On Wednesday, May 24, 2023, the Slovenian Migration Institute at ZRC SAZU together with collaborating institutions organized a scientific conference Migration and Social Transformation in Comparative Perspective after World War II in the Xcenter in Nova Gorica. At the conference organized in the framework of the eponymous project, in addition to the plenary presentation by…
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ZRC SAZU research program Heritage on the Margins together with the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences are organizing the 1st conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS)Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) Chapter. The conference will be held on the 29th and 30th of November 2023 at ZRC SAZU in Ljubljana. See the call and apply
Between 4 and 7 December 2022, the 6th Biennial Conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS) took place at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago. It was organised by the Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Studies and dedicated to interculturalities and their relationship to heritage with the aim “to gain an…
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The conference From Desperation to Hope: Meanings and Effect of Group Singing was held at the Estonian Literary Museum in Tartu from November 29 to December 1, 2022. Folklorists, ethnomusicologists, and heritage scholars discussed various aspects of the impact of group singing in times of communal crisis. Research ranged from traditional communal singing of different…
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Tjaša Jakop (Fran Ramovša Institute of Slovenian Language ZRC SAZU) participated in International scientific conference of Italian Studies in Honor of Academician Goran Filipi (1954 – 2021) in Bale, Croatia (October 21th-22th 2022) with the paper Slovenian-Croatian linguistic contact in the Slovenian Linguistic Atlas, which in last decade also includes the local dialects of Banfi,…
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The 32nd AEMI Conference was hosted by the Museu das Migrações e das Comunidades (Museum of Migration and Communities) in Fafe, Portugal. The topic of the conference Refuge and Hosting – Paths towards Inclusion brought to the fore discussions on forced migration and displacement that have had a strong impact on migration since the 19thcentury and is imprinted in numerous aspects of…
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Tjaša Jakop participated in the 4th Slovene Dialectology Conference (Sln. 4. Slovenski dialektološki posvet), which was held as part of Ramovš Week (Sln. Ramovšev teden) on Thursday and Friday, September 22-23, 2022, in the Prešeren Hall of SAZU (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts) at Novi trg 4 in Ljubljana. The conference presented the work…
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Since the founding of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS) in the early 2010s, various local or thematic networks have emerged around the world to promote new ways of addressing what is understood as heritage. Central Europe has been somewhat neglected in these discussions. The conference Critical Heritage Studies: Central European Perspectives (6-7 October…
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On October 3, 2022, Špela Ledinek Lozej participated in the Round Table on Alpine Cheese at the 12th Annual Conference of the European Farmhouse and Artisan Cheese and Dairy Producers European Network in Bohinjska Bistrica (Slovenia), dedicated to the past and future of Alpine cheese production. Together with Maurizio Tondolo from the Ecomuseum in Gumin/Gemona…
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Organised by Charles University in Prague, the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences and supported by the SIEF Working Group on Cultural Heritage and Property, the conference “Religion, Cultural Heritage and Social Change in Central and Eastern Europe” took place in Warsaw on 4–5 July 2022. In addition to the…
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