Serbian Cultural Centre Danilo Kiš

Contact

Srbski kulturni center Danilo Kiš

Parmova ulica 41, SI-1000 Ljubljana

http://www.dkis.si/

info@dkis.si

Serbian Cultural Centre Danilo Kiš was founded in 2009 with the aim to promote cultural and scientific collaboration between Slovenia and Serbia. The Centre is named after Danilo Kiš, Yugoslavian novelist with Jewish origins, on the initiative of the Slovene theatre director Dušan Jovanović. The Centre organises courses of Serbian, conferences, lectures, exhibitions and meetings on culture and anthropology addressed to Serbs living in Slovenia and general public interested in the topics.

Programme and main events

The events organised by the Centre vary and are held throughout the year at different venues in Ljubljana. The first international conference on Danilo Kiš and World Literature and organised by the Centre was held at Visconti Fine Art Gallery in February 22nd 2010 on the occasion of Kiš's birthday.

In the framework of regular events Open Humanities the Centre collaborates with the research institution Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis (ISH). In November 2010 the lecture History and the Writer was held at the Institute, followed by a talk with Radoslav Petković, which was moderated by Svetlana Slapšak. The literature event with public readings and guests Dubravka Ugrešić and Nenad Veličković was organised at the Mini Theatre in Ljubljana in June 2011.

The Centre's website construction was supported by the Serbian Ministry of Culture, the funding of the organisation mainly consists of donations.

See also

• Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis (ISH)
• Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Belgrade
• Embassy of the Republic of Serbia in Slovenia

External links

• Serbian Cultural Centre Danilo Kiš website (in Slovenian and Serbian)
• The Statute of the Serbian Cultural Centre Danilo Kiš
• Danilo Kiš on Wikipedia