La conferencia se enmarca en las actividades del proyecto del CONICET “Archivos de Narrativa Tradicional Argentina en el contexto mundial”, dirigido por la Dra. María Inés Palleiro y radicado en nuestro Instituto.
Asistirá en la traducción Tjaša Lorbek, lectora de esloveno de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (UBA).
Barbara Ivančič Kutin was born in 1973 in Šempeter pri Gorici, Slovenia. In 1998 she graduated in Slovenian language and literature as well as sociology of culture at Ljubljana's Faculty of Arts. In December 1999 she started working as a research assistant at the Institute of Slovenian Ethnology. In 2005 she defended her doctoral thesis entitled Kontekst in tekstura folklornih pripovedi na Bovškem [Context and Texture of Folklore Narratives in the Bovec Area] at the Department of Slovenian Studies at Ljubljana's Faculty of Arts (advisor: prof. dr. Marija Stanonik).
She conducts researches in the field of folkloristics, especially folkloric narratives, as well as the circumstances and the performance of narration, specific local narrative traditions and repertoires of people recognized by the local community as good storytellers. In the context of the narratives, she is interested in (micro) toponyms, house-names and other local and dialectal vocabulary. She also observes the transformation of verbal folklore from private into public space and into popular culture. Her research is mostly based on her own fieldwork, which is most often done in the Upper Soča Region and inVeneto (Friuli) where Slovenian minority exists. In recent years she has been documenting narrative folklore among Slovenes around the world (by now in USA, Germany and Serbia). She participates in national and international basic and applicative research projects, she regularly presents her research at scientific meetings. In the academic year 2017/2018, she began teaching verbal folklore at the Department of Slovenian Language, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. She also occasionally gives lectures at other Slovenian and foreign universities and research institutions (USA, Serbia, Czech Republic, Russia). She also collaborates with local communities, associations and schools. She is the author of three scientific monographs Slovar Bovškega govora [Dictionary of Bovec Speech] 2007; Živa pripoved v zapisu [A Written Record of Live Storytelling] 2011; and Krivopete. Divje žene z zanzaj zasukanimi stopali v slovenski folklori [ Krivopete. Wild Women with Backward-facing Feet in Slovenian Folklore] 2018, and numerous scientific and professional articles and other contributions. She is a member of the Working Group of the Coordinator of Register of intangible heritage.