News and Events

The international workshop Capital and Empire in Modern Southeastern Europe took place at the New Europe College in Bucharest. The event brought together researchers exploring economic and political transformations in Southeastern Europe. Our colleague dr. Oliver Pejić participated with his paper “The Westens in Central and Eastern Europe: The Rise and Fall of a Metalworking …

The first lecture in the AI4DH training series took place at the Institute of Contemporary History. These trainings are organized by the European Centre of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence in Digital Humanities and are open to the public. Participants, guided by our colleague Dr. Ajda Pretnar Žagar, explored fundamental concepts of data management and processing …

On Wednesday, 26 November 2025, the Institute of Contemporary History hosted a new lecture in the History on the Edge series. The lecture was delivered by Senna Šimek, who presented “Between Judgment and Perception – The ICTY Narrative on Croatia’s Role in the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Domestic Reactions.” She highlighted how ICTY …

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 …

We are pleased to present the continuation of the lecture series, which will guide us through the first months of the year with new historical topics, discussions, and perspectives. Lectures take place at the Institute of Contemporary History (Privoz 11, Ljubljana) and via Zoom. In the winter part of the season, lectures will continue to …

On 27 and 28 November 2025, the Institute of Contemporary History hosted the conference Discovering the Power of Nature: Participatory Environmental Education for Sustainability – Opportunities, Challenges, and Practices, organised by the Slovenian Institute for Adult Education (ACS) as part of the project Strengthening Lifelong Learning (2023–2029). The INZ also contributed to the organisation, and …

On 26 November 2025, the Institute of Contemporary History hosted the first lecture in the new Afternoons with DARIAH series. We welcomed Dr. Wolfgang Göderle from the University of Graz, who presented the project “Unlocking the Schematismus”, focused on the digital processing of one of the most extensive historical sources of the Habsburg Monarchy. In …

The first issue of the new premium magazine DNVK, published by Dnevnik Mediji, features an article by Dr Aleš Gabrič titled The Culture War Then and Now. The article is written in Slovene. You are warmly invited to read it!          

On World AIDS Day (2 December), our colleague Dr Maja Lukanc appeared in the Tednik feature Four Decades of Confronting AIDS. The segment looks back at the time when AIDS was described as the “plague of the 20th century” — a period marked by fear, uncertainty, and stigma — and at the medical progress that …

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 …

The book Texts and Context from the History of Feminism and Women’s Rights: East Central Europe, the Second Part of the Twentieth Century (CEU Press, 2024), edited by Zsófia Lóránd, Adela Hîncu, Jovana Mihajlović Trbovc, and Katarzyna Stańczak-Wiślicz, was awarded for Excellence in Science by ARIS. On November 12, Adela Hîncu and Jovana Mihajlović Trbovc participated in a roundtable discussion and received the award as part …

The 2025 Open Science Day – Day 2 took place on 21 November as part of the National Tripartite EOSC Event “Connecting Science”, which brought together representatives of research institutions, funders, and policymakers in the field of open science. Among the opening speakers was Dr. Andrej Pančur, Director of the Institute of Contemporary History and …