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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Nataša Rogelja Caf, a member of the program group Heritage on the margins took part in this year’s 67th International Belgrade Book Fair as one of the three invited foreign authors. At the fair, she presented her anthropological travelogue entitled The Thirteenth Month, which was published in Serbian translation in 2023 by Izdavačka Kuća Geopoetika.…
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On October 17th 2024 the book Capire il confine: Gorizia e Nova gorica: Lo sguardo di un’antropologa indaga la frontiera (Understanding the border: Gorizia and Nova Gorica: The view of an anthropologist, a border researcher) was presented at the Bookstore Caffe Maks in Nova Gorica. In the book the author Giustina Selvelli Butkovič examines borders,…
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On November 15, 1874, eleven farmers from Poljubinj joined forces and founded the first dairy cooperative in present-day Slovenia. 150 years after the founding of the Poljubinj Dairy Cooperative, the local community will celebrate with a series of lectures in Poljubinj, Ljubinj and Zatolmin. The opening lecture was held in Tolmin in cooperation with the…
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VANDA – Vienna Anthropology Days is a yearly conference, organized by the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna. The conference happened between September 23 and September 25 and hosted thirty-four panels (four of them as Young Scholars’ Forum) and five open sessions. The presentations were very diverse and were coming…
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In the first week of July 2024, a summer school Sensory Heritage and Sensitive Memories in the Balkans took place in Sofia and Plovdiv. The summer school was organized by the French School in Athens, in collaboration with the University of St. Kliment Ohridski in Sofia and the Paisii Hilendarski University in Plovdiv. The program…
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