Invitation to the Presentation of the Edited Volume titled: Conversions in Central and Eastern Europe: The Politics of Religion and Nonreligion across the 20th Century

The Institute for Historical Studies of Science and Research Centre (ZRS Koper) Koper invites you to the presentation of the edited volume

Conversions in Central and Eastern Europe: The Politics of Religion and Nonreligion across the 20th Century (London and New York: Routledge), co-edited by Gašper Mithans, Heléna Tóth, and Matteo Benussi.

The presentation will take place on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, at 6:00 p.m. CET, at the Centre for Humanities of Science and Research Centre Koper (Kreljeva 6, Koper).

The discussion with the editors on interdisciplinary research on religion and atheism will be moderated by Igor Jurekovič of the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana.

To attend the presentation online, please register at and you will receive a link to the event.

The event is organized by the Institute for Historical Studies of Science and Research Centre Koper in cooperation with the Historical Association of Slovenia, Slovenian Association for the Study of Religions and Slovenian Society for Comparative Religion.

The presentation will take place within the framework of the research programme The Mediterranean and Slovenia (P6-0272), led at ZRS Koper by Prof. Dr Egon Pelikan. The research programme is funded by the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (ARIS).