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What Do Volleyball, Housewives, and Chinese Peddlers Have in Common?

The latest issue of Contributions to Contemporary History features eleven scholarly articles on the economic, social, and cultural history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Century of Struggle for Visibility

A new publication in the Vpogledi series traces the development of institutions, policies, and practices that shaped the status of people with sensory disabilities in the Yugoslav region during the 20th century.

How did they try to tame the Drava, Savinja, Mura and Pesnica rivers?

A new book, Borba s poplavami (The Struggle Against Floods), explores how people in Lower Styria coped with flooding and regulated river flows during the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century.

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INVITATION TO THE FINAL WORKSHOP OF THE ARIS PROJECT SYSTEMS OF CARE AND EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN WITH SENSORY DISABILITIES IN THE FIRST AND SECOND YUGOSLAV STATE

We invite you to the final workshop of the project “Systems of Care and Education for Children with Sensory Disabilities in the First and Second Yugoslav State”, which will take place on 9 September 2026 at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana. The workshop will bring together researchers and individuals with personal experience to …

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INVITATION TO THE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP SOCIALIST TECHNO-OPTIMISM AND GOVERNANCE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, 1955–1991

15–16 September 2026, Hokkaido University in Japan will host the international research workshop Socialist Techno-Optimism and Governance of Economic Development, 1955–1991, organized by the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University and the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana, in collaboration with the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The two-day workshop will …

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CALL FOR PAPERS: NON-ELITE ENCOUNTERS WITH NATIONHOOD IN THE LATE HABSBURG EMPIRE (1848-1918)

Non-Elite Encounters with Nationhood in the Late Habsburg Empire (1848-1918) (Neelitna srečevanja z nacionalnostjo v pozni Habsburški monarhiji (1848-1918)   1-2 March 2027, Ljubljana   Call for Proposals   In recent years, historical nationalism scholarships has seen an exciting turn towards history from below. Employing concepts such as “everyday nationalism”, “banal nationalism” as well as …

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Konferenca Jezikovne tehnologije in digitalna humanistika (JT-DH 2026)

in September (17-18 Sep. 2026), the Language Technologies and Digital Humanities conference (JT-DH 2026) will take place at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science in Ljubljana. Registration is now open via the online form: https://forms.gle/u1qRMVHPCymnAR666 For more information, please see the official conference page: https://www.sdjt.si/wp/jtdh-2026-en/

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The Slovenian History Portal – SIstory is part of the research infrastructure of Slovenian historiography. It is an online system that not only provides access to historical content relevant to the study of Slovenian history, but also allows researchers to create and use research data in a research environment.

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The Contributions to Contemporary History journal is one of the most prominent Slovenian scientific historiographical publications. It informs the public of the latest Slovenian and foreign historiography research, focusing on the political, cultural, economic, and social history of Central and South-Eastern Europe in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.

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INZ is also an academic publisher that publishes peer-reviewed, up-to-date research in the fields of the humanities and social sciences.

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The Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana (INZ) has launched a Visiting Fellowship program in 2022.

The Institute of Contemporary History is the central scientific institution in the Republic of Slovenia that conducts humanities, contemporary history, and digital humanities research with an emphasis on historiography. It is the national coordinating institution for the national digital infrastructure for arts and humanities DARIAH-SI, and a member of DARIAH ERIC.

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EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT OF INDIVIDUALS WITH SENSORY DISABILITIES IN THE FIRST AND SECOND YUGOSLAVIA (1919–1991)

Dunaj Dobaja, Marko Buljevac, Jelena Seferović, Marta Rendla, Gundogan Dragana, Nataša Milićević, Darja Zaviršek, Atila Lukić, Gordan Maslov, Karavanić Magda , 2026

Parliaments in Focus: Language, Gender, and the Pandemic in Parliaments

Kristina Pahor de Maiti Tekavčič, Ksenija Bogetić, Petya Osenova, Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Darja Fišer, 2026