The conference “Mobile Heritage: Walking and the environment through future and historical perspectives”, in Helsinki, Finland 16 -17. 09. 2024, addressed issues regarding the significance of walking for cultural heritage and conservation concerns. At the conference, there were several thematic clusters such as: Historical and Future Perspectives on Walking Cultural Heritage; Social and political perspectives…
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Nataša Rogelja Caf, a member of the program group Heritage on the margins took part in this year’s 67th International Belgrade Book Fair as one of the three invited foreign authors. At the fair, she presented her anthropological travelogue entitled The Thirteenth Month, which was published in Serbian translation in 2023 by Izdavačka Kuća Geopoetika.…
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From 7-9 May 2024 researchers of the Route Biographies project as well as several researchers from the Heritage on the Margins program walked/drove along selected sections of Drugi tir construction sites, we visited Risiera di San Sabba and the old port in Trieste and concluded our walk in Koper where we walking through the city…
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From 11-13 April 2024, a group of researchers from Croatia, Serbia, and Slovenia included in ERIM project organized a conference in Zagreb. The conference was focused on ethnographically based comparative and historical contextualization of keywording and “key” words of the irregularized migration regimes. Program member Nataša Rogelja Caf, together with her colleague Jure Gombač…
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The following text is an attempt to reflect on the counter-archive[1] as an instrument of resistance and departure from structures of power and authority – in this case, the militarized border regimes of the EU and their epistemological impact on migrant heritage. Although our reflections build on the specific ethnographic work on the Balkan migrant…
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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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From the 31st of August to the 1st of September 2023, the Swiss Association for the Studies of Science, Technology & Society (STS-CH) organized an international conference and invited empirical, methodological, and theoretical contributions from the field of STS fostering exchange between various disciplines. The conference addressed the questions of how diverse knowledge regimes shape…
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From 12-15 September 2023 researchers of the Route Biographies project as well as several researchers from the Heritage on the Margins program walked part of the northern section of the Balkan migrant route through the Istrian peninsula. On this research walk, I often felt that I was walking on old-new paths, crossing old-new borders. Neither…
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Established in 2006, the Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference has become a recognized scientific meeting for social researchers interested in ethnographic inquiry. The 9th Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference took place in Trento, Italy from 7-10 June 2023 and has been organized by the University of Trento. At the conference, Špela Ledinek Lozej and Nataša…
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International seminar On 29 March 2023, an international seminar “Route biographies” was held in the framework of the project “Route biographies: walking and writing as methods for researching border regions” (ARRS, J6-4611). An introduction of the project by project leader Nataša Rogelja Caf was followed by a keynote lecture “Walking seminars – embodied research in…
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