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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, …

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 …

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 …

On 19 May 2026, Dr Ivan Smiljanić delivered a lecture at the Museum of Contemporary History of Slovenia entitled Chernobyl 1986: A View from Yugoslavia. Marking the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, he presented the circumstances that led to the catastrophe and the responses of European—and particularly Yugoslav—political authorities and the wider public. …

Our colleague Sara Šifrar Krajnik presented her doctoral research in June at the ZUG-minisymposium at BOKU University. During her stay in Vienna, she also conducted additional archival research at the Österreichisches Staatsarchiv, collecting and analyzing sources that will contribute to the further development of her doctoral project. Congratulations on the successful presentation and research work!

You are warmly invited to the final workshop of the project Systems of care and education of children with sensory disabilities in the first and second Yugoslav state. The workshop will take place on 9 September 2026 at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana. The event is organised as part of the ARIS project …