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Tvrtko Jakovina
Tvrtko Jakovina (born 2 March 1972) is a Croatian historian. Jakovina is a full time professor at the Department of History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb. Biography Early life Tvrtko Jakovina was born in the eastern Croatian town of Požega where he finished elementary school and high school, and also completed his compulsory military service. Education He studied history at the University of Zagreb from 1991 to 1996. Jakovina was founder and first honorary member of the Croatian branch of International Students of History Association. As an exchange student he attended courses at University of Kansas, USIA and Boston College. He completed his postgraduate studies at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. During the 2000/01 academic year, he was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. Since then, he has also attended London School of Economics and Political Science, and seminars on the Holocaust in Isra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subversive Festival
The Subversive Festival is an annual international fortnight of political, activist, cultural, educational, literary and artistic events that takes place in Zagreb, Croatia every May. Its activities are divided into the Subversive Film Festival (which was the official name of the festival until 2011), the Subversive Forum, the Balkan Forum and the Subversive Book Fair. The cross-cutting activity is the Subversive Festival's Conference that includes major keynote lectures and round tables held in Cinema Europe. Origin and history The Festival was initially founded as the Subversive Film Festival in 2008 which celebrated the 40th anniversary of the protests of 1968. The initial edition of the festival included screening of the films by Chris Marker and Jean-Luc Godard as well as public lectures by Slavoj Žižek, Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe and others. Each edition of the festival has an overarching theme that invites critical examination and public debates. In 2009 the Fes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London School Of Economics And Political Science
, mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 million (2020–21) , chair = Susan Liautaud , chancellor = The Princess Royal(as Chancellor of the University of London) , director = The Baroness Shafik , head_label = Visitor , head = Penny Mordaunt(as Lord President of the Council ''ex officio'') , students = () , undergrad = () , postgrad = () , city = London , country = United Kingdom , coor = , campus = Urban , free_label = Newspaper , free = '' The Beaver'' , free_label2 = Printing house , free2 = LSE Press , colou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florian Bieber
Florian Bieber (born 4 October 1973) is a Luxembourgian political scientist, historian and professor working on inter-ethnic relations, ethnic conflict and nationalism, focusing primarily on Balkans. Education In 1991–1992, he studied History, Political Science, Economics and Languages at Trinity College. He received a magister degree in History and Political Science with honors on the topic "Bosnia-Herzegovina and Lebanon: A comparative Study“ in 1997. In 1998, he received M.A.in Southeastern Studies at Central European University in Budapest and the topic was: „The Rise of Serbian Nationalism in the 1980s“, and in 2001, he earned PH.D. title with honours on the topic: “Serbian Nationalism from the Death of Tito to the Fall of Milošević.” Career His academic career began in Central European University, where he was Assistant and Instructor from 1998 until 2000. From 2001 until 2002 he was Regional Representative in European Center for Minority Issues in Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Hoepken
Wolfgang is a German male given name traditionally popular in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The name is a combination of the Old High German words ''wolf'', meaning "wolf", and ''gang'', meaning "path", "journey", "travel". Besides the regular "wolf", the first element also occurs in Old High German as the combining form "-olf". The earliest reference of the name being used was in the 8th century. The name was also attested as "Vulfgang" in the Reichenauer Verbrüderungsbuch in the 9th century. The earliest recorded famous bearer of the name was a tenth-century Saint Wolfgang of Regensburg. Due to the lack of conflict with the pagan reference in the name with Catholicism, it is likely a much more ancient name whose meaning had already been lost by the tenth century. Grimm (''Teutonic Mythology'' p. 1093) interpreted the name as that of a hero in front of whom walks the "wolf of victory". A Latin gloss by Arnold of St Emmeram interprets the name as ''Lupambulus''.E. Förs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitja Velikonja
Mitja Velikonja (born 1965) is a Slovenian cultural studies academic and professor at the University of Ljubljana where he is head of the Center for Cultural and Religious Studies. His book ''Post-Socialist Political Graffiti in the Balkans and Central Europe'' received the prize for one of the highest annual accomplishments of the University of Ljubljana in 2020. His other books include "''Masade duha''" (Znanstveno in publicistično središče, Ljubljana, 2006), "''Bosanski religijski mozaiki''" (Znanstveno in publicistično središče, Ljubljana, 1998), "''Mitografije sedanjosti''" ( Študentska založba, Ljubljana, 2003), "''Rligious Separation and Political Intolerance in Bosnia-Herzegovina''" (Texas A&M University Press, 2003) and "''Evroza. Kritika novega evrocentrizma''" (Mirovni inštitut, Ljubljana, 2005). Velikonja was a visiting professor at multiple institutions which include Jagiellonian University (2002–2003), Columbia University (2009–2014), University of Rije ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drago Roksandić
Drago may refer to: People * Drago (given name) * Drago (surname) * Drago (wrestler), Mexican professional wrestler Víctor Soto * Drago Dumbovic, Croatian footballer known simply as Drago * Drago, nickname of Alexander Volkov * Prince del Drago, 1860–1956, Italian noble and New York socialite Fictional characters * Ivan Drago, a boxer in the film ''Rocky IV'' * Blackie Drago, a supervillain from Marvel Comics * Drago, a character from ''Jackie Chan Adventures'' * Dragos, dinosaur-like creatures in the video game ''Mother 3'' * Drago, the Dragonoid from ''Bakugan'' series Other uses * Drago (fabric mill) * Drago (publisher), International publishing house of contemporary art * Drago (river), Sicily * Drago Doctrine, announced in 1902 by the Argentine Minister of Foreign Affairs, Luis María Drago * Drago restaurants of California * Drago Tree, common name for the species ''Dracaena draco'' See also * * * * Proper names derived from Drag- * Proper names derived from Draz- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latinka Perović
Latinka Perović ( sr-Cyrl, Латинка Перовић; 4 October 1933 – 12 December 2022) was a Yugoslav communist leader, historian and politician. During the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Perović was a secretary general of the League of Communists of Serbia in period between 1968 and 1972. In 1972 Federal League of Communists of Yugoslavia dismissed her from her position together with Marko Nikezić and Mirko Tepavac under the accusation that they were excessively liberal. Dismissal of Serbian liberals in 1972 followed an earlier dismissal of Croatian nationalists of the Croatian Spring. Following her removal from active politics, Perović focused on scientific work at the Institute for the History of the Labor Movement of Serbia (modern day Institute for Recent History of Serbia). During the 1990s breakup of Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav Wars, Perović was one of the sharpest critics of Serbian nationalism, especially Slobodan Milošević and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Non-Aligned Movement
The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is a forum of 120 countries that are not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc. After the United Nations, it is the largest grouping of states worldwide. The movement originated in the aftermath of the Korean War, as an effort by some countries to counterbalance the rapid bi- polarization of the world during the Cold War, whereby two major powers formed blocs and embarked on a policy to pull the rest of the world into their orbits. One of these was the pro-Soviet, communist bloc whose best known alliance was the Warsaw Pact, and the other the pro-American capitalist group of countries many of which belonged to NATO. In 1961, drawing on the principles agreed at the Bandung Conference of 1955, the Non-Aligned Movement was formally established in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, through an initiative of Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, Ghanaian President Kwame N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cold War
The Cold War is a term commonly used to refer to a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. The term '' cold war'' is used because there was no large-scale fighting directly between the two superpowers, but they each supported major regional conflicts known as proxy wars. The conflict was based around the ideological and geopolitical struggle for global influence by these two superpowers, following their temporary alliance and victory against Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in 1945. Aside from the nuclear arsenal development and conventional military deployment, the struggle for dominance was expressed via indirect means such as psychological warfare, propaganda campaigns, espionage, far-reaching embargoes, rivalry at sports events, and technological competitions such as the Space Race. The Western Bloc was led by the United States as well as a number of other First W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American History
The history of the lands that became the United States began with the arrival of the first people in the Americas around 15,000 BC. Numerous indigenous cultures formed, and many saw transformations in the 16th century away from more densely populated lifestyles and towards reorganized polities elsewhere. The European colonization of the Americas began in the late 15th century, however most colonies in what would later become the United States were settled after 1600. By the 1760s, the thirteen British colonies contained 2.5 million people and were established along the Atlantic Coast east of the Appalachian Mountains. After defeating France, the British government imposed a series of taxes, including the Stamp Act of 1765, rejecting the colonists' constitutional argument that new taxes needed their approval. Resistance to these taxes, especially the Boston Tea Party in 1773, led to Parliament issuing punitive laws designed to end self-government. Armed conflict began ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vjesnik
''Vjesnik'' () was a Croatian state-owned daily newspaper published in Zagreb which ceased publication in April 2012. Originally established in 1940 as a wartime illegal publication of the Communist Party of Croatia, it later built and maintained a reputation as Croatia's newspaper of record during most of its post-war history. During World War II and the Nazi-allied Independent State of Croatia regime which controlled the country, the paper served as the primary media publication of the Yugoslav Partisans movement. The August 1941 edition of the paper featured the statement "'' Smrt fašizmu, sloboda narodu''" (''transl''. "Death to fascism, freedom to the people") on the cover, which was afterwards accepted as the official slogan of the entire resistance movement and was often quoted in post-war Yugoslavia. Its heyday was between 1952 and 1977 when its Wednesday edition (''Vjesnik u srijedu'' or VUS) regularly achieved circulations of 100,000 and was widely read across Yugoslav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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