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We kindly invite you to a guest lecture by Dr. Patrick Kupper, which will take place on October 17 at the Institute of Contemporary History. When and where: Friday, October 17, 11.00, Institute of Contemporary History (Privoz 11, Ljubljana) About the lecture Why is the civilian use of nuclear energy currently viewed so differently? Why …
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The Institute for Recent History of Serbia has published the volume Nova istraživanja jugoslovenske prošlosti: perspektive sa postjugoslovenskog prostora (eds. Natalija Dimić Lompar, Ognjen Tomić, and Nikola Koneski). Our colleagues dr. Oliver Pejić and Neja Blaj Hribar have also contributed with the following articles: Dr. Oliver Pejić: Dometi i ograničenja pripadnosti državnom narodu u Kraljevini …
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Konzorcij projekta »SPOZNAJ – Podpora pri uvajanju načel odprte znanosti v Sloveniji«, katerega del je tudi Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino, organizira 3. nacionalni dogodek. Potekal bo v četrtek, 9. oktobra 2025, od 10h do 16h na Rudolfovem – Znanstvenem in tehnološkem središču Novo mesto ter prek spleta (ZOOM). Več na: Vabilo SPOZNAJ – 3. Nacionalni …
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The Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana cordially invites you to the presentation and discussion of the online exhibition project Fabrike radnicima. Date and time: Tuesday, 16 September 2025, at 13:00 Venue: conference room, Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana The project will be presented by its co-founder and curator Vladimir Unkovski-Korica (University of Glasgow), who …
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The monograph Suicide Between Symptom and Metaphor explores suicide in 20th-century Slovenia beyond medical and psychiatric frameworks, treating it as a historical, cultural, and political phenomenon. The authors show that suicide is not merely an intimate decision of the individual, but also a space where broader social tensions, ideological conflicts, and collective ideas about meaning, …
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This monograph examines the issue of drought in Slovenian history from various perspectives. The individual chapters were written by twelve authors. Drought is a natural phenomenon for which there are various definitions, but what they all have in common is that they define drought as a phenomenon caused by a lack of precipitation, which affects …
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The Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana is pleased to invite you to the launch of two new volumes: East Central European Crisis Discourses in the Twentieth Century: A Never-Ending Story (Routledge, 2024), edited by Balázs Trencsényi, Lucija Balikić, Una Blagojević, and Isidora Grubački Intellectuals and the Crisis of Politics in the Interwar Period and Beyond (Oxford University …
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INZ is proud to host an ERC Starting Grant project The European Research Council (ERC) has this year awarded a total of €761 million to support 478 early-career researchers across Europe. Among the selected grantees is Dr. Agustin Cosovschi, who has chosen our institution as the host for his project Brokers of Non-Alignment: Biographical and …
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Reaseach Data Mangement Plan – Online handbook As part of the SPOZNAJ project, the first Slovenian online handbook dedicated entirely to Reaseach Data Mangement Plan (DMP) is now available. It is intended for researchers from various fields and offers basic information, practical guidelines, and an overview of the key steps in data management at all …
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Vabimo vas na posvet, na katerem bomo predstavili rezultate temeljne raziskave Vsakdanje življenje in življenjski potek starih ljudi, ki živijo v revščini, v kateri smo proučevali, kako življenjski poteki (odraščanje, šolanje, delo, zaposlitev, partnerstvo in družina ter skrbstvene obveznosti) opredeljujejo, standardizirajo in oblikujejo življenja starejših ljudi, ki živijo v revščini. Raziskovali smo tudi, kako na …
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The Swedish city of Uppsala hosted ESEH 2025 – The 13th European Society for Environmental History Conference: Climate Histories, one of the most important European conferences in the field of environmental history, from August 18 to 22, 2025. The conference brought together researchers from around the world for five days of discussions on the history …
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Na Gallusovem nabrežju v Ljubljani bo od 1. septembra do 1. oktobra na ogled razstava o odprti znanosti. Skozi raznolike vsebine in primere iz slovenskega raziskovalnega okolja boste na razstavi lahko spoznali, kako odprta znanost deluje v praksi. Plakati prikazujejo dejavnoti tako raziskovalnih institucij kakor tudi različna sodelovanja z lokalnimi skupnostmi. Poseben poudarek je namenjen …