News and Events

News and events related to the project (and to the social history of Yugoslav Albanians more broadly) will be announced regularly.

Workshop: Towards a social history of Albanians in Socialist Yugoslavia (Graz, 9-10 February 2024)

Photo: Prishtina, 1984 (Croatian State Archives, f.2031, Kosovo) About the workshop: Jointly organis…

CfP: Towards a social history of Albanians in socialist Yugoslavia

Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz, 9-10 February 2024 This workshop, jointly…

The not-so-sweet saga of Redžep Redžepović: The chronicle of an Albanian confectioner in Kamnik, Slovenia

In May 2021, I began archival research in Ljubljana. Thus far, I have focused on Albanian confection…

“Ice-creams are made of this.” Traces of (Macedonian) Albanian migration to Slovenia

Polog is a densely populated stretch of flat land in the western part of North Macedonia. Inhabited …

The entrepreneurial spirit of Poreč’s old town in the 1980s (notes from the field)

For the month of May 2021 I am finally able to undertake oral history interviews with Albanians livi…