Tuesday, 16 April 2024
International Friendship within and beyond the Iron Cutrain
On April 18th and 19th, 2024, the Institute of Contemporary History will host an international workshop titled "International Friendship within and beyond the Iron Curtain."
Further details about the programme and contributions can be found in the attachments below. Welcome to join us!
Friday, 29 March 2024
Alexander Maxwell: "Effacing Panslavism? Why the Secondary Literature on Slavic National Awakening is Unreliable"
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 Friday, 5 April 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 dr. Alexander Maxwell, and the title of the lecture is "Effacing Panslavism? Why the Secondary Literature on Slavic National Awakening is Unreliable". The lecture will be in English. In the first half of the nineteenth century, intellectuals ...
Wednesday, 27 March 2024
Hana Ćurak: Sve su to vještice: Intervening into the patriarchal everyday?
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, 3. April 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 Hana Ćurak, and the title of the lecture is Sve su to vještice: Intervening into the patriarchal everyday?. The lecture will be in English. Abstract: The memes of Sve su to vještice (eng. It’s all Witches), “a feminist platform posing ...
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Zsuzsanna Varga: "The Hungarian Agriculture and Rural Society: changes, challenges and opportunities, 1945-2004"
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, 27 March 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 prof. dr. Zsuzsanna Varga, and the title of the lecture is "The Hungarian Agriculture and Rural Society: changes, challenges and opportunities, 1945-2004". The lecture will be in English. The Hungarian Agriculture and Rural Society: ...
Monday, 18 March 2024
Call for papers
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
In October, the Institute of Contemporary History will host a two-day international conference on the current topic of the care and education system for children with disabilities in the former Yugoslavia. This interdisciplinary conference, aims to scrutinize the segregation and integration within the caregiving and educational frameworks for children and youth with diverse disabilities across multiple historical epochs. We will explore how these systems are situated ...
Wednesday, 13 March 2024
Shuhei Sato: The history of mountainous hamlets in Japan since the 1960s: Focusing on population decline and disaster control
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 Monday, 18 March 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 Shuhei Sato, and the title of the lecture is "The history of mountainous hamlets in Japan since the 1960s: Focusing on population decline and disaster control". The lecture will be in English. I will present the history of the Fudo district in ...
Monday, 4 March 2024
"The Anatomy of Extremist Narratives: Deeper Insights"
Zgodovina na Špici
You are kindly invited to the new event of the History on the Edge series, taking place on Wednesday, 13. 3. 2024 at 13:00, at the INZ premises and via ZOOM: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86949706378 "The Anatomy of Extremist Narratives: Deeper Insights" The ARENAS project looks at extremist narratives that affect political and social life in Europe. It examines the nature of these narratives and seeks to understand the discourses they impact, particularly about science, ...
Monday, 5 February 2024
dr. Maja Lorbek: New Schools for New Education. Multilateralism and School Construction, 1944 - 1970
Zgodovina na Špici / History on the Edge
You are kindly invited to the new event of the History on the Edge series, taking place on Wednesday, 14. 2. 2024 at 13:00, at the INZ premises or via ZOOM: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86949706378 The lecture titled "New Schools for New Education. Multilateralism and School Construction, 1944 - 1970" will be held by dr. Maja Lorbek. The lecture will be held in English. New Schools for New Education Multilateralism and School Construction, 1944 -1970 Starting in the mid-1940s, ...
Wednesday, 10 January 2024
Bakar Berekašvili: "Marxist Thought in Soviet Georgia"
Zgodovina na Špici / History on the Edge
You are kindly invited to the new event of the History on the Edge series, taking place on Wednesday, 17. 1. 2024 at 13:00, at the INZ premises or via ZOOM: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86949706378 The lecture titled "Marxist Thought in Soviet Georgia" will be held by Prof. Bakar Berekashvili. The lecture will be held in English. Marxist Thought in Soviet Georgia Bakar Berekashvili Professor of Political Science and Sociology Georgian American University, Tbilisi Soviet ...
Monday, 8 January 2024
Call for Papers
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL HISTORY EUROPEAN SOCIAL SCIENCE HISTORY CONFERENCE 2025 CALL FOR PAPERS The European Social Science History Conference 2025 is organized by the IISH in co-operation with Leiden University. The aim of the ESSHC is bringing together scholars interested in explaining historical phenomena using the methods of the social sciences. The conference is characterized by a lively exchange in many small groups, rather than by formal plenary sessions. ...
Friday, 5 January 2024
»Behind the scenes of Parliament. The Yugoslav Skupština 1919–1941«
New publication in the series Contributions to the history of parliamentarism and political parties, Vol. 188 (Parliaments in Europe, Vol. 10) - »Behind the scenes of Parliament. The Yugoslav Skupština 1919–1941« by Jure Gašparič: “Jure Gašparič's study is the German version of an award-winning book about the National Parliament of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, published in Slovenian in 2015. At the same time, it sheds light on the crisis symptoms of European parliamentarism ...
Monday, 4 December 2023
Call for papers
Sin, shame, symptom: suicide and social change (1850-2000)
International conference 10 and 11 September 2024 Institute of contemporary history, Ljubljana, Slovenia Throughout centuries, suicide has had different connotations in different cultural environments. From the historical perspective it is interesting as it reflects values, fears and prejudices of the societies in each period. In the period under consideration those who would commit suicide transformed from criminals and sinners into patients: suicide was decriminalised ...
Thursday, 30 November 2023
Tamara Scheer: "Language Diversity in the Austro-Hungarian Army (1867-1918)"
Zgodovina na Špici / History on the Edge
You are kindly invited to the new event of the new History on the Edge series, taking place on Wednesday, 13. 12. 2023 at 13:00, at the INZ premises or via ZOOM: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86949706378 The lecture titled "Language Diversity in the Austro-Hungarian Army (1867-1918)" will be held by Priv.-Doz. Dr. Tamara Scheer. The lecture will be held in English. Abstract (ANGLEŠČINA) Identification and Representation: Language Diversity in the Austro-Hungarian Army ...
Thursday, 30 November 2023
Call for Papers
International friendship within and beyond the Iron Curtain
18–19 April 2024, Ljubljana Proposal submission deadline: 20 January 2024 This workshop aims to explore relations among countries both within and beyond the Iron Curtain through the lens of international friendship. In diplomatic and political history, as well as in public discourse, the term ‘friendship’ is often employed casually to describe various types of interstate relations, ranging from partnerships lacking close bonds to special relationships with dense ...
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
Call for Papers
Families in the Alps : Households and relatives, neighbours and friends – social and economic relationship networks
International conference, Ljubljana, 29-31 August 2024 The Alps have been an almost classic research area for social anthropological, especially American, studies on villages and families, dealing with property and inheritance, etc. since the 1960s, some of which were already quantifying. Previously, population-geographical demographic studies – such as the “Innsbruck School” – had also been carried out on some Alpine valleys. Intense and controversial discussions ...
Tuesday, 14 November 2023
Workshop "The Digitized Archive of the League of Nations and the Interwar Balkans. A New Resource for Transnational Social History"
Workshop "The Digitized Archive of the League of Nations and the Interwar Balkans. A New Resource for Transnational Social History", organized at @Inalco (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales), Paris. The aim of the workshop was to bring together researchers who want to shed light on the role of the League of Nations in the political, social and cultural transformation of the Balkans. The workshop was organized by ANDREAS GUIDI (Inalco), other participants ...
Monday, 6 November 2023
The scientific conference Natural Resources and Ecosystem Potential of Waters
November 16 and 17, 2023 | Institute of Contemporary History, Privoz 11, Ljubljana The symposium will focus on water as a source of life, a natural resource, and an essential ecosystem element. Presenters will address issues of water management in the era of modernization. The specifics of river and water source regulation and flood risk management will be highlighted. Case studies will be used to present methods and practices of water use and the use of hydropower for mills, ...
Friday, 27 October 2023
Marta Chmielewska: "Flexible labor, intimate objects. Undergarment production in socialist and postsocialist small-town Poland, 1949-2023"
Zgodovina na Špici / History on the Edge
You are kindly invited to the second event of the new History on the Edge series, which will take place on Wednesday, 8. 11. 2023 at 13:00, at the INZ premises or at the ZOOM link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86949706378 The lecture titled "Flexible labor, intimate objects. Undergarment production in socialist and postsocialist small-town Poland, 1949-2023" will be held by Marta Chmielewska. Facebook Event The lecture will be held in English. Abstract: In this presentation, ...
Friday, 13 October 2023
Milica Popović : "The silence of saying no. Narrating desertion.”
Zgodovina na Špici / History on the Edge
You are kindly invited to the final event of the History on the Edge event series on 25 October 2023 [wednesday] at 13:00 at the Institute of Contemporary History or via ZOOM: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86949706378. Raziskovalka Milica Popović iz Cental European University na Dunaju bo imela predavanje "The silence of saying no. Narrating desertion." The presentation focuses on an initial review of literature and media representations, documented acts and narratives ...
Friday, 1 September 2023
Autumn Series of Presentations on Open Science
In September and October, the SPOZNAJ project consortium will organise a series of presentations on open science, which will take place every Thursday from 10:30 to 12:00 via Zoom. Additional events will also be organised by the University of Ljubljana and the University of Maribor. More information and links to the registration forms can be found here (in Slovenian). The consortium presentations will be held in Slovenian. They will be recorded and uploaded to the Arnes Video ...
Tuesday, 8 August 2023
The SPOZNAJ Project
The SPOZNAJ Project will introduce the principles of open science to Slovenian research organisations 2nd August 2023 marks the beginning of the project "SPOZNAJ - Support for the Implementation of Open Science Principles in Slovenia". This initiative involves the Central Technical Library at the University of Ljubljana and 20 Slovenian public research organizations, all of which will align their practices with the Scientific Research and Innovation Activities Act, ...
Monday, 24 July 2023
INZ at Digital Humanities 2023
Graz, 10. - 14. julij
The INZ team attended the Digital Humanities 2023 conference last week in Graz. Together with colleagues from our research programme DIHUR from FRI UL, FF UL, and from the CLARIN.SI research infrastructure from IJS. We delivered two preconference workshops: one on understanding and facilitating remote collaboration in DH, and one on using the comparable ParlaMint corpora for research in SSH. The team also presented the first major result of the research group #DIHUR ...Thursday, 13 July 2023
CfA: Research associate (m/w)
Call for applications: Research associate (m/w) Na podlagi 25. člena Zakona o delovnih razmerjih (Uradni list RS, št. 21/13, 78/13 – popr., 47/15 – ZZSDT, 33/16 – PZ-F, 52/16, 15/17 – odl. US, 22/19 – ZPosS, 81/19, 203/20 – ZIUPOPDVE,119/21 – ZčmIS-A, 202/21 – odl. US, 15/22 in 54/22 – ZUPŠ-1; v nadaljnjem besedilu: ZDR-1) in Pravilnika o notranji organizaciji in sistemizaciji delovnih mest Inštituta za novejšo zgodovino št. 0-04/521-2020 z dne 6. 11. 2020 s spremembami in ...
Monday, 10 July 2023
Dr. Jelena Seferović was at the conference Towards a History of Disability in Eastern Europe
Dr. Jelena Seferović, Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb / Institute on Contemporary History, Ljubljana, presented a paper “Beginnings of the establishment of centers for upbringing and education of children with intellectual disabilities in the socialist Yugoslavia: example of the Center for upbringing and education Gornje Prekrižje in Zagreb” at the conference Toward a History of Disability in Eastern Europe, in Indiana University Europe Gatewey ...
Monday, 5 June 2023
Workshop Suicide and Society
Suicide and Society
Workshop
On Wednesday, 14 June 2023, the Institute of Contemporary History will host a workshop entitled Suicide and Society.
You can find more about the event on the project website
Monday, 22 May 2023
Institute of Contemporary History announces involvement in a new EU Horizon project
Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana, travelled to Paris in the beginning of May for the launch of a new EU Horizon project ARENAS – Analysis of and Responses to Extremist Narratives. The project is co-ordinated by Julien Longhi and his team in CY Cergy Paris Université, France. It brings together a multidisciplinary consortium of Universities, NGOs, International and National Associations and two SMEs. Dynamic presentations, discussions, and breakout groups ...
Monday, 8 May 2023
Gender and intersectionality: Approaching women's history through their lived experiences and feminist thought in Yugoslavia in the 20th century
Zgodovina na Špici / History on the Edge
You are kindly invited to the final event of the History on the Edge event series on 17 May 2023 [WEDNESDAY] at 14:00 at the INZ or at the ZOOM link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87327889090 The lectures will be held in English. Once again, we will conclude History on the Edge with a festival, with a rich selection of lecturers and speakers. The focus of the last event will be on gender and intersectionality, which opens up new approaches to the study of women's history. The lectures ...Tuesday, 25 April 2023
Visiting Fellowship Program - Call for application 2023/24
Visiting Fellowship Program – Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana The call for 2023/2024 is open The Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana is now accepting applications for the Visiting Fellowship program, for the visits to take place between October 1, 2023 and October 1, 2024. This is the second round of the applications for the Visiting Fellowship at the Institute. The deadline for applications: July 1, 2023 The decisions will be made by July 31, ...
Friday, 7 April 2023
Red, white, and red Łódź. Local aspects of the politics of memory in the Polish People's Republic
Zgodovina na Špici / History on the Edge
On Thursday, April 13 2023, at 1. pm, Andrzej Czyżewski will hold a public lecture at the Institute of Contemporary History: Red, white, and red Łódź. Local aspects of the politics of memory in the Polish People's Republic The lecture will also be available via ZOOM: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87327889090 The lecture will be held in English. Abstract: The myth of World War II was one of the most important ideological pillars of the communist regime in Poland. The lecture ...
Friday, 24 March 2023
Yuguang Zhou : »Brothers, friends, or teachers/students? Sino-Yugoslav relations at people-to-people level from 1977 to 1985«
Zgodovina na Špici / History on the Edge
On Wednesday, March 29 2023, at 1. pm, Yuguang Zhou (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies) will hold a public lecture at the Institute of Contemporary History: »Brothers, friends, or teachers/students? Sino-Yugoslav relations at people-to-people level from 1977 to 1985« ZOOM Abstract: China and Yugoslavia had a few years of exceptionally warm relations from 1977 to 1980, with Tito's visit to ...
Wednesday, 8 March 2023
EVENT POSTPONED: Lea Horvat: (Friedrich Schiller University Jena): »Common ground: A value-oriented history of Yugoslav mass housing«
Zgodovina na Špici / History on the Edge
The lecture held by Lea Horvat is postponed. New date coming soon! On Wednesday, March 15 2023, at 1. pm, Lea Horvat (Friedrich Schiller University Jena) will hold a public lecture at the Institute of Contemporary History: »Common ground: A value-oriented history of Yugoslav mass housing« The lecture will be in English and also available via ZOOM. Kindly invited! Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87836133014 Abstract: In post-Yugoslav space, mass housing is a ...Wednesday, 1 March 2023
Exploring the past, minding the future
Exploring the past, minding the future A roundtable marking an anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations between Slovenia and Ukraine and addressing common academic interests in history and digital humanities Slovenia and Ukraine share some comparable experience of the recent past due to their belonging to the ideologically bound federal unions. A new era of relations with the European Union, given Slovenia’s membership and Ukraine’s candidacy, calls for ...
Thursday, 9 February 2023
Kolo, bećarac & vrabac: Entertainment among the Yugoslav Partisans.
Zgodovina na Špici / History on the Edge
On wednesday, February 15 2023 at 1 p.m. a lecture by dr. Ive Jelušić will be held in the meeting room of INZ, entitled »Kolo, bećarac & vrabac: Entertainment among the Yugoslav Partisans« The lecture will be in English and will also be available via ZOOM. Kindly invited! Link to the online event https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87836133014 Abstract: For the partisan communist leadership, the struggle for cultural education and general “enlightenment” was an integral part ...Monday, 30 January 2023
Solidarity and Voluntarism in State-Socialist Societies
Call for Papers
Call for Papers for the conference Solidarity and Voluntarism in State-Socialist Societies University of Graz, 12-13 September 2023 Organisers: University of Graz (Department of Sociology/Sociology of Gender and Centre for Southeast European Studies) Convenors: George Bodie (Goldsmiths, University of London) and Ana Kladnik (Institute for Contemporary History, Ljubljana / from March 2023 onwards University of Graz) Recent advances in the field have illuminated ...
Monday, 30 January 2023
Colonialism, Empire and Time in the writings and photographs of Vladimir Markov
Zgodovina na Špici / History on the Edge
On Wednesday, February 1, 2023, at 1 p.m., a lecture by Johanna Hügel (Leibniz Institute for European History in Mainz) will be held in the meeting room of INZ, entitled "Colonialism, Empire and Time in the writings and photographs of Vladimir Markov" The lecture will be in English and will also be available via ZOOM. Kindly invited! Link to the online event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1328878047910127 Več o predavanju: "Kolonializem, imperij in čas v zapisih in ...
Monday, 9 January 2023
Dr. Ivan Sablin: »The USSR Supreme Soviet in 1955–1991: Functions of a State Socialist Parliament«
Zgodovina na Špici / History on the Edge
On Wednesday, January 18, 2023 at 1 p.m., Dr. Ivan Sablin (University of Heidelberg, Germany), will hold a public lecture: "The USSR Supreme Council in 1955-1991: Functions of a State Socialist Parliament" The lecture will be in English and also available via ZOOM. Kindly invited! Zoom Meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87836133014 Meeting ID: 878 3613 3014 Abstract: From a normative liberal standpoint, the USSR Supreme Soviet was not a parliament. It consisted ...Wednesday, 21 December 2022
Happy New Year
Institute of Contemporary History wishes you happy holidays and a wonderful new year.
Authors: Zoran Smiljanić, Samo Novinšek in Sergej Škofljanec.
Wednesday, 30 November 2022
Dr. Jelena Seferović : “Other claim that nothing can be found out withouth a gipsy women”: Qualitative analysis of interpretations of suicide in the late 19th and early 20th centuries”
Dr. Jelena Seferović will have the following presentation at the symposium "Karlovački bioetički susreti - zdravlje od rođenja do smrti", which will be on Friday, December 2, 2022: “Other claim that nothing can be found out withouth a gipsy women”: Qualitative analysis of interpretations of suicide in the late 19th and early 20th centuries” The presentation is based on the research of newspaper articles about suicides that were published at the end of the 19th century at the ...
Thursday, 17 November 2022
EVENT POSTPONED: Aimee Ambrose : "Just home heating transitions: grand narratives versus personal realities"
Zgodovina na Špici / History on the Edge
The lecture held by Aimee Ambrose is postponed. New date coming soon! Another season of History on the Edge begins on the 23rd of November! You are kindly invited at 13h, at the Institute for Contemporary History (Privoz 11), for the lecture »Just home heating transitions: grand narratives versus personal realities«. The lecture will be held by Aimee Ambrose, Professor of Energy Policy at the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR) at Sheffield Hallam University. ...
Tuesday, 8 November 2022
COST Action “Who Cares in Europe?”
On November 17-18, COST Action “Who Cares in Europe?” will hold its annual meeting at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana. In the framework of this program WE KINDLY INVITE YOU TO THE PUBLIC SESSION WHO CARES IN EUROPE? NOVEMBER 17, AT 17h AT THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY HISTORY (PRIVOZ 11) The session will be followed by a cocktail. The speakers will discuss their COST Action Who cares in Europe? as well as one of the network’s ongoing projects UNPOLITICAL ...
Wednesday, 2 November 2022
Cody James Inglis: “The Republican Left in Danubian Europe, 1900–1948: A Comparative History of Political Thought”
Zgodovina na Špici / History on the Edge
Cody James Inglis (Central European University, Budapest/Vienna; Institute of Political History, Budapest): The Republican Left in Danubian Europe, 1900–1948: A Comparative History of Political Thought. The lecture will take place on Wednesday, November 9, 2022 Thursday, November 23 at 1:00 pm at the Institute of Contemporary History. There will also be ZOOM streaming. Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81890374101 Meeting ID: 818 9037 4101 Abstract ...
Tuesday, 20 September 2022
Eastern enlargement, or an all-European transformation? The 1990s in European politics
Workshop, September 29, 2022
The workshop Eastern enlargement, or an all-European transformation? The 1990s in European politics, will be held at the Institute of Contemporary History on September 29, 2022. East-Central European countries have recently experienced fierce debates on the transformation era of the 1990s. These debates have focused on national, social, and economic policies, while completely omitting the European context. The same countries also became EU membership seekers ...Friday, 19 August 2022
2022 Public Call for Applications for Junior Researcher Positions
In accordance with Article 27 of the Act of Recipient of Stable Financing – Institute of Contemporary History (hereinafter: the Act) and the General Act on the Stable Financing of Research Activity (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, no. 87/22), the Institute of Contemporary History, Privoz 11, Ljubljana, Slovenia, hereby announces the 2022 Public Call for Applications for Junior Researcher Positions The subject of this public call is the selection of junior ...
Monday, 20 June 2022
Festival History on the Edge - 7th Day
Book presentation and lecture
Friday, June 24, 2022, at 10.00 AM and 11:30 AM at the institute Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81855065375 Meeting ID: 818 5506 5375 10:00 a.m. Book presentation Making Sense of Dictatorship: Domination and Everyday Life in East Central Europe after 1945 (eds. Celia Donert, Ana Kladnik, Martin Sabrow, CEU Press 2022) Discussants: Celia Donert, Ana Kladnik and Matej Spurny Programme change Lecture of Celia Donert on Friday at 11:30 has been cancelled and postponed ...
Friday, 17 June 2022
Festival History on the Edge - 6th day
Libora Oates-Indruchová : Snakes and Ladders: Censorship in Czech and Hungarian Academic Publishing, 1969-89
Wednesday, 22 June at 11 am at the Institute of Contemporary History or via Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81855065375 Meeting ID: 818 5506 5375 Libora Oates-Indruchova is Professor of Sociology of Gender at the Department of Sociology, University of Graz. Libora does research on cultural representations of gender, gender and social change, state socialism, narrative research and censorship with a geographical focus on Central and Eastern Europe. As co-editor ...
Friday, 10 June 2022
Festival History on the Edge - 5th Day
Matej Ivančík, “To put it simply, We Should Have Been More Empathetic and Kind.” Memory Politics and the Post-Socialist Transformation in Slovakia
Friday, June 17, 2022, 11.00 - 13.00 (INZ, Privoz 11) and Zoom https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81855065375; Meeting ID: 818 5506 5375. Lecture Matej Ivančík, “To put it simply, We Should Have Been More Empathetic and Kind.” Memory Politics and the Post-Socialist Transformation in Slovakia Matej Ivančík works at the Department of General History at the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava. His research covers civil society, nationalism and intellectual ...Friday, 10 June 2022
Legacy of advanced informatization in Ljubljana as a sound basis for the future of digitalization in Slovenia
Symposium, June 16th, 2022
The Computer History Museum, Ljubljana in co-organization with the Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana and Institute Jožef Stefan, Ljubljana is organizing an international expert panel "The Legacy of Advanced Informatization". The panel will take place on Monday June 13th 2022 from 14:00 - 18:00 and will feature participants from the fields of information technology, digital humanities, law, entrepreneurship and museum science. The one-day event will ...
Tuesday, 7 June 2022
History on the Edge - 4th day
Thursday, June 16, at 10:00 AM Live at the Institute of Contemporary History and ZOOM link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81855065375 Lecture 10:00 - 12:00 Igor Duda: “We are all good people.” Local Communities in Yugoslavia between Action and Bureaucracy (English) Panel 14:00 - 16:00 panel Socialistično samoupravljanje v občini (Slovenian and Croatian) Tina Filipović: “Prisutni u svim zbivanjima”: SUBNOR u političkom i društvenom životu općine u kasnom socijalizmu ...
Tuesday, 31 May 2022
Kliofest
On Thursday, 19 May 2022, associates of the Institute of Contemporary History Aleš Gabrič, Bojan Godeša, Žarko Lazarević and retired associate of the Institute Peter Vodopivec participated in the tribune at the Kliofest in Zagreb. You can watch a clip of the tribune entitled „Upoznajmo slovensku povijest“ [Let's get to know Slovenian history] in the video below:
A more detailed program can be found at the link below
Monday, 30 May 2022
Festival History on the Edge - 2nd Day
Ivana Mihaela Žimbrek (CEU, Austria) Women’s Organizations, Home Economics, and the Beginnings of Modern Retail in Socialist Yugoslavia, 1950s-1960s
Monday, 30. May at 11:00 LIVE at the Institute for Contemporary History (Privoz 11, Ljubljana, conference room) ZOOM link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81855065375 About the presenter: Ivana Mihaela Žimbrek (currently a visiting fellow at the Institute for Contemporary History in Ljubljana) is a PhD candidate at the Department of History at Central European University, Budapest/Vienna, where she is working on her dissertation on the history of the department stores ...
Monday, 16 May 2022
Festival History on the Edge - 1st Day
Don't miss the first event of the FESTIVAL HISTORY ON THE EDGE Friday, 27. MAY at 10:00 and 14:00 LIVE at the Institute for Contemporary History (Privoz 11, Ljubljana, conference room) via ZOOM: link to Zoom-Livestream will be available on the event day here https://www.facebook.com/InstitutZaNovejsoZgodovino/ Registration is not required. The program is available at the end of the page. About the presenters: HELEN YAFFE joined the University of Glasgow as Lecturer ...
Thursday, 5 May 2022
Festival History on the Edge
You are invited to the Festival History on the Edge, which will take place from 27 May to 24 June. The lectures will take place at the Institute of Contemporary History (Privoz 11, Ljubljana; conference room) or you can attend them via zoom. The link to Zoom-Livestream will be available on the event day at https://www.facebook.com/InstitutZaNovejsoZgodovino/. Lectures from the previous History on the Edge events are available on the YouTube channel: Zgodovina na Špici ...
Wednesday, 4 May 2022
Visiting Fellowship program - CfA
The Institute of Contemporary History (Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino) in Ljubljana has launched a Visiting Fellowship program and is accepting applications for the Visiting Fellowship program starting from October 1, 2022. Scholars working in the field of contemporary political, social, economic history or related disciplines, as well scholars working in the field of digital humanities, are invited to apply for the fellowship of two to four months in the period between ...
Tuesday, 3 May 2022
Darja Fišer, new Executive Director of CLARIN ERIC
We are glad to announce that Darja Fišer has been appointed Executive Director of CLARIN ERIC.
https://www.clarin.eu/news/darja-fiser-appointed-executive-director-clarin-eric
This is a great success for the Slovenian scientific research community and also for INZ, which is a longtime member of the CLARIN-SI consortium.
We wish Darja all the best.
Thursday, 28 April 2022
History on the Edge Festival
May 27 - June 24 2022
We cordially invite you to the History on the Edge Festival, which will take place at the Institute of Contemporary History between May 27 and June 24, 2022. Media cover: Radio ŠtudentFriday, 18 February 2022
Call for papers
LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES & DIGITAL HUMANITIES CONFERENCE 2022 https://www.sdjt.si/jtdh-2022/en/ The Slovenian Language Technologies Society (SDJT), the Centre for Language Resources and Technologies at the University of Ljubljana (CJVT), the Institute of Contemporary History (INZ) and the research infrastructures CLARIN.SI and DARIAH-SI are organising the conference “Language Technologies and Digital Humanities” on 15th and 16th September 2022. The biennial ...
Sunday, 3 October 2021
International workshop “At the Nexus of Voluntary Action and Public Policies: Rethinking Care in Southeastern Europe”
Report*
On August 26 and 27, 2021, a two-day international workshop entitled “At the Nexus of Voluntary Action and Public Policies: Rethinking Care in Southeastern Europe” was organized at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The workshop was organized within the framework of the COST Action 18119 Who Cares In Europe?, whose aim is to define and develop an emerging research field that explores the relationships among voluntary associations, families ...Friday, 20 August 2021
“Summer school reflects on political thinking in times of (and about) transitions in East Central Europe“
Report by Lucija Balikić
Intellectual History in Transition pilot summer school, co-organized by the Institute for Contemporary History in Ljubljana (Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino), IH ECE research network (Intellectual History in East Central Europe) and COST Action NEP4DISSENT, took place in Ljubljana between 16th and 20th of July 2021. It consisted of two thematic parts, first focusing on the recent trends and debates in the field of intellectual history, and the second on the the topic Transitions ...Friday, 6 August 2021
Library
ICH Library will be closed on August 4th, 2021.
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