News and Events

On Thursday, 27 November 2025, the international symposium “The Unknown Known Prežih (1893–1950)” took place in Ravne na Koroškem, focusing on the life and work of Prežihov Voranc and his role in Slovenian cultural and political history. Prežihov Voranc remains one of the key figures of the Slovenian literary canon and 20th-century social thought. Our …

We are pleased to present the continuation of the lecture series, which will guide us through the first months of the year with new historical topics, discussions, and perspectives. Lectures take place at the Institute of Contemporary History (Privoz 11, Ljubljana) and via Zoom. In the winter part of the season, lectures will continue to …

On 27 and 28 November 2025, the Institute of Contemporary History hosted the conference Discovering the Power of Nature: Participatory Environmental Education for Sustainability – Opportunities, Challenges, and Practices, organised by the Slovenian Institute for Adult Education (ACS) as part of the project Strengthening Lifelong Learning (2023–2029). The INZ also contributed to the organisation, and …

On 26 November 2025, the Institute of Contemporary History hosted the first lecture in the new Afternoons with DARIAH series. We welcomed Dr. Wolfgang Göderle from the University of Graz, who presented the project “Unlocking the Schematismus”, focused on the digital processing of one of the most extensive historical sources of the Habsburg Monarchy. In …

The first issue of the new premium magazine DNVK, published by Dnevnik Mediji, features an article by Dr Aleš Gabrič titled The Culture War Then and Now. The article is written in Slovene. You are warmly invited to read it!          

On World AIDS Day (2 December), our colleague Dr Maja Lukanc appeared in the Tednik feature Four Decades of Confronting AIDS. The segment looks back at the time when AIDS was described as the “plague of the 20th century” — a period marked by fear, uncertainty, and stigma — and at the medical progress that …

Conference ASEEES in Washington, DC.   Between November 20–23, our colleagues Isidora Grubački and Adela Hîncu took part in the 57th Annual Convention of ASEEES in Washington, DC. Isidora Grubački presented her paper “Peasant Women and Women’s Rights in Yugoslavia, 1930s–1950s: Seeking Peasant Women’s Voices” in the panel “Political Thought, Memory, and Biographies from Women’s …

The book Texts and Context from the History of Feminism and Women’s Rights: East Central Europe, the Second Part of the Twentieth Century (CEU Press, 2024), edited by Zsófia Lóránd, Adela Hîncu, Jovana Mihajlović Trbovc, and Katarzyna Stańczak-Wiślicz, was awarded for Excellence in Science by ARIS. On November 12, Adela Hîncu and Jovana Mihajlović Trbovc participated in a roundtable discussion and received the award as part …

The 2025 Open Science Day – Day 2 took place on 21 November as part of the National Tripartite EOSC Event “Connecting Science”, which brought together representatives of research institutions, funders, and policymakers in the field of open science. Among the opening speakers was Dr. Andrej Pančur, Director of the Institute of Contemporary History and …

From 18 to 21 November, the Mreža znanja conference took place at the Four Points by Sheraton Ljubljana Mons hotel. The Arnes event is dedicated to the digitalisation of research, education, and culture. As part of the TEACH XR project, our colleague Robert Vurušič participated by presenting the project together with project partners. They introduced …

You are kindly invited to a new lecture in the History on the Edge series, which will take place on Wednesday, December 10, 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 at 3 p.m. and if you will be joining us in person, …

On 20–21 November 2025, the University of Warsaw hosted the conference Theoretical and Practical Aspects of East European Development Aid to Africa during the Cold War Era. Our colleague Tjaša Konovšek also took part, presenting Tracing Solidarity and Development: Origins, Activities and Transformation of the Centre for the Study and Cooperation of Yugoslavia with Developing …