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Conference ASEEES in Washington, DC.

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 …

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Conference Theoretical and Practical Aspects of East European Development Aid to Africa during the Cold War Era

On 20–21 November 2025, the University of Warsaw hosted the conference Theoretical and Practical Aspects of East European Development Aid to Africa during the Cold War Era. Our colleague Tjaša Konovšek also took part, presenting Tracing Solidarity and Development: Origins, Activities and Transformation of the Centre for the Study and Cooperation of Yugoslavia with Developing …

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Conference Migrant Work beyond Categorization: Migrants and Refugees at Work in 20th-Century East Central Europe

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 …

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Seminar Parliaments and Their Artists

On Tuesday, 11 November 2025, at 4:00 p.m., a historical seminar titled Parliaments and Their Artists will take place at the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Komunardů 1634/44, Prague 7). The event, organized by the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Office of the …

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10th annual conference of the Danish Society for Marxist Studies – Abolition

On October 10–11, 2025, Dr. Victor Strazzeri took part in the 10th annual Conference of the Danish Society for Marxist Studies – Abolition, held at Aarhus University, Denmark. In the Feminist Abolitionism section, he presented his paper “Isolating Connectivity: On the Political Economy of Capitalist Loneliness.” We’re sharing a few photo highlights from the conference. …

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Symposium on Totalitarianisms at the National Museum of Contemporary History of Slovenia

Symposium on Totalitarianisms at the National Museum of Contemporary History of Slovenia On Tuesday, 14 October 2025, the Knight’s Hall of the National Museum of Contemporary History of Slovenia hosted the Symposium on Totalitarianisms, dedicated to exploring cases of totalitarian violence and resistance in Slovenia during the Second World War. The event brought together researchers …

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Conference Balkan Matters! Cinquième Rencontres d’Études Balkaniques

  Dr. Isidora Grubački participated in the conference Balkan Matters! Cinquième Rencontres d’Études Balkaniques, held at the inspiring MucemLab at Fort Saint-Jean in Marseille, France (25–27 September 2025). In the panel Material Cultures in the Balkans – Writing Practices and the Documentary Turn, she presented her paper “The Materiality of Ideas: Archives, Letters, and the …

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Symposium on Totalitarianisms: Examples of Totalitarian Violence and Resistance in Slovenia During the Second World War

14 October 2025

On Tuesday, 14 October 2025, the Symposium on Totalitarianisms will take place in the Knight’s Hall of the National Museum of Contemporary History of Slovenia (Celovška cesta 23, Ljubljana). The event will focus on exploring various cases of totalitarian violence and resistance in Slovenia during the Second World War. Dr. Andrej Pančur and Tamara Logar …

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The Aggressor: Self-Perception and External Perception of an Actor Between Nations

1 - 3 October 2025

The Institute of Contemporary History hosted the international conference The Aggressor: Self-Perception and External Perception of an Actor Between Nations from 1 to 3 October 2025. The event was organized as part of the international research project of the University of Heidelberg and the RuhrUniversity of Bochum. Researchers from various European academic institutions gathered to …

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41st Annual Meeting of the Association of Historical Societies of Slovenia

  Members of the research groups Economic, Social, and Environmental History of Slovenia and Digital Humanities participated in the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association of Historical Societies of Slovenia, held in Brežice on October 1 and 2, 2025. The participants included: Filip Dobranić: Korpus sPeriodika Sara Šifrar Krajnik: The Alpine River Landscape and Hydroelectric …

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Conference Rural History 2025 in Coimbra

Conference Rural History 2025 in Coimbra From 9 to 12 September 2025, the 7th Biennial Conference of the European Rural History Organisation (EURHO): Rural History 2025 took place in Coimbra, Portugal, hosted by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra. Researchers from the Institute of Contemporary …

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Researchers’ Visit to Kagawa University

At the end of January and the beginning of February INZ colleagues Nataša Henig Miščič, Žarko Lazarević and Ivan Smiljanić visited Japan as part of a bilateral project with Kagawa University. They participated in a panel at the International Research Centre for Japanese Studies in Kyoto as part of a research project on smells and …