Špela Ledinek Lozej participated in the IPSA (International Politicasl Science Assosiation) Research Committees Colloquium 2026, held from 23 to 26 June 2026 at Eurac Research in Bolzano/Bozen, Italy. The international conference, entitled Minorities Under Siege? Plural Societies Facing Plural Challenges, was organised by the IPSA Research Committee 14 (Politics and Ethnicity) in cooperation with Qeen’s…
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Between 17 and 20 June 2026, the international conference CITIES UNDER STRAIN: Rethinking the Ungovernable took place at the IUAV University in Venice as part of the annual conference of the European Urban Research Association (EURA). The conference addressed the challenges of urban governance in a time of climate, social, economic and geopolitical change, and…
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From 13 to 16 June, the Department of Folkloristics at the University of Iceland, the Icelandic Association of Ethnology and Folklore, and the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies hosted the hybrid conference of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research. Taking its cue from the conference title, the event focused on the many roles,…
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From 10 to 12 June 2026, Charles University in Prague hosted the international student conference Choosing the Past: The Manifestation of History in a Changing Public Sphere. The aim of the conference was to reflect on how various actors shaping the public sphere select, represent and ideologically transform the past and history. Students whose research…
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Between August 27 and 29, the II Conference of the Central and Eastern European Chapter (CEE Chapter) of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS) took place at the University of Warsaw’s beautiful premises. It was organised by the Faculty of Political Sciences and led by members of the Unesco Chair for Intangible Cultural Heritage,…
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The AlpTextyles Final Event in Lyon on October 21, 2025, titled Following the Thread: Perspectives on Circularity, Heritage and Tourism in Alpine Textiles, marked the culmination of a three-year effort dedicated to safeguarding and revitalising the textile heritage of the Alpine region across six countries. Organised within the Interreg Alpine Space Programme and realised under…
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The conference in Marseille, dedicated primarily to the material culture of the Balkans, also featured a strong focus on heritage-related themes. One of the highlights was the panel Museums in the Balkans since the 1990s: The Invisible, the Silent and the Loss, where researchers discussed museum representations of violent conflicts that, by overlooking or only…
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Interdisciplinary Workshop for PhD Students and Early Career Researchers In what ways do contemporary and past political projects mobilize emotions and affect? How do emotions become part of cultural policy and anchors for diverse social identifications? What do analyses of emotionality from a historical perspective tell us about the social constuction of emotions, and how…
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On Thursday, 26 June 2025, Špela Ledinek Lozej, together with the author Miha Peče and Saša Roškar, took part in a discussion about the film In Laz. The ethnographic film shows life on the Laz mountain pasture during the 2013 grazing season. The event was part of the conference Fragile Environments in a Digital Age:…
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Between June 10 and 13, 2025, the Institute of Ethnomusicology organised an international conference entitled Ours, Yours, Theirs, No One’s? The Heritage of Multicultural Areas. The conference aimed to shed light on the role and understanding of heritage and heritagisation processes in border areas, where different cultures and languages have traditionally come into contact, and…
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