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Between 24 and 26 June, a three-day workshop took place at the EHESS (École des hautes études en sciences sociales) in Paris; this was the first event in the series entitled ‘Trajectories and Experiences of Associational Life in South-East Europe: Greece and Yugoslavia’. The workshop was organised as part of the PHC Proteus bilateral project …

On Thursday, 16 July 2026, Dr Anna Horstmann gave a lecture at the Institute of Contemporary History as part of her visiting fellowship. She presented her habilitation project, which is based on approximately 7,500 school essays written in 1955 and 1956 and explores how pupils in West Germany remembered the Second World War and the …

On 19 May 2026, Dr Ivan Smiljanić delivered a lecture at the Museum of Contemporary History of Slovenia entitled Chernobyl 1986: A View from Yugoslavia. Marking the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, he presented the circumstances that led to the catastrophe and the responses of European—and particularly Yugoslav—political authorities and the wider public. …