Month: December 2022

Association of Critical Heritage Studies 6th Biennial Conference in Santiago (Chile)

Between 4 and 7 December 2022, the 6th Biennial Conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS) took place at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago. It was organised by the Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Studies and dedicated to interculturalities and their relationship to heritage with the aim “to gain an…
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Lecture Unexpected landscapes: Contested histories and narratives by artist and researcher Leone Contini

On November 23rd 2022, the program group Heritage on the margins: new perspectives on heritage and identity within and beyond nationalorganized a lecture Unexpected landscapes: Contested histories and narratives by Italian artist and researcher Leone Contini. The lecture was organized as a part of his exhibition in the Match Gallery. Leone Contini, whose work focuses on the intersections of…
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Conference From Desperation to Hope: The Meanings and Effect of Group Singing

The conference From Desperation to Hope: Meanings and Effect of Group Singing was held at the Estonian Literary Museum in Tartu from November 29 to December 1, 2022. Folklorists, ethnomusicologists, and heritage scholars discussed various aspects of the impact of group singing in times of communal crisis. Research ranged from traditional communal singing of different…
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How and what to heritagise in a region “devoid” of heritage? A walking seminar through Veneto

In mid-September, I took part in the first walking seminar as a new member of the Heritage on the Margins programme group, which on this occasion took place at the westernmost edge of the Slovenian presence in present day Italy: in Venetian Slovenia. The aim of the two-day walk was to give the group members…
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22. 12. 2022 0

International scientific meeting dedicated to academician Goran Filipi

Tjaša Jakop (Fran Ramovša Institute of Slovenian Language ZRC SAZU) participated in International scientific conference of Italian Studies in Honor of Academician Goran Filipi (1954 – 2021) in Bale, Croatia (October 21th-22th 2022) with the paper Slovenian-Croatian linguistic contact in the Slovenian Linguistic Atlas, which in last decade also includes the local dialects of Banfi,…
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22. 12. 2022 0

The Heritagisation of Authorial Graffiti and Street Art 

In this paper[1] I aim to show the circumstances and ways in which authorial graffiti can be, or can be constructed as, cultural heritage. I start by analysing how non-political, aesthetic graffiti and street art are treated when they appear in the public space and on buildings protected as cultural heritage in Slovenia and elsewhere.…
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