The “Coastal Transformations” virtual exhibition is the result of a three-year international research project funded by the EQUIP programme, a funding platform for Europe-India projects, coordinated in Slovenia by the Republic of Slovenia Ministry of Education, Science and Sport. The project, as well as the exhibition, deals with coastal transforamtione and the impact of change…
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Tuesday, 14 September saw the official launch of Franček, a new Slovenian language portal for youngsters, which took place in the Atrium of the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The portal was designed by researchers of the Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovenian Language within the scope of the project…
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The Minorities between Standard Language and Dialects/Minoranze tra lingua standard e dialetti conference took place on Friday, 3 September 2021 in San Pietro al Natisone (Špeter, San Pieri), the unofficial centre of the Natisone Valleys, and was organised by the Institute for Slovenian Culture. As part of the activities marking the 20th anniversary of the…
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On the 27th of July, the third conference »Heritage as an instrument of connecting the sciences« was organized by Council for development at SAZU. Among others, the head of the program group Heritage on the margins Dr. Špela Ledinek Lozej highlighted the close connection between heritage and social, political, economic and ecological factors. Due to…
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On Monday, 28 June 2021, the Historical Association of Slovenia and the Heritage on the Margins programme group organised a roundtable on the issues arising from the different interpretations of heritage in legislation/legislative acts, state administration, public discourse, business and various professional discourses. In the introduction, Špela Ledinek Lozej outlined the expansion and consolidation of…
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At the end of last week, we were hugely excited to hear the news that Nova Gorica will hold the title European Capital of Culture (ECoC) in 2025! The European Capitals of Culture, the Heritage Days or the European Heritage Label are meant to build interpretations of local and national heritage as a constitutive element…
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This year’s Days of Ethnographic Film were dedicated to aspects of visual ethnography in Slovenia and took place online between 9 and 15 November. We were able to watch 12 film units and 12 video lectures. The film Milk, Coffee and Cheese, made by Špela Ledinek Lozej as part of the documentation of the Alpine…
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Janoš Ježovnik is the recipient of Slovene Research Institute‘s Award, which he received for his doctoral thesis Internal Phonological and Accentual Differentiation of the Tersko Dialect of Slovene. The award for the best master’s thesis was awarded to Nastja Slavec, since Fall this year employed as a junior researcher at the Institute of Anthropological and…
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We congratulate Janoš Ježovnik for his receiving of the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts Silver Award, awarded for the best doctorate of the past year. The award was presented at the Generacije znanosti [Generations of Science] event on Thursday, 27 August 2020. A TV broadcast is available for viewing in…
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On 3 December 2019 the research-programme group Heritage on the Margins at ZRC SAZU organized a round-table discussion on heritage initiatives established by migrant and minority associations in Ljubljana. In one of such initiative’s lovely setting – Skuhna on Trubarjeva street –, the participants got to know some of the activities in the field of…
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