Oto Luthar (born 11 August 1959) is a

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. Since 1992, he has served as the director of the Research Centre of the

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, the second largest research institution in Slovenia. He was born in

Murska Sobota Murska Sobota (, Slovenian abbreviation: ''MS'' ; german: Olsnitz;''Radkersburg und Luttenberg'' (map, 1:75,000). 1894. Vienna: K.u.k. Militärgeographisches Institut. hu, Muraszombat) is a town in northeastern Slovenia. It is the centre of the ...

, Slovenia, then part of the

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. He studied history at the

University of Ljubljana The University of Ljubljana ( sl, Univerza v Ljubljani, , la, Universitas Labacensis), often referred to as UL, is the oldest and largest university in Slovenia. It has approximately 39,000 enrolled students. History Beginnings Although certain ...

, graduating under the supervision of Peter Vodopivec and

Bogo Grafenauer Bogo Grafenauer (16 March 1916 – 12 May 1995) 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 ...

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

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, University of Nova Gorica and University of Ljubljana. He was a visiting professor and researcher at

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(1999-2000), Vienna University (2008), Columbia University (2013) and Ohio State University (2016). He has written on numerous subjects, including the history and theory of

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, politics of memory, the history of

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, especially their relation to Slavic peoples, and the social and cultural history of

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. He is a coordinator of the Module of Culture History at ZRC SAZU Graduate School. In 2011, Luthar was awarded the

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. He is married to the cultural critic and sociologist Breda Luthar.

Selected bibliography

* The sanitation of Slovenian post-socialist memorial landscape. V: LUTHAR, Oto (ed.), UHL, Heidemarie (ed.). ''The memory of guilt revisited: the Slovenian post-socialist remembrance landscape in transition'', Zeitgeschichte, 2019, 46(2): 261–273, 297, doi: 10.14220/zsch.2019.46.2.261. * Post-communist memory culture and the historiography of the Second World War and the post-war execution of Slovenian collaborationists. ''Politička misao'', 2018, 55(2): 33–49, doi: 10.20901/pm.55.2.02. * Memory, revision, resistance: reviving the partisan monuments along the Slovenian-Italian border. V: KLABJAN, Borut (ur.). ''Borderlands of memory: Adriatic and Central European perspectives'', Oxford: P. Lang. 2019, 235–251. * Im Schatten des Schweigens: Österreich-Slowenien : eine Nachbarschaft im Wandel. V: CABADA, Ladislav (ed.), WALSCH, Christopher (ed.). ''Imaginäre Räume in Zentraleuropa: kulturelle Transformationen, politische Repräsentationen und trans/nationale Identitätsentwürfe'', Herne: Gabriele Schäfer, 2019, 29–52. * Ed. ''Of red dragons and evil spirits : post-communist historiography between democratization and new politics of history''. Budapest; New York: Central European University Press, 2017. * Ed. ''The Great War and memory in Central and South-Eastern Europe''. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2016, doi: 10.1163/9789004316232_002. * Ed. et al. ''A terra e o seu entorno : uma história da Eslovênia'', (Coleção Relações internacionais, 714). Brasília: Fundação Alexandre de Gusmão. 2015. * Ed''. The Great War and memory in Central and South-Eastern Europe'', (Balkan studies library, vol. 17). Leiden; Boston: Brill, cop. 2016. * Coeditor, with ŠUMI, Irena''. The Slovenian righteous among nations''. 1st ed. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, 2016. * Coeditor, with ŠUMI, Irena''. Slovenski pravični med narodi''. 1. izd. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2016. * (soavtor) Marjeta Šašel Kos, Nada Grošelj, Gregor Pobežin, Zgodovina historične misli ruga izdaja Od Homerja do začetka 21. Stoletja 2. Izd. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2016. * Ed. ''The Land Between: A History of Slovenia'' Frankfurt/M: Peter Lang Verlag, 2013.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Luthar, Oto People from Murska Sobota 1959 births Living people 20th-century Slovenian historians Historians of Jews and Judaism Historians of World War I University of Ljubljana alumni Prekmurje Slovenes Academic staff of the University of Maribor Academic staff of the University of Nova Gorica Recipients of the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art 21st-century Slovenian historians