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Zgodovina na Špici / History on the Edge You are kindly invited to the first autumn lecture after the summer break in the History on the Edge series, which will take place on Wednesday, September 24, 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 …

We spent the hot days of June (June 17-20, 2025 to be precise) in the charming German city of Göttingen, where the annual DARIAH conference took place. This year, under the title The Past, we were taken on a journey to nowhere else but the past! Of course with modern digital tools, fresh approaches and …

The call for Visiting Fellows at the Institute of Contemporary History (INZ) has officially closed. We are grateful to have received over 100 high-quality applications from around the world – diverse, inspiring, and professionally outstanding. With limited accommodation capacity, the selection process was highly competitive, and only around 25% of applicants were accepted. We sincerely …

Over the past academic year, we had the pleasure of hosting an extraordinary range of historical and political science lectures – from the history of suicide, women during the Second World War, and sugar beet, to timely discussions on hate speech in today’s world.

Economics, Nationalism and Politics in Central, East and South-East Europe You are kindly invited to the international conference WEAST 2025 Ljubljana Workshop: Economics, Nationalism and Politics in Central, East and South-East Europe, which will take place on 19. and 20. June 2025 at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana. Please find attached the programme …

Zgodovina na Špici / History on the Edge Lepo vabljeni na novo predavanje v ciklu dogodkov Zgodovina na Špici, ki bo potekalo v sredo, 11. junija 2025, ob 13. uri v prostorih INZ ali na ZOOM povezavi: ZOOM. Predaval bo Andreas Guidi, naslov predavanja bo »Švercanje cigaret v Svobodno tržaško ozemlje: nezakonita trgovina v Sredozemlju in …

V torek, 3. 6. je dr. Meta Remec gostovala na Radiu Slovenija, program ARS, in prestavila rezultate projekta Greh, sramota, simptom: samomor in njegove percepcije na Slovenskem (1850–2000)- Šifra projekta: J6-3123. Celoten podcast dostopen na: https://365.rtvslo.si/podkast/glasovi-svetov/175136910

Zgodovina na Špici / History on the Edge Lepo vabljeni na novo predavanje v ciklu dogodkov Zgodovina na Špici, ki bo potekalo v sredo, 4. junija 2025, ob 13. uri v prostorih INZ ali na ZOOM povezavi: ZOOM. Predavala bo Jelena Tešija, naslov predavanja pa bo »Ali znajo (ne) samo nositi košare na trg?: Jugoslavija …

  We kindly invite you to the presentation of the book Mountain Battery, which the author Marc Landry will present on June 12 at the Institute of Contemporary History. When and where: Thursday, June 12, 11.00, Institute for Contemporary History (Privoz 11, Ljubljana) About the Book By the end of the nineteenth century, Europeans had …

We are pleased to announce that, following a thorough and carefully managed transition process, the ERC project BeNaSta (We investigate popular discontent, the state and minority national movements in East-Central Europe between the 1870s and the First World War) www.benasta.si/ has now been fully transferred under the management of the Institute of Contemporary History. We are delighted that …

Zgodovina na Špici / History on the Edge   You are kindly invited to the new event of the History on the Edge series, which will take place on Wednesday, 28. 5. 2025 at 13:00, at the INZ premises or at the ZOOM link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86949706378 The lecture titled Hope or crisis? Temporalities of democracy in the post-WWI ‘New …

The Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana is now accepting applications for the Visiting Fellowship program, for the visits to take place between October 1, 2025, and September 30, 2026. The deadline for applications is July 1, 2025. The decisions will be made by July 31, 2025, at the latest. Scholars working in the field …