Oto Luthar is a Slovenia

Slovenia

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n historian

Historian

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. Since 1992, he has served as the director of the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

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 in Ljubljana

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, the largest research institution in Slovenia.

He was born in Murska Sobota

Murska Sobota

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, Slovenia, then part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

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. He studied history at the University of Ljubljana

University of Ljubljana

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, graduating under the supervision of Bogo Grafenauer

Bogo Grafenauer

Bogo Grafenauer was a Slovenian historian, who mostly wrote about medieval history in the Slovene Lands. Together with Milko Kos, Fran Zwitter, and Vasilij Melik, he was one of the founders of the so-called Ljubljana school of historiography.- Early life :He was born in Ljubljana in a well...

 in 1986. He obtained his PhD in 1992. Since 1989, he has taught history at the University of Maribor

University of Maribor

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. Between 1999 and 2000, he was visiting professor at Yale University

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He has written on numerous subject, including history and theory of historiography

Historiography

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, history of European Jews, especially their relation to Slavic peoples, and social history of World War I

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. Since 2003, he is also head of the graduate program of cultural studies

Cultural studies

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 at the University of Nova Gorica

University of Nova Gorica

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He is married to cultural critic and sociologist Breda Luthar.

Selected bibliography

• Med kronologijo in fikcijo. Strategije zgodovinskega mišljenja ("Between Chronology and Fiction. Strategies of Historical Thinking"), Ljubljana 1993.
• Mojstri in muze: Kaj in zakaj je zgodovina ("Masters and Muses: What and Why is History"), Ljubljana 1997.
• O žalosti niti besede ("Not a Word about Sorrow"), Ljubljana 2000.
• Liberal Democracy, Citizenship & Education, Ontario 2001 (co-editor).
• Jews and Slavs, vol. 12 (editor). Jerusalem - Ljubljana 2004.