Program

Species-Rich Meadows and Cattle in Slovenian Alps in the Last 500 Years

This lecture and discussion will focus on how until recently, Slovenia was exceptional in Europe for its high share of species-rich meadows, which are an important element of a healthy landscape culture, but now such meadows are rapidly disappearing.

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The lecture and discussion on this topic will be conducted by Tadej Pavković, the author of an excellent master’s thesis on cattle in Carniola, Carinthia and Styria in the 16th and 17th centuries, and Žiga Zwitter, PhD, an assistant professor and researcher at the Department of History at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, who is co-authoring a scientific monograph on the environmental history and historical ecology of species-rich meadows in the Alps in the last thousand years with Leonid Rasran, PhD, a Viennese botanist.

Tadej Pavković, MA, and Žiga Zwitter, PhD, will present a short selection of research approaches and results on the history of species-rich meadows and livestock over a long period of time, including how to correctly interpret them interdisciplinary and what we can learn from this for a more sustainable future.

The workshop is suitable for secondary schools.

Coordinators: Žiga Zwitter, PhD, and Tadej Pavković, Faculty of Arts