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