of the President of the IDS, the Organizing Committee proposes that the Seventh International Symposium should be held in Ljubljana in the week of the 22 to the 29 July 1989.

Ljubljana is the political and cultural centre of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia. It is situated in the most western part of Yugoslavia, south of the Alps and about 100 kilometres to the north of the Adriatic Sea. Ljubljana is a Central European town, which has always been open to the ideas coming form Europe and from other parts of the world, a meeting-place of East and West, yet keeping its own cultural identity.

Directions for reaching Ljubljana will be circulated later, but it can be easily reached by plane, by train or by a car.

Dostoevsky studies have had a long tradition in Slovenia and especially in Ljubljana. In Slovenia Dostoevsky's works have been translated since the end of the 19th century. The Complete Works of Dostoevsky were published in Ljubljana several times. His works were put on the stage since 1921. Slovene scholars researching Dostoevsky's work (Ivan Prijatelj, Bratko Kreft, Dušan Pirjevec — to name only some of them) established a rich tradition of Dostoevsky studies in Slovenia.

If the Programme Committee agrees with "F. M. Dostoevsky in the Twentieth Century" as the main topic of the Seventh Symposium, this topic could be dealt with on a broad scale and in an interesting manner also from the Slovene and Yugoslav point of view.

Any preliminary enquiries should be addressed to Professors Rudolf Neuhäuser, Institute of Slavic Studies, University of Klagenfurt, A-9010 Klagenfurt, Austria, and Aleksander Skaza, University of Ljubljana, Oddelek za slovanské jezike in književnosti, Aškerčeva 12, YU-61000 Ljubljana, Yugoslavia.