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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 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 …
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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, …
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The Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana will host an online webinar dedicated to the Institute’s 2026/27 Visiting Fellowship Programme. The webinar will take place on 2 June 2026 at 14:00 CET. Jovana Papović will give a brief presentation of the programme and will then be available to answer questions from interested applicants and the …
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You are kindly invited to a series of short lectures entitled Beyond Pastoral Care: Clergy, Society, and Popular Agency in the Late Habsburg Empire, which will take place on Tuesday, 26 May 2026, from 11:00 to 13:00 at the Institute of Contemporary History. The event will feature a lecture by guest historian Assist. Prof. Dr. …
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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, May 27, 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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As part of the On the Edge of Modernity (Na robu sodobnosti) lecture series, a lecture by our colleague Dr Ivan Smiljanić, entitled “Chernobyl 1986: A View from Yugoslavia,” will take place on Tuesday, 19 May 2026, at 6:00 p.m. in the Knights’ Hall of Cekin Mansion at the National Museum of Contemporary History of …
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Our colleague Dr Marko Zajc will give a lecture as part of the Balkan Studies Academic Week Lecture Series, organised by the Institute of Global and Area Studies, Capital Normal University. The lecture is entitled “Between Communicators and the Withering State: Techno-Optimism in Yugoslav Self-Management”. It will address techno-optimism in Yugoslav self-management and the relationship …