Between August 27 and 29, the II Conference of the Central and Eastern European Chapter (CEE Chapter) of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS) took place at the University of Warsaw’s beautiful premises. It was organised by the Faculty of Political Sciences and led by members of the Unesco Chair for Intangible Cultural Heritage,…
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On April 16 Martina Bofulin organized an online event hosted by the CHERN (China in Europe Network) Working Group on Migration and Labour. The event began with a short presentation of the book Chinese Espresso: Contested Race & Convivial Space in Contemporary Italy (Princeton University Press, 2024) by author Grazia Ting Deng, and was followed by a conversation between the author…
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On January 8, members of the new ARIS-funded project »Migrants’ emplacement at the micro-level: Restaurants as the contact zones« held their first meeting to discuss the aim and objectives of the project as well as the preliminary individual topics to be addressed within the project. The project aims to investigate migrants’ social emplacement at the micro-level…
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The team of researchers from ZRC SAZU lead by Martina Bofulin has carried out a month-long research secondment at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) in Suzhou, China. The secondments were part of the PoPMeD-SuSDeV project funded by HE Marie Curie Staff Exchange Program. This collaboration provided a vibrant environment to explore and engage in scientific exchange…
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Fish is not just a fish. It can also be a means of assessing how heritage, as a particular type of imaginary, conveys social, cultural, political, and economic transformations. According to Salazar (2012), imaginaries are “socially transmitted representational assemblages that interact with people’s personal imaginings and are used as meaning-making and world-shaping devices”. In this…
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Given the triple winds of geopolitical tension, authoritarian retrenchment and pandemic management divergences between China and the rest of the world, it has however become more difficult to accurately study and understand how Chinese state-owned and private multinationals manage their relatively new forms of investments in the form of sprawling networks of subsidiaries, acquisitions, joint…
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ZRC SAZU research program Heritage on the Margins together with the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences are organizing the 1st conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS)Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) Chapter. The conference will be held on the 29th and 30th of November 2023 at ZRC SAZU in Ljubljana. See the call and apply
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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The 32nd AEMI Conference was hosted by the Museu das Migrações e das Comunidades (Museum of Migration and Communities) in Fafe, Portugal. The topic of the conference Refuge and Hosting – Paths towards Inclusion brought to the fore discussions on forced migration and displacement that have had a strong impact on migration since the 19thcentury and is imprinted in numerous aspects of…
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Martina Bofulin, a member of program group Heritage on the margins, has given a public lecture on the occasion of becoming an assistant professor at the ZRC SAZU Postgraduate school on the 18 May 2022. Her lecture titled “Strauss at the river Ou: emigration and local development in the eastern China” was presented before the…
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