Researchers of traditional music and dance in Southeastern Europe gathered at the Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology in Vienna. Held from 23 to 29 September, the symposium focused primarily on migration and related processes of othering, as well as on the economic dimensions of movement and sound. The presentations offered a range of…
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From 15 to 18 September 2026, the Institute of Slovenian Ethnology at ZRC SAZU hosted the 25th conference of the Food Research Working Group of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF). The conference was organised in collaboration with the research programmes Ethnological, Anthropological and Folklore Studies Research on Everyday Life and Heritage on…
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On Wednesday, 8 July 2026, we marked the 150th anniversary of the Petrič Alpine Dairy Hut on the Laz mountain pasture, one of the best-preserved alpine dairy huts in the Julian Alps. The gathering was organised by Tatjana Marušič, the hut’s custodian, and Lucija Gartner, the dairymaid of Laz, in cooperation with Bohinj Tourism. Lucija…
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From 13 to 16 June, the Department of Folkloristics at the University of Iceland, the Icelandic Association of Ethnology and Folklore, and the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies hosted the hybrid conference of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research. Taking its cue from the conference title, the event focused on the many roles,…
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From 10 to 12 June 2026, Charles University in Prague hosted the international student conference Choosing the Past: The Manifestation of History in a Changing Public Sphere. The aim of the conference was to reflect on how various actors shaping the public sphere select, represent and ideologically transform the past and history. Students whose research…
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Although the last few decades have seen major changes in the field of museology, particularly in dialogue with critical heritage studies, some periods, practices, events and individuals continue to slip out of the main narrative. According to Tvrtko Jakovina, Croatia’s socialist past is barely represented (if indeed it is represented at all) in the country’s…
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The article, which discusses the development of the heritage initiative Walk of Peace and its cross-sectoral embeddedness in the cross-border area between Slovenia and Italy, is an abridged version of an article published in the monograph Border-Straddling Heritages: Containment, Contestation, and Appreciation of Shared Pasts, edited by Ali Mozaffari and David Harvey, as Volume 10…
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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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“No one any longer believes that America is the great melting pot. Ethnicity is the word. We now know that we are not all one, that our diverse origins and backgrounds persist in spite of the best efforts of educators…” With these words, S. Dillon Ripley, president of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural…
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The essay “Muzej norosti: Zapiski z zadnje postaje” in Slovenian language by Sonja Bezjak chronicles the transformation of the stigmatized castle Cmurek in Trate, Slovenia, into the Muzej norosti (Museum of Madness). Trate, historically marginalized and once home to a large psychiatric institution, bore the weight of societal stigma associated with mental illness. After the closure of the institution…
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