Scientific Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

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The Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU) is the leading research institute in Slovenia for the humanities, social sciences, and selected disciplines of the natural sciences. It comprises eighteen institutes where more than 250 researchers engage in basic research and applied projects. Its publishing house, Založba ZRC, publishes academic and non-academic books and a substantial number of academic journals. It operates the Azil Bookshop, which specializes in literature in the fields of the humanities and social sciences. ZRC Atrij is an indoor event space hosting conferences, conversations, round tables, and cultural or artistic programs. ZRC SAZU is also active on interactive digital platforms and publishes digital scientific publications Alternator (in collaboration with other national research institutes) and Heriskop (focusing on heritage on the margins).
ZRC SAZU’s Institute of Slovenian Ethnology, which recently celebrated its 70th anniversary, is one of the central institutions for ethnology, anthropology and folklore research in Slovenia. It maintains extensive collections of archival material, sound and visual documentation, material on current research projects, and a large ethnological library. It also hosts an Audiovisual Laboratory with extensive visual documentation and film material and runs a blog on ethnological findings titled Vsakdanjik.

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