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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On Thursday, 10 April 2025, the programme team co-organised a lecture by Chiara Bortolotto at the Historični seminar (Historical Seminar). In a lecture entitled “Will Heritage Save Us? Intangible Heritage and the Turn to Sustainable Development”, she explored the social world of the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003) and…
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On November 15, 1874, eleven farmers from Poljubinj joined forces and founded the first dairy cooperative in present-day Slovenia. 150 years after the founding of the Poljubinj Dairy Cooperative, the local community will celebrate with a series of lectures in Poljubinj, Ljubinj and Zatolmin. The opening lecture was held in Tolmin in cooperation with the…
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On 11 May 2024, Špela Ledinek Lozej gave a lecture on communal cheesemaking in the Eastern Julian Alps as part of the exhibition Latte – Milk – Milk, dedicated to the communal dairies in the Alps. The event was organised by the Ecomuseum of Gemona (Ecomuseo delle Aque del Gemonese) at the Friulian Ethnographic Museum…
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Martina Bofulin gave a lecture at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas, titled »Migration from the People’s Republic of China to Slovenia: From restaurants to acquisitions«. The lecture was attended by scholars and students of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREEES) and focused on the last three decades of immigration…
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