Abstract
The author reports on the international historical conference "Centralist Ambitions and Peripheral Realities in the Twentieth Century: Contested Identities in Yugoslavia", which took place on 14 May 2023 in Prague and was co-organized by the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of World History of the Faculty of Arts of Charles University, the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast Europe Studies (Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung) in Regensburg and the Croatian Historical Institute (Hrvatski institut za povijest) in Zagreb. Researchers from the former Yugoslavia, Belgium and the Czech Republic participated as speakers.
The author first presents the general historical context of the complex relationship between national and other collective identities in Yugoslavia during the twentieth century. He then introduces the individual speakers and presents their diverse contributions.
The event, he says, was inspiring not only for researchers specializing in the Balkans, but also for scholars of Czechoslovak history, given the numerous historical overlaps.