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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Food and foodways are, as found out by many authors (see, for example, Brulotte and Di Giovine 2014; Ledinek Lozej and Šrimpf Vendramin 2020), often affording to heritagization due to identifying and connecting role of food and dishes in communities and their affecting potential. Therefore, I have dedicated my secondment at the University Ramon Llull…
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