First workshop of the Croatian Science Foundation Project Documentary Turn in Post-1989 European Literature September 24-25, 2026 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
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The conference Bending the Rules: Social Radicalism, Wanderlust, and Utopianism in Children’s and YA Literature was held on June 9 and 10 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, with the support of the Center for Theoretical Research in the Humanities and the Croatian team of the project Liminal Waterway Countercultures. The conference opened with a book
The new season of our Reading Beyond the Frame (Lektira izvan okvira) workshop is well under way. This semester we’re delving into Vjenceslav Novak’s The Last of the Stipančić Family (Posljednji Stipančići), while also preparing a publication based on last year’s sessions devoted to Albert Camus’s The Stranger and Miroslav Krleža’s On the Edge of
As part of the long-standing bilateral collaboration between Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb—a partnership that has, in addition to conferences, resulted in the publication of bilingual (English–German) edited volumes with Praesens Verlag and Böhlau Verlag—the Centre co-organised the international conference “Vitality, Life and Organicism in Literature and Literary
During the international film festival Days of Ethnographic Film, held in Ljubljana from February 27 to March 1, 2025, Tanja Bukovčan led a workshop for students of visual anthropology from Zagreb and Ljubljana, as well as for other interested festival participants. The workshop titled Sensitive Ethnographers – Doing and Creating Sensory Ethnography explored contemporary sensory
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We just wrapped up the first season’s CAPONEU discussion group on the political novel in school curricula (Lektira izvan okvira) at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. This term we explored Albert Camus’ The Stranger (1942) and Miroslav Krleža’s On the Edge of Reason (1938). Alongside looking at how these works are
After twelve intense and immensely intellectually rewarding sessions, we have wrapped up our first theoretical reading group dedicated to Beverly Best’s The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Value in Marx’s Capital. Besides ten sessions in which we’ve covered the book in detail, two additional sessions were added in which we’ve read two additional recent papers:
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The Department of Languages and Literature at the University of Nicosia has the pleasure to invite you to a 2-day workshop entitled “Dystopian Narratives and Stories about Illness” on 3-4 April 2025, 9:30-17:30, at the University of Nicosia (Room M114, 1st Floor, Millenium Building). The event is organised as a part of the Horizon Europe
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On 30 October 2024, the round table “The Role of Humanities and Social Sciences in Curriculum” took place in the conference hall of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. Carmel Gallagher, Clare McAuley, Neven Budak and Nikola Tomašegović spoke at the round table, and the discussion was moderated by Branimir Janković. The
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On Tuesday 26 November 2024, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences hosted a discussion entitled “From Theory to History: Historiography as a Craft”, dedicated to the role of narrative in historiography. The occasion was the recent publication of the book “Writing History” by the French historian, theologian and philosopher Michel de Certeau. This classic
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