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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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04. 06. 2026 0

New Doctoral Programme Module on Heritage

We are pleased to announce that the research work of the programme group Heritage on the Margins: New Perspectives on Heritage and Identity Within and Beyond the National is now…

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08. 05. 2026 0

Solar salterns – salt-making areas and natural habitats

Geographical Bulletin has published a scientfic paper entitled »Solar salterns – salt-making areas and natural habitats«. The author is Primož Pipan member of the program group Heritage on the margins:…

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17. 04. 2026 0

Walking seminars in salterns in 2024 and 2025

Walking seminars in the research project “A Grain of Salt, Crystallizing Coexistence: Salt Making as Experiential Environmental Wisdom” (ARIS: J6-50196) in 2024 and 2025. Sečovlje salterns, Strunjan salterns, Slovenia, 2024…

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10. 04. 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…

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03. 04. 2026 0

Event: Salterns Cuisine 2025

Sečovlje Salterns, Strunjan Salterns, Portorož; Slovenia, May 21–October 8, 2025 Piran’s salt-making tradition is an example of centuries of careful and sensitive human interaction with the environment. The delicate balance…

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31. 03. 2026 0

Interdisciplinary Symposium HORIZONS OF SALT-WORKING

The research project “Grain of Salt, Crystallising Cohabitation: Salt-making as Experiential Environmental Wisdom” approaches traditional salt-working – the craft of producing sea salt – as embodied practical wisdom. Salt-working in…

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