Activities

Time: May 22-23, 2025  How can we find unity in Europe when borders are becoming increasingly closed? At the internal borders of the European Union, border control is increasingly tightening, and closing national borders has become the answer to all modern problems. Where can we still find the spirit of European integration? Perhaps right at […]

Open Borders project team members Mateja Režek, Karlo Ruzicic Kessler and Jure Ramšak presented their papers at the thirty-fourth annual ASEN conference that took place at Central European University’s Budapest campus from 23rd to 25th April, 2025 under the title Nationalism and Borders. The project collaborators discussed their research at a well-attended panel entitled: Cross-Border

The end of the First World War started a relatively long period of state indeterminacy, political ambiguity, and economic insecurity. How this affected local societies is of enormous importance for the history of the region. Despite decades of wars, mass murders and ethnic cleansing the area became a laboratory of cross-border cooperation since the mid-1950,

Dr. Urška Strle, docentka in priznana raziskovalka, deluje na ZRS Koper v okviru ERC projekta OPEN BORDERS (vodja prof. dr. Borut Klabjan).  Osredotoča se predvsem na zgodovino ženskega gibanja, zgodovino migracij ter sodobno slovensko zgodovino, pri čemer pogosto uporablja metodo ustne zgodovine. Pri svojem zgodovinopisnem delovanju poudarja etične standarde raziskovalnega dela ter pomen uravnoteženega in

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