Moderated By: Biljana Ziki /
In 2013, Igor Divjak received his PhD in American Studies at the Faculty of Arts with the thesis Urban Dynamics in contemporary American and Slovenian poetry. He is engaged in literary criticism and translation, and also worked as the editor-in-chief of the portal Vrabec anarchist, where he presented immigrant authors and authors, among other things, and published Slovenian translations of their contributions. He is the vice president of the Slovenian PEN Centre.
Irena Urbic is a cultural facilitator, facilitator of languages and cultures, humanist, activist and co-founder and leader of the Forum Tomizza international border meetings. Since 1985, she has been the initiator and organizer of numerous initiatives, humanitarian actions and cultural events. She likes to devote her energy to projects that bring improvements to living, social and cultural conditions, especially for disadvantaged minorities in multicultural environments.
Biljana Ziki / she is a freelance cultural worker, a PhD in media studies and a graduate philologist. It works at the intersection of radio creation, journalism, cultural production, publishing, research and activism. For more than a decade he has been co-creating the programme control of the year on Radio student and our own on the first programme of Radio Slovenia. As a producer, organizer and moderator of cultural events and projects, she cooperates with the central Slovenian cultural institutions, in particular with the public fund of the Republic of Slovenia for cultural activities. He works editorially at the multilingual publishing activity of KC Danilo Kis and the newspaper Parallele (JSKD). He also writes poetry published in Slovenian and regional anthologies and on online literary portals. As the head of the Cultural Centre, Danilo Kis has been developing a supporting infrastructure for multilingual and multicultural authors for many years and promoting cultural practices that transcend national and linguistic boundaries.
The project is carried out in cooperation with Cankarjev Dom and The Danilo Kis Cultural Centre, a non-governmental institution working in the public interest in the field of culture.
Moderira: Biljana Žikić
Igor Divjak je leta 2013 doktoriral na smeri ameriške študije Filozofske fakultete z nalogo Urbana dinamika v sodobni ameriški in slovenski poeziji. Ukvarja se z literarno kritiko in prevajanjem, deloval je tudi kot odgovorni urednik portala Vrabec anarhist, na katerem je med drugim predstavljal priseljenske avtorje in avtorice ter objavljal slovenske prevode njihovih prispevkov. Je podpredsednik Slovenskega centra PEN.
Irena Urbič je kulturna posrednica, povezovalka jezikov in kultur, humanistka, aktivistka ter soustanoviteljica in vodja mednarodnih obmejnih srečanj Forum Tomizza. Že od leta 1985 pobudnica in organizatorka številnih iniciativ, humanitarnih akcij in kulturnih dogodkov. Svojo energijo rada posveča projektom, ki zlasti depriviligiranim manjšinam v večkulturnih okoljih prinašajo izboljševanje življenjskih, socialnih in kulturnih razmer.
Biljana Žikić je samostojna kulturna delavka, doktorica medijskih študij in diplomirana filologinja. Deluje na presečišču radijskega ustvarjanja, novinarstva, kulturne produkcije, založništva, raziskovanja in aktivizma. Več kot desetletje soustvarja oddaji Kontrola leta na Radiu Študent in Sami naši na Prvem programu Radia Slovenija. Kot producentka, organizatorka in moderatorka kulturnih dogodkov in projektov sodeluje z osrednjimi slovenskimi kulturnimi institucijami, predvsem z Javnim skladom Republike Slovenije za kulturne dejavnosti. Uredniško deluje pri večjezični založniški dejavnosti KC Danilo Kiš in časopisu Paralele (JSKD). Piše tudi poezijo, objavljeno v slovenskih in regionalnih zbornikih ter na spletnih literarnih portalih. Kot vodja Kulturnega centra Danilo Kiš že vrsto let razvija podporno infrastrukturo za večjezične in večkulturne avtorice in avtorje ter spodbuja kulturne prakse, ki presegajo nacionalne in jezikovne meje.
Projekt poteka v sodelovanju Cankarjevega doma in Kulturnega centra Danilo Kiš, nevladnega zavoda, ki deluje v javnem interesu na področju kulture.