The thematic issue “Heritage on the Margins? Central and Eastern European Perspectives”, published in the scientific journal Traditiones 54/1 and edited by Špela Ledinek Lozej and Nataša Rogelja Caf, reflects heritage-making processes in the Central and Eastern European context. It links discussions of our multidisciplinary research program on heritage-making processes with case studies presented at…
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On Monday 10 February 2025, UCL’s Institute of Advanced Studies hosted an event to launch the exhibition “Walking, Seeing, Hearing Infrastructure”. The exhibition was introduced by short lectures by two members of the Heritage on the Margins research program, Nataša Rogelja Caf (project leader of the project “Biographies of Istrian Routes: Walking and Writing as…
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Two-day symposium held in Maastricht, Netherlands from 20-21 March 2025 explored material developments and new paradigms in the creation, preservation, and conservation in arts and heritage. Regenerate! was organized by the Jan van Eyck Academie and Maastricht University in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Maastricht Centre for Arts and Culture, Conservation and Heritage (MACCH)…
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On 28 February 2025, the Association for Tourism and Culture Šavrinka (Društvo za turizem in kulturo Šavrinka) held an evening dedicated to the Šavrinkas. The event was organised at the Bržan Homestead in Smokvica. Špela Ledinek Lozej and Nataša Rogelja Caf presented their research on women traders called Šavrinkas and opened an ethnographic exhibition depicting…
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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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