INZ HOSTED THE SIXTH BENASTA WORKSHOP
On 7 and 8 May 2026, the Institute of Contemporary History hosted the sixth BeNaSta workshop, entitled Becoming National against the State.
The two-day workshop was dedicated to discussions on nationalism, national movements, and the formation of national identities in various local and regional contexts of East Central Europe. Special attention was given to the relationship between the state and local communities, the role of the rural population, national mobilisation, borderlands, and different forms of political and cultural responses to national policies.
On the first day of the workshop, presentations were given by Łukasz Kożuchowski, László Vörös, Dorota Kurek-Śliżewska, and Ágoston Berecz. The second day featured presentations by Oliver Pejić, Jan Bernot, and Rok Stergar. The lectures addressed examples from Congress Poland, Hungarian, Croatian-Slavonian, Prussian, Gottschee, and Habsburg-Austrian contexts.
The workshop contributed to a deeper discussion on how national ideas were formed, disseminated, and transformed in relation to the state, local communities, and everyday social practices.
The event took place at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana.
More about the project: https://www.benasta.si/
