On April 21, 2026, a conference titled “Power, Ideologies, and Minorities: Ethnic and Religious Communities in Central Europe and the Balkans (1941–1989)” took place at the premises of Slovenska matica in Ljubljana.
The conference was organized by the Study Center for National Reconciliation and Slovenska matica, and was attended by two INV researchers, Anja Moric, PhD and Attila Kovács, PhD. The former presented the German-speaking community in the territory of present-day Slovenia from the perspective of collective memory, identity transformations, and contemporary heritage revitalization processes (lecture title: “Silence, Memory, and Identity: The German-speaking Community in Slovenia and the Diaspora”). The latter, in a paper titled “When We Were Hungarians: The Hungarians of Prekmurje During World War II and the Postwar Period,” shed light on the situation of the Hungarian community during the period of Hungarian rule (1941–1945) and in the post-war period.
