Gospodarska in družbena zgodovina med retrospektivo in perspektivo [Economic and Social History between Retrospective and Perspective] (Ljubljana, 14–16 November 2012): eight published summaries of papers presented at the international conference. The consultation was dedicated to the retrospective of systematic research with a socio-economic focus that followed the guidelines outlined by SAZU in the middle of the previous century within the framework of the programme Natural and Cultural Heritage; the organisation of research was headed by the Milko Kos Historical Institute at (ZRC) SAZU. Foreign experts from Austria, Croatia, Italy and Switzerland presented positive practices in solving the problems of socio-economic research in their respective environments. Paper presenters from Slovenia were systematically invited qualified scholars who were asked to prepare papers on pre-selected problems. Our aim was to demonstrate as many aspects of the problem as possible, open as many key questions as possible and offer as many specific answers and feasible solutions as possible. Participating scholars presented their own research experiences, visions, plans and suggestions for encouraging and reviving research and publications in the field of social and economic history in both Slovenian and broader milieu.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 34838573The journal Kronika, časopis za slovensko krajevno zgodovino is edited by Miha Preinfalk, managing and responsible editor, and Barbara Šterbenc Svetina, technical editor. It publishes three issues per year, with at least one being thematic. It is one of the central Slovenian Historical journal that has a more than sixty-year-old tradition and is included in numerous international databases.
C.05 Editorial board of a national magazine
COBISS.SI-ID: 8221696Darja Mihelič is a member of the International Commission for the History of Towns (Commission internationale pour l’histoire des villes) and the International Society for Alpine History (Association internationale pour l’histoire des Alpes). The said associations encourage research in the fields of the history of towns and the history of the Alps, as well as organise congresses and symposia of experts from the Central European and broader area.
D.03 Membership in foreign/international boards/committees
Slovenian historiography and national collective memory of the First World War were determined by the political framework in which the Slovenes lived after 1918, as well as by the social system of the Yugoslav state after the Second World War. The First World War became a constitutive part of Slovenian history of the 20th century only after 1980, while the period immediately after the First World War, during the time of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, focused on memory discussions about it. There has been surprisingly little research done on the problem of the Isonzo Front, which took place in the ethnic Slovenian territory. After the Second World War, the new social system imposed other research priorities. The history of the Isonzo Front started to receive research attention at the end of the 1960s and more thoroughly in the mid-1980s.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 34760237After Miha Preinfalk, a member of the programme group, organised the attention-grabbing symposium and exhibition “Razumeti grad – vloga in pomen gradov v slovenski zgodovini” [Understanding castles – the role and significance of castles in Slovenian history] in November 2011, Kronika. Review for Slovenian Local History published in 2012 papers prepared for print under his editorship in its (thematic) issue 3, volume 60 “Iz zgodovine slovenskih gradov” [From the history of Slovenian castles]. Within the framework of the presentation of the said issue, the panel “Gradovi na Slovenskem danes in jutri – usoda, načrti, perspective” [Castles in the Slovenian territory today and tomorrow – the destiny, plans, perspectives] was organised on 6 November 2012, at which the participants demonstrated the problem of maintaining and preserving the Slovenian castle heritage and of finding proper contents. The key conclusion of the panel was that the Slovenes urgently need a clear vision of what is to be done with castles in the Slovenian territory to prevent the important ones from ruin and causing irreversible damage to the Slovenian national wealth. The panel, which was attended by a number of distinguished guests from the cultural sphere, was moderated by Miha Preinfalk.
F.27 Contribution to preserving/protecting natural and cultural heritage
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