Since the founding of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS) in the early 2010s, various local or thematic networks have emerged around the world to promote new ways of addressing what is understood as heritage. Central Europe has been somewhat neglected in these discussions. The conference Critical Heritage Studies: Central European Perspectives (6-7 October…
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On October 3, 2022, Špela Ledinek Lozej participated in the Round Table on Alpine Cheese at the 12th Annual Conference of the European Farmhouse and Artisan Cheese and Dairy Producers European Network in Bohinjska Bistrica (Slovenia), dedicated to the past and future of Alpine cheese production. Together with Maurizio Tondolo from the Ecomuseum in Gumin/Gemona…
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To commemorate the 90th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Tone Cevec, a photography exhibition about the Ukve/Ugovizza alpine pastures will be held in the Atrium of ZRC SAZU between 31 May and 16 June 2022. In 1979, Dr. Tone Cevc (1932–2007), ethnologist, and researcher at the Institute of Slovene Ethnology of the Slovenian Academy…
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The latest issue of Etnolog (2021) brings to the fore current research methods and challenges in ethnology and anthropology. While Dan Podjed, Rajko Muršič, and Mateja Habinc reflected on ethnography during the Covid 19 pandemic, Nataša Rogelja Caf and Špela Ledinek Lozej re-considered the connection between research and walking. In the article titled I walk,…
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The first issue of the 50th volume of Traditiones, the journal of the Institute of Slovenian Ethnology and Institute of Ethnomusicology ZRC SAZU, is dedicated to heritage perspectives and practices. The content of the issue follows the topics of the conference Borders and Boundaries of/in Heritage scheduled for April 2020 and conceived by the Institute…
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On October 6, 2021, at the future book centre in Nova Gorica, a conversation with Branko Marušič, the author of the monograph Izza spominov: O dogodkih in ljudeh (Behind the Memories: About Events and People) took place. In the book, personal memories and public events intertwine to reveal the rich layers of the past of…
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On Monday, 28 June 2021, the Historical Association of Slovenia and the Heritage on the Margins programme group organised a roundtable on the issues arising from the different interpretations of heritage in legislation/legislative acts, state administration, public discourse, business and various professional discourses. In the introduction, Špela Ledinek Lozej outlined the expansion and consolidation of…
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Third walking seminar of the research group “Heritage on the Margins” was realized in Trieste, a city that the New York Times compared to a modernist novel – complex, layered and ambiguous. On the 4th June 2021, we entered the town through the Karst hinterland – stopping for a coffee in Opčine, visiting villages of…
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Walking seems so natural, commonplace, and such a widespread human activity that it gets little attention.[1] We walk to get somewhere. And yet, between here and there, thoughts, emotions and physical feelings (may) lead to their own kind of renewed notions of the world, a re-understanding that comes close, even if it goes far or…
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The last, third number of the 49th volume of Traditiones, the journal of the Institute of Slovenian Ethnology and Ethnography and Institute of Ethnomusicology, appeared on the eve of the year 2021. The year in which Slovenia will be the holder of the title of European region of Gastronomy is being introduced with the thematic…
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