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Did you know that trees can also serve as political monuments? From lime trees and oaks planted in honour of Habsburg rulers to the 88 trees dedicated to Josip Broz Tito and the lime trees commemorating Slovenia’s independence – our landscape is full of living monuments that tell the stories of different periods in our …

In September, Nesa Vrečer attended the conference “Women in Late Socialism: Gender Orders, Agency, and Transnational Entanglements” (17–19 September), co-organised by the Department of Eastern European History at Humboldt University Berlin and the Federal Foundation for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Germany (Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung). She took part in the conference as part of …

Our colleague Sara Šifrar Krajnik attended a three-day international D-A-CH workshop in Switzerland in September, focusing on “Umwelt und Ressourcen” (Environment and Resources). During the workshop, she presented a paper titled “Die Eisenbahnverwaltung […] hat einen beträchtlichen Teil des Wassers für die elektrische Anlage entnommen”, in which she explored hydropower facilities as secondary infrastructure in …