Author: Špela Ledinek Lozej

Sow the Future, Harvest Communities: 20th Anniversary of the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage

With the motto “Sow the Future, Harvest Communities” (ital. Seminare futuro, raccogliere comunità) the Archive of Ethnography and Social History (ital. Archivio di Etnografia e Storia Sociale) of the Lombardy Region celebrated the 20th anniversary of the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage on November 9, 2023. The morning session featured…
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14. 11. 2023 0

Mohant, Trnič and Tolminc Cheese: a heritage of alpine cheese-making?

One wild man got drunk so they could tie him up. He asked them to let him go and to tell them what could be made from the milk. He showed them how to make cheese, cottage cheese and butter. Then they let him go. When they let him go, he told them that if…
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04. 08. 2023 0

Photo exhibition of France Stele in Trenta

Until the end of October, the Triglav National Park Information Center Dom Trenta will host a photo exhibition by France Stele about the mountain pastures of the village of Ukve/Ugovizza. The photographs, taken on black and white film, show images of a past life when the inhabitants of Ukve/Ugovizza used to move with their cattle…
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21. 07. 2023 0

Conference Migration and Social Transformation in Comparative Perspective after World War II

On Wednesday, May 24, 2023, the Slovenian Migration Institute at ZRC SAZU together with collaborating institutions organized a scientific conference Migration and Social Transformation in Comparative Perspective after World War II in the Xcenter in Nova Gorica.  At the conference organized in the framework of the eponymous project, in addition to the plenary presentation by…
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05. 06. 2023 0

Photography exhibition by France Stele in Udine

On May 5 2023 at 11 a.m., the opening of France Stele’s photographic exhibition about the Ukve/Ugovizza Alpine pastures will take place in the Friuli Ethnographic Museum (Museo etnografico del Friuli) in Udine. The photographs, recorded on black and white film, show images of a past life when during the summer the inhabitants from the…
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03. 05. 2023 0

Footnotes

Nataša Rogelja Caf and Špela Ledinek Lozej published a book Hodopisi: Zbirka etnografskih esejev z metodološkimi premisleki o hoji in pisanju (Footnotes: Ethnographic Essays with Methodological Reflections on Walking and Writing) at Založba ZRC (ZRC Publishing). Altogether, the book encompasses ten texts, seven of which are anthropological essays, accompanied by two introductory texts and an…
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24. 03. 2023 0

The textile heritage in the Alps

At the end of January (23rd January 2023), the kick-off meeting and the public presentation of the AlpTextyles project, co-funded by the Interreg Alpine Space Program, took place at ZRC SAZU, where we will, among other things, identify and document the textile heritage of the Alps with the aim to develop innovative solutions for locale…
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03. 02. 2023 0

Association of Critical Heritage Studies 6th Biennial Conference in Santiago (Chile)

Between 4 and 7 December 2022, the 6th Biennial Conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS) took place at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago. It was organised by the Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Studies and dedicated to interculturalities and their relationship to heritage with the aim “to gain an…
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29. 12. 2022 0

Photography exhibition by France Stele

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the continuous operation of the Slovenian Cultural Center Planika (Slovensko kulturno središče Planika/Centro culturale Stella Alpina) in the Canale Valley (Slov. Kanalska dolina) in Italy the photographic exhibition about the Ugovizza/Ukve alpine pastures was put on display in the old dairy in Ugovizza (Slov. Ukve). The photographs by France…
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24. 10. 2022 0

Pasts and presents of common property

On October 21, 2022, Špela Ledinek Lozej led a round table in the Xcenter Collective property as an opportunity for the future, as part of the RETHINKABLE Cross-Border Festival of Transformative Economies and Territorail Communities, co-organized by the University of Udine  (Nadia Carestiato and Lucia Piani), the University of Nova Gorica (Nikita Peresin Meden) and…
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22. 10. 2022 0