How eventful was History on the Edge during the last season?
With Andreas Guidi’s lecture on June 11th, we concluded this year’s History on the Edge season and are heading into a well-deserved summer break. Over the past academic year, we had the pleasure of hosting an extraordinary range of historical and political science lectures – from the history of suicide, women during the Second World War, and sugar beet, to timely discussions on hate speech in today’s world.
History on the Edge returns on September 24th with a lecture by Francesca Rolandi, titled: “Solidarity networks and relief practices in a socialist non-alligned country”.
Below you can find the full list of lectures from the past season. Video recordings will soon be available on the SIstory YouTube channel.
- September 9, 2024: Julie Gottlieb: The Nervous State: Short movie presentation and discussion
- September 30, 2024: Martin Babička: Esotericism and Postsocialist Transformation: The Case of Astrology in Czech and Slovak Media and Some Theoretical Considerations
- November 6, 2024: Rory Archer & Goran Musić: A Socialist Workplace in Postcolonial Africa: The Yugoslav workforce in Zambia
- December 11, 2024: Marco Bresciani: Understanding and Opposing Fascism: The Political and Intellectual Experience of the Interwar Exile
- December 18, 2024: Niklas Platzer: From Crop to Crystal – Sugar Beets and the Transformation of the Habsburg Empire, 1848 – 1914
- January 15, 2025: Remigijus Civinskas: Post-Soviet Reforms of Bureaucratic Systems in Slovenia and Lithuania
- January 22, 2025: Ondřej Holub: Unified in a Cause: On Connected Histories of Czech and Slovenian National Socialism
- February 5, 2025: Steven Forti: A saprophagous organism again? Extreme right 2.0, ideological parasitism and culture wars
- February 19, 2025: Juhan Saharov: From Economic to Political Sovereignty: Inventing “Self-Management” in Late Soviet Estonia (1987—89)
- February 26, 2025: Gabriela Pošteková: Balancing Faith and Modernity: Catholic Women’s Unity in Interwar Slovakia
- March 12, 2025: Ljubinka Škodrić: Women in Serbia during the Second World War (1941–1945)
- March 25, 2025: Gwenaëlle Bauvois: Conspiracy talk in ordinary people’s everyday experiences
- April 16, 2025: Selenia Anastasi: Misogyny beyond borders. Studying Extremist Discourses using Cross-Linguistics CADS
- May 14, 2025: Bojan Bilić: Psychiatry and Society: Depatriarchalising Yugoslav Psychiatry
- May 28, 2025: Maria Falina: Hope or crisis? Temporalities of democracy in the post-WWI ‘New Europe’
- June 4, 2025: Jelena Tešija: They (don’t) only know how to carry baskets to the market?: Yugoslavia and the International Co-operative Women’s Guild, 1951–1963
- June 11, 2025: Andreas Guidi: Smuggling Cigarettes into the Free Territory : Illegal trade in the Mediterranean and the Italian-Yugoslav Border in the Early Cold War (1947-1957)