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Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Web: https://www.inz.si/en/
The Contributions to Contemporary History: https://ojs.inz.si/pnz/ (OA)
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SistoryInfo
Visiting fellows: https://inz.si/en/leto/2025-26/
Our colleagues @neja-bh.bsky.social and Oliver Pejić took part in the Prague conference Migrant Work beyond Categorization (19–20 Nov 2025), presenting their paper on refugees and forced migrants in interwar Yugoslav Slovenia.

📸 Photo highlights included.

#INZ #History
November 28, 2025 at 8:58 AM
At the 2025 Open Science Day – National Tripartite EOSC Event “Connecting Science,” our director Dr. Andrej Pančur participated as an opening speaker in his role as KOsRIS president.

📸 Photo highlights included.

#INZ #OpenScience #EOSC
November 28, 2025 at 6:43 AM
At the Mreža znanja conference in Ljubljana, our colleague Robert Vurušič presented the TEACH XR project, VR equipment and six learning modules, along with the vision of XR learning labs.

📸 Photo highlights from the interactive booth.

#INZ #TeachXR #XR
November 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
At the Open Science Day 2025, held within the Knowledge Network conference in Ljubljana, our director Dr Andrej Pančur took part in a roundtable on evaluating science and career progression in stable research funding.

📸 Photo highlights included.

#INZ #OpenScience #Danodprteznanosti2025
November 27, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Join us on 10 Dec 2025 at 3 p.m. for a new History on the Edge lecture at INZ or via Zoom. Zachary Mazur will present “Beyond the Balance Sheet: A Qualitative Analysis of Monetary Trust in Interwar Poland.”

Coffee 20 minutes before the lecture. Lecture in English.

#INZ #HistoryonEdge #lecture
November 26, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Our colleague Dr Bojan Godeša shared his insights for an RTV Slovenia feature on the significance of the Nuremberg Trials. Dr Kornelija Ajlec also contributed.

Read the full article here: www.rtvslo.si/80-let-od-ko... #ICH #History
November 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
On 12 Nov 2025, we hosted a new History on the Edge lecture with Naum Trajanovski, who presented The History of Macedonian Sociology: In Search of Identity. The talk explored key phases of Macedonian sociology.

📸 Sharing a few photo highlights.

#INZ #HistoryOnTheEdge
November 26, 2025 at 8:56 AM
A workshop on analysing parliamentary records from 29 European countries was held at Utrecht University. Our colleagues Dr. Anna Kryvenko and Dr. Kristina Pahor de Maiti Tekavčič led the session using CLARIN.SI noSketchEngine and TEITOK.

📸 Photo highlights included.

#INZ #DigitalHumanities
November 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Join us on 27 Nov 2025 for the international symposium The Unknown Known Prežih (1893–1950) in Ravne na Koroškem. Our colleagues Dr Aleš Gabrič and Dr Bojan Godeša will present their research on Prežihov Voranc. 📸 Sharing the event invitation.

#INZ #History #Conference #PrežihovVoranc
November 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
On 20–21 Nov 2025, the University of Warsaw hosted the conference East European Development Aid to Africa during the Cold War Era. Our colleague Tjaša Konovšek presented her research on Yugoslavia’s Centre for the Study and Cooperation.

📸 Photo highlights included.

#INZ #Conference #Africa #Aid
November 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The Digital Humanities research group and DARIAH-SI are actively involved in the creation of podcasts by students of Digital Linguistics »Dihur podkast«.

The second season has just been released and is freely available at: www.youtube.com/@DigitalnaHu...

🎧 You are warmly invited to listen!
November 24, 2025 at 8:42 AM
🌾 On 22–23 October 2025, the National Agricultural Museum in Prague hosted the international conference Agricultural Collectivization in the Soviet Sphere of Influence.

Our colleague Dr. Janja Sedláček also took part, presenting her paper Yugoslav Collectivization: The Case of Slovenia.

#INZ
November 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Today we hosted a lecture by Tina Žarki as part of our Workplace Health Promotion Plan. She shared insights from extreme cycling challenges and showed how strategy, discipline, and energy management help prevent stress, burnout, and risks of sedentary work.

🙏 Thank you, Tina!
November 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Join us for the lecture in the Afternoons with DARIAH series on 26 November 2025 at 12:00 at the Institute of Contemporary History.

Dr Wolfgang Göderle (University of Graz) will present Unlocking the Schematismus and innovations in OCR and digital humanities.

Zoom: us06web.zoom.us/j/8681725530...
November 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
On 5–6 November, the Institute of Contemporary History hosted an international conference on the education and employment of people with sensory disabilities in the first and second Yugoslav states. Scholars across disciplines discussed key historical shifts and inclusion.

📸 #INZ #Conference
November 20, 2025 at 8:51 AM
SMASH at INZ brought insights into how AI and machine learning are shaping digital humanities. Dr. Andrej Pančur and Filip Dobranić presented INZ’s work, followed by a discussion with Dr Jana Javornik on navigating academic careers today. Sharing photo highlights below.

#INZ #SMASH #AI #Research
November 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Join us for a History on the Edge recap! On 29 Oct 2025, Željka Oparnica presented The Exception to Passivity: Student Movement and Minority Politics in Interwar Yugoslavia at INZ.

🎥 Full lecture: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T396...

📸 Highlights included.

#INZ #HistoryOnTheEdge
November 19, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Our colleague Dr. Aleš Gabrič appeared in the French programme Invitation au voyage, in an episode portraying Ljubljana as a cultural crossroads and a concert that became a symbol of national identity.

Watch here: www.arte.tv/fr/videos/12...

#INZ #Arte #Ljubljana
November 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
At INZ we hosted the Science Month event The Social Effects of Science – Between Ambition and Reality. Experts discussed science’s impact, challenges, and its role in society. Take a look at the photo highlights and watch both roundtables: sistory.si/publication/...

#INZ #ScienceMonth
November 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Dr. Victor Strazzeri took part in the When Politics Meet Gender workshop at the University of Bern, presenting on communist women activists and reproductive rights in post-1968 Italy and Slovenia.

📸 Highlights from the event below.

#INZ #GenderStudies #Bern
November 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Join us for History on the Edge on Wed, Nov 26, 2025, at 3 p.m. at the Institute of Contemporary History or via Zoom: lnkd.in/ex63-fXC

Senna Šimek presents “Between Judgment and Perception – The ICTY Narrative on Croatia’s Role in the War in BiH.”
More: inz.si/en/2025/11/12/...
November 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
🆕 A new publication!

❗Nataša Henig Miščič: Carniolan Savings Bank. Shaping Financial Landscape in Slovenian Territory (Recognitions 56), Ljubljana, 2025

✨ Read in open access: omp.inz.si/zalozba/cata...

#INZ #OpenAccess #History
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
🚀 In Slovenske Konjice, teachers stepped into the XR world at the LingoVerse workshop, exploring how AI and virtual reality are transforming education. 🕶️🎮

More TeachXR trainings coming soon!

👉 teachxr.si/izobrazevanja

📸 #TeachXR #LingoVerse #VR #AIinEducation
November 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
💼 On 30–31 Oct 2025, the Historical Institute Belgrade hosted the International Conference “Economy in Europe and the Balkans”.

Our colleagues Nataša Henig Miščič and Ivan Smiljanić presented papers on financial institutions and scandals in pre-WWI and Austro-Hungarian Slovenia.

#INZ #History
November 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
💻 From 22–24 Oct 2025, the 5th DARIAH-HR International Conference – Digital Humanities & Heritage 2025 took place. DARIAH-SI was represented by Katja Meden, Jurij Hadalin (INZ), and Miha Seručnik (ZRC SAZU).

More: dariah.eu/2025/11/05/launch-of-the-dariah-south-east-european-regional-hub
November 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM