We look at the Gacka River through the lens of Marin Knezović’s section on history, Darko Mihelj’s look at the endemic flora and fauna, Nika Jakab’s section featuring the animals characteristic of the region, and Sanja Vulić’s Cues in Communication section.
The June issue of Matica magazine focuses on the Gacka River, the world’s third longest karst sinking river. The cover art features a lesser-known statue on Zagreb’s Otokara Keršovanija square.
The Gacka River is presented through the lens of Marin Knezović’s section on history, Darko Mihelj’s look at the endemic flora and fauna, Nika Jakab’s section featuring the animals characteristic of the region, and Sanja Vulić’s Cues in Communication section.
In our continuing look at Croatian language lectors abroad this month we focus on Dubravko Vrbešić’s experience in the Hungarian city of Pécs.
In our section on Croatian musicians read our interview with Vienna resident, composer, and artistic director of the Music Biennale Zagreb Margareta Ferek-Petrić.
We also cover a symposium on the identity of the Croatians of Boka Kotorska.
Read about events in neighbouring countries in our Meridijani section, and in culture in the Crorama section.
In our In Focus section, we cover grants for foreign students who wish to study Croatian at our universities.
Read all about the new books by Alida Bremer (Germany) and Zlatko Pinter (Vojvodina).
We also look ahead at our scheduled summer programme line-up.
03 Content: June 2021
Columns
12 The Sociological Puzzle
25 Global Croatia
32 The Botany of Our Rivers
36 Zoology
38 Cues in Communication
44 Croatian Musicians
56 Click: Going Home
58 Movement/Aberration
4 In Focus: news from the State Office for Croats Abroad
6 Local elections
8 Our work with Croatian associations in Italy’s Rome
9 A nod to Statehood Day from Canada and the USA
10 The Croatian Catholic Mission in New York
15 Photographic exhibition covers the history of Boka Kotorska
16 Symposium on Croatian identity in Boka Kotorska
20 Donation sees library open in Delnice
21 CHF donation to library in Mečenčani
22 Kliofest
24 Alida Bremer’s latest novel
26 Tuition free for Croatian diaspora at Bernays
28 The Gacka River and its history
39 Matija Ferlin play premiere showing in Paris
40 A book on the challenges faced by Croatians in Vojvodina
42 A new book by Ivan Tepeš
46 Minority mosaic
50 The Croatian language lector in Pécs
54 Croatian language workshop in North Macedonia
61 Crorama
64 Anniversary of the passing of Gina Sinozich
65 Sports news
By: Ljerka Galic