🤝 On 10–11 September, INZ welcomed colleagues from the Institute for Recent History of Serbia (INIS) – Dr Dmitar Tasić, Dr Nataša Milićević & Dr Jelena Rafailović – for a two-day visit focused on exchanging knowledge and good practices.
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📸 On 16 September, INZ hosted another History on the Edge lecture. Wiktor Marzec presented Irrevolution: Borderland Pathways and Regime Outcomes in the Successor States of the Romanov Empire, 1905–1921. #INZ #HistoryOnTheEdge
📸 Earlier this September, INZ hosted the final workshop of the ARIS project “Systems of Care and Education for Children with Sensory Disabilities in the First and Second Yugoslav State.” The event marked the conclusion of several years of research.
You are kindly invited to a new lecture in the History on the Edge series, which will take place on Wednesday, September 23, 2026, at the INZ premises or via the ZOOM link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8466442240...
📢 JT-DH 2026 is almost here! Join us this Thursday & Friday, 17–18 September, at the University of Ljubljana for the Language Technologies and Digital Humanities Conference. 👉 Registration is still open! #JTDH2026 #DigitalHumanities
📚 INZ is coming to Celje! This autumn, we’re opening the first branch of the Institute of Contemporary History in Celje, which will also provide a new home for one of our book collections. 📰 Read more in Večer: vecer.com/celjsko/kniz... More details coming soon! #INZ #Celje #History
📖 The @arenasproject.bsky.social event we hosted at INZ in February has now been featured in the Czech Journal of Contemporary History! Ondřej Holub published a report on the Ljubljana workshop and its discussions on extremist narratives. #ARENAS #INZ #HorizonEU
📚 We are pleased to announce that Perspicacités 32 is now available online: The System of Care and Education for Children with Sensory Impairments from 1895 to the 1960s: Ljubljana and Zagreb. Read it here: omp.inz.si/zalozba/sl/c... #Perspicacités #Vpogledi #Children #SensoryImpairments
📢 Join us on 24–25 September 2026 for the international conference Reproductive Politics in the Atlantic Space: Advances (and Reversals) from the Postwar Period to the Present at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana. #INZ #ReproductiveRights
📢 Join us for the final workshop of the ARIS project “Systems of Care and Education for Children with Sensory Disabilities in the First and Second Yugoslav State”, taking place on 9 September 2026 at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana.
🌏 On 15–16 September 2026, Hokkaido University will host the international workshop Socialist Techno-Optimism and Governance of Economic Development, 1955–1991, co-organized by the Institute of Contemporary History.
💧 What can stones in riverbeds tell us about droughts of the past? Our colleague Dr Ivan Smiljanić spoke to Svet24 about his research on hunger stones – rocks marked with dates and inscriptions during periods of exceptionally low water levels. 📰 Read more: svet24.si/novice/slove...
#cfp Non-Elite Encounters with Nationhood in the Late Habsburg Empire (1848-1918) by @stergarr.bsky.social at @inz-ljubljana.bsky.social supported by @wirthinstitute.bsky.social www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
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🌡️ Heat, drought, floods – what can history tell us? As Slovenia faces summer weather warnings, we’re highlighting open-access publications on the history of drought, water management, famine, floods, and energy. Most texts are in Slovenian.
📢 Registration is open for JT-DH 2026 – Language Technologies and Digital Humanities Conference, taking place on 17–18 September 2026 at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana.
From 24–26 June, EHESS Paris hosted the first PHC Proteus workshop on associational life in Southeast Europe. Researchers from France, Greece and Slovenia explored relations between associations, the state and society.
🎥 Watch Ivan Smiljanić’s lecture Chernobyl 1986: A View from Yugoslavia, exploring the disaster and the responses of European and Yugoslav politics and the public. The recording is in Slovenian: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mPt... #INZ #Chernobyl #History
ARENAS researchers Ana Yara Postigo Fuentes and Julien Longhi presented their latest research, "Forensic-Linguistic Mapping of Extremist Narratives in French Political Discourse", at the 6th European Conference of the International Association for Forensic and Legal Linguistics -@iafll.bsky.social.
💧 New open-access monograph: Filip Čuček, Fighting Floods. River Regulation in Lower (or Slovenian) Styria in the 19th and the First Half of the 20th Century (Recognitiones 59). Read: omp.inz.si/index.php/za... #INZ #history #openaccess
In June, Sara Šifrar Krajnik presented her doctoral research at the ZUG-minisymposium at BOKU University. During her stay in Vienna, she also conducted archival research at the Österreichisches Staatsarchiv, expanding the source base for her dissertation. #INZ #DoctoralResearch #History
Our colleagues Dr Mojca Šorn, Dr Marta Rendla, Dr Andrej Pančur and Tamara Logar attended the presentation of the 72nd issue of Loški razgledi in Škofja Loka. On this occasion, they presented the database of victims of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath.
On 12 June 2026, INZ hosted Nataša Kovačević for a presentation of Nonaligned Imagination, exploring Yugoslavia, the Global South and literary solidarities beyond Cold War blocs. The event took place within the Brokers of NAM project. 📸 Highlights below. #INZ #BrokersofNAM #BookPresentation
On 17 June 2026, INZ hosted Dominik Gutmeyr-Schnur for History on the Edge. His lecture, “Yugoslavia and Cambodia: Entangled Histories of Non-Alignment,” explored links between politics, labour, education and Cold War history. 📸 Photo highlights below. #INZ #Historyontheedge #Fellowship
Work share 😉- as my @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social faculty's newsletter shows #JanBernot is working on his new project at @inz-ljubljana.bsky.social while I am chilling ;-) www.uibk.ac.at/de/theol/kom...
We are pleased to announce the publication of two new open-access titles from INZ Publishing: 📘 Prispevki za novejšo zgodovino 2026, No. 1 📗 Dunja Dobaja (ed.), Izobraževanje in zaposlovanje oseb s senzornimi ovirami v prvi in drugi jugoslovanski državi (1919–1991) (Vpogledi 31)
