Tjaša Konovšek has been a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History since 2018. She successfuly defended her PhD thesis in 2022 at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. The title of her dissertation is Slovene political transition 1989 – 2004, supervised by dr. Kornelija Ajlec and dr. Jure Gašparič.
Her research interests include political history, conceptual history, politics of memory and history of ideas, geographically tied to Slovenia, the East-Central European region and the area of the former Yugoslavia in the period from World War II to the present.
Socialist Management in a Global Context: Technocratic Developments in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, 1955–1991. ARIS ERC Perspektiva. https://inz.si/sl/technocracy_slo/
KONOVŠEK, Tjaša. Reconciliation: the institutionalization of memory in Post-Yugoslav Slovenia. Journal of nationalism, memory & language politics, Vol. 15, Nr. 1, 2021, pp. 87-108. https://www.sciendo.com/article/10.2478/jnmlp-2021-0006. DOI: 10.2478/jnmlp-2021-0006
KONOVŠEK, Tjaša. The Curse of Number 45. The Formation of The Slovenian National Assembly and the Government between 1996 and 1997. Contributions to Contemporary History, Vol. 60, Nr. 2, 2020, pp. 168-189. https://ojs.inz.si/pnz/article/view/1014.
KONOVŠEK, Tjaša. Socialism as ideology, socialism as legacy : attitudes of the (Socialist) Republic of Slovenia towards its socialist past (1980–2004). Soudobé dějiny: Czech journal of contemporary history, Vol. 29, Nr. 3, 2022, pp. 852-873. https://sd.usd.cas.cz/magno/sod/2022/mn3.php.
