Activities

The exhibition Never Mind the Borders put the concept of multilingualism into practice through the use of three languages in Nova Gorica, Slovenian, Italian, and English, and six in its digital version, which additionally included German, Croatian, and Friulian. The exhibition served as the starting point for a conversation between Prof. Borut Klabjan and Majda […]

On 17 – 19 July 2025, principal investigator Borut Klabjan, affiliate researcher Sabine Rutar as well as advisory board members Hannes Grandits and Pieter Judson attended the first Central European History Convention, hosted by the University of Vienna and the Institute of Austrian Historical Research. The event provided a platform for exchange on Central European

Dr. Marco Abram was one of the scholars awarded with the 2025 Nationalities Papers Photography Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies The photo, taken during fieldwork, was accompanied by a brief description of how it relates to Dr. Abram’s field of studies and was judged based on content, synthesis, and visually compelling insights about nationalism, ethnicity

11 of June 2025, Trento Open Borders PI Borut Klabjan and project team members Karlo Ruzicic Kessler and Marco Abram presented their research papers at the seminar “Storie in costruzione. Nuovi orizzonti della storia contemporanea” organized in Trento (Italy) by the Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico at the Fondazione Bruno Kessler on June 11, 2025. The presentations

11 of June 2025, Trento On June 1st, at the Verdi Theatre in Gorizia, as part of the èStoria Festival, Jože Pirjevec and Federico Tenca Montini took part in a roundtable discussion on the book History of Yugoslavia by Marie-Janine Calic. Since the book is largely dedicated to the history of the Yugoslav federation during the

Nova Gorica and Gorizia – The exhibition Never Mind The Borders – People, Spaces, and Cross-Border Practices between the Alps and the Adriatic, locatedin the underpass of the Nova Gorica railway station, is officially open. The exhibition presents everyday cross-border practices in the Alps-Adriatic region during the Cold War, featuring stories of friendship, smuggling, television,

Začela se je dvodnevna znanstvena delavnica PLACES OF CROSS-BORDER IN HISTORY: THE ALPS-ADRIATIC REGION, v organizaciji ZRS Koper, ki se odvija v novogoriškem Xcentru. Priznani mednarodni strokovnjaki razpravljajo o lokalnih in transnacionalnih pobudah čezmejnega sodelovanja. Svoje poglede o tej temi sta danes dopoldne predstavila  Birte Wassenberg z Univerze v Strasbourgu in Martin Klatt z Univerze 

Time: May 22-23, 2025  How can we find unity in Europe when borders are becoming increasingly closed? At the internal borders of the European Union, border control is increasingly tightening, and closing national borders has become the answer to all modern problems. Where can we still find the spirit of European integration? Perhaps right at

Open Borders project team members Mateja Režek, Karlo Ruzicic Kessler and Jure Ramšak presented their papers at the thirty-fourth annual ASEN conference that took place at Central European University’s Budapest campus from 23rd to 25th April, 2025 under the title Nationalism and Borders. The project collaborators discussed their research at a well-attended panel entitled: Cross-Border

The end of the First World War started a relatively long period of state indeterminacy, political ambiguity, and economic insecurity. How this affected local societies is of enormous importance for the history of the region. Despite decades of wars, mass murders and ethnic cleansing the area became a laboratory of cross-border cooperation since the mid-1950,