Two-day symposium held in Maastricht, Netherlands from 20-21 March 2025 explored material developments and new paradigms in the creation, preservation, and conservation in arts and heritage. Regenerate! was organized by the Jan van Eyck Academie and Maastricht University in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Maastricht Centre for Arts and Culture, Conservation and Heritage (MACCH)…
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Symposium on the 110th birthday of Anton Vratuša, organised by the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in cooperation with the Dr. Šiftar Foundation, took place from 19 to 20 February 2025 in Ljubljana and Murska Sobota. On the first day, important speakers and lecturers gathered in the SAZU hall: from the first President of…
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The Second Conference of the Central and Eastern Europe Chapter of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies (CEE ACHS) will take place from 27 to 29 August 2025 at the University of Warsaw. Titled “Heritage voices in and of Central and Eastern Europe: situated perspectives and their global implications,” the conference aims to foreground regional perspectives and explore…
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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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