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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 …

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 …

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 …

  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 …

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 …

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 …

Oliver Pejić and Neja Blaj Hribar attended the international conference “History of Yugoslavia: Perspectives of Young Researchers from the Post-Yugoslav Space” last week (October 15–18). Institute for recent history, Srbija organised the first (ideally conventional) meeting in the Archive of Yugoslavia. The participants of the international conference included scholars from the former Yugoslavia who offered …

Last week, Jure Gašparič and Isidora Grubački from our Institute attended the international conference “Going Extreme: History, Narratives and the Threat to Democracies in Europe”, which took place at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona from 25th to 27th of September 2024. The conference was organised in the framework of the ARENAS: Analysis and …

Dr. Jelena Seferović will have the following presentation at the symposium “Karlovački bioetički susreti – zdravlje od rođenja do smrti”, which will be on Friday, December 2, 2022: “Other claim that nothing can be found out withouth a gipsy women”: Qualitative analysis of interpretations of suicide in the late 19th and early 20th centuries” The …

  LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES & DIGITAL HUMANITIES CONFERENCE 2022 https://www.sdjt.si/jtdh-2022/en/ The Slovenian Language Technologies Society (SDJT), the Centre for Language Resources and Technologies at the University of Ljubljana (CJVT), the Institute of Contemporary History (INZ) and the research infrastructures CLARIN.SI and DARIAH-SI are organising the conference “Language Technologies and Digital Humanities” on 15th and 16th September 2022. The biennial conference …