Month: September 2024

Fieldwork in the salterns of Nin, Pag and Ston in Croatia

In collaboration between the research programme “Heritage on the margins: new perspectives on heritage and identity within and beyond the national” (ARIS, P5-0408 (A)) and the research project “Grain of salt, crystallising cohabitation. Salt making as experiential environmental wisdom” (ARIS, J6-50196), the researcher Primož Pipan – Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences…
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27. 09. 2024 0

Conference VANDA – Vienna Anthropology Days

VANDA – Vienna Anthropology Days is a yearly conference, organized by the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna. The conference happened between September 23 and September 25 and hosted thirty-four panels (four of them as Young Scholars’ Forum) and five open sessions. The presentations were very diverse and were coming…
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Summer school Sensory heritages and sensitive memories in the Balkans, Sofia and Plovdiv

In the first week of July 2024, a summer school Sensory Heritage and Sensitive Memories in the Balkans took place in Sofia and Plovdiv. The summer school was organized by the French School in Athens, in collaboration with the University of St. Kliment Ohridski in Sofia and the Paisii Hilendarski University in Plovdiv. The program…
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27. 09. 2024 0

Guest lecturer Essam Elkorghli

Research group Heritage on the margins hosted a guest lecturer Essam Elkorghli on 7th February 2024. He is a PhD student in education studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and prepared a lecture based on his doctoral research on Changes in the historical narrative in Libyan school textbooks. You can listen to the audio…
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11. 09. 2024 0

Selective heritage and the politicity of Libya’s history textbooks

Interested to learn more? You can listen to Essam’s lecture on the following link: https://dediscina.zrc-sazu.si/en/2024/09/guest-lecturer-essam-elkorghli Outside of The Libyan Center for Archives & Historical Studies [1] in Tripoli, a friendly masked worker notified me that the center was closed to patrons due to COVID-19 restrictions and that I should return when the cases drop. I…
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