Author: Špela Ledinek Lozej

Invited Lecture at the University of Primorska Doctoral Seminar

Špela Ledinek Lozej and Nataša Rogelja Caf were key-note speakers at the T4EU BOOTCAMP, organized by Neža Čebron Lipovec from the Critical Heritage LAB at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Primorska. The Critical Heritage LAB, initiated by Vytautas Magnus University, is a collaborative project within some Transform4Europe Alliance partners, such as the Estonian Academy…
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12. 06. 2026 0

Lecture by Saveria Teston

PhD student Saveria Teston, who is preparing her dissertation in Cultural and Environmental Heritage at the University of Bologna under the supervision of Prof. Alessandro Iannucci, presented her research to colleagues at ZRC SAZU during the first week of June. On Tuesday, 5 June, she introduced her work to members of the research programme group…
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12. 06. 2026 0

Award for the Best Doctoral Dissertation

Congratulations to Miha Sušnik on receiving the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana Award for the Best Doctoral Dissertation in Linguistics! His doctoral dissertation, entitled Slovene Plural Forms in -a of Non-Neuter Nouns in the Indo-European Context, was completed under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Metka Furlan.


08. 06. 2026 0

Prof. Dr. Branko Marušič (1938–2026)

A month ago, Prof. Dr. Branko Marušič passed away, the “historian of the western Slovenian borderlands”, whose expertise and generosity made a significant contribution to the establishment of the research group Heritage on the Margins. After completing his undergraduate thesis, he joined the Institute for Ethnic Studies, but soon returned to his native region. He…
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04. 06. 2026 0

Collections, Walks, and Cultural Landscapes: Slovenian–Italian Cross-Border Heritage Initiatives

LEDINEK LOZEJ, Špela, PISK, Marjeta. Collections, walks, and cultural landscapes : Slovenian-Italian cross-border heritage initiatives. Traditiones : zbornik Inštituta za slovensko narodopisje. [Tiskana izd.]. 2021, letn. 50, št. 1, str. 79-105, ilustr. ISSN 0352-0447. https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/traditiones/article/view/10519/9681, DOI: 10.3986/Traditio2021500106. [COBISS.SI-ID 95009539], [SNIP, Scopus do 27. 11. 2025: št. 


02. 06. 2026 0

Proposal to inscribe Alpine Food Heritage in UNESCO’s Register of Good Safeguarding Practices

Špela Ledinek Lozej, a member of the programme group, actively collaborated with the Ministry of Culture of Slovenia in preparing a multinational nomination for the inscription of Alpine food heritage in UNESCO’s Register of Good Safeguarding Practices. The proposal for a community-based programme for safeguarding Alpine heritage – submitted to UNESCO by Switzerland on behalf…
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03. 04. 2026 0

International Winter School on Borders, Memory and Territorial Transformations in the Alpine Region

From 9 to 11 February 2026, the international winter school Euregio Seminar 2026, titled Borders, Memory and Territorial Transformations in the Alpine Region, took place in Trento, Bolzano/Bozen and Bressanone/Brixen. The programme was jointly organised by the University of Trento and the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. Špela Ledinek Lozej also took part in the school.…
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12. 02. 2026 0

The Walk of Peace – From Collecting Weapons to Promoting Peace

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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15. 01. 2026 0

Reading Sessions

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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23. 12. 2025 0

GO(ODBYE) 2025!

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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