Conference Migration and Social Transformation in Comparative Perspective after World War II

On Wednesday, May 24, 2023, the Slovenian Migration Institute at ZRC SAZU together with collaborating institutions organized a scientific conference Migration and Social Transformation in Comparative Perspective after World War II in the Xcenter in Nova Gorica.  At the conference organized in the framework of the eponymous project, in addition to the plenary presentation by Aleksej Kalc and contributions that addressed migration, economic development and the border-making,  two papers addressed the issue of heritage and heritage-making. Using the example of modernist architecture in coastal cities, Neža Čebron Lipovec thematized the “extruded” history of the post-war period. Špela Ledinek Lozej questioned recent heritage discourse in Nova Gorica, that emphasizes dissonances and borderlessness.