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How did the first weather stations monitor precipitation?

On the SIstory YouTube channel, you can watch Nataša Henig Miščič's lecture on the history of meteorological measurements and other recordings of conferences and presentations by the Institute of Contemporary History.

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In Slovenia, where can you still find stones that remind us of drought?

The new edition of the Vpogledi collection discusses how people in the past recorded and experienced droughts.

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When silence was safer than words

The new issue of Razpoznavanja provides a historical insight into suicide as a personal, cultural, and political phenomenon.

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On October 23–24, 2025, the 7th Workshop on Business History in Central and Eastern Europe took place at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana, under the title Business and the Natural Environment in the History of Central and Eastern Europe. The event, organized by Dr. Ivan Smiljanić in cooperation with the European Business History …

From 22 to 24 October 2025, the 5th DARIAH-HR International Conference – Digital Humanities & Heritage 2025: Rethinking Heritage across STEM, Humanities, and Arts took place. DARIAH-SI was represented by our colleagues Katja Meden and Jurij Hadalin from the Institute of Contemporary History, along with Miha Seručnik from ZRC SAZU. They also participated in the …

On October 22–23, the fifth BeNaSta project workshop took place at Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia. The workshop featured presentations by BeNaSta team members, including our colleagues Ágoston Berecz, Oliver Pejić, Łukasz Kożuchowski, Dorota Kurek-Śliżewska, and László Vörös, who shared their latest research findings. The team extends sincere thanks to professor Denisa Nečasová for hosting, …

You are kindly invited to a new lecture in the History on the Edge series, which will take place on Wednesday, November 12, 2025, at the INZ premises or via the ZOOM link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85093074535?pwd=chFdSCgScVg8fw1djh3bVz8h9gqWtm.1 . This time, the lecture will take place at 11 a.m., but if you join us in person, you’re welcome to …

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 It is an online system that not only provides access to historical content relevant to the study of Slovenian history, but also allows researchers to create and use research data in a research environment.

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 19^th, 20^th, and 21^st centuries.

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

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.