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The fifth Winter School of the International Seminar on the Macedonian Language, Literature and Culture at UCM, Skopje, begins on 27 January 2024 – with the participation of numerous Macedonists from 18 countries around the world: Australia, Albania, Bulgaria, Italy, Mongolia, the People's Republic of China, Poland, Romania, the Russian Federation, the USA, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine, Hungary, Croatia and the Czech Republic, today marks the start of the Fifth Winter School of the International Seminar on the Macedonian Language, Literature and Culture (ISMLLC) at the University 'St. Cyril and Methodius' in Skopje (UCM), which will run until 1 February.
The Fifth Winter School will mark the eightieth anniversary of the Macedonian alphabet and orthography, and will also honour the greats of Macedonian literature and culture – Grigor Prlichev (on the occasion of the 195th anniversary of his birth), Konstantin Miladinov (195 years since his birth), Ante Popovski (70 years since his first poetry collection), Tashko Georgievski and Zhivko Tsingo (90 years since their birth).
The seminar participants will work in two sections: Macedonian language (at three levels: beginner, intermediate and advanced) and Macedonian literature and culture (with a translation workshop on the poetry of Ante Popovski, from which an anthology entitled "Ante Popovski – on an Ocean of Languages" will be published).
At the opening, the President of North Macedonia, Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova, who is the patron of the Seminar's schools, the Rector of UGM, Prof. Dr Biljana Angelova, and the Director of the MSMJLK at UGM, Prof. Dr Kristina Nikolovska, will speak.
The Rector of UKIМ, on the occasion of the School's holding, stated that the great interest in studying the Macedonian language is of exceptional importance, thereby nurturing its existence and affirming it on a global scale.
The International Seminar at UCM has so far held 57 summer schools and four winter schools, in which over 4,300 people from more than 60 countries worldwide, eminent Macedonists, philologists, Slavists, Balkanologists, professors, scientific researchers, students of Macedonian language, literature and culture at foreign universities, translators and promoters of Macedonistics.
The International Seminar at UKIM has developed activities at 11 lektorates in Macedonistics at foreign universities in nine countries, where there has been significant interest from students.