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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On Monday 10 February 2025, UCL’s Institute of Advanced Studies hosted an event to launch the exhibition “Walking, Seeing, Hearing Infrastructure”. The exhibition was introduced by short lectures by two members of the Heritage on the Margins research program, Nataša Rogelja Caf (project leader of the project “Biographies of Istrian Routes: Walking and Writing as…
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On 28 February 2025, the Association for Tourism and Culture Šavrinka (Društvo za turizem in kulturo Šavrinka) held an evening dedicated to the Šavrinkas. The event was organised at the Bržan Homestead in Smokvica. Špela Ledinek Lozej and Nataša Rogelja Caf presented their research on women traders called Šavrinkas and opened an ethnographic exhibition depicting…
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On January 8, members of the new ARIS-funded project »Migrants’ emplacement at the micro-level: Restaurants as the contact zones« held their first meeting to discuss the aim and objectives of the project as well as the preliminary individual topics to be addressed within the project. The project aims to investigate migrants’ social emplacement at the micro-level…
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On Wednesday, 8 January, you are invited to the launch event of the Episkop project, at the Bookstore Café Maks in Nova Gorica. Episkop is a program of ZRC SAZU that within a framework of GO! 2025 sheds light on the multiple pasts, diverse presents, and possible futures of the Goriška/Gorizia region. At the launch,…
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On 13 November 2024, the presentation of Anka Novak’s monograph Planšarstvo v Bohinju: Vse svoje življenje sem pustil v siru« [Mountain Farming in Bohinj: “I left all my life in cheese”] took place at the Bookstore Caffe Maks. The monograph is the result of years of research by Anka Novak, the retired curator of the…
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