No. 1 of the 53rd year of the Prispevki za novejšo zgodovino magazine (chief ed. dr. Damijan Guštin, responsible ed. dr. Zdenko Čepič) focused on the question of the repression during World War II and in the post war period in Slovenia as well as in its neighbouring states. 18 authors from Slovenia, Italy, Austria, Croatia, Hungary and Serbia wrote about this issue. In their original scientific articles they resolved a number of questions with regard to the painful wartime and post war events, thus contributing to a more objective and less biased outlook of the today's Slovenian society on the events taking place at the time. No. 2 of the Prispevki za novejšo zgodovino magazine included nine original scientific articles focusing on the symbolic characteristics of the political dispute during the Austrian period, the issue of localism and nationalism, the professional structure of the members of the National Assembly of the Kingdom of SHS/Yugoslavia, the activities of Orjuna, the social issues in the First and Second Yugoslavia, the Slovenian economic development after 1945, and on the development of the environmental diplomacy in the Republic of Slovenia between 1991 and 2012. No. 2 of the Prispevki za novejšo zgodovino magazine also included three expert historical deliberations, two biographical articles, and five scientific monograph reviews.
C.05 Editorial board of a national magazine
During the presentation of the documentary series on RTV Slovenia (Slovenians and World War I, 1914–1918) in the National Museum of Contemporary History on 27 November 2013, Dr. Jurij Perovšek, who participated in the creation of the series, lectured on the historical circumstances surrounding the formation of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs after the end of World War I. In his lecture Dr. Perovšek underlined the importance of this state, which was established in the time between the dissolution of the Austro Hungarian Monarchy and the establishment of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1918, for the current Slovenian national state conscience and self awareness.
F.18 Transfer of new know-how to direct users (seminars, fora, conferences)
COBISS.SI-ID: 3144564In his independent scientific essay, published in a monograph based on the cooperation with the University of Tokio, the author establishes that in the context of the educational system in Austro Hungary and the first Yugoslav state, history played the role of steering the patriotic feelings. In this sense it was presented in as a uniform (centralist) manner as possible. After the communist takeover of power in 1945, the role of history in the educational process did not change essentially, but it was adapted to the changed political circumstances. The emphasis lied on the most recent history, recounted in accordance with the ideology of the communist authorities, which strengthened the conviction of the future victory of socialism all over the world in the context of the necessity of the revolution as a methodological pedagogical approach. During the democratisation of Slovenia at the turn of the 1980s, the demands for the deideologisation of the school system became one of the central points of the intellectual opposition. After the change of the political system and the Slovenian attainment of independence in 1990–1991 the teaching content was expanded notably, now also including the historical content which had previously been forbidden.
F.30 Professional assessment of the situation
COBISS.SI-ID: 3110004In his lecture at the Berliner Forschungskolloquium Südosteuropa at the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin on 7 June 2013, the lecturer presented the characteristics of the nationalist representation of the history of the Slovenian Croatian border: 1) anachronisms (introducing the elements of the present or the more recent past, which did not exist in the period under consideration); 2) erroneous methodology (following a hypothesis, made in advance, seeking a suitable answer with regard to the location of the border in the past); 3) inconsistency (use of legal, administrative, linguistic and ethnographic arguments when supporting the hypothesis, made in advance, as well as the disregard of these where the hypothesis is not supported); 4) focusing on the "border changes" at the individual sections without taking the wider context into account; 5) convictions involving the "naturalness" of national identities (the supposition that the differences between Croats and Slovenians are very old, "natural", and that they can be clearly delimited).
F.18 Transfer of new know-how to direct users (seminars, fora, conferences)
COBISS.SI-ID: 3119988At the international scientific symposium The Ideal Parliament: Perception, Interpretation and Memory of Parliaments and Parliamentarianism in Europe: International EuParl.net Conference, organised by the European Information and Research Network on Parliamentary History in The Hague between 30 May and 1 June 2013, the lecturer emphasised that during the fall of one party systems in the east of Central Europe the establishment of the Western type parliamentary democracy was one of the main political demands. On this basis the lecturer brought the attention to the considerable power of parliamentarism at the stage of its rebirth, which is particularly interesting today, when after 20 years since its establishment the level of trust in parliamentarism is exceedingly low around all of Central Europe.
B.04 Guest lecture
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