Festival History on the Edge – 1st Day
DON’T MISS THE FIRST EVENT OF THE FESTIVAL HISTORY ON THE EDGE
Friday, 27. MAY at 10:00 and 14:00
LIVE at the Institute for Contemporary History (Privoz 11, Ljubljana, conference room)
via ZOOM: link to Zoom-Livestream will be available on the event day here https://www.facebook.com/InstitutZaNovejsoZgodovino/
Registration is not required.
The program is available at the end of the page.
About the presenters:
- HELEN YAFFE joined the University of Glasgow as Lecturer in Economic and Social History in 2018. Her teaching focuses on Latin American and Cuban development. Since 1995 (as a teenager), she has spent time living and researching in Cuba. Her doctoral thesis was adapted for publication as Che Guevara: The Economics of Revolution by Palgrave Macmillan in 2009. In 2011, she joined the University of Leicester to work with Professor Gavin Brown on the project Non-Stop Against Apartheid: the spaces of transnational solidarity. Their book, Youth Activism and Solidarity: The Non-stop Picket Against Apartheid, was published in 2017. In 2020 she published We Are Cuba!: How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World. Yale University Press. Here Helen examines the astonishing developments that took place in Cuba in the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union. Helen also co-produced a documentary film Cuba’s Life Task: Combatting Climate Change (12) Cuba’s Life Task: Combatting Climate Change – YouTube.
- THERESIA BAUER ist akademische Oberrätin der Abteilungen für Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit und Neueste Geschichte und Zeitgeschichte an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
- Dr. Theresia Bauer – Neueste Geschichte und Zeitgeschichte – LMU München (uni-muenchen.de)
- JAKUB ŠLOUF is researcher at the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Prague.
- PhDr. Jakub Šlouf, Ph.D. (*1982) – Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů (ustrcr.cz)
- ANA KLADNIK is researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana.
- Dr Ana Kladnik – Scientific research department – Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino Slovenije (inz.si)
- IVAN SABLIN heads the Research Group “Entangled Parliamentarisms: Constitutional Practices in Russia, Ukraine, China and Mongolia, 1905–2005,” sponsored by the European Research Council (ERC), at Heidelberg University. His research interests include the history of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, with special attention to Siberia and the Russian Far East, and global intellectual history. He is the author of two monographs – Governing Post-Imperial Siberia and Mongolia, 1911–1924 (London: Routledge, 2016) and The Rise and Fall of Russia’s Far Eastern Republic, 1905–1922 (London: Routledge, 2018). Ivan Sablin also co-edited Planting Parliaments in Eurasia, 1850–1950: Concepts, Practices, and Mythologies (London: Routledge, 2021).
Lectures are also available on the YouTube channel: Zgodovina na Špici / History on the Edge – YouTube.