From 15 to 18 September 2026, the Institute of Slovenian Ethnology at ZRC SAZU hosted the 25th conference of the Food Research Working Group of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF). The conference was organised in collaboration with the research programmes Ethnological, Anthropological and Folklore Studies Research on Everyday Life and Heritage on…
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On 8 September 2026, the symposium The Prekmurje Scholar Avgust Pavel – Pavel Day 2026 took place in Cankova, Prekmurje. Dr Tjaša Jakop, from the Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovenian Language at ZRC SAZU, participated in the event, delivering a lecture entitled “Pavel’s Phonology as a Valuable Source for Monitoring Dialect Change”. Dr Jakop’s…
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The SacredTravels4Growth Study Visit, organised by the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU and held from 27 June to 1 July 2026, explored pilgrimage and religious tourism from an anthropological perspective. Combining lectures, field visits, guided tours, workshops, and walking seminars in Ljubljana, Brezje, and Šmarna gora, the programme offered participants first-hand engagement with pilgrimage sites, heritage-making…
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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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