On Friday, 4 September 2026, the monograph Historical Biodiversity in the Alps: Grassland Agroecosystems in the Last Millennium was presented at the Mesto knjige festival at the Maks Bookstore Café in Nova Gorica. The conversation with historian and geographer Žiga Zwitter was moderated by Špela Ledinek Lozej. Co-authored by Zwitter and botanist Leonid Rasran, the…
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Local and national in the folk/national/folklore songs of the Goriška Brda region When a cultural practice comes to be interpreted as heritage in the broadest sense, namely when it is recognised as worthy of a focused effort to preserve it for posterity, this establishes a basis for its protection (Hafstein 2007: 128). From the very…
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At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, another Earth-shattering event took place in 2020 – global unrest against racism under the “Black Lives Matter” (BLM) banner that erupted over the killing of George Floyd in the USA. This unrest was, among other reactions, characterized by extensive media coverage of statues being removed around the world…
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