Walking seminars in the research project “A Grain of Salt, Crystallizing Coexistence: Salt Making as Experiential Environmental Wisdom” (ARIS: J6-50196) in 2024 and 2025. Sečovlje salterns, Strunjan salterns, Slovenia, 2024 and 2025 A walking seminar (or group ethnographic walk) is a method introduced in 2014 by Nick Shepherd, Christian Ernsten, and Dirk-Jan Visser, involving a…
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Sečovlje Salterns, Strunjan Salterns, Portorož; Slovenia, May 21–October 8, 2025 Piran’s salt-making tradition is an example of centuries of careful and sensitive human interaction with the environment. The delicate balance between human use of the space and respect for natural features is an important source of ecological knowledge and inspiration, upon which our future also…
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The research project “Grain of Salt, Crystallising Cohabitation: Salt-making as Experiential Environmental Wisdom” approaches traditional salt-working – the craft of producing sea salt – as embodied practical wisdom. Salt-working in north Istria is characterized primarily by its picturesque landscape and rich heritage and is rarely perceived from the perspective of the intertwining of human and…
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Between March 14 and 19, 2025, the 13th It’s About People conference, organized by Alma Mater Europaea University, was held in Maribor. The theme of the conference was Social and Technological Resilience for Health and Sustainable Development. On March 19, 2025, an online scientific panel entitled “Approaching Salt-working: From Heritage to Experiential Environmental Wisdom” was…
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From 9 to 11 February 2026, the international winter school Euregio Seminar 2026, titled Borders, Memory and Territorial Transformations in the Alpine Region, took place in Trento, Bolzano/Bozen and Bressanone/Brixen. The programme was jointly organised by the University of Trento and the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. Špela Ledinek Lozej also took part in the school.…
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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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