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On 10 and 11 September, the Institute of Contemporary History hosted colleagues from the Institute for Recent History of Serbia (INIS) – Dr Dmitar Tasić, Principal Research Fellow, and Dr Nataša Milićević and Dr Jelena Rafailović, Senior Research Fellows. The two-day visit focused primarily on presenting our work in the fields of research infrastructure and …

At the beginning of September, the Institute of Contemporary History hosted the final workshop of the ARIS project J6-50189, “Systems of Care and Education for Children with Sensory Disabilities in the First and Second Yugoslav State.” The full-day event brought together researchers and individuals with personal experience. The presentations ranged from early forms of organized …

On 16 September 2026, the Institute of Contemporary History hosted another lecture in the History on the Edge series. In his lecture, Irrevolution: Borderland Pathways and Regime Outcomes in the Successor States of the Romanov Empire, 1905–1921, Wiktor Marzec explored the divergent political and social trajectories of four western peripheries of the former Russian Empire …

On September 24th and 25th, the INZ welcomes you to the conference Reproductive politics in the Atlantic space: advances (and reversals) from the postwar period to the present. While there is a broad awareness that shifts in the access to abortion and other reproductive health and sexual rights (RHSRs) are a function of both domestic …

HISTORY ON THE EDGE: LIVING IN THE AFTERMATH: NARRATIVES OF LOSS AND VICTORY IN POSTWAR YUGOSLAVIA You are kindly invited to a new lecture in the History on the Edge series, which will take place on Wednesday, September 23, 2026, at the INZ premises or via the ZOOM link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84664422400?pwd=b61EIvRBkMcapTCUwbscnA3NtuNS6K.1 . In the new season, …

You are kindly invited to a seminar at which visiting researcher Wiktor Marzec will present his work on the project ‘Patchwork Parliaments. Post-Imperial Field of Power in The New Republic of Poland, Greater Romania and The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War’. The seminar will take place in the conference …

This autumn, we will open the first branch of the Institute of Contemporary History in Celje, which will also provide a new home for one of our book collections. Read more about our plans, the new premises, and the future work of INZ in Celje in an article published by the newspaper Večer. Read the …

In February, the Institute of Contemporary History hosted a two-day event as part of the ARENAS – Analysis of and Responses to Extremist Narratives project. The central part of the event was the public seminar Circulation of Extremist Narratives through the Parliaments: Current National and European Contexts, dedicated to the circulation of extremist narratives in …

You are kindly invited to a new lecture in the History on the Edge series, which will take place on Wednesday, September 16, 2026, at the INZ premises or via the ZOOM link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84664422400?pwd=b61EIvRBkMcapTCUwbscnA3NtuNS6K.1 . In the new season, lectures will take place at 3 p.m. and if you will be joining us in person, …

We invite you to the final workshop of the project “Systems of Care and Education for Children with Sensory Disabilities in the First and Second Yugoslav State”, which will take place on 9 September 2026 at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana. The workshop will bring together researchers and individuals with personal experience to …

15–16 September 2026, Hokkaido University in Japan will host the international research workshop Socialist Techno-Optimism and Governance of Economic Development, 1955–1991, organized by the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University and the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana, in collaboration with the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The two-day workshop will …

What can stones in riverbeds tell us about droughts of the past? Our colleague Dr Ivan Smiljanić spoke to Svet24 about his research on hunger stones – rocks in riverbeds on which people carved dates and inscriptions during periods of exceptionally low water levels, preserving the memory of severe droughts. In his research, he has …