Activities

On 10 February 2026 at 5 p.m., the University of Verona hosted a public debate within the Calendario civile programme, dedicated to the history, memory, and legacy of the borderland after the signing of the Osimo Agreements of 1975. The event, titled Italy and Slovenia Between Divided Memories and Disappearing Borders, took place in Aula […]

On October 13 2025, Marco Abram presented the paper “Oltre il crinale. Le organizzazioni alpinistiche jugoslave e la cooperazione transfrontaliera con l’Italia” at the workshop “Prospettive sulla Jugoslavia socialista. Associazionismo, solidarietà, immaginari” at the University of Florence. The workshop was organized in the framework of the ERC project HumanEuroMed “Humanitarianism and Mediterranean Europe: a Transnational

On Saturday, November 8, 2025, Urška Strle welcomed a group of members of the Bibliophile Society from Ferrara. At the Maks bookshop and café in Nova Gorica she first presented them the OPEN BORDERS research project, then took them to the underpass of the Nova Gorica railway station, where they visited the Never Mind the

The series is held within the course International History of the Balkans (LM Relazioni Internazionali e Diplomazia) and aims to offer the students the opportunity to dialogue with principal investigators or collaborators of international research projects concerning Yugoslav history. Date and time 3 November 2025, 8:30-10:30 Location Aula B1, Dipartimento SPGI Dal 07.10.2025 al 03.11.2025

On October 14, Urška Strle gave a lecture at the Institute for Recent History in Belgrade titled “Hunting in Socialism: International Connections of Slovenian Hunters and Anglers during the Cold War.” The lecture presented conceptual issues and methodological guidelines relating to the specific research topic of the OPEN BORDERS project, and served as a forum

Join us for a virtual round-table, marking the 50th anniversary of the Osimo Treaty – a Cold War milestone in peaceful resolution. Scholars from Italy and the U.S. will explore nationalism, diplomacy, and the legacy of contested borderlands. Date and time November 10 · 11pm – November 11 · 12am CET Location Online_ REGISTRATION The

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