Zoom-Link and Book of Abstracts for the Symposium in Ljubljana
The Symposium „In-Between: Indifferent – Hybrid – polyphon? Reflecting on situated everyday practices in the long 19th century„, which will take place in Ljubljana on the 3rd and 4th April 2025, will be live streamed via Zoom.
If you would like to join the Symposium, please use the following links:
For the 3rd of April: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85794729144?pwd=TyuVKS2vkFOjpiv3whtQvnS31MbVVm.1
Meeting ID: 857 9472 9144
Passcode: 862999
For the 4th of April: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82670153923?pwd=hfHwoQcUZbXNKoFGK7aVTpLrOzT4aZ.1
Meeting ID: 826 7015 3923
Passcode: 805200
While waiting for the symposium to kick off, you can have a glimpse into our Book of Abstracts. Check out the download button below to get access.
01.04.2025
Symposium in Ljubljana
On April 3rd and 4th, 2025, the symposium „In-Between: Indifferent – Hybrid – polyphon? Reflecting on situated everyday practices in the long 19th century“ of the international and interdisciplinary project Discourses and Practices of the In-Between in the Alps-Adriatic Region: Klagenfurt, Ljubljana and Trieste 1815-1914 will take place at the ZRC SAZU in Ljubljana. Together with our renowned guests, we aim to use this opportunity to discuss our theoretical concepts.
Schedule
3.4.2025 (First Day)
13.00 h Jurij Fikfak / Klaus Schönberger
Transition, Transformation, Emancipation, In-Between – Introduction
13.30 h Janine Schemmer / Klaus Schönberger:
Doing In-Between in everyday practices – Approaches, concepts, and fields of application
14.00 h Gábor Egry
Contact personalities: embedding imperial business during times of economic nationalism
15.00 h Reinhard Johler
Hybrid or In-Between. How to explain diversity in Istria and beyond (e.g. in the Alps-Adriatic Region)
15.45 h Catherine Horel
Variations of discourses and practices of irredentism in Trieste and Fiume
16.30 h Tullia Catalan
Religious Communities in Trieste in the late 19th and early 20th Century. Spaces and Practices of Everyday Life
17.30 h Pieter Judson (online):
Exploring the “In-between” in an Imperial State: Identification, Scale, Politics
4.4.2025 (Second day)
9.00 h Heidrun Zettelbauer
Reading Self-narratives of German-Nationalist Activists in the Habsburg Monarchy as Performances of Belonging. Between Eigen-Sinn and Structural Constraints
9.45 h Tamara Scheer
Everyday life in Roman Catholic Parishes: In-between Practices in the linguistically diverse Habsburg Austrian Alpine and Adriatic Region
10.45 h Rok Stergar
The people, the nationalists, and the state. Identifications between individual agency and the organizational grounding of nationalisms
The results of the symposium will be published in a conference volume. We will inform you as soon as we have more detailed information.
17.02.2025
In-Between goes SIEF 2025
Four papers have been accepted at SIEF 2025: Aberdeen, Scotland: June 3-6 2025
In the panel ‘Un/writing disciplinary histories: transnational, transcultural, and transdisciplinary dialogues in ethnology and folklore [AG: Historical approaches in cultural analysis]’ three presentations from our project have been accepted:
‘Founding father of Carinthian folklore’? On the reception of Franz Franzisci’s ethnological studies – Ute Holfelder (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt) Christian Frühwirth (University of Klagenfurt)
Ethnographic knowledge beyond established dualisms of an Italian or Slovenian culture: the transcultural life and work of Francesco Musoni (1864-1926) – Janine Schemmer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt)
Ethnographic vignettes about the in-between of Slovenian folklorists – Marjeta Pisk (ZRC SAZU)
And in the panel ‘Unwriting academic traditions: folklore studies and ethnography in the long nineteenth century’
‘Two approaches to (folk) culture: An investigation of the situation in Ljubljana-Klagenfurt from 1790 to 1830’ – Jurij Fikfak (ZRC SAZU)
16.01.2025
Traditiones 53 (3) now available
With the current issue of Traditiones, 53 (3), edited by Jurij Fikfak and Klaus Schönberger, focusing on ‘Ethnographic descriptions of “Land und Leute” in the Alps-Adriatic Region in 19th century’, the transdisciplinary Austro-Slovenian FWF Weave project ‘Discourses and Practices of the In-Between’, based at the Institute for Cultural Analysis Klagenfurt/Celovec and the Institute of Slovenian Ethnology (ISE) SRC SASA in Ljubljana/Laibach, publishes the first results of the binational research project.
First, Janine Schemmer and Klaus Schönberger develop the theoretical concept of practices of the In-Between (Schemmer/Schönberger 2024). The various other contributions explore the question of whether and how ethnographies (Gradišnik 2024; Kalc 2024 and Katschnig 2024) and travelogues (Holfelder, Schemmer, Frühwirth and Brunner 2024) of the 19th century contain references to practices of the In-Between.
The texts are all open access and peer reviewed. You can download them via the Journals own website as well as on the Page „Publications“ on our website.
24.12.2024
Report Mid-term meeting
The project members met on June 28th 2024 for the mid-term meeting at the University of Primorska in Koper. Besides matters of content and theory, we also addressed various organisational issues.
In the first working session, the participating team members (J. Fikfak, I. Gradišnik, U. Holfelder/ J. Schemmer/ G. Brunner/C. Frühwirth, A. Kalc and G. Katschnig) briefly presented the respective content of their contributions to the special issue in the journal Traditiones.
The second slot was dedicated to the sharpening of the project’s theoretical approach to the In-between. The discussion was based on the upcoming Traditiones paper from Janine Schemmer and Klaus Schönberger.
The afternoon session focussed mainly on organisational matters. Firstly, we updated each other on ongoing research and current work in progress. Secondly, the programme of the workshop on individuals was defined. It will take place on September 26th 2023 in Ljubljana at the ZRC SAZU. Thirdly, we sorted out organisational questions about the lecture series at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt/Celovec in the summer semester 2025. Finally, we shared ideas about the content and schedule of the project conference on March 06/07th 2025 in Ljubljana at the ZRC SAZU. Further information is to be published at the end of summer.
09.07.2024
Research on practices of the in-between on the individual level
The second project phase with the focus on the practices of individuals has started. In a meeting in March 2024, we shared information and ideas about current research and work in progress.
Preparatory research has already led to the identification of various individuals such as Zofka Kveder (Mihurko Poniž), Anastasius Grün alias Anton Alexander Graf von Auersperg (Marija Klobčar) and Eduard von Josch (Werner Drobesch, Fabian Prilasnig) on all of whom ample and unedited source material is readily available. Amongst other sources, the project can make use of several ego-documents, which provide insights into how the reality of everyday life and the practices of people were characterised by means of multiple affiliations that crossed the later borders between countries and nationalities. We will identify and analyse the situational individual behaviour of people, and the complexity of individual identification processes.
22.03.2024
Coming soon: special issue of Traditiones
The findings of our research on the in-between in ethnographies and travel literature will be published in a special issue of the journal Traditiones in 2024.
Stay tuned!
20.03.2024
Our work has started
The FWF/ARRS project „Discourses and Practices of the In-Between“ is a cooperation between the Institute of Cultural Analysis and the Institute of History at the Alps-Adriatic University, as well as the ZRC SAZU and the University of Koper.
The 20 staff memebers started their work on 1 April 2023. The transnational and interdisciplinary project is led by Klaus Schönberger, Jurij Fikfak and Werner Drobesch. During the next three years we would like to share the progress of our project, letting you know about our activities, cooperations, teachings and publications.
So stay tuned for upcomming news.
08.09.2023