FIRST LECTURE IN THE SERIES EDGE OF HISTORY
You are kindly invited to the first event in the new spinoff lecture series, the Edge of History. The new series will focus on the work of researchers from the Institute of Contemporary History, on their projects and new publications. The lecture will take place on Wednesday, October 7, 2026, at the INZ premises or via the ZOOM link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85093074535?pwd=chFdSCgScVg8fw1djh3bVz8h9gqWtm.1 . In the new series, lectures will take place at 10.30 and if you will be joining us in person, you are welcome to a coffee 20 minutes before the lecture begins.
The first presentation will be given by Marko Zajc, Neja Blaj Hribar and Oliver Pejić and they will discuss the reader Political Transformations in the Interwar Period: The Case of Slovenian Political Thought. The lecture will be held in English.
Political Transformations in the Interwar Period: The Case of Slovenian Political Thought, edited by Isidora Grubački and Marko Zajc, is a scholarly reader produced within the Political History Program at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana. The volume presents English translations of sixteen primary sources of Slovenian political thought from the interwar period, selected by nine contributing authors. Each source is accompanied by a biographical note on the author and a contextual introduction situating the text within its historical, political, and intellectual setting.
The reader grew out of a collaborative workshop held in Ljubljana in April 2024, where specialists in the history of political thought in East Central Europe discussed possible source selections and their broader relevance. Rather than offering a comprehensive overview, the editors explicitly aimed to move beyond a simplified historiographic division of interwar Slovenian political thought into Catholic, liberal, and Marxist camps.
