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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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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Food and foodways are, as found out by many authors (see, for example, Brulotte and Di Giovine 2014; Ledinek Lozej and Šrimpf Vendramin 2020), often affording to heritagization due to identifying and connecting role of food and dishes in communities and their affecting potential. Therefore, I have dedicated my secondment at the University Ramon Llull…
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One wild man got drunk so they could tie him up. He asked them to let him go and to tell them what could be made from the milk. He showed them how to make cheese, cottage cheese and butter. Then they let him go. When they let him go, he told them that if…
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In this paper[1] I aim to show the circumstances and ways in which authorial graffiti can be, or can be constructed as, cultural heritage. I start by analysing how non-political, aesthetic graffiti and street art are treated when they appear in the public space and on buildings protected as cultural heritage in Slovenia and elsewhere.…
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When, one September evening in 1994, we met Mrs. Tonina Vidali in Škofije, a woman who had travelled to central Istria for eggs in the period between the world wars, we recorded our first interview on the topic of migrant women workers in Istria almost twenty years ago, and we were given a copy of…
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