News and Events

The first issue of the new premium magazine DNVK, published by Dnevnik Mediji, features an article by Dr Aleš Gabrič titled The Culture War Then and Now. The article is written in Slovene. You are warmly invited to read it!          

On World AIDS Day (2 December), our colleague Dr Maja Lukanc appeared in the Tednik feature Four Decades of Confronting AIDS. The segment looks back at the time when AIDS was described as the “plague of the 20th century” — a period marked by fear, uncertainty, and stigma — and at the medical progress that …

Conference ASEEES in Washington, DC.   Between November 20–23, our colleagues Isidora Grubački and Adela Hîncu took part in the 57th Annual Convention of ASEEES in Washington, DC. Isidora Grubački presented her paper “Peasant Women and Women’s Rights in Yugoslavia, 1930s–1950s: Seeking Peasant Women’s Voices” in the panel “Political Thought, Memory, and Biographies from Women’s …

The book Texts and Context from the History of Feminism and Women’s Rights: East Central Europe, the Second Part of the Twentieth Century (CEU Press, 2024), edited by Zsófia Lóránd, Adela Hîncu, Jovana Mihajlović Trbovc, and Katarzyna Stańczak-Wiślicz, was awarded for Excellence in Science by ARIS. On November 12, Adela Hîncu and Jovana Mihajlović Trbovc participated in a roundtable discussion and received the award as part …

The 2025 Open Science Day took place on 20–21 November as part of the Knowledge Network 2025 conference at the Four Points by Sheraton Ljubljana Mons hotel. Our director Dr Andrej Pančur participated in the roundtable “Evaluating Science and Assessing Career Progression in the Context of Stable Funding for Research Work.” The roundtable also featured: …

At the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, the conference Migrant Work beyond Categorization: Migrants and Refugees at Work in 20th-Century East Central Europe took place on 19–20 November 2025. Our colleagues Neja Blaj Hribar and Oliver Pejić participated in the event and presented their paper: Between State-Imposed Solidarity …

A workshop on researching parliamentary records from 29 European countries and regions took place at Utrecht University. Participants explored the CLARIN.SI noSketchEngine and TEITOK tools and analysed both original and machine-translated records. The workshop was led by our colleagues Dr. Anna Kryvenko and Dr. Kristina Pahor de Maiti Tekavčič from the Digital Humanities research group …

On Wednesday, 12 November 2025, the Institute of Contemporary History hosted a new lecture in the series History on the Edge. The lecture was delivered by Naum Trajanovski, who presented his book The History of Macedonian Sociology: In Search of Identity. In his talk, he highlighted the key phases in the development of sociology in …

Our colleague Dr. Bojan Godeša shared his insights for an RTV Slovenia feature on the significance of the Nuremberg Trials and how they shaped our understanding of individual responsibility for war crimes. The feature also includes Dr. Kornelija Ajlec from the Faculty of Arts. You can read the full article here: https://www.rtvslo.si/80-let-od-konca-2-svetovne-vojne/nuernberg-in-pomen-za-mednarodno-pravo-da-se-za-vojne-zlocine-terja-odgovornost-posameznika/764109 You are kindly …

On Wednesday, 29 October 2025, the Institute of Contemporary History hosted a new lecture in the History on the Edge series. Željka Oparnica delivered a talk titled: The Exception to Passivity: Student Movement and Minority Politics in Interwar Yugoslavia. The lecture highlighted the highly active interwar student movement, its political engagement, social and ideological dimensions, …

Workplace Health Promotion: Lecture by Tina Žarki Today, as part of our Workplace Health Promotion Plan, we hosted a lecture by Tina Žarki. She shared insights from her extreme cycling challenges and demonstrated how strategy, discipline, and energy management can help prevent stress, burnout, and the risks of sedentary work. Through the story of the …

SMASH at INZ: Artificial Intelligence and the Humanities On Wednesday, 10 November 2025, the Institute of Contemporary History hosted an educational event within the SMASH project, dedicated to the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in contemporary research. In the first part, Dr. Andrej Pančur and Filip Dobranić presented how INZ integrates machine learning …