The paper, based on Amintore Fanfani's diaries, describes his attitude towards Yugoslavia as it was formed during his years at the top of Italian political life. It starts in the late 1940s and ends in the late 1970s, encompassing the period characterized by the quarrel related to the Trieste question. Fanfani was a staunch fighter for Italian interests but on the other hand he understood that the two countries should live together in a friendly neighborhood. As a scholar of economy he was also interested in the Yugoslav selfmanagement experiment, which he found complicated, but more democratic system than capitalist one.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 1536319428The programme group leader Jože Pirjevec PhD, and its other members (e.g. Egon Pelikan, PhD, Borut Klabjan, PhD etc.) were members of the program committee and they were amongst the organizers of the international scientific meeting. They also prepared some of the panel discussions of the two-day international conference. The conference was the result of the project Problems of the History of Slovenian-Italian Relations that was lead by Egon Pelikan, PhD, member of the program group. Many experts that deal with the history of the Slovenian-Italian area in the 20th century attended the conference. In their articles they analyzed the process of researches in this area and pointed out some scientific questions that need to be resolved in the future. The term papers were issued in the form of scientific articles in the Acta Histriae journal (3/2012 and 4/2012).
B.02 Presiding over the programming board of a conference
The international scientific meeting was based on the concept of 'third party' as a player in the mediatory, mediation and reconciliation practices, which in various forms and in different ways act throughout history. The key question was to observe various aspects of the appearing of a third party, whose nomination requires covert or existing conflicts within a community or society. The symposium has contributed to highlighting the mediator practices in different historical periods and contexts (from 8th to 20th centuries, with particular reference to the Adriatic and in the wider Mediterranean area). The meeting's participants discussed around the following key issues: The position of a third party the conflict dynamics and risks, the third party and criteria of decisions, protagonists of the conflict and their context, viewers or witnesses (public opinion, gossip, etc., accompanying the conflict).
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
Programme Leader, academician Jože Pirjevec, Ph. D. was in year 2012 a Visiting professor in Japan, on the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Chiba in Tokyo, which is well known for its Programme for Visiting Teaching scholars. He was invited by Dean of a faculty Ken Ishida, Ph.D. and specialist for the History of the Western World Prof. Ozawa, to perform a seminar “Modern history of Slovenia since the fall of the Habsburg Monarchy until the Independence”. In his lecture Prof. Pirjevec presented the main breaking points in the historical developments of the Slovenian nation, with the emphasis in the period between 1918 and 1991. The main topics of the lecture were: dismemberment of the Slovenian ethnic space after WWI, fight for the conservation of the Slovenian identity during the interwar period in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and later on Yugoslavia, the rebellion of Slovenes in the Littoral during the period of Fascism and the plebiscite of Slovenes in Carinthia in 1920. He also presented the circumstances in the Slovenian territory during WWII and the restoration of borders after the war, and also the position of Republic of Slovenia within Yugoslavia until its downfall.
B.04 Guest lecture
Irena Lazar organized the scientific meeting with topics production and trade with glass on the Adriatic. From the prehistoric period this area was crossed with important navigable routes that connected Northern Adriatic with the Mediterranean. Also glass-working spread from this area to the inland via the Adriatic routes through the trade of raw materials and products as well as craftsmen exchange. The meeting presented research about trade with raw materials and raw glass in antiquity, imports of glass products from Mediterranean workshops and trade routes of Italic workshops in the Adriatic area.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
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