News and Events

Last week, our colleague Tamara Logar and student Matej Vodopivec attended the 20th GRACEH conference, Ruptures in European History: Individuals, Institutions, and Historical Practices in Times of Uncertainty, held at the University of Oxford. They presented the paper From Vienna to Belgrade: Imperial Collapse and the Birth of the Yugoslav Monarchy, offering a multi-layered analysis …

At the final conference of the TeachXR project – XR as a Competence of the Future, project partners presented the results achieved, exchanged experiences in roundtable discussions, and showcased concrete examples of the use of XR technologies in education in the foyer. A colleague from the Institute of Contemporary History, Robert Vurušič, presented the project …

Nina Vodopivec je v okviru okrogle mize Political Abandonment, Silencing and Absence in Deindustrialisation, ki jo organizira mednarodna mreža raziskovalcev deindustralizacije (Depot), predstavila izsledke projekta Etnografija tišine. Njena predstavitev poudarja tišino v povezavi s strukturnim nasiljem: delavcem sicer ni bil odvzet glas, temveč možnost, da bi bili slišani. Napačne interpretacije njihovih zahtev kot nostalgije so diskvalificirale klice …

On 3 December, the workshop Wartime Data Sensitivity and Pseudonymisation: Digital Challenges and Solutions took place at the University of Luxembourg (C²DH Open Space). The workshop was led by our colleague Dr Anna Kryvenko and Dr Aliesia Soloviova (European University Institute, Florence). Participants discussed the challenges of handling sensitive wartime testimonies, pseudonymisation, and ethical data …

On Thursday, 27 November 2025, the international symposium “The Unknown Known Prežih (1893–1950)” took place in Ravne na Koroškem, focusing on the life and work of Prežihov Voranc and his role in Slovenian cultural and political history. Prežihov Voranc remains one of the key figures of the Slovenian literary canon and 20th-century social thought. Our …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

  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 …