Last fall officials at Mammoth Cave National Park forged a working relationship with a park in China that has karst formations similar to those found in Mammoth Cave. Now the U.S. park has looked across the Atlantic Ocean to develop a similar agreement with officials in Slovenia who oversee karst landscapes in that country.
During ceremonies at Mammoth Cave earlier this month officials from the national park, Western Kentucky University, and the Karst Research Institute of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts established a cooperative arrangement to share scientific research.
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The Perception of Place in the Works of Ivan Cankar
Luka Zibelnik, Lecturer
Luka Zibelnik, a visiting lecturer from the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), will give a scholarly presentation on American and Slovenia perceptions of place and analyze representations of place in the work of one of Slovenia’s most recognized writers, Ivan Cankar.
Thursday, March 4th at 4:00pm
GAC 375
Refreshments will be provided.
Sponsored by the Academic Film Series, English Department and Nazareth Scholars.
Carole Ryavec, Ph.D., is director of
development for PCI-Media Impact in
NYC. She earned her Ph.D. in political
history, with a specialization in Japanese
medieval legal history, at Columbia
University. Thereafter, she took the
opportunity to work in the newly thriving
Japanese economy, working in banking
and finance for nearly twenty years,mainly
in Tokyo. She holds a certificate in
screenwriting from NYU, and is an
award-winning script writer, as well as
professional script reader. Right now she
is working on a movie from Slovenian
artist Bogdan Grom.
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The Edison Materials Technology Centre (EMTEC) is celebrating after being awarded the project by the US Department of Energy (DOE). EMTEC will conduct the project in collaboration with Clustered Systems, Menlo Park, CA, Emerson/Cooligy, Mountain View, CA, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, among others.
As the world becomes increasingly IT dependent, the amount of energy consumed by data centres rises too. A report authored by researchers at the US Government's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 2007, for example, found that energy usage in data centres doubled between 2000 and 2006, and is poised to double again by 2011. Indeed, electricity consumed in data centre and telecom systems is already estimated to account for a staggering 3% percent of total electricity consumption in the US.
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Paul N. Steinfeld was born on
Avgust 26th, 1954 at Chichago,
Illinois. He graduated from
Michigan State University in
1976. He studied at College of
Business.
Not everyone can be an honorary
consul. Why do you think that being the
honorary consul of Slovenia in Atlanta is
important?
Atlanta is an international city and
a gateway to the United States with the
world’s busiest airport, and is the capital of
Georgia. It is the home of Coca-Cola, Delta
Airlines, UPS, CNN, the Georgia Institute
of Technology, Emory University, and the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
It also is the location of an affiliate office
of the United Nations Institute for Training
and Research (UNITAR) and there is an EU
Center for Advance Studies. Atlanta also has
60 consular offices covering the southeastern
United States. 15 career consuls General and
45 honorary consuls. I feel it is important for
Slovenia to have a presence here and I am
proud to represent the country.
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Slavoj Zizek Lecture
Charismatic philosopher and professor Slavoj Zizek will visit Loyola University New Orleans to present a lecture, "Uses and Misuses of Violence," on Tuesday, Nov. 17 at 7:30 p.m. in Nunemaker Auditorium, located in Monroe Hall.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Born in 1949 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Zizek was heavily influenced by Karl Marx, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling and Jacques Lacan. In many of his presentations today, Zizek uses the psychoanalytic theories of Lacan to explain popular culture and popular culture to explain the theories of Lacan.
In his home country of Slovenia, Zizek is viewed as a revolutionary. He was politically active in during the 1980s and a candidate for the presidency of the Republic of Slovenia in 1990.
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