Events
On 19 May 2026, Dr Ivan Smiljanić delivered a lecture at the Museum of Contemporary History of Slovenia entitled Chernobyl 1986: A View from Yugoslavia. Marking the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, he presented the circumstances that led to the catastrophe and the responses of European—and particularly Yugoslav—political authorities and the wider public. …
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The Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana, invites paper proposals for the Workshop “Life Cycles under Socialist Regimes: Managing Gender Relations, Aging, and Health,” to be held on February 16, 2027, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. State socialism, as a political and economic system, was one of the major innovations of the twentieth century and became a global …
Conferences
Our colleague Sara Šifrar Krajnik presented her doctoral research in June at the ZUG-minisymposium at BOKU University. During her stay in Vienna, she also conducted additional archival research at the Österreichisches Staatsarchiv, collecting and analyzing sources that will contribute to the further development of her doctoral project. Congratulations on the successful presentation and research work!
Events
You are warmly invited to the final workshop of the project Systems of care and education of children with sensory disabilities in the first and second Yugoslav state. The workshop will take place on 9 September 2026 at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana. The event is organised as part of the ARIS project …
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On 17 June 2026, we hosted a new lecture at the Institute of Contemporary History as part of the History on the Edge lecture series. In his lecture “Yugoslavia and Cambodia: Entangled Histories of Non-Alignment,” Dominik Gutmeyr-Schnur presented how Yugoslav and Cambodian political histories intersected on multiple levels, and how transnational encounters helped shape the …
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On 17 June 2026, our colleagues Dr Mojca Šorn, Dr Marta Rendla, Dr Andrej Pančur and Tamara Logar attended the presentation of the 72nd issue of Loški razgledi, organised by the Museum Society of Škofja Loka at the Sokol Home in Škofja Loka. On this occasion, they presented the database Fatalities among the Population on …
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On 12 June 2026, the Institute of Contemporary History hosted a presentation of the book Nonaligned Imagination: Yugoslavia, the Global South, and Literary Solidarities Beyond the Cold War Blocs. Author Nataša Kovačević presented her work, which explores literary and cultural connections between Yugoslavia, the Global South, and broader spaces of non-alignment beyond the Cold War …
Events
On July 9–10, 2026, the Institute of Contemporary History will host the international workshop: Experts in Transition: Political Epistemologies of 1980s–2000s East Central Europe The workshop is open to the public and to interested scholars. If you are planning to participate, please write to Adela Hîncu – adela.hincu@inz.si in advance. Workshop program Day 1 – …
Conferences
Three researchers from the Institute of Contemporary History – Jan Bernot, Lev Centrih, and Neja Blaj Hribar – participated in the international conference “Homecomings” and Internal Migrations in the History and Present of Central and Southeastern Europe, held in Koper on 11–12 June 2026. The conference explored historical and contemporary migration processes in Central and …
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On 10 June 2026, as part of the History on the Edge lecture series, we hosted a new lecture at the Institute of Contemporary History. In his presentation, “Socializing Medicine, Making Medicine Social: East-Central Europe, Socialist Expertise and Cold War Knowledge Circulation”, José Luis Aguilar López-Barajas explored the role of socialist East-Central Europe in the …
Events
On 9 June 2026, the Institute of Contemporary History hosted an event of the LahTex project, which is developing a corpus of easy-to-read Slovenian texts. Representatives of Zavod RISA, RTV Slovenija, and the Competence Centre for Easy-to-Read Language presented their experiences and activities, while the Institute of Contemporary History and the Faculty of Computer and …
Conferences
In early June, our colleague Dr Ivan Smiljanić participated in the annual international conference of the Society for Ethnobotany in Montpellier, France. As part of his postdoctoral project on the planting of memorial trees in Slovenia, he presented the paper “Planting Patriotism: Political Memorial Trees in Slovenia from Austria-Hungary to Today”, exploring the history of …