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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.

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.

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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Afternoons with DARIAH: Wolfgang Göderle

26. 11. 2025

We cordially invite you to the first lecture in the series “Afternoons with DARIAH,” dedicated to exploring new research, tools, technologies, and methods in the field of digital humanities. The lecture will take place on Wednesday, November 26, 2025, at 12:00 p.m. at the Institute of Contemporary History. As part of this lecture, we will …

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SMASH at INZ: Artificial Intelligence and the Humanities

SMASH at INZ: Artificial Intelligence and the Humanities On Wednesday, 10 November 2025, the Institute of Contemporary History hosted an educational event within the SMASH project, dedicated to the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in contemporary research. In the first part, Dr. Andrej Pančur and Filip Dobranić presented how INZ integrates machine learning …

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History on the Edge: Between Judgment and Perception – The ICTY Narrative on Croatia’s Role in the War in BiH and Domestic Reactions

26. 11. 2025

You are kindly invited to a new lecture in the History on the Edge series, which will take place on Wednesday, November 26, 2025, at the INZ premises or via the ZOOM link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85093074535?pwd=chFdSCgScVg8fw1djh3bVz8h9gqWtm.1 . In the new season, lectures will take place at 3 p.m. and if you will be joining us in person, …

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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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