Walking seminars are curated events in which the (selected) participants reflect on a specific pre-prepared research question, and the participants themselves, as well as discussions between them, are a central source of information for formulating answers to the question asked. Such seminars walk in a hybrid space between analysis and fieldwork, interweaving seminar and ethnographic work, whereas the border between them is never quite clearly drawn. Walking seminars are sometimes joined with ethnographic experimental writing where walking (and writing) can also be used as a specific methodological and epistemological intervention that allows for spatial and temporal expansion and the meditative deepening of the ethnographic event through the use of walking and writing (Rogelja Caf, Ledinek Lozej 2023).
More about walking seminars within our research group here.
On 30 and 31 January 2025, as part of the Routes Biographies project (SRA J6 4611), we hiked three thematic trails related to the narrative tradition of Istria, which are…
From 22 to 24 October 2024, the members of the “Heritage on the Margins” programme group hiked through the Vipava Hills, part of the Upper Vipava Valley or sub-Mediterranean Slovenia,…
From 12-15 September 2023 researchers of the Route Biographies project as well as several researchers from the Heritage on the Margins program walked part of the northern section of the…
Between March 30 and April 1, 2023, a three-day international walking seminar was held in Istria, in the valleys of the Dragonja and Rižana rivers, as part of the project…
In mid-September, I took part in the first walking seminar as a new member of the Heritage on the Margins programme group, which on this occasion took place at the…
An autumn landscape filled with falling leaves. The vast hills of Goričko merging seamlessly into Porabje. On the first day of our fourth walking seminar, an exploratory hike through Goričko…
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…
The team of the research programme Heritage on the Margins set off for a walking seminar on 8 and 9 September 2020. We visited Southern Carinthia, an Austrian borderland. The…
In January 2020, within the frame of the »Heritage on the margins. New perspectives on heritage and identity within and beyond national« program group at ZRC SAZU, we undertook the…
