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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 …
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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, …
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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 …
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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, 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, …
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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 …
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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. …
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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 …