Activities

The MAPPING Memories of Good Will conference focuses on selected geographical and temporal conflict zones in Southeast Europe, including regions such as the areas between Italy, Slovenia, and Croatia; Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia; as well as Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Greece. The conference aims to place these regions within a broader historical context, shedding […]

“Television beyond Cold War Blocks: the role of TV Koper-Capodistria in overcoming Upper Adriatic Border divisions” _TransborderTV_G.A:101180568 The TransborderTV project, a new research initiative funded by the European Union under the ERA Fellowships call (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-TALENTS-02), aims to investigate the history and legacy of the bilingual television broadcaster TV Koper Capodistria (TV KC) during the Cold

SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE 27-29.11.2024, University of Lausanne Karlo Ruzicic-Kessler and Marco Abram presented and discussed their research at the conference “Europeanisations from the Bottom and from the Margins, Actors, Representations, and Experiences (late 19th-early 21st centuries)” organized by the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). Karlo Ruzicic-Kessler presented a paper under the title “The Alps-Adriatic Region during the Cold

SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE University of Zagreb, November 14-15, 2024 On November 14th and 15th, Principal Investigator Borut Klabjan, Federico Tenca Montini, Benedetto Zaccaria, and Professor Jože Pirjevec, an academic historian from ZRS Koper, attended the conference titled “The London Memorandum of 1954: The Beginning of Eternal Peace in the Northern Adriatic?” Held in Zagreb, the event

International workshop: THE ALPS-ADRIATIC REGION: OPEN BORDERS BEYOND COLD WAR 4-5 November 2024, University of Padova The Open Borders team, together with the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies (University of Padova); Centro di Ateneo per i Diritti Umani ‘Antonio Papisca’, held a bilingual workshop. The first day was dedicated to ‘THE ADRIATIC

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