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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 …

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 …

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 …