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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/85093074535?pwd=chFdSCgScVg8fw1djh3bVz8h9gqWtm.1 . In the new season, lectures will take place at 3 p.m. and if you will be joining us in person, …

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 …

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 …

Non-Elite Encounters with Nationhood in the Late Habsburg Empire (1848-1918) (Neelitna srečevanja z nacionalnostjo v pozni Habsburški monarhiji (1848-1918)   1-2 March 2027, Ljubljana   Call for Proposals   In recent years, historical nationalism scholarships has seen an exciting turn towards history from below. Employing concepts such as “everyday nationalism”, “banal nationalism” as well as …

in September (17-18 Sep. 2026), the Language Technologies and Digital Humanities conference (JT-DH 2026) will take place at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science in Ljubljana. Registration is now open via the online form: https://forms.gle/u1qRMVHPCymnAR666 For more information, please see the official conference page: https://www.sdjt.si/wp/jtdh-2026-en/

Between 24 and 26 June, a three-day workshop took place at the EHESS (École des hautes études en sciences sociales) in Paris; this was the first event in the series entitled ‘Trajectories and Experiences of Associational Life in South-East Europe: Greece and Yugoslavia’. The workshop was organised as part of the PHC Proteus bilateral project …

On Thursday, 16 July 2026, Dr Anna Horstmann gave a lecture at the Institute of Contemporary History as part of her visiting fellowship. She presented her habilitation project, which is based on approximately 7,500 school essays written in 1955 and 1956 and explores how pupils in West Germany remembered the Second World War and the …