An internal workshop in November 2023 addressed the debate on Alpine energy cultural landscapes and explored the question of how to design an Alpine region committed to decarbonisation.
On Wednesday, November 08, 2023, our first anthology "NUTZEN. BENUTZEN. HEGEN. PFLEGEN. Die Alpen im Anthropozän" will be presented at the Alpine Museum at 6.30 pm.
At the internal institute days on October 26 and 27, all researchers of the Uri Institute Cultures of the Alps met for the third time in Altdorf.
On October 10, the Uri Institute Cultures of the Alps hosted a multifaceted event in the Uristier Hall in Altdorf, which was dedicated to the complex topic of paths, passes and roads in the canton of Uri.
The lecture by the renowned Prof. em. Werner Bätzing presents the interested public with an up-to-date overall picture of the Alps from an economic, social and ecological perspective.
In discussion with panel guests and the audience, those present went in search of traces of Uri's migration history over the last 150 years.
The first publication of the Institute "Cultures of the Alps" was published on Monday, September 11, 2023, and celebrated its vernissage at the Zeughaus Parterre in Altdorf.
The Uri Institute Cultures of the Alps, headed by the literary and cultural scientist Boris Previšić, is dedicated to the special features of the Alpine region in all its thematic breadth.
The alpine high valley of Ursern in the canton of Uri is the focus of this volume of essays - not the current tourist hotspot in Andermatt, but the transformation of the mountain region over the last 200 years.
The Institute Cultures of the Alps makes its library accessible to interested parties. The reference books can be found in the catalog of the Uri Cantonal Library and can be consulted at the Institute on Dätwylerstrasse.