3 May 2024 The island of Ventotene, where hundreds of antifascists were interned by the Mussolini regime before and during the Second World War, became a laboratory for new ideas of peace and justice. It represents the symbolic birthpalce of a united Europe. In occasion of the twentieth anniversay of the enlargement of the European […]
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“Friends will be Friends: Italo-Yugoslav town twinning and transnational friendship in the Cold War and beyond” Friday, 19 April 2024 The PI Borut Klabjan presented his paper “Friends will be Friends: Italo-Yugoslav town twinning and transnational friendship in the Cold War and beyond” at the Workshop “INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP WITHIN AND BEYOND THE IRON CURTAIN”, held
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Monday, 15 April 2024 As part of our dissemination activities, Dr. Borut Klabjan, on April 15, 2024, gave a lecture on the cross-border history of the region to the students of the Fran Venturini Slovene Primary School in Italy, in Boljunec near Trieste.
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Wrocław and Opole, 16-18.09.2024 Federico Tenca Montini, researcher in OPEN BORDER team, provided a description of historical events related to the aftermath of the Second World War in the Upper Adriatic region and the creation on the Free Trieste Territory, as part of the series of conferences “corte de le ore” organized by the Union of
Monday, 6 November 2023, at 10:30 a.m. CET Ulf Brunnbauer Born 1970 in Kirchdorf a.d. Krems (Austria). After his PhD at the University of Graz in 1999 (with a dissertation on the social and environmental history of the Rhodopi Mountains), Ulf Brunnbauer received a habilitation in East and Southeast as well as Modern History from
On October 3, 2023, the Science and Research Centre Koper was visited by Master’s students in History from the Université libre de Bruxelles, led by Professor Pieter Lagrou. During the presentation of our ongoing work, PI Borut Klabjan also discussed the Open Borders project. The highlights of his presentation aligning perfectly with the interests of
In Ohrid, on September 22nd and 23rd, 2023, a conference on the topic “In Search of Lost Time – Yugoslavia and European Integration” / ” U potrazi za izgubljenim vremenom – Jugoslavija i evropske integracije” is taking place. Historians from Germany, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and North Macedonia are discussing the unsuccessful attempts
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Federico Tenca Montini, researcher in OPEN BORDER team, presented the provisional results of his research on the history of TV Koper-Capodistria as part of the ERC Open Borders project at the City of Books festival in Nova Gorica. He described the role of TV Koper-Capodistria in the Italian media sphere during various phases of its
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In collaboration with the Science and Research Centre & Department of History In Collaboration with AAAD and the Italian Studies Program Nation, Memory and War in Twentieth Century Europe: the Adriatic Transnational* experience Public/Student Talk Fascism?: Legacies of Interwar Politics in Italy today- INVITATION Faculty Workshop/Discussion- INVITATION
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OPENBORDERS & The Institute for Historical Studies, ZRS Koper cordially invites you to a guest lecture by dr. Marko Miljković titled “A Cable Too Far: How Slovenia Seceded from the Yugoslav Electric Grid in 1970“ Thursday, 14 September 2023, at 11:00 a.m. CET “Expectations have come true. Yesterday at noon, the Northern Adriatic was switched
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