The conference “Mobile Heritage: Walking and the environment through future and historical perspectives”, in Helsinki, Finland 16 -17. 09. 2024, addressed issues regarding the significance of walking for cultural heritage and conservation concerns. At the conference, there were several thematic clusters such as: Historical and Future Perspectives on Walking Cultural Heritage; Social and political perspectives…
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Colleague of the research group participated at the 8th Symposium of Critical psychology in Istanbul organized by TODAP. With a colleague from the Centre of Social Psychology (Faculty of Social Sciences of the University in Ljubljana) she presented a paper on the psychological aspects of living in contemporary society highlighting the conscious lacuna of the…
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The 17th Parallels between Slovenian and Croatian Ethnology, a biennale conference organised by the Slovene Ethnological Society, the Croatian Ethnological Society, and the Posavje Museum Brežice on 3 and 4 October 2024 in Brežice, were dedicated to the traces of cross-border mobility. Thirty speakers spoke about the traces of past cross-border mobilities, their objecthood and…
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VANDA – Vienna Anthropology Days is a yearly conference, organized by the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna. The conference happened between September 23 and September 25 and hosted thirty-four panels (four of them as Young Scholars’ Forum) and five open sessions. The presentations were very diverse and were coming…
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In the first week of July 2024, a summer school Sensory Heritage and Sensitive Memories in the Balkans took place in Sofia and Plovdiv. The summer school was organized by the French School in Athens, in collaboration with the University of St. Kliment Ohridski in Sofia and the Paisii Hilendarski University in Plovdiv. The program…
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From 11-13 April 2024, a group of researchers from Croatia, Serbia, and Slovenia included in ERIM project organized a conference in Zagreb. The conference was focused on ethnographically based comparative and historical contextualization of keywording and “key” words of the irregularized migration regimes. Program member Nataša Rogelja Caf, together with her colleague Jure Gombač…
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The 19th Congress of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR) took place in Riga from 17 to 21 June. The central theme of Folk Narratives in a Changing World stimulated reflections and presentations of diverse research addressing the central theme from different perspectives. Marjeta Pisk presented her paper Weather proverbs in a changing…
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The 7th biennial conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS) took place in Galway, Ireland, from June 3-6, 2024, under the theme Custodianship. The organisers and invited speakers demonstrated a diverse understanding, approach and presentation of heritage (for example, instead of a keynote speaker, a stand-up performance and a presentation of stop-motion animations…
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52nd congress of the Interntional Ballad Conference took place from May 13 to May 17, 2024. The congress, organized by the Kommission für Volksdichtung was held in the medieval town of Vitré in Upper Brittany, France. The French Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage (Maison des Cultures du Monde-Centre français du Patrimoine Culturel Immatériel), and the…
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From the 31st of August to the 1st of September 2023, the Swiss Association for the Studies of Science, Technology & Society (STS-CH) organized an international conference and invited empirical, methodological, and theoretical contributions from the field of STS fostering exchange between various disciplines. The conference addressed the questions of how diverse knowledge regimes shape…
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