Activities

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

3 May 2024 Tra il 6 e l’8 maggio, il Palazzo del Cinema di Gorizia ospiterà la terza edizione del convegno Oriente / Occidente: La frontiera nel cinema e nella storia, che attraverso le immagini in movimento esplora il patrimonio audiovisivo lungo il confine italo-sloveno. il tema di quest’anno si focalizzerà sull’importanza delle culture cinematografiche locali e delle pratiche cinematografiche transfrontaliere, nonché sul

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

“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

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.