🌳 Did you know that trees can also serve as political monuments? 🎙️ Our colleague Dr Ivan Smiljanić joined Radio Slovenia's Kulturni fokus to discuss how political regimes used commemorative trees to symbolise power, mark historical events, and shape the landscape.

💻 How do language technologies, AI, and digital humanities intersect? What new opportunities do digital tools offer for researching language, history, and cultural heritage?

Her presentation explored women’s socio-political work in 1960s Slovenia through the biography and activities of Majda Gaspari, then president of the Slovenian Conference for the Social Activity of Women (KDAŽ).

🎤 In the panel Female Political Subjectivity in Late Socialism: Biographical Perspectives, she presented the paper “Majda Gaspari and Women's Socio-Political Work in 1960s Slovenia.”

🌍 From 17 to 19 September, our colleague Nesa Vrečer attended the conference Women in Late Socialism: Gender Orders, Agency, and Transnational Entanglements in Berlin, organised by Humboldt University of Berlin and Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung.

🎤 She presented a paper exploring hydropower facilities as secondary infrastructure in the construction of railway tunnels, highlighting the connections between infrastructure, the environment, and natural resources.

Our colleague Sara Šifrar Krajnik attended the three-day international D-A-CH workshop “Umwelt und Ressourcen” (Environment and Resources) in Switzerland in September. 🌍

This week’s lecture will be given by Laura Meneghello: 🌿 Botanic Gardens and Space-making in the Habsburg Lands The lecture will explore botanic gardens and their role in shaping and organising space across the Habsburg lands. 🗣️ The lecture will be held in English.

📚 You are kindly invited to a new lecture in the History on the Edge series! 📅 Wednesday, 14 October 2026 🕥 10:30 📍 INZ or online via Zoom Joining us in person? ☕ Coffee will be served from 10:10. 🧵

The project examines the history of care and education of deaf, hard-of-hearing, blind and partially sighted children in the former Yugoslavia, including legislation, institutions, educational models and changing approaches to inclusion.

The exhibition was created within the international research project Systems of Care and Education of Children with Sensory Disabilities in the First and Second Yugoslav State (J6-50189), based at the Institute of Contemporary History and funded by ARIS.

On 28 September 2026, the Institute for Recent History of Serbia opened the exhibition Schools, People, Memories: Education of Children with Sensory Disabilities in Yugoslavia, 1919–1991.