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mobilnaEKA – Platforma za mobilnost i međunarodnu suradnju etnologa i kulturnih antropologa Odsjeka za etnologiju i kulturnu antropologiju Filozofskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu poziva Vas na predavanje HETEROTOPOLOGY OF THE ISONZO FRONT LEGACIES THROUGH THE PROCESS OF THEIR HERITAGIZATION IN THE UPPER SOČA VALLEY, SLOVENIA koje će održati doc. dr. sc. Boštjan Kravanja (Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Ljubljani, Slovenija) u srijedu, 17. siječnja 2024. godine u 11 sati na Filozofskom fakultetu Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, predavaonica A125

Sažetak predavanja: Heterotopias are special types of spaces that, by introducing a certain illusion into the wider space, pervert and change the existing order of things. Because they place different spaces in new mutual relationships, they are a suitable concept for dealing with modern heritages, especially those that address difficult episodes of human history, such as, for example, the heritage of the Isonzo Front.

The concept of heterotopias was first presented by Michel Foucault in 1967. For him, heterotopias are “other spaces” that are realized in various typical forms, which operate on different, often contradictory, sets of rules compared to the spaces around them. Heterotopias, in essence, challenge the spaces we take for granted. In the lecture, I will use this notion to show how the legacies of the Great War’s Isonzo Front in the Soča Valley (Slovenia) have been changing their emphasis through decades since their establishment as “heritage” in the 1990s.

O predavaču: Boštjan Kravanja is an assistant professor at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His research interests include anthropology of tourism, anthropology of space and place, political uses of religions and mythologies, sacred places and landscapes, experiential aspects of ethnographic fieldwork, aspects of South Asian tourism and different uses of heritage in the contemporary world. His regional interests lie in South Asia, Macedonia, and Slovenia.