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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 …
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On 17 June 2026, we hosted a new lecture at the Institute of Contemporary History as part of the History on the Edge lecture series. In his lecture “Yugoslavia and Cambodia: Entangled Histories of Non-Alignment,” Dominik Gutmeyr-Schnur presented how Yugoslav and Cambodian political histories intersected on multiple levels, and how transnational encounters helped shape the …
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On 17 June 2026, our colleagues Dr Mojca Šorn, Dr Marta Rendla, Dr Andrej Pančur and Tamara Logar attended the presentation of the 72nd issue of Loški razgledi, organised by the Museum Society of Škofja Loka at the Sokol Home in Škofja Loka. On this occasion, they presented the database Fatalities among the Population on …
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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 …
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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 – …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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, …
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You are kindly invited to a new lecture in the History on the Edge series, which will take place on Wednesday, June 10, 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, …
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You are warmly invited to the presentation of Nonaligned Imagination: Yugoslavia, the Global South, and Literary Solidarities Beyond the Cold War Blocs, presented by Nataša Kovačević. The book explores Yugoslavia’s cultural and literary connections with the Global South, as well as forms of solidarity that emerged beyond the divisions of the Cold War. The presentation …
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You are kindly invited to a new lecture in the History on the Edge series, which will take place on Wednesday, June 3, 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, …