Assoc. Prof. Petra Svoljšak, Ph.D.

Petra Svoljšak

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.

MODULE GENERAL ELECTIVE COURSES

Cultural history of violence

Assoc. Prof. Petra Svoljšak, Ph.D.,

ECTS: 6

History, Identity and Popular Culture

Assoc. Prof. Ana Hofman, Ph.D.,

ECTS: 6

Media, memory and history

Assoc. Prof. Petra Svoljšak, Ph.D.,

ECTS: 6

Memory and History

Prof. Oto Luthar, Ph.D.,

ECTS: 6

National Memory in Historical Perspective

Prof. Oto Luthar, Ph.D.,

ECTS: 6

Remembering Socialism in Central and Southeastern Europe

Prof. Tanja Petrović, Ph.D.,

ECTS: 6