The team of the research programme Heritage on the Margins set off for a walking seminar on 8 and 9 September 2020. We visited Southern Carinthia, an Austrian borderland. The peculiarity and fatality of its geographical location was presented to us by Zdravko Haderlap, a well-known local and a versatile cultural worker. He is constantly…
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The twentieth century was a blossoming century for heritage organisations, labelling and designating “heritage,” cataloguing and categorising on lists and registers. The erection of monuments was also included in this widespread interest in the past within official heritage discourse. Those in the form of statues and monuments are an extremely important visual medium, which has…
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It would seem that language contact always induces change. History does not provide instances of speech communities which adjoined one another, still less which intermingled, and where the languages of each community remained unchanged. Hickey 2010: 7 The Tersko dialect, the westernmost dialect of Slovene, belongs to the Primorska/Littoral dialectal group. It is spoken in…
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Agricultural terraces are among the most recognisable of man-made landscape elements, which mankind has built-up gradually in adapting to the natural conditions and improving the chances of survival. Terracing has facilitated cultivation, enabled intensification, reduced water and wind erosion, increased and retained soil moisture, and gained land at the same time. Terraced landscapes have been…
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Between 26th and 30th August 2020, the 5th Biennial Conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS) took place on a virtual conference platform instead of at the University College London. The conference’s theme – futures (inspired also by the project Heritage Futures) – aimed to engage seriously and critically with the often stated…
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At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, another Earth-shattering event took place in 2020 – global unrest against racism under the “Black Lives Matter” (BLM) banner that erupted over the killing of George Floyd in the USA. This unrest was, among other reactions, characterized by extensive media coverage of statues being removed around the world…
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When, one September evening in 1994, we met Mrs. Tonina Vidali in Škofije, a woman who had travelled to central Istria for eggs in the period between the world wars, we recorded our first interview on the topic of migrant women workers in Istria almost twenty years ago, and we were given a copy of…
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On 13th September 2020, Branko Marušič, Nevenka Troha, Jernej Šček, Luka Lisjak Gabrijelčič and Kaja Širok discussed the responsibility of historiography and historians at the Mesto knjige [City of Books] festival organized by the Društvo humanistov Goriške [Humanist Association of Goriška]. Branko Marušič together with Nevenka Troha was a member of the Slovene-Italian commission for…
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Založba ZRC has published the book titled Zgodbe iz konzerve. Zgodovine predelave in konzerviranja rib na severovzhodnem Jadranu [Tin Can Stories. Histories of Processing and Conservation of Fish in the Northeastern Adriatic]. The publication, fresh in form and content, albeit soaked with the smell of fish, is a result of multiple international and national-level projects and programmes, among…
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Janoš Ježovnik is the recipient of Slovene Research Institute‘s Award, which he received for his doctoral thesis Internal Phonological and Accentual Differentiation of the Tersko Dialect of Slovene. The award for the best master’s thesis was awarded to Nastja Slavec, since Fall this year employed as a junior researcher at the Institute of Anthropological and…
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