Book Launch Announcement

The Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana is pleased to invite you to the launch of two new volumes:

• East Central European Crisis Discourses in the Twentieth Century: A Never-Ending Story (Routledge, 2024), edited by Balázs Trencsényi, Lucija Balikić, Una Blagojević, and Isidora Grubački
• Intellectuals and the Crisis of Politics in the Interwar Period and Beyond (Oxford University Press, 2025) by Balázs Trencsényi

Date & Time: Wednesday, October 1, 2025, at 11:00

Venue: Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana

The event will feature discussions with:

• Balázs Trencsényi (Central European University, Vienna), co-editor and author

• Lucija Balikić (ELTE Faculty of Social Sciences, Budapest), co-editor and author

• Isidora Grubački (Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana), co-editor and author

• Stevo Đurašković (Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Zagreb), author

• Marko Zajc (Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana), author

• Tjaša Konovšek (Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana), author
• Adela Hîncu (Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana), moderator

The discussion will examine the ways intellectuals have responded to political crises across the 20th century, and how the language of crisis has shaped East Central European history, with special attention to the Yugoslav experience.

All interested colleagues, students, and the wider public are warmly invited to attend.