News – Centre for Theoretical Research in the Humanities

An international academic conference “Vitality, Life and Organicism in Literature and Literary Theory – in the 20th Century and Beyond” was held in collaboration with Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.

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

Workshop “Sensitive Ethnographers – Doing and Creating Sensory Ethnograph”

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

The first season’s CAPONEU discussion group on the political novel in school curricula has concluded

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

The First Season of the CTIH Theoretical Circle Has Concluded

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:

Workshop “Dystopian Narratives and Stories about Illness”

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

The round table “The role of the humanities and social sciences in the curriculum”

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

Panel discussion from “History to theory: historiography as a craft”

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

Roundtable discussion on the future of uncompromising criticism of everything that exists, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the journal Praxis

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

A colloquium was held in memory of Fredric Jameson

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,

The academic colloquium “Poduplani autorski štep: Dubravka Ugrešić od postmoderne do postsociijalizma (Double stich by the author: Dubravka Ugrešić from postmodernism to post-socialism)”

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