International Conference “Religion, Cultural Heritage, and Social Change in Central-Eastern Europe”

Organised by Charles University in Prague, the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences and supported by the SIEF Working Group on Cultural Heritage and Property, the conference “Religion, Cultural Heritage and Social Change in Central and Eastern Europe” took place in Warsaw on 4–5 July 2022.

In addition to the keynote lectures by Cristina Clopot on the heritage of religion in Romania and Ewa Klekot on the trends of museification of Christian art in Poland, diverse examples of processes of transformation of religious heritage, changing religious and spiritual practices, both Christian and pagan, and other contemporary phenomena related to broadly understood religious or spiritual contents were presented.

Špela Ledinek Lozej, Head of the Programme Group “Heritage on the Margins”, presented the paper “Reflections on the ‘Caminoization’ in Slovenia”, co-authored with Nataša Rogelja Caf, while Marjeta Pisk focused on the rise of nativity scenes setting up in Slovenia as a form of heritagisation and production of locality.