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The digitalisation project was presented by Katarina Čeliković and Josip Bako of the Institute for the Culture of Vojvodina Croatians, and Vlatka Lemić, the head of the ICARUS Croatia association.
The panel discussion featured Tado Jurić (Catholic University of Croatia), Karolina Novinščak Kölker (University of Regensburg), Stjepan Šterc (University of Zagreb, Centre for Croatian Studies), Caroline Hornstein Tomić (Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences), Jasna Čapo (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research), and Josip Jurčević (University of Zagreb, Centre for Croatian Studies). The event also featured Tado Jurić’s concise exhibition of materials related to Croatian guest workers in Germany.
Twenty-three projects have been funded through this programme package from all areas of research and each of the projects has a co-head from the ranks of researchers in the diaspora communities. The projects are all already underway and are expected to produce excellent results over the three-year project period. The event saw the project heads stage brief presentations.
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The focus of our final issue in 2019 is the island of Silba. We also look at the many events that were hosted at the Zagreb headquarters of the Croatian Heritage Foundation and that took place among the ethnic Croatian communities abroad.
The visit included a promotional video on the work of the CHF and a performance of the local tamburitza orchestra of a number of traditional Croatian melodies. Speaking at the event were honorary Croatian consul Eduardo Antonich and CHF director Mijo Marić.
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The second last of this year’s issues of the Croatian Heritage Foundation’s Matica magazine features the island of Vis, which some say has the greatest concentration of natural monuments in Europe. Along with our regular columns and the diaspora stories of families with ancestral roots on the island of Vis and in the Kvarner Bay region, this issue shares the Book Month fever and offers a bevy of book promos covering diaspora themes.
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The exhibition features the work of Emil Bobanović Ćolić, Vedran Grabovac, Jasmina Runje, Josip Škerlj and Nada Zec Ivanović. Professor Antun Karaman, the exhibition organiser and author of the catalogue foreword, spoke at the opening of this exhibition.
Croatian Heritage Foundation deputy director Ivan Tepeš and the head of our culture department Snježana Jurišić received the members of the Argentinean klapa ensemble, and Jadran Croatian association president Daniel Detelić at CHF headquarters
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The event opened with the presentation of Ms Mesarić Žabčić’s and Ms Tošić Grlač’s Mirisi i okusi međimurskog zavičaja u iseljeništvu (“The Aromas and Flavours of the Native Međimurje in the Diaspora Communities”). The event also saw Slađana Matić Trstenjak and Marijana Mirta open the Svetlobe (“Lights”) exhibition at the synagogue in Lendava, open through to the 31st of October.
The event opened with the presentation of Ms Mesarić Žabčić’s and Ms Tošić Grlač’s Mirisi i okusi međimurskog zavičaja u iseljeništvu (“The Aromas and Flavours of the Native Međimurje in the Diaspora Communities”). The event also saw Slađana Matić Trstenjak and Marijana Mirta open the Svetlobe (“Lights”) exhibition at the synagogue in Lendava, open through to the 31st of October.
(7th HIDIS) which will take place at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences from the 14th to the 15th November 2019.
