To conclude the year, our program group hosted two guest researchers for our monthly reading sessions/meetings. In November, we were joined by Janine Schemmer to discuss the article ‘Silenced Memories and Practices of Un-Silencing: Mobilities in a Dynamic Alpine Border Landscape ‘ (co-authored with Marion Hamm; published in Cultural Analysis 19, 2021). In December, Mirna…
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On Wednesday, 17 December 2025, we organized the closing event of the Episkop project, a year-long ZRC SAZU programme carried out within the framework of the European Capital of Culture GO! 2025. The central part of the event was a discussion with Neda Rusjan Bric and Mattijs Maussen on the legacy of the European Capital…
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On 10 November 2025, the Atrium of ZRC hosted a three-part event titled IZTIRJENO (“OFF THE RAILS”), which brought together a photography exhibition by Ajda Schmidt, the launch of the new online magazine FootNotes under the ZRC Press, and a round table presenting the findings of the research project Route Biographies (ZRC SAZU, 2022–2025). The…
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On 14 and 15 November 2020, a meeting of producers, researchers, institutions, and Alpine communities was held in Grenoble, where participants exchanged experiences and good practices for preserving Alpine food heritage, titled Les rencontres du patrimoine alimentaire alpin: Expériences et bonnes pratiques à travers les Alpes. The thematic round tables highlighted knowledge about plants, pastoral…
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Janine Schemmer, a cultural anthropologist from the University of Vienna and guest of the Heritage on the Margins program within the Development Funding Scheme at ZRC SAZU from 1 to 30 November, delivered a lecture on 12 November 2025 in the Seminar of the Institute of Slovenian Ethnology titled Cruise ships and the urban everyday…
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On Friday, 26 September 2025, Miha Sušnik, a member of the research programme Heritage on the Margins, successfully defended his doctoral dissertation in the field of historical linguistics, titled Slovenian Non-Neuter Nouns with the Plural Ending -a in the Indo-European Context at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana. In his dissertation, he…
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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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Member of the research program group Heritage on the Margins, Nataša Rogelja Caf, participated in the event “Bodies of Evidence” at the MACBA museum in Barcelona, 17. October 2025. At the event, a Palestinian writer and sociologist, Ido Nahari, and a South African photographer and educator, Adam Broomberg, both based in Berlin, talked about the…
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On April 16 Martina Bofulin organized an online event hosted by the CHERN (China in Europe Network) Working Group on Migration and Labour. The event began with a short presentation of the book Chinese Espresso: Contested Race & Convivial Space in Contemporary Italy (Princeton University Press, 2024) by author Grazia Ting Deng, and was followed by a conversation between the author…
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