Activities

29.09.2024 – 02.10.2024, Philosophical Faculty, University of Rijeka Open Borders team members participated at international conference „Between Ruptures and Persistence. The Question of Dis-/Continuities in the History of Southeastern Europe”, that was held at University of Rijeka. Principale Investigator of Open Borders, Prof. Borut Klabjan, gave a lecture entitled „Wind of Change? Cross-Border Cooperation Along […]

16-18.09.2024, Wrocław and Opole Open Borders” team members Sabine Rutar, Urška Strle, Benedetto Zaccaria and Marco Abram, presented and discussed their research at the First Congress of the Researchers of Borders and Borderlands – (De) Constructing borders in borderlands studies, in a panel entitled “Open Borders: Cross-border Practices in the Alps-Adriatic Area During the Cold War”.

University of Trieste 20 September 2024 As a guest of the Italian PRIN project »Italian Cold War Borders. A new Research Framework on Transformation during Détente« Professor Borut Klabjan gave a lecture at the University of Trieste entiteled » Razzismo di confine:  Materialità, pratiche e narrazioni nello spazio alto Adriatico«.

Kulturhaus Görz in Gorica 13 September 2024 The PI Prof. Borut Klabjan discussing with the participants of the International summer school: history, language and border cultures organized by the Kulturhaus Görz in Gorica.

EAUH 2024 convention “Cities at the Boundaries” – Ostrava, 4-7 September 2024 Researchers from the Open Borders team Jure Ramšak and Federico Tenca Montini, together with Raimondo Mercadante from the Turin polytechnic university, presented their research results through the specialist session “(De)constructing Cold War Urban Space Along the Border: the case of Yugoslavia, Italy, and

Colloquium in Central and East European History University of Konstanz, on June 20-21 2024 Marco Abram presented the preliminary results of his research work within Openborders at the Colloquium in Central and East European History organized by the Chair of History of Eastern Europe of the University of Konstanz (20-21 June 2024). The presentation, under the

London, on June 12 2024 The PI Prof. Borut Klabjan took part in a session at the conference Afterlives of Empire. How Imperial Legacies Shaped European Integration held at the German Historical Institute in London. On June 12, his presentation, “The Empire strikes back: Habsburg legacies and regional cooperation in the Cold War Alps-Adriatic transnational

Sarajevo, Bosna in Hercegovina, on June 4-9 2024 Research team members Karlo Ruzicic-Kessler, Urška Strle, Federico Tenca Montini, Benedetto Zaccaria, Jure Ramšak, and advisory committee member Hannes Grandits discussed the Open Borders topics in a panel entitled “Integration without disintegration: cross-border cooperation in the Alps-Adriatic space during the Cold War”, which was organized within the

Trieste/Trst, Italy, on May 28 2024 Prof. Borut Klabjan giving a lecture to a delegation of young administrators, members of local or regional elective assemblies, officials responsible for economic development and European project planning from CEI countries involved in the EU enlargement process.The meeting took place at the Central European Initiative in Trieste/Trst, Italy, on

25 May 2024 V večnamenski dvorani Muzeja LETS – tržaške književnosti na Trgu Hortis je v organizaciji Slovenskega kluba potekalo prvo izmed srečanj letošnjega že 25. Foruma Tomizza, ki se letos odvija pod naslovom Slovnica pozabe. https://www.rainews.it/tgr/fjk/video/2024/05/slovnica-pozabe-v-srediscu-letosnjega-foruma-tomizza–c8f4e8db-76bf-425f-870f-ad8b7ce6a61a.html?wt_mc=2.www.wzp.rainews