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Contributors
sicology. She has been a coordinator of national projects and collaborator
of international and national projects, as well as a member of the editori-
al boards of international scientific journals (Glasnik and Macedonia Ar-
chivist). She is the author of six monographs and numerous individual ar-
ticles published in scientific journals and collections, in both Macedonia
and abroad.

Aleš Gabrič (ales.gabric@inz.si)
received his PhD in history from the University of Ljubljana in 1994. As a
principal research fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History, he re-
searches recent Slovene cultural and political history, with a focus on the
evolution of academic and artistic institutions. From 1996 to 2019 he taught
cultural history at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Ljubljana. He also spent
one academic year lecturing at the Faculty of Tourism of the University of
Maribor in Brežice and another at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. Between
2001 and 2004 he served as editor of Kronika, an illustrated periodical ded-
icated to Slovene local history. From 2009 to 2013 he was an editor at the In-
stitute of Contemporary History Press. He was chair of the national subject
committee for history for the general matura (school-leaving examination)
from 2008 to 2020. He has been president of the Slovenska matica, Slove-
nia’s oldest scholarly and cultural association, since 2018.

Fatima Hadžić (fatima.hadzic@mas.unsa.ba)
is a Full Professor at the Music Academy at the University of Sarajevo.
She completed her undergraduate studies in piano (2003) and musicology
(2005), a master’s degree (2009), and a doctorate (2012) in the Department
of Musicology at the Music Academy at the University of Sarajevo. She held
the position of president of the FBiH Musicological Society from 2014 to
2018. Since 2019, she has been the chief editor of the journal of musical cul-
ture Muzika. A special field of her academic interest is the history of music
in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which has resulted in three monographs (Mu-
sical Institutions in Sarajevo (1918-1941): Regional Music School and Saraje-
vo Philharmonic, 2018; Stories about Music in Bosnia and Herzegovina: ded-
icated to Folke Rabe, 2022, co-authored with L. Šehović, J. Talam, and T.
Karača Beljak; František Matějovský: Czech Musician in Bosnia and Herze-
govina, 2023, co-authored with L. Šehović). Hadžić was awarded the annual
“Vlado Milošević” award for music journalism and musicology for 2018 by
AMUS (Association of Composers-Music Creators, Sarajevo, Bosnia and
Herzegovina); the Award of the University of Sarajevo for the results of her

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