It is no coincidence that one of the key elements of the 1960's was the idea of the international presentation of the findings of the Slovene humanities, since in a conceptual sense that decade was marked as the most creative period in the 20th century for Slovene-oriented linguistics and literary studies. Just as the linguistics of that time was marked by an ambition to develop independent of other disciplines, relying on language reality, literary studies hoped to base itself wholly on the creative reality of literary texts. The form taken by the Seminar of Slovene Language, Literature and Culture (SSLLC) depended on two or three ground-breaking approaches: firstly interdisciplinarity, with Slovene Studies reaching outside its academic framework, drawing in every field of the humanities; secondly internationality, stepping outside national boundaries and thus facilitating international scholarly dialogue; while the third basic quality is also connected with the second: the SSLLC allows us in a sense to adopt a stance towards ourselves on the basis of our direct experience of living in this environment and - through learning the language - to come into direct contact with our life and culture.
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