Dr Tjaša Konovšek
- tjasa.konovsek@inz.si
- +386 (1) 200 31 46
- Research Assistant
- SICRIS (bibliography)
ARIS: 51920
ORCID: 0000-0001-8872-692X
Tjaša Konovšek has been a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History since 2018. She successfuly defended her PhD thesis in 2022 at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. The title of her dissertation is Slovene political transition 1989 - 2004, supervised by dr. Kornelija Ajlec and dr. Jure Gašparič.
Her research interests include political history, conceptual history, politics of memory and history of ideas, geographically tied to Slovenia, the East-Central European region and the area of the former Yugoslavia in the period from World War II to the present.
Collaborations, research programmes, projects
- 2018: ‘The Myth of Homogeneity: Minority Protection and Assimilation in Western Europe, 1919–1939.’ Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. https://themythofhomogeneity.org/
- 2018: ‘Conceptually-Political and Cultural Pluralism and Monism in 20th Century Slovenia.’ Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana.
- 2021: Mapping Crisis-Discourses in East Central Europe, 1918-2020. https://mappingcrisis.wordpress.com/
- 2022: ‘Political history.’ Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana. https://www.inz.si/en/Political-History/
Scientific networks
- 2021: Intellectual History in East Central Europe. https://intellectualhistoryece.wordpress.com/
Selected publications
KONOVŠEK, Tjaša. Reconciliation: the institutionalization of memory in Post-Yugoslav Slovenia. Journal of nationalism, memory & language politics, Vol. 15, Nr. 1, 2021, pp. 87-108. https://www.sciendo.com/article/10.2478/jnmlp-2021-0006. DOI: 10.2478/jnmlp-2021-0006
KONOVŠEK, Tjaša. The Curse of Number 45. The Formation of The Slovenian National Assembly and the Government between 1996 and 1997. Contributions to Contemporary History, Vol. 60, Nr. 2, 2020, pp. 168-189. https://ojs.inz.si/pnz/article/view/1014.
KONOVŠEK, Tjaša. Formiranje Liberalne demokracije Slovenije in njene politike (1992-1996). [Forming the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia and its policy (1992-1996).] V: PEROVŠEK, Jurij (ur.), ŠORN, Mojca (ur.). Narod - politika - država: idejnopolitični značaj strank na Slovenskem od konca 19. do začetka 21. stoletja. Ljubljana: Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino, 2020, pp. 267-280.
KONOVŠEK, Tjaša. Between the Ideal and Reality: Women During World War II in Slovenia. Contributions to Contemporary History Vol. 59, Nr. 3, 2019, pp. 98-112. http://ojs.inz.si/pnz/article/view/750/1042.
