Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

An exhibition at the National and University Library (NUK) in Ljubljana sheds light to one of the most fascinating historic periods in terms of censorship. Slovenians and Imperial Censorship from Joseph II to the First World War is the result of a multi-year research project.

Slovenian archaeologist Ivan Šprajc has played a key role in a groundbreaking study on the Maya calendar in which researchers found that the Mayan timekeeping system is hundreds of years older than previous research indicated and might have been used as far back as 1100 BC.

Ljubljana – A building appearing in a new Marvel series movie is incredibly similar to a memorial complex award-winning Slovenian architect Marko Mušič designed in Montenegro in the 1970s, the newspaper Delo reports on Saturday. The architect has mixed feelings about what could be a potential copyright infringement.

Ljubljana – The photographic monograph entitled Shame by the artist collective Non-Grupa, which contains a detailed overview of protest actions in 2020 and 2021, has been published and was officially presented in front of the Culture Ministry on Monday.

Ljubljana/Koper – All three Slovenian public universities and one private, and an association of independent research institutes have issued a joint call for Covid-19 vaccination. They stressed the importance of a joint battle against the Covid-19 epidemic in today’s press release.

Ljubljana – President Borut Pahor has agreed to organise an international conference on tolerance in the spring in cooperation with the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SAZU) and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts EASA.

Ljubljana – The ZRC SAZU, the Scientific and Research Centre at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, is worried at escalating attacks on the STA, urging by the Government Communication Office (UKOM) to stop threatening and financially draining the news agency. UKOM denied the allegations.

Ljubljana – The Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SAZU) has presented a statement on reconciliation, underlining that Slovenians must reach an consensus about basic values on which the nations is founded. The past must be confronted because clarification is the only way to catharsis and reconciliation, the statement says.

Ljubljana – The word of the year 2020 according to the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU) is “quarantine”, followed by “cycling” in second and “14 days” in third place.

Apart from the 14-day period of isolation due to risky contacts which was later shortened to 10 days, quarantine was also used to refer to the lockdown in general.

At the confluence of two small rivers east of the Ig village, visitors will be catapulted back about 5,000 years, when stilt houses were used as an anti-flooding dwelling method in several areas around the Alps.