He has written on numerous subjects, including the history and theory of
historiography, politics of memory, the history of
European Jews, especially their relation to
Slavic peoples, and the social and cultural history of
World War I. He is a coordinator of the Module of Culture History at ZRC SAZU Graduate School. In 2011, Luthar was awarded the
Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art.[1]
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 [druga 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.