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Our colleague Dr Nina Vodopivec delivered a lecture on the politics of post-industrial transition at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm on September 28, 2026. At the invitation of environmental historian Robert Gioielli, a former visiting researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History, she visited the Division of History of Science, Technology and …

From September 29 to October 1, 2026, the CLARIN Annual Conference 2026 took place in Brighton, United Kingdom, bringing together researchers from the fields of language technologies, digital humanities, social sciences, and the humanities. Our colleagues also presented their research in the “Abstract Presentations: ParlaMint” session: Katja Meden, together with Tomaž Erjavec from the Jožef …

You are kindly invited to a new 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, November 11, 2026, at the INZ premises or …

In October 2026, the Slovenian History Portal – SIstory celebrates its 18th anniversary. Since its launch in 2008, it has developed into an important part of Slovenia’s research infrastructure and a central online platform providing access to digitised historical sources, scholarly literature, and research data. The portal, developed as part of the research infrastructure for …

How has life in the Karst village of Tomaj changed over five centuries? How have major social, economic, and political transformations affected its inhabitants? Our colleague Dr Meta Remec, together with historian Dr Aleksander Panjek from the University of Primorska, appeared on Glasovi svetov (Voices of Worlds) on Radio Ars. In a conversation with Alja …

On Tuesday, 3 November 2026, at 1:00 p.m., you are invited to a lecture by Sarah Oberbichler from the Centre for Modern and Digital History (C²DH) at the University of Luxembourg. The lecture, titled “LLMs for In-Depth Analysis: Where Are the Limits of Scaling?”, will take place in the reading room of the Institute of …

On September 24–25, 2026, the Institute of Contemporary History hosted the international conference “Reproductive Politics in the Atlantic Space: Advances (and Reversals) from the Postwar Period to the Present”, bringing together researchers from various European countries and beyond. The two-day conference focused on the historical development of reproductive politics and rights from the end of …

The Institute of Contemporary History kindly invites you to the presentation of the scholarly monograph Albert Kramer (1882–1943): A Slovenian Liberal Leader in Royal Yugoslavia, published by INZ Publishing House in 2026. The monograph explores the life and political career of Albert Kramer (1882–1943), one of the leading figures of Slovenian liberalism during the Kingdom …

How have ideas about democracy and its meaning evolved over the centuries? What is the connection between democracy, republicanism, and anti-fascism, and how can history help us understand democratic society today? Our colleague, historian Dr Marko Zajc, discussed the development of democracy in Slovenia and around the world, as well as its relationship with anti-fascism, …

On September 23, 2026, the Institute of Contemporary History hosted another lecture as part of the History on the Edge series. In her lecture “Living in the Aftermath: Narratives of Loss and Victory in Postwar Yugoslavia”, Ana Antić explored different ways in which psychological suffering and recovery were experienced, understood, and expressed in Yugoslavia after …

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 …