Založba ZRC has published Anja Moric’s substantial monograph Slovenski Nemci: Diaspora, identitete in medskupnostni odnosi (Slovenian Germans: Diaspora, Identities and Intercommunity Relations), edited by Marjeta Pisk. Drawing on the life stories of Slovenian Germans in the diaspora, the author analyses identity processes, the intergenerational transmission of historical experiences, and the role of collective memory and…
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Marjeta Pisk, a member of the research programme group, attended the 13th Symposium of the Study Group on Music and Minorities of the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance (ICTMD), held in Yerevan from 7 to 12 September 2026. The international gathering brought together researchers studying music and dance in minority communities. Discussions…
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LEDINEK LOZEJ, Špela, PISK, Marjeta. Collections, walks, and cultural landscapes : Slovenian-Italian cross-border heritage initiatives. Traditiones : zbornik Inštituta za slovensko narodopisje. [Tiskana izd.]. 2021, letn. 50, št. 1, str. 79-105, ilustr. ISSN 0352-0447. https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/traditiones/article/view/10519/9681, DOI: 10.3986/Traditio2021500106. [COBISS.SI-ID 95009539], [SNIP, Scopus do 27. 11. 2025: št.
We are pleased to announce that the research work of the programme group Heritage on the Margins: New Perspectives on Heritage and Identity Within and Beyond the National is now also expanding into the pedagogical sphere. Together with colleagues from the Institute of Ethnomusicology ZRC SAZU, the Institute of Slovenian Ethnology ZRC SAZU, the Institute…
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Heritage of Multicultural Areas is the title of a special issue of the journal Traditiones, published in December 2025 under the editorship of Anja Moric and Marjeta Pisk. The issue is dedicated to the multilayered and often contested heritage of multicultural areas, and the published studies show how heritage in multicultural areas is established, shaped,…
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The article, which discusses the development of the heritage initiative Walk of Peace and its cross-sectoral embeddedness in the cross-border area between Slovenia and Italy, is an abridged version of an article published in the monograph Border-Straddling Heritages: Containment, Contestation, and Appreciation of Shared Pasts, edited by Ali Mozaffari and David Harvey, as Volume 10…
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The 19th Congress of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR) took place in Riga from 17 to 21 June. The central theme of Folk Narratives in a Changing World stimulated reflections and presentations of diverse research addressing the central theme from different perspectives. Marjeta Pisk presented her paper Weather proverbs in a changing…
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The 7th biennial conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS) took place in Galway, Ireland, from June 3-6, 2024, under the theme Custodianship. The organisers and invited speakers demonstrated a diverse understanding, approach and presentation of heritage (for example, instead of a keynote speaker, a stand-up performance and a presentation of stop-motion animations…
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SIEF – The International Society for Ethnology and Folklore – organised the 16th Biennial Congress under the title Living Uncertainty, which took place at Masaryk University in Brno from 7 to 10 June 2023. The congress venue was chosen deliberately, as it was in the Czech Republic that the predecessor of SIEF, the Commission…
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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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