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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On June 20, 2024, we took a guided tour of the heritage of graffiti and street art as part of the Heritage on the Margins programme. Gregor Bulc from the Urbana Vrana Institute led us along the graffiti and street art in the centre of Ljubljana. The thematic focus of the city walk was on…
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The project E is a project that wants Europe. An Europe that already exists and which, at the same time, still needs to be built: an Europe that’s more united, so united that it can go beyond the concept of nation, a more open Europe, so open that it can go beyond the concept of…
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During her three-month training in Croatia (University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences), Tjaša Jakop from the Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovenian Language ZRC SAZU gave an invited lecture entitled Dvojina kao gramatička kategorija (Dual as a grammatical category) as part of the lectures and book presentations of the Zagrebački lingvistički krug…
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