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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On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Yugoslav Marxist-philosophical journal Praxis, a roundtable discussion on “The future of uncompromising critique of everything that exists” was held on 19 December 2024 in the Council Hall of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Zagreb. The event was jointly organised by
Fredric Jameson, a great literary and cultural theorist and undoubtedly one of the most important left-wing intellectuals of the second half of the 20th century, died on 22 September 2024 at the age of 91. He left behind an extensive and highly valuable body of work which, despite the variety of topics he dealt with,
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content here On Friday, 13 December 2024, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb hosted a scientific colloquium Poduplani autorski štep: Dubravka Ugrešić od postmoderne do postsociijalizma dedicated to Dubravka Ugrešić. The colloquium was attended by researchers from Germany and abroad, whose presentations examined the work of this author from