Špela Ledinek Lozej participated in the IPSA (International Politicasl Science Assosiation) Research Committees Colloquium 2026, held from 23 to 26 June 2026 at Eurac Research in Bolzano/Bozen, Italy. The international conference, entitled Minorities Under Siege? Plural Societies Facing Plural Challenges, was organised by the IPSA Research Committee 14 (Politics and Ethnicity) in cooperation with Qeen’s…
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Between 17 and 20 June 2026, the international conference CITIES UNDER STRAIN: Rethinking the Ungovernable took place at the IUAV University in Venice as part of the annual conference of the European Urban Research Association (EURA). The conference addressed the challenges of urban governance in a time of climate, social, economic and geopolitical change, and…
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From 13 to 16 June, the Department of Folkloristics at the University of Iceland, the Icelandic Association of Ethnology and Folklore, and the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies hosted the hybrid conference of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research. Taking its cue from the conference title, the event focused on the many roles,…
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In the informational broadcast Jezikanje on Radio Val 202, linguist Dr. Tjaša Jakop from the Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovenian Language ZRC SAZU explained some interesting facts about the typical Slovene grammatical category: the dual. Today, among the official languages of the European Union, Slovene is the only one that preserves the dual in…
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From 10 to 12 June 2026, Charles University in Prague hosted the international student conference Choosing the Past: The Manifestation of History in a Changing Public Sphere. The aim of the conference was to reflect on how various actors shaping the public sphere select, represent and ideologically transform the past and history. Students whose research…
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On Tuesday, June 2, 2026, Dr. Tjaša Jakop (Institute of Slovenian Language ZRC SAZU) and Dr. Agata Šega (University of Ljubljana) delivered an invited joint lecture titled “Taboo Expressions in Slovene”. The event took place at 7:15 p.m. at the premises of the Society of University Teachers (Društvo sveučilišnih nastavnika) at Frankopanska 5a in Zagreb.…
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Špela Ledinek Lozej and Nataša Rogelja Caf were key-note speakers at the T4EU BOOTCAMP, organized by Neža Čebron Lipovec from the Critical Heritage LAB at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Primorska. The Critical Heritage LAB, initiated by Vytautas Magnus University, is a collaborative project within some Transform4Europe Alliance partners, such as the Estonian Academy…
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PhD student Saveria Teston, who is preparing her dissertation in Cultural and Environmental Heritage at the University of Bologna under the supervision of Prof. Alessandro Iannucci, presented her research to colleagues at ZRC SAZU during the first week of June. On Tuesday, 5 June, she introduced her work to members of the research programme group…
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Congratulations to Miha Sušnik on receiving the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana Award for the Best Doctoral Dissertation in Linguistics! His doctoral dissertation, entitled Slovene Plural Forms in -a of Non-Neuter Nouns in the Indo-European Context, was completed under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Metka Furlan.
A month ago, Prof. Dr. Branko Marušič passed away, the “historian of the western Slovenian borderlands”, whose expertise and generosity made a significant contribution to the establishment of the research group Heritage on the Margins. After completing his undergraduate thesis, he joined the Institute for Ethnic Studies, but soon returned to his native region. He…
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