In 2017, Miha Preinfalk held a symposium on Maria Theresa in Ljubljana, which was attended by distinguished international scholars, and a year later he edited a comprehensive volume containing twenty-two contributions by authors form six countries. Five members of the project group also participated with conference papers and contributions, with four contributions directly related to the content of the project, especially the two chapters on: 1) the Theresian reforms as a vehicle of change in feelings of belonging and affiliation, as well as identities in Slovenian territory, and 2) Maria Theresa’s policy toward non-Catholics in Inner Austrian territories. As the longstanding editor of the journal Kronika and the editor of a volume on Turjak Castle, Miha Preinfalk made possible the publication of several discussions produced in the course of the project.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
COBISS.SI-ID: 295739904In 2017, the international publishing house Peter Lang, based in Frankfurt, released the English version of Boris Golec’s volume Temporary Croatization of Parts of Eastern Slovenia between the Sixteenth and Nineteenth Century: Changing Identities at the Meeting Point of Related Peoples (= Thought, Society, Culture, vol. 3; Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2017, 171 pp.). This is an adapted translation of a research volume published in Slovenian (2012), which was the project leader’s main reference when participating in the call for projects and was selected by the Slovenian Research Agency as an exceptional research accomplishment in the humanities for 2012. In 2018, the same volume was also published in Croatian translation by the Croatian publishing house Meridijani.
F.29 Contribution to the development of national cultural identity
COBISS.SI-ID: 41782061The vast majority of the members of the project group have, like the project leader, participated in teaching at all four Slovenian higher education institutions that offer history programs; namely: Žiga Zwitter, Boris Golec, and Lilijana Žnidaršič Golec at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana; Andrej Rahten at the Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor; Miha Kos and Miha Preinfalk at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Primorska, Koper; and Petra Svoljšak, Matjaž Bizjak, Neva Makuc, and Željko Oset at the School of Humanities, University of Nova Gorica. They have also transmitted the project results and improved work methods as advisors to undergraduate and master’s students. Vanja Kočevar, a doctoral student supervised by Boris Golec, was included in the project group after completing his PhD courses and a certificate in Vienna.
D.10 Educational activities
Twelve members of the project group that participated in the research symposium Social and Identity Mobility in Slovenian Territory between the Late Middle Ages and the Disintegration of the Habsburg Monarchy presented thirteen papers divided into three thematic groups: 1) ethnic and confessional identity, 2) the rise and fall of the nobility, and 3) market-town dwellers, “kosezi,” (Germ. Edlinge), and freeholders (Germ. Freisassen). The papers constitute a selection of representative project results. In the second half of 2019, they will be published in an extended form as an independent volume with ZRC Publishing, ZRC SAZU in Ljubljana. Being the first of this kind in Slovenia, the volume will contribute to a synthetic presentation of hitherto under-researched areas of Slovenian history.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
COBISS.SI-ID: 44009005Petra Svoljšak discussed the topic of the First World War and its consequences for Slovenian territory and its population in a series of lessons and papers presented at international conferences (in Pula, Croatia and Amstetten, Austria). She focused on the physical, demographic, and social reconstruction of the territories along the former battlefield on the Isonzo Front. She presented the topic of refugees as returnees from the point of view of state control, as well as from the point of view of the actual situation, individual stories, and their reintegration into a new state. She also focused on the reconstruction of the Gorizia region, which had already been started during the war and continued after the war under the strict supervision of a new state.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
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