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WEAST 2025 LJUBLJANA WORKSHOP 19-20 June 2025 Economics, Nationalism and Politics in Central, East and South-East Europe The workshop examines the role of economic nationalism in the processes of nation-building in Central, East, and South-East Europe. Economic nationalism played a central role in shaping the national cultures of these regions and served as an alternative …

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, 18 December 2024 at 13:00, at the INZ premises or at the ZOOM link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86949706378 The lecture will be given by Niklas Platzer, and the title …

You are cordially invited to the scientific-practical seminar titled »Parliaments in the Age of Crises: From Innovative Research to Societal Practices« (ParlReSo), which will take place on Thursday, 5 December 2024, from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM live at the INZ and via the platform Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82964301404?pwd=QTaSdyx0FYLnA1huaTr4SmqkcTVNZi.1   The hybrid seminar ‘Parliaments in the Age of Crises: From Innovative Research to Societal …

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, 11 December 2024 at 13:00, at the INZ premises or at the ZOOM link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86949706378 The lecture will be given by Marco Bresciani, and the title …

Congratulations to Oliver Pejić on the publication of his paper in Nationalities Papers! The scientific article titled »Beyond (Ethno)linguistic Determinism: Diverse Approaches to Nationalism in Habsburg-Austrian Schools« is available to read online on the following link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/nationalities-papers/article/beyond-ethnolinguistic-determinism-diverse-approaches-to-nationalism-in-habsburgaustrian-schools/26F4C4F48329507A48D207D4E1058598 This is an outstanding achievement so please join us in congratulating Oliver on his important step of his career.

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, 6 November 2024 at 13:00, at the INZ premises or at the ZOOM link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86949706378 The lecture will be given by Rory Archer and Goran Musić, …

Oliver Pejić and Neja Blaj Hribar attended the international conference “History of Yugoslavia: Perspectives of Young Researchers from the Post-Yugoslav Space” last week (October 15–18). Institute for recent history, Srbija organised the first (ideally conventional) meeting in the Archive of Yugoslavia. The participants of the international conference included scholars from the former Yugoslavia who offered …

The Environmental Histories of the Dinaric Karst, edited by Borna Fuerst-Bjeliš, PhD.,  Jelena Mrgić, PhD., Hrvoje Petrić, PhD., Matija Zorn, PhD., and Žiga Zwitter, PhD., has been published by the prestigious Springer Verlag. It is an interdisciplinary work that offers new research on the environmental history of the Dinaric Karst, one of the largest continuous …

Last week, Jure Gašparič and Isidora Grubački from our Institute attended the international conference “Going Extreme: History, Narratives and the Threat to Democracies in Europe”, which took place at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona from 25th to 27th of September 2024. The conference was organised in the framework of the ARENAS: Analysis and …

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, 9 October 2024 at 13:00, at the INZ premises or at the ZOOM link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86949706378. The lecture will be given by Martin Babička, and the …

You are invited to the scientific conference titled DECODING THE HISTORICAL PATTERNS EXPLORING THE DYNAMICS OF SEGREGATION AND INTEGRATION IN POLICIES AND INSTITUTIONS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES IN THE YUGOSLAV REGION 1919-1992, which will take place on 3rd and 4th of October 2024 at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana. The conference …

We are pleased to announce that Routledge has recently published a new volume titled East-Central European Crisis Discourses in the Twentieth Century. Isidora Grubački from our Institute of Contemporary History was part of the editorial team of the volume, together with Balázs Trencsény, Lucija Balikić and Una Blagojević. The edited collection also includes three chapters …