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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To conclude the year, our program group hosted two guest researchers for our monthly reading sessions/meetings. In November, we were joined by Janine Schemmer to discuss the article ‘Silenced Memories and Practices of Un-Silencing: Mobilities in a Dynamic Alpine Border Landscape ‘ (co-authored with Marion Hamm; published in Cultural Analysis 19, 2021). In December, Mirna…
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On Wednesday, 17 December 2025, we organized the closing event of the Episkop project, a year-long ZRC SAZU programme carried out within the framework of the European Capital of Culture GO! 2025. The central part of the event was a discussion with Neda Rusjan Bric and Mattijs Maussen on the legacy of the European Capital…
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On 14 and 15 November 2020, a meeting of producers, researchers, institutions, and Alpine communities was held in Grenoble, where participants exchanged experiences and good practices for preserving Alpine food heritage, titled Les rencontres du patrimoine alimentaire alpin: Expériences et bonnes pratiques à travers les Alpes. The thematic round tables highlighted knowledge about plants, pastoral…
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Janine Schemmer, a cultural anthropologist from the University of Vienna and guest of the Heritage on the Margins program within the Development Funding Scheme at ZRC SAZU from 1 to 30 November, delivered a lecture on 12 November 2025 in the Seminar of the Institute of Slovenian Ethnology titled Cruise ships and the urban everyday…
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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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