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Department of History

Prof. Dr. Božo Repe

EDUCATION

  • 1992: PhD in History (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts)

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL CAREER

University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department of History

  • 2002–: Full Professor of Contemporary Slovenian and General History

 

Visiting professor

  • 2001: Comenius University in Bratislava
  • 1996: University Vytautas Magnus in Kaunas

 

Visiting lectures

  • 2017: Ghent University
  • 2017: Free University of Brussels
  • 2012: Charles University in Prague
  • 2009: University of Graz
  • 2004: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  • 2002: University of Neuchâtel
  • 2000: Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (University of Vienna)
  • 1999: Institute of National History of University in Skopje

 

Project head

  • 2017–: member of the SRA research project Make This Land German… Italian… Hungarian… Croatian… Again! Borders of Occupational Zones in Slovenia during the Second World War.

 

Research projects

 

  • 2019–2021: Legacy of Yugoslavia and the future of the Region

  • 2017–: član ARRS raziskovalnega projekta Begunci – nikoli dokončana zgodba

  • 2014–2017: član ARRS raziskovalnega projekta Slovenski diplomati in zunanjepolitični vidiki osamosvajanja Republike Slovenije, 1980–1992

  • 2010– : član ARRS programske skupine Slovenska zgodovina (Oddelek za zgodovino Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani)

  • 2009–2012: član ARRS raziskovalnega projekta Manevrska struktura Narodne zaščite v organih za notranje zadeve leta 1990

  • 2008 –: Mauthausen Survivors Documentation Project

  • 1996–2000: member of the SRA research project Arhivistična zgodovina

  • 1997–1999: member of the SRA research project Slovenian History

  • 1996–1998: member of the SRA research project Nemci na Slovenskem 1941–1955

  • 2010–: member of the SRA programme group Slovenian History (Department of History, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana)

 

Leadership of a bilateral project:

  • 1998–1999: Slovenci in Makedonci v Jugoslaviji

 

Leading functions:

  • 2009–: head of the SRA research group Slovenian History (Department of History, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana)
  • Member of the senate of the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
  • 1999–2001: representative of the Department of History, Faculty of Arts

 

Membership in rank groups

  • 2017–: DMMK Association Forum: Forum for the International and Interdisciplinary Research Group, The Double Monarchy and the Middle Kingdom
  • 2002–: Mauthausen Survivors Research Project (Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Universität Wien
  • 1999–: member of Bureau of the International Committee for the History of the Second World War
  • 1999–: member of the Joint History Project (Centre for Democracy and Reconciliation in South East Europe)

 

Other roles in the field of expertise

  • President of the Matura Commission
  • 2003–2004: Head of the Slovene part of the Slovene-Austrian Historical Commission
  • 2000–: membership in the editorial board of the  Historical Review: A Journal of the Historical Association of Slovenia 1996–1998: Chairman of the Commission for the Reform of Curricula for History
  • 1996–1998: member of the National Curriculum Council
  • 1985–: member of the editorial board of Borec: a journal for history, literature and anthropology

 

Scholarships

  • 2016: recipient of the Klio Award: Award of the Historical Association of Slovenia for research work in historiography for his volume S puško in knjigo: narodnoosvobodilni boj slovenskega naroda 1941–1945
  • 1997: Tempus scholarship at the Institut d'histoire du temps present, Paris
  • 1996: Institute for East and Southeast European Studies scholarship, Vienna
  • 1995: scholarship of the French government at the Centre International d'Erudes Pédagogiques de Sévres, Paris
  • 1994: Institute for East and Southeast European Studies scholarship, Vienna
  • 1992: scholarship of the government of the USA at UCLA, Los Angeles

FIELDS OF RESEARCH

The position of Slovenes in various state formations; Central and South-Eastern Europe and Yugoslavia; democracy, parliamentarism and civil society; national issues, transnational relations, diplomacy; teaching history and methodological problems of historiography.

Repe, Božo. 2015. Milan Kučan, prvi predsednik. Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba.

Repe, Božo. 2015. S puško in knjigo: narodnoosvobodilni boj slovenskega naroda 1941–1945. Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba.

Repe, Božo. 2002. Jutri je nov dan: Slovenci in razpad Jugoslavije. Ljubljana: Modrijan.

Repe, Božo. 1992. »Liberalizem« v Sloveniji. Ljubljana: RO ZZB NOV Slovenije.

Repe, Božo. 1990. Obračun s Perspektivami. Ljubljana: Znanstveno in publicistično središče

Complete bibliography

Compulsory Courses

Elective Courses

Staff

Events

09. 11. - 11. 11. 2023
Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts

26th Neolithic Seminar 'Eurasian Neolithics: How Cultures and Societies Evolve and Why It Matters'

27. 02. 2023
Faculty of Arts

Online presentation of University of Ljubljana for prospective international students

13. 10. 2022
Administrative Office for Doctoral Study, Faculty of Arts

EUTOPIA Citizen Science Clinics

15. 09. 2022
Administrative Office for Undergraduate Study Programme, Faculty of Arts

Reception for International Students at the Faculty of Arts and at the University of Ljubljana (two separate events)

22. 02. 2022
Faculty of Arts

Online sessions for prospective international students, 22 February 2022 at 1.15 pm (CET)