Prof. Oto Luthar, Ph.D.
Researcher at Institute of Culture and Memory studies, Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 2, Ljubljana.
Luthar@zrc-sazu.si
Education:
Research interest:
- Modern History of Ideas
- Social and Cultural History of 19th and 20th centuries
- Theory and History of Historiography
- Memory Studies
- Guest professor at Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio, August – September 2016,
- Guest Researcher, Columbia University, New York, (summer semester 2013);
- Guest Professor, Vienna University, Summer semester 2008
- Fulbright Research Grant, Yale University in New Haven, CT (academic year 1999/2000);
- Scholarship of the Austrian Government, Institute for East-Central European Studies, Vienna, 1996;
- DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) Freie Universität, Friedrich Meinecke Institut, Berlin, Professor Jürgen Kocka (academic year 1991/1992).
- The Great War and Memory in Central and South-Eastern Europe. Editor. Leiden: Brill, 2016.
- Of Red Dragons and Evil Spirits: Post-Communist Historiography between Democratization and New Politics of History. Editor. Budapest: CEU Press, 2017.
- Margins of memory: anti-Semitism and the destruction of the Jewish community in Prekmurje. Ljubljana: ZRC Publishing, 2012.
- “Immer noch Sturm”. The intimate perception of a neighbourhood. Politics in Central Europe, December 2012, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 45-57.
- “Dulce et decorum est — über die Nationalisierung der kollektiven Erinnerung nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg”. In: Babka, Anna (ed.), Finzi, Daniela (ed.), Ruthner, Clemens (ed.). Die Lust an der Kultur/Theorie : Transdisziplinäre Interventionen Für Wolfgang Müller-Funk. Wien; Berlin: Turia + Kant, 2012, pp. 424-433.
- With Breda Luthar. “Von der Ideologie zur Mytologie? Historischer Revisionismus im postsozialistischen Slowenien”. In: Flierl, Thomas (ed.), Mueller, Elfriede (ed.). Osteuropa – Schlachtfeld der Erinnerungen. Berlin: Karl Dietz Verlag, 2010, pp. 105-129.
- “Demokratisierung oder erneute Monopolisierung? die Geschichtslandschaft in Südosteuropa nach 1991”. In: Benedik, Stefan (ed.). In Progress, in Arbeit : 25 Jahre Zeitgeschichte an der Universität Graz : Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Meerscheinschlössl Donnerstag, 2. April – Freitag, 3. April 2009. Graz: Karl-Franzens-Universität, Institut für Geschichte – Zeitgeschichte, 2009.
- Zgodovina historične misli: od Homerja do začetka 21. stoletja [A History of Historical Thought: From Homer to Beginnings of the 21 Century]. ZRC Publishing, Ljubljana 2006 and 2016.
- O Žalosti niti besede [Don’t Send a Word of Sorrow. Cultural History of WWI], ZRC Publishing, Ljubljana 2000.
