The AlpTextyles Final Event in Lyon on October 21, 2025, titled Following the Thread: Perspectives on Circularity, Heritage and Tourism in Alpine Textiles, marked the culmination of a three-year effort dedicated to safeguarding and revitalising the textile heritage of the Alpine region across six countries. Organised within the Interreg Alpine Space Programme and realised under…
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On Thursday, 26 June 2025, Špela Ledinek Lozej, together with the author Miha Peče and Saša Roškar, took part in a discussion about the film In Laz. The ethnographic film shows life on the Laz mountain pasture during the 2013 grazing season. The event was part of the conference Fragile Environments in a Digital Age:…
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Between June 10 and 13, 2025, the Institute of Ethnomusicology organised an international conference entitled Ours, Yours, Theirs, No One’s? The Heritage of Multicultural Areas. The conference aimed to shed light on the role and understanding of heritage and heritagisation processes in border areas, where different cultures and languages have traditionally come into contact, and…
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On Thursday, 10 April 2025, the programme team co-organised a lecture by Chiara Bortolotto at the Historični seminar (Historical Seminar). In a lecture entitled “Will Heritage Save Us? Intangible Heritage and the Turn to Sustainable Development”, she explored the social world of the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003) and…
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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 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 Second Conference of the Central and Eastern Europe Chapter of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies (CEE ACHS) will take place from 27 to 29 August 2025 at the University of Warsaw. Titled “Heritage voices in and of Central and Eastern Europe: situated perspectives and their global implications,” the conference aims to foreground regional perspectives and explore…
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On Wednesday, 8 January, you are invited to the launch event of the Episkop project, at the Bookstore Café Maks in Nova Gorica. Episkop is a program of ZRC SAZU that within a framework of GO! 2025 sheds light on the multiple pasts, diverse presents, and possible futures of the Goriška/Gorizia region. At the launch,…
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At the end of 2024, two contributions by Špela Ledinek Lozej were published. In the monograph New Horizons for the Alps, edited by Almut Schneider and Elisabeth Tauber, which provides a comprehensive examination of ethnographic research in the Alpine region and addresses socio-cultural transformations driven by climate change, tourism and a variety of economic and…
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On 13 November 2024, the presentation of Anka Novak’s monograph Planšarstvo v Bohinju: Vse svoje življenje sem pustil v siru« [Mountain Farming in Bohinj: “I left all my life in cheese”] took place at the Bookstore Caffe Maks. The monograph is the result of years of research by Anka Novak, the retired curator of the…
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