Death of Thomas Butler

Sun Jan 26 18:56:31 UTC 2014

There have been incidents on this list that resulted in folks with far less objectionable "truths" leaving the list. 
As a result,  certain political discussions have been off limits.  Moderators, would you please do us a favor and do the same with this particular thread? 

Best, 
Marina Antic 

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From: J P Maher <devilsbit06 at yahoo.com> 
Date: 01/26/2014  1:03 PM  (GMT-05:00) 
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU 
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Death of Thomas Butler 

Truth is inflammatory?

j p maher

From: antje postema <apostema at UCHICAGO.EDU>
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU 
Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2014 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Death of Thomas Butler

Dear Prof. Maher,
I would request that you keep these kind of inflammatory statements off of SEELANGS. Not only does such anecdotal revisionism have no place on a list like this at any time, it most certainly does not when tastelessly appended to obituary information.

Thanks very much.

-antje

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Antje Postema
University of Chicago
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures

On Jan 26, 2014, at 8:10 AM, J P Maher wrote:

Tom malso authored Monumenta Serbo-Croatica (Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications, 1980);

http://www.jstor.org.rwlib.neiu.edu:2048/action/showPublication?journalCode=wilsonq

This link is to Tom Butler's 1993 article "Yugoslavia, Mon Amour", echoing Resnais's film on Hiroshima... Butler was fair to all sides and critical in the best sense. I talked on the phone with him after reading this piece and advised him that he was ill-advised to believe the NY Times spin on  "the destruction of Dubrovnik" in 1991. I went there with a cameraman on 25 March 1992, three months after the "destruction". Totally rebuilt, as wags put it "more beautiful and older than before".  The only demolished building in the Old City was a palazzo across the way from the Orthodox church, belonging to the Croat artist Ivo Grbic. His shingle on the façade of the fire-gutted building in English and Serbian Cyrillic advertise ICONS ~IKONE. Surrounding houses were unscathed. The destruction was by plastique and incendiaries, laid on the spot, not by JNA navy guns. j p maher 

From: Loren Billings <sgnillib at GMAIL.COM>
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU 
Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2014 4:11 PM
Subject: [SEELANGS] Death of Thomas Butler

Martha Forsyth recently posted in the Bulgarian Studies Association list:

BEGIN
I am sorry to have to share the news I received yesterday, that Prof.
Thomas Butler passed away earlier this week, at age 84.

Tom authored "Monumenta Bulgarica: A Bilingual Anthology of Bulgarian
Texts from the 9th to the 19th Centuries", published in 1996 by
University of Michigan as part of their Michigan Slavic Materials
collection. As he states in his Preface: "The operative assumption
throughout this book has been that if we wish to begin to understand a
nation, we must first come to terms with its cultural memory." The
texts begin with St. Constantine-Cyril's "Sermon on the translation fo
the relics of St. Clement of Rome" and continue through the 19th
century National Revival; also included are folklore materials -
songs, folktales, proverbs, riddles, and incantations.

For Bulgarian Studies Association, however, I'm not sure if he was one
of the founding members, but he was certainly one of the early
members, holding the position of Secretary-Treasurer from 1978-1980.
END

Catherine Rudin added (in a message to me), "I'm sure he was a
founding member; he organized the first conference, in 1972 or 73,
which I got to help out at as a very excited sophomore." Indeed, the
subtitle of the proceedings volume specifies the date: "Proceedings of
the First International Conference on Bulgarian Studies, held at the
University of Wisconsin, Madison, May 3-5, 1973"

--Loren Billings

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