Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies is pleased to announce that two of the ISS researchers, members of the Patchwork Parliaments team, Wiktor Marzec and Naum Trajanovski, have been selected as fellows for the 2025/2026 Visiting Fellowship program at the Institute of Contemporary History (Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino – INZ) in Ljubljana.
The Institute of Contemporary History is a research institution with a sixty-year tradition of uninterrupted research and publishing in the field of contemporary history. The institute has undergone transformative changes in recent years, emphasizing multidisciplinary and interdisciplinarity, and fostering connections with the broader European research community.
A research team of four, Patchwork Parliaments explores how post-imperial configurations of power can be analyzed through a blend of prosopographical methods, analysis of parliamentary debates, and a field-theory approaches. During their fellowships Wiktor Marzec and Naum Trajanovski, who is within the project working on the first Skupščina of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, will collect data on ‘Yugoslav’ parliamentarians and deepen the existing exchange with the Slovenian colleagues from the Clarin team. Their digitization efforts and methodological expertise are highly relevant for advancing our analysis of post-imperial discourse, especially concerning debates on usable pasts, ethnocultural diversity and crisis themes in the interwar period. Possibilities for future joined projects will also be explored.