Events
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 …
Conferences
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 …
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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/
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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 …
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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: …
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On 25 September 2025, the Institute of Contemporary History hosted a conference dedicated to poverty in old age and its various dimensions. The event presented the results of the research project Everyday Life and Life Course of Older People Living in Poverty. The research demonstrated how life trajectories – from education, employment, and family …
Conferences
Conference Rural History 2025 in Coimbra From 9 to 12 September 2025, the 7th Biennial Conference of the European Rural History Organisation (EURHO): Rural History 2025 took place in Coimbra, Portugal, hosted by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra. Researchers from the Institute of Contemporary …
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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 …
Recently Published
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 …
Recently Published
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, …