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The Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana cordially invites you to the annual international conference of the project Systems of Care and Education of Children with Sensory Disabilities in the First and Second Yugoslav State (AIIS-J6-50189), which will take place from 5 to 6 November 2025 at the Institute’s premises (Privoz 11, Ljubljana). The conference …

You are kindly invited to a new lecture in the History on the Edge series, which will take place on Wednesday, October 22, 2025, at the INZ premises or via the ZOOM link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85093074535?pwd=chFdSCgScVg8fw1djh3bVz8h9gqWtm.1 . In the new season, lectures will take place at 3 p.m. and if you will be joining us in person, …

  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 …

This August marked the 80th anniversary of the introduction of universal suffrage for women in the former Yugoslavia — a landmark moment in the struggle for equality. In the radio show Sledi časa, our colleague Dr. Isidora Grubački (INZ) joined Dr. Ana Cergol Paradiž (FF UL) and Dr. Milica Antić Gaber (FF UL) to discuss …

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 …

You are kindly invited to the first lecture of the new generation of visiting fellows in the History on the Edge series, which will take place on Wednesday, October 15, 2025, at the INZ premises or via the ZOOM link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85093074535?pwd=chFdSCgScVg8fw1djh3bVz8h9gqWtm.1 . In the new season, lectures will take place at 3 p.m. and if …

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 …

New Season of the History on the Edge Lecture Series We are pleased to announce the start of a new season of History on the Edge! The program of lectures running until the end of the year is now available. Lectures will take place at the Institute of Contemporary History (Privoz 11, Ljubljana) and via …

  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 …

On 23 and 24 October, the Institute of Contemporary History will host an international workshop dedicated to the relationship between business and the natural environment in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, organized by the European Business History Association. You are warmly invited! For more information, visit: https://www.wbhcee.org/

On Wednesday, 1 October 2025, the Institute of Contemporary History hosted a presentation of two new scholarly publications: East Central European Crisis Discourses in the Twentieth Century: A Never-Ending Story? (Routledge, 2024) Intellectuals and the Crisis of Politics in the Interwar Period and Beyond (Oxford University Press, 2025) The event featured Balázs Trencsényi (Central European …

On 25 and 26 September 2025, the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, hosted the international conference Reproductive Politics and Motherhood in Historical Perspective. The event was organized within the research project Motherhood and Reproductive Politics in the 19th and 20th Century (J6-4602), funded by ARIS. Researchers from the Institute of Contemporary History also participated: …