On December 7, 2015 Nevena Škrbić Alempijević delivered an invited lecture entitled “Festivals and City-making” for students of undergraduate programme of ethnology and cultural anthropology, University of Ljubljana. The lecture was held in the frame …

Team members of the project “City-making: space, culture and identity” – Jasna Čapo Žmegač, Nevena Škrbić Alempijević, Petra Kelemen, Tihana Rubić i Valentina Gulin Zrnić – are honoured by the Croatian Ethnological Society for their …

Nevena Škrbić Alempijević participated in the international scientific conference “Town and its Inhabitants in the Perspective of Ethnological Research: Festivals and Leisure Time”. She delivered a plenary speech titled “Urban Festivals and City-making in Croatia”. …

Valentina Gulin Zrnić participated at the International scientific conference “Cultural heritage – Possibilities for Spatial and Economic Development” which was held in Zagreb, October 22-23, 2015.  The paper is co-authored by the architect Dubravka Vranić and is …

Valentina Gulin Zrnić and Nevena Škrbić Alempijević participated in the public discussion on “The strategies of noting the city: cultural memory and planning in Zagreb” which took place in Gallery Nova, on October 21, 2015, …

Laura Šakaja wrote the book “Introduction to Cultural Geography” (Uvod u kulturnu geografiju), which was published in September 2015. This book was printed within the collection “Introductions” (Uvodi ) by the publishing house Leykam International. …

Celine Motzfeldt Loades (University of Oslo) delivered the lecture at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research on September 29, 2015. Contested Places and Ambivalent Identities in UNESCO enlisted Dubrovnik The tourist industry in Dubrovnik …

Nevena Škrbić Alempijević participated in the international scientific conference “Theorizing Myth, Trauma and Memory in Central and East European Cultural Spaces”. Together with Sanja Potkonjak, she delivered a paper titled “Contesting Memory of Socialism in …

New e-book “Gardens of our City: notes and studies on the practices of urban gardening” is issued on the project’s web page! Editors: Tihana Rubić and Valentina Gulin Zrnić   Urban gardening is part of …

The project “City-making: space, culture and identity” organized the round-table The City between Public Policies and Civil Society   Does the city (Zagreb) belong to its citizens? What are the forms of civil protests (on …

The project “City-making: space, culture and identity” hosted the lecture by Maple J. Razsa (Colby College, USA) The Uprisings: A Multimedia Lecture One of the crucial political questions of our time is how we understand—and …

Valentina Gulin Zrnić participated in the conference “Transforming cities, transformative cities” organized by the European Urban Research Association (EURA) and delivered a paper “Politics of public spaces: planning and decision-making in Zagreb”. The conference was held …

Laura Šakaja was a guest-speaker in the radio broadcast Znanstveni koncentrat (“Scientific Concentrate”) of the Third Programme of the Croatian Radio. During this broadcast, in connection with the 9th International meeting of European Geographers of …

Laura Šakaja gave a presentation at the scientific conference, entitled the 9th Meeting of European Geographers of Religion: International Colloquia on Changing Religious Landscape of Europe. Development and Transformation of Religious Landscape in the New …

Petra Kelemen delivered a lecture titled “Heritage construction and tourism” in the frame of the International Summer School of Cultural Tourism, which took place at the University of Zadar, from 24th to 29th of August. …