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INZ is proud to host an ERC Starting Grant project  The European Research Council (ERC) has this year awarded a total of €761 million to support 478 early-career researchers across Europe. Among the selected grantees is Dr. Agustin Cosovschi, who has chosen our institution as the host for his project Brokers of Non-Alignment: Biographical and …

Reaseach Data Mangement Plan – Online handbook As part of the SPOZNAJ project, the first Slovenian online handbook dedicated entirely to Reaseach Data Mangement Plan (DMP) is now available. It is intended for researchers from various fields and offers basic information, practical guidelines, and an overview of the key steps in data management at all …

We spent the hot days of June (June 17-20, 2025 to be precise) in the charming German city of Göttingen, where the annual DARIAH conference took place. This year, under the title The Past, we were taken on a journey to nowhere else but the past! Of course with modern digital tools, fresh approaches and …

The call for Visiting Fellows at the Institute of Contemporary History (INZ) has officially closed. We are grateful to have received over 100 high-quality applications from around the world – diverse, inspiring, and professionally outstanding. With limited accommodation capacity, the selection process was highly competitive, and only around 25% of applicants were accepted. We sincerely …

Over the past academic year, we had the pleasure of hosting an extraordinary range of historical and political science lectures – from the history of suicide, women during the Second World War, and sugar beet, to timely discussions on hate speech in today’s world.

V torek, 3. 6. je dr. Meta Remec gostovala na Radiu Slovenija, program ARS, in prestavila rezultate projekta Greh, sramota, simptom: samomor in njegove percepcije na Slovenskem (1850–2000)- Šifra projekta: J6-3123. Celoten podcast dostopen na: https://365.rtvslo.si/podkast/glasovi-svetov/175136910

We are pleased to announce that, following a thorough and carefully managed transition process, the ERC project BeNaSta (We investigate popular discontent, the state and minority national movements in East-Central Europe between the 1870s and the First World War) www.benasta.si/ has now been fully transferred under the management of the Institute of Contemporary History. We are delighted that …

Zgodovina na Špici / History on the Edge   You are kindly invited to the new event of the History on the Edge series, which will take place on Wednesday, 28. 5. 2025 at 13:00, at the INZ premises or at the ZOOM link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86949706378 The lecture titled Hope or crisis? Temporalities of democracy in the post-WWI ‘New …

The Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana is now accepting applications for the Visiting Fellowship program, for the visits to take place between October 1, 2025, and September 30, 2026. The deadline for applications is July 1, 2025. The decisions will be made by July 31, 2025, at the latest. Scholars working in the field …

The annual international conference of the project “Systems of care and education of children with sensory disabilities in the first and second Yugoslav state” (ARIS – J6-50189 (C)) aims to bring together scholars from the humanities, social sciences, and related disciplines to cover a wide range of topics related to the education and employment of …

We are pleased to announce that two of our researchers have been successful in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MCSA) Fellowship call. This prestigious European grant, designed to promote excellence and international mobility of researchers, is an outstanding recognition of their work and an important step towards the further development of their research careers. The award …

You are invited to submit paper proposals for the workshop “Revolutionary Technocracy: The State and Mass Organizations in Socialist Governance since the 1950s,” which will take place on June 17, 2025, at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana. The workshop is part of the project Socialist Management in a Global Context: Technocratic Developments in …