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On 12 June 2026, the Institute of Contemporary History hosted a presentation of the book Nonaligned Imagination: Yugoslavia, the Global South, and Literary Solidarities Beyond the Cold War Blocs. Author Nataša Kovačević presented her work, which explores literary and cultural connections between Yugoslavia, the Global South, and broader spaces of non-alignment beyond the Cold War …

On July 9–10, 2026, the Institute of Contemporary History will host the international workshop: Experts in Transition: Political Epistemologies of 1980s–2000s East Central Europe The workshop is open to the public and to interested scholars. If you are planning to participate, please write to Adela Hîncu – adela.hincu@inz.si in advance. Workshop program Day 1 – …

Our colleague Nina Ošep participated in the Agricultural History Society Annual Meeting, held from 4–6 June 2026 in Atlanta, USA. She presented her paper, Managing Land through Marriage: Family Strategies in Southeastern Alps (Styria), 1800–1900, in the session Women, Families, and Communities, exploring the role of marriage and family strategies in land management in the …

On 28 May 2026, our colleague Dr Bojan Godeša participated in the èStoria festival in Gorizia and Nova Gorica. As part of the event »V spomin Branku Marušiču / Omaggio a Branko Marušič, storico«, he took part in the discussion »Il clero sloveno del Litorale durante il fascismo / Slovenska primorska duhovščina v času fašizma«, …

On 3 June 2026, as part of the History on the Edge lecture series, we hosted a new lecture at the Institute of Contemporary History. In her presentation, “The Socialist and Neoliberal ‘New Man’: Post-Revolutionary Discursive Images in Czechoslovakia (1948 and 1989)”, Denisa Nečasová compared the visions of the “new man” that emerged in two …

On Tuesday, 2 June 2026, our colleague Filip Dobranič gave a presentation of a collection of more than 350,000 advertising clippings from the newspaper Slovenski narod (1868–1914). The presentation offered insights into a large-scale digital humanities project that enables the study of advertising, consumer culture, and the language of persuasion in the late nineteenth and …

Our colleagues Dr Vojko Gorjanc and Katja Meden participated in the DARIAH Annual Event 2026 in Rome. They took part in the panel Joining the Dots in South-East Europe: Building the DARIAH-SEE Regional Hub as an Infrastructure of Engagement, co-chaired by Dr Vojko Gorjanc and Lana Šehović. As part of the panel, they presented the …

On 28–29 May 2026, the conference Environment and Society in East-Central Europe took place at the University of Ostrava, bringing together scholars working on environmental history and related fields. Six researchers from the Department of Economic, Social and Environmental History of Slovenia participated in the event. At the panel Hydrological Extremes in Slovenia: Floods, Droughts …

We have developed open artificial intelligence for the competitiveness of the Slovenian economy. You are warmly invited to the final event of the project Adaptive Natural Language Processing with Large Language Models (PoVeJMo), within which the large generative language model for Slovenian, GaMS, was developed. The event will present the GaMS model as well as …

Our colleague Dr Aleš Gabrič appeared in the programme Podoba podobe, dedicated to Trg republike (Republic Square), one of Slovenia’s most important urban and architectural projects. Together with other guests, he discussed the historical significance of Trg republike, its role during socialist Yugoslavia, and its importance as the site where Slovenia’s independence was proclaimed in …

Our colleague Dr Jan Bernot attended the Austrian Studies Association (ASA) conference, which took place at the University of Salzburg between 28 and 31 May 2026. As part of the FWF research project Language Diversity and Dynamic Interdependencies between Roman Catholic Church Dioceses and Dualist Austrian State Institutions, he presented the paper: Teaching Religion in …

You are kindly invited to a new lecture in the History on the Edge series, which will take place on Wednesday, June 17, 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, …