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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 …

Three researchers from the Institute of Contemporary History – Jan Bernot, Lev Centrih, and Neja Blaj Hribar – participated in the international conference “Homecomings” and Internal Migrations in the History and Present of Central and Southeastern Europe, held in Koper on 11–12 June 2026. The conference explored historical and contemporary migration processes in Central and …

On 10 June 2026, as part of the History on the Edge lecture series, we hosted a new lecture at the Institute of Contemporary History. In his presentation, “Socializing Medicine, Making Medicine Social: East-Central Europe, Socialist Expertise and Cold War Knowledge Circulation”, José Luis Aguilar López-Barajas explored the role of socialist East-Central Europe in the …

On 9 June 2026, the Institute of Contemporary History hosted an event of the LahTex project, which is developing a corpus of easy-to-read Slovenian texts. Representatives of Zavod RISA, RTV Slovenija, and the Competence Centre for Easy-to-Read Language presented their experiences and activities, while the Institute of Contemporary History and the Faculty of Computer and …

In early June, our colleague Dr Ivan Smiljanić participated in the annual international conference of the Society for Ethnobotany in Montpellier, France. As part of his postdoctoral project on the planting of memorial trees in Slovenia, he presented the paper “Planting Patriotism: Political Memorial Trees in Slovenia from Austria-Hungary to Today”, exploring the history of …

We are pleased to share that our colleague Associate Professor Lev Centrih has received the Bartol Award for Teaching Excellence for the 2024/2025 academic year. The award is presented by the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Primorska in recognition of outstanding achievements in teaching and dedicated work with students. This recognition highlights excellence …

 We are pleased to share that the international workshop Intellectual History of Antifascism: Women’s Responses to the Rise of Fascism and Nazism took place in Prague on 4–5 June 2026. The workshop was the first event organized within the research project Toward an Integrative Approach to Women’s Political Thought in East Central Europe: Cases from …

You are warmly invited to the presentation of the scientific monograph Tomajci: Slovenian History in Miniature (16th–20th Century), edited by Aleksander Panjek. The presentation will take place on Tuesday, 19 May, at 6:00 p.m. in the Atrium of ZRC, Novi trg 2, Ljubljana. The monograph offers an in-depth look at the centuries-long development of the …

On Tuesday, 5 May, the Institute of Contemporary History hosted a lecture in the Popoldnevi z DARIAH series entitled “Why Is Reading Truly Essential?” The lecture was delivered by colleagues from the Slovenian Institute for Adult Education: Assist. Prof. Dr. Petra Javrh, Alenka Štrukelj, and Natalija Žalec, who spoke about reading habits, the promotion of …