Kaja Sirok
Kaja Širok (* 1975 ) is a Slovenian historian and director of the National Museum of Contemporary History in Ljubljana . She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the House of European History in Brussels.
After studying at the University of Ljubljana , she completed her doctorate in 2009 at the University of Nova Gorica with Oto Luthar . Her dissertation concerns the controversial Slovenian-Italian border area around the city of Gorizia , from which the later Nova Gorica was separated in 1947 .
The National Museum of Contemporary History (since 2003) emerged from the Museum of National Liberation (since 1948/55).
Fonts
- Kolektivni spomin in kolektivna pozaba v obmejnem prostoru. Spomini na Gorico 1945–47 (= Forgetting or remembering on the italo – slovene border. The contested memories of Gorizia 1943–1947), Dissertation Nova Gorica 2009 online with an English abstract, PDF file
- with Susanne Schilling: Integrating multicultural Europe: Museums as Social Arenas, Vienna 2016 ISBN 978-3-902796-39-4
- Reinterpreting and Transforming 'Red' Museums in Yugoslavia, Museum International, Vol. 70, Issue 3-4 (2018), pp. 26–37 onlinelibrary.wiley
Exhibitions
- Začasna meja: življenje in hrepenenje v coni A: (1945–1947) - Temporary border. Living and Longing in Zone A (1945–1947), September 2017 - May 2018 (Catalog 2017)
- Renewal of the former Yugoslav pavilion in the Auschwitz concentration camp memorial
Web links
- Memorylab-europe
- http://www.muzej-nz.si/en/
- http://www.muzej-nz.si/en/our-team/
- http://www.sociologija.si/raziskovalna-skupina/clani/kaja-sirok/
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sirok, Kaja |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Slovenian historian and museum director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1975 |