The Maribor Faculty of Arts has joined forces with the Faculty of Humanities at the Budapest ELTE University, the Polish University of Bielsko-Biala and the American University of Kansas to establish an international publishing house.
The universities decided for the step in order to bring together their publishing experiences, Marko Jesensek, the dean of the Maribor Faculty of Arts, told the press on Monday. He added that the first books are to be published in 2008.
One of the first projects envisaged by the new publisher will be the Zora collection comprised of 51 publications, while the launch of similar collections of the other universities taking part in the project is also planned. Decisions on which expert literature on humanistic and social sciences is to be put to print are to be taken by an international publishing committee.
According to Jesensek, the publications will be published in Slovenian, Hungarian, Polish and English with extracts in other European languages, or in other European languages and with extracts in the above mentioned four languages.
The publishing house is one of the first results of the agreement on cooperation among universities reached by the Slovenian and Hungarian governments at their joint session earlier this year.
Jesensek believes that this cooperation will enable the humanistic and social sciences to expand their knowledge with the help of a good university publishing house and will bring forward the knowledge of national universities involved in the project.
Meanwhile, a group of professors from the Budapest ELTE University visited the Maribor Faculty of Arts today. The group of experts gave lectures and later in the day took part in a round table on the future of the studies of Slovenian and Hungarian languages in literature.
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