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From September 29 to October 1, 2026, the CLARIN Annual Conference 2026 took place in Brighton, United Kingdom, bringing together researchers from the fields of language technologies, digital humanities, social sciences, and the humanities. Our colleagues also presented their research in the “Abstract Presentations: ParlaMint” session: Katja Meden, together with Tomaž Erjavec from the Jožef …

On September 24–25, 2026, the Institute of Contemporary History hosted the international conference “Reproductive Politics in the Atlantic Space: Advances (and Reversals) from the Postwar Period to the Present”, bringing together researchers from various European countries and beyond. The two-day conference focused on the historical development of reproductive politics and rights from the end of …

In September, Nesa Vrečer attended the conference “Women in Late Socialism: Gender Orders, Agency, and Transnational Entanglements” (17–19 September), co-organised by the Department of Eastern European History at Humboldt University Berlin and the Federal Foundation for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Germany (Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung). She took part in the conference as part of …

Our colleague Sara Šifrar Krajnik attended a three-day international D-A-CH workshop in Switzerland in September, focusing on “Umwelt und Ressourcen” (Environment and Resources). During the workshop, she presented a paper titled “Die Eisenbahnverwaltung […] hat einen beträchtlichen Teil des Wassers für die elektrische Anlage entnommen”, in which she explored hydropower facilities as secondary infrastructure in …

As part of DARIAH-SI, the Institute of Contemporary History co-organised the Language Technologies and Digital Humanities Conference (JT-DH 2026) together with the Slovenian Language Technologies Society (SDJT), the Centre for Language Resources and Technologies (CJVT) and CLARIN.SI. The conference took place on 17 and 18 September at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University …

Our colleague Sara Šifrar Krajnik presented her doctoral research in June at the ZUG-minisymposium at BOKU University. During her stay in Vienna, she also conducted additional archival research at the Österreichisches Staatsarchiv, collecting and analyzing sources that will contribute to the further development of her doctoral project. Congratulations on the successful presentation and research work!

Three researchers from the Institute of Contemporary History – Jan Bernot, Lev Centrih, and Neja Blaj Hribar – participated in the international conference “Homecomings” and Internal Migrations in the History and Present of Central and Southeastern Europe, held in Koper on 11–12 June 2026. The conference explored historical and contemporary migration processes in Central and …

In early June, our colleague Dr Ivan Smiljanić participated in the annual international conference of the Society for Ethnobotany in Montpellier, France. As part of his postdoctoral project on the planting of memorial trees in Slovenia, he presented the paper “Planting Patriotism: Political Memorial Trees in Slovenia from Austria-Hungary to Today”, exploring the history of …

Our colleague Nina Ošep participated in the Agricultural History Society Annual Meeting, held from 4–6 June 2026 in Atlanta, USA. She presented her paper, Managing Land through Marriage: Family Strategies in Southeastern Alps (Styria), 1800–1900, in the session Women, Families, and Communities, exploring the role of marriage and family strategies in land management in the …

On 28 May 2026, our colleague Dr Bojan Godeša participated in the èStoria festival in Gorizia and Nova Gorica. As part of the event »V spomin Branku Marušiču / Omaggio a Branko Marušič, storico«, he took part in the discussion »Il clero sloveno del Litorale durante il fascismo / Slovenska primorska duhovščina v času fašizma«, …

Our colleagues Dr Vojko Gorjanc and Katja Meden participated in the DARIAH Annual Event 2026 in Rome. They took part in the panel Joining the Dots in South-East Europe: Building the DARIAH-SEE Regional Hub as an Infrastructure of Engagement, co-chaired by Dr Vojko Gorjanc and Lana Šehović. As part of the panel, they presented the …

On 28–29 May 2026, the conference Environment and Society in East-Central Europe took place at the University of Ostrava, bringing together scholars working on environmental history and related fields. Six researchers from the Department of Economic, Social and Environmental History of Slovenia participated in the event. At the panel Hydrological Extremes in Slovenia: Floods, Droughts …