Špela Ledinek Lozej

The Second Conference of the Central and Eastern Europe Chapter of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies (CEE ACHS)

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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Špela Ledinek Lozej 05. 02. 2025 0

Episkop

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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Špela Ledinek Lozej 05. 01. 2025 0

Publication of scientific articles

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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Špela Ledinek Lozej 03. 01. 2025 0

Mountain farming in Bohinj

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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Špela Ledinek Lozej 14. 11. 2024 0

Understanding the border

On October 17th 2024 the book Capire il confine: Gorizia e Nova gorica: Lo sguardo di un’antropologa indaga la frontiera (Understanding the border: Gorizia and Nova Gorica: The view of an anthropologist, a border researcher) was presented at the Bookstore Caffe Maks in Nova Gorica. In the book the author Giustina Selvelli Butkovič examines borders,…
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Špela Ledinek Lozej 06. 11. 2024 0

Celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the Poljubinj Dairy Association

On November 15, 1874, eleven farmers from Poljubinj joined forces and founded the first dairy cooperative in present-day Slovenia. 150 years after the founding of the Poljubinj Dairy Cooperative, the local community will celebrate with a series of lectures in Poljubinj, Ljubinj and Zatolmin. The opening lecture was held in Tolmin in cooperation with the…
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Špela Ledinek Lozej 12. 10. 2024 0

17th Parallels between Slovenian and Croatian Ethnology

The 17th Parallels between Slovenian and Croatian Ethnology, a biennale conference organised by the Slovene Ethnological Society, the Croatian Ethnological Society, and the Posavje Museum Brežice on 3 and 4 October 2024 in Brežice, were dedicated to the traces of cross-border mobility. Thirty speakers spoke about the traces of past cross-border mobilities, their objecthood and…
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Špela Ledinek Lozej 05. 10. 2024 0

Project E

The project E is a project that wants Europe. An Europe that already exists and which, at the same time, still needs to be built: an Europe that’s more united, so united that it can go beyond the concept of nation, a more open Europe, so open that it can go beyond the concept of…
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Špela Ledinek Lozej 29. 06. 2024 0

7th Biennial Conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies Custodianship

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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Špela Ledinek Lozej 17. 06. 2024 0

Communal cheesemaking in the Julian Alps

On 11 May 2024, Špela Ledinek Lozej gave a lecture on communal cheesemaking in the Eastern Julian Alps as part of the exhibition Latte – Milk – Milk, dedicated to the communal dairies in the Alps. The event was organised by the Ecomuseum of Gemona (Ecomuseo delle Aque del Gemonese) at the Friulian Ethnographic Museum…
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Špela Ledinek Lozej 13. 05. 2024 0

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