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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

We are pleased to share that our colleague Associate Professor Lev Centrih has received the Bartol Award for Teaching Excellence for the 2024/2025 academic year. The award is presented by the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Primorska in recognition of outstanding achievements in teaching and dedicated work with students. This recognition highlights excellence …

 We are pleased to share that the international workshop Intellectual History of Antifascism: Women’s Responses to the Rise of Fascism and Nazism took place in Prague on 4–5 June 2026. The workshop was the first event organized within the research project Toward an Integrative Approach to Women’s Political Thought in East Central Europe: Cases from …

Our colleague Nina Ošep participated in the Agricultural History Society Annual Meeting, held from 4–6 June 2026 in Atlanta, USA. She presented her paper, Managing Land through Marriage: Family Strategies in Southeastern Alps (Styria), 1800–1900, in the session Women, Families, and Communities, exploring the role of marriage and family strategies in land management in the …

On 28 May 2026, our colleague Dr Bojan Godeša participated in the èStoria festival in Gorizia and Nova Gorica. As part of the event »V spomin Branku Marušiču / Omaggio a Branko Marušič, storico«, he took part in the discussion »Il clero sloveno del Litorale durante il fascismo / Slovenska primorska duhovščina v času fašizma«, …

On 3 June 2026, as part of the History on the Edge lecture series, we hosted a new lecture at the Institute of Contemporary History. In her presentation, “The Socialist and Neoliberal ‘New Man’: Post-Revolutionary Discursive Images in Czechoslovakia (1948 and 1989)”, Denisa Nečasová compared the visions of the “new man” that emerged in two …

On Tuesday, 2 June 2026, our colleague Filip Dobranič gave a presentation of a collection of more than 350,000 advertising clippings from the newspaper Slovenski narod (1868–1914). The presentation offered insights into a large-scale digital humanities project that enables the study of advertising, consumer culture, and the language of persuasion in the late nineteenth and …

Our colleagues Dr Vojko Gorjanc and Katja Meden participated in the DARIAH Annual Event 2026 in Rome. They took part in the panel Joining the Dots in South-East Europe: Building the DARIAH-SEE Regional Hub as an Infrastructure of Engagement, co-chaired by Dr Vojko Gorjanc and Lana Šehović. As part of the panel, they presented the …

On 28–29 May 2026, the conference Environment and Society in East-Central Europe took place at the University of Ostrava, bringing together scholars working on environmental history and related fields. Six researchers from the Department of Economic, Social and Environmental History of Slovenia participated in the event. At the panel Hydrological Extremes in Slovenia: Floods, Droughts …