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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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20. 03. 2026 0

Alpine Heritage in Slovenia: Between Authorisation and Imagination – chapter in Springer monograph “Discourses on Mountains of Montenegro and Slovenia”

Springer has published a monograph entitled “Discourse on the Mountains of Montenegro and Slovenia.” The authors of chapter 22 are members of the program group Heritage on the Margins: Špela…

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12. 03. 2026 0

Approaching Salt-working: From Heritage to Experiential Environmental Wisdom

Between March 14 and 19, 2025, the 13th It’s About People conference, organized by Alma Mater Europaea University, was held in Maribor. The theme of the conference was Social and…

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06. 03. 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….

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12. 02. 2026 0

Heritage of Multicultural Areas

Heritage of Multicultural Areas is the title of a special issue of the journal Traditiones, published in December 2025 under the editorship of Anja Moric and Marjeta Pisk. The issue…

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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…

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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…

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19. 12. 2025 0

An October Walking Seminar along the Obsotelje Region

In mid-October, members of the “Heritage on the Margins” research group participated in a hodinar (walking seminar), which this time took place in the border region of Obsotelje. The purpose…

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17. 12. 2025 0