Svoljšak – Podiplomska šola ZRC SAZU

Assoc. Prof. Petra Svoljšak, Ph.D.

Principal Research Associate and Head of Milko Kos Historical Institute at ZRC SAZU, associate professor at Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU.

Adress: Novi trg 2. SI – 1000 Ljubljana
+386 (0)1 4706 202
petra.svoljsak@zrc-sazu.si

Education and habilitations:

1991, BA in History and English language with literature, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts
1998, Ph.D. in Historical Sciences University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts
2009, Research Counsellor, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts in Ljubljana
1999, Assistant Professor, Contemporary History, University of Ljubljana
2004, Assistant Professor, Cultural History, University of Nova Gorica
2012, Associate Professor, Cultural History, University of Nova Gorica
2018, Associate Professor, Cultural History, Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU
2018, Associate Professor, Cultural History, Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU

Occupation and management

From 1991 (full time), Milko Kos Historical Institute, ZRC SAZU
From 2006 Programme Director of Bachelor’s programme in Cultural history, University of Nova Gorica
From 2010 Head of Milko Kos Historical Institute, ZRC SAZU

Project Management and collaboration

1999–2001, Postdoc project, Slovenes and the Austrian censorship during World War I;
2004–2007, collaboration and formation of the project, Transformation of the memory – propaganda and commemoration as the constituent part of the First Wordl ;
2009–2012, project leader, Cultural demography of the First Wordl War;
2004–2006, project leader, Slovenian army. Short history – long tradition;
2006–2008, project leader, For the freedom of the homeland: the front in the Julian Alps 1915-1917;
2013-2015, programme leader, Basic research of the Slovenian cultural past
2017 – 2020, project leader, Refugees – a never ending story

Fields of research:

Her research is focused on the history of the first world war and its cultural history context. In a broader sense she engages in social and political history of the 19th and 20th century.

World War I, civil experience, refugees, occupations, censorship,
war regime, everyday life, victims of war,
memory of the War,
World War I heritage for UNESCO World Heritage List

Functions:

Vice-president of the Slovenian National Committee for the Commemorations of the First World war centenaries (2014 – 2018)

Soča, sveta reka : italijanska zasedba slovenskega ozemlja (1915-1917), (Soča, the Sacred River: the Italian occupation of the Slovenian territory (1915 – 1917). Ljubljana: Nova revija, 2003.
Vojna – vzrok in spodbujevalka migracij : primer 1. svetovne vojne in slovenskega prostora. IN: ŠTIH, Peter (ur.), BALKOVEC, Bojan (ur.). Migracije in slovenski prostor od antike do danes,). Ljubljana: Zveza zgodovinskih društev Slovenije, 2010, 226-244.
Gorizia (Gorica), a damned and sacred city between two fires. Studia Historica Slovenica, 2011, letn. 11, N. 1, 79-109.
SVOLJŠAK, Petra, GODEŠA, Bojan. Italian interwar administration of Slovenian ethnic territory : Italian ethnic policy. IN: DORNIK, Wolfram (ed.), et al. Frontwechsel : Österreich-Ungarns “Großer Krieg” im Vergleich. Wien; Köln; Weimar: Böhlau, 2014, 303-323.
The language policy of the Italian army in the occupied Slovenian territories, 1915-17. IN: FOOTITT, Hilary (ur.), KELLY, Michael (ur.). Languages and the military : alliances, occupation and peace building, (Palgrave studies in languages at war). Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, 70-85.
French rule. IN: LUTHAR, Oto (ur.), et al. The land between : a history of Slovenia. 2nd., revised ed. Frankurt am Main [etc.]: P. Lang, 2013, 253-261.
In the shackles of political parties. IN: LUTHAR, Oto (ur.), et al. The land between : a history of Slovenia. 2nd., revised ed. Frankurt am Main [etc.]: P. Lang, 2013, 330-361.
The other side of history. IN: LUTHAR, Oto (ur.), et al. The land between : a history of Slovenia. 2nd., revised ed. Frankurt am Main [etc.]: P. Lang, 2013, 362-366.
The pre-March era, the time of non-freedom. IN: LUTHAR, Oto (ur.), et al. The land between : a history of Slovenia. 2nd., revised ed. Frankurt am Main [etc.]: P. Lang, 2013, 262-276.
The Slovenes in the constitutional era. IN: LUTHAR, Oto (ur.), et al. The land between : a history of Slovenia. 2nd., revised ed. Frankurt am Main [etc.]: P. Lang, 2013, 293-324.
Unity and national existence. IN: LUTHAR, Oto (ur.), et al. The land between : a history of Slovenia. 2nd., revised ed. Frankurt am Main [etc.]: P. Lang, 2013, 325-329.
Slovenian Historiography and Collective Memory of World War I in the First Yugoslavia (1918 – 1941). In: Jozef Niznik (ed). Twentieth Century wars and European Memory. (Studie in social sciences, philosophy and history of ideas, volume 1). Peter Lang Edition, 2013, 205 – 216.
Between losing and winning : the war balance – the Slovenian case. IN: MARKÓ, György (ur.), SCHMIDT, Mária (ur.). Europe’s fraternal war 1914-1918. Budapest: Kozep- és Kelet-európai Történelem és Társadalom Kutatásáért Közalapítvány, 2014, 249-261.
Prva svetovna vojna in Slovenci : 1994-2014. Prispevki za novejšo zgodovino, 2015/55, N. 2, 143-171. http://ojs.inz.si/pnz/article/view/116.
Ženske v gospodarstvu prve svetovne vojne. IN: ŠORN, Mojca (ur.), VODOPIVEC, Nina (ur.), LAZAREVIĆ, Žarko (ur.). Žensko delo : delo žensk v zgodovinski perspektivi, (Zbirka Vpogledi, ISSN 2350-5656, 12). Ljubljana: Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino, 2015, 179-194.
The sacrificed Slovenian memory of the Great War In: Sacrifice and rebirth / edited by Mark Cornwall and John Paul Newman. – New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, cop. 2016. – (Austrian and Habsburg studies ; vol. 18). Pp. 216-232.
War, memory, and geography : the geographical perception of Slovenians in the First World War. IN: DANIELSSON, Sarah Kristina (ur.), JACOB, Frank (ur.). War and Geography : the spatiality of organized mass violence, (War (Hi)stories, Bd. 1). Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2017 , 133-145.