Author: HIT

On Monday, November 25, 2024, the institutional project Croatian Emigrant Press was presented at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. After the welcoming speech of the dean, Assoc. prof. Ph.D. Domagoje Tončinić,  the project was presented by Assoc. prof. Ph.D. Ivana Hebrang Grgić, project manager, and prof. Ph.D. Ana Barbarić, collaborator on the project. Inter-institutional cooperation was explained by Assoc. prof. Ph.D. Nives Tomašević from Naklada Ljevak and Ph.D. Sofija Klarin Zadravec from the National and University Library in Zagreb.

The presentation was organized on the occasion of the creation of the 1000th record in the bibliographies and the depositing and archiving of the 100th object in the Croatian Emigrant Press repository. Out of 1000 records, 400 refer to books and newspapers that were not available in Croatian libraries before this research. Likewise, part of the digitized objects were not available or were difficult to access in Croatian and international institutions. Based on the research, two books and about 20 scholarly papers have been published so far. Presentations were held at numerous scientific conferences, of which five were invited presentations.

The presentation was attended by representatives of numerous institutions – the National and University Libraries in Zagreb, the Croatian Heritage Foundation, the Matrix Croatica, Central State office for Croats Abroad, the Institute for Migration Research, the Institute for the Croatian Language, etc.

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The 49 th assembly of the Croatian Library Association was held in Opatija from November 13 to 16, 2024, with a conference section titled Libraries and Community: Innovation, Inclusivity, Diversity and Sustainability. Ivana Hebrang Grgić and Ana Barbarić held an invited presentation entitled Libraries and library services for Croats in the diaspora: libraries and library collections in Australia and New Zealand.

 

 

On Monday, October 28, 2024 at the Zagreb School of Business  a lecture was held on research into the publishing activities of Croats in New Zealand. The lecture was part of the Contemporary Literary Culture course taught by associate professor Ph.D. Nives Tomašević.

 

 

Croatian Radio – Radio Dubrovnik broadcast an interview with Ivana Hebrang Grgić about the activities of the Croatian emigrant press project. The author of the program is Jelena Obradović Mojaš. The conversation can be listened to on the website of Croatian Radio, and it is also stored as the first audio object in the Croatian Emigrant Press Repository.

 

Part of the program Globalna Hrvatska (Global Croatia) on September 19, 2024 (HRT 2) was about the opening of the exhibition about New Zealand writer of Croatian origin Amelia Batistich. Ivana Hebrang Grgić spoke about the author and in general about the publications of Croats in New Zealand (in the 36th minute). The show was broadcast on September 19, 2024 on the 2nd program of Croatian Television at 6:00 p.m. andon September 21, 2024 on the 4th program at 5:10 p.m.

In Vijenac, journal is published biweekly by Matica hrvatska, in issue 792 of July 18, 2024, a review of the book Their faraway home was published.

On June 14, 2024, the authors of the book Their Faraway Home, Ivana Hebrang Grgić and Ana Barbarić, were in Rome at the invitation of H. E. Jackie Frizelle, New Zealand Ambassador to Italy. The embassy is also responsible for the territory of Croatia, and the ambassador has shown an exceptional interest in researching Croatian publications in New Zealand. Further cooperation on future research and promotion of the project has been agreed upon.

The project and the book were also presented in the Pontifical Croatian Institute of St. Jeronim (Pontificio Collegio Croato di San Girolamo) and cooperation regarding the research of publications of Croats abroad with regard to the fund of their library and archives was discussed. Research was carried out in several other libraries in Rome.

During their research stay in Italy, Ana Barbarić and Ivana Hebrang Grgić visited the National Library in Naples. There they conducted research on publications related to Croats abroad. Catalogues were searched in for publications by Croats from Molise, especially those publications that are related to Australia (given the phenomenon of double migration of Croats from the Italian province of Molise to Australia, mostly to the area of ​​Western Australia). New contacts were made and future cooperation was agreed upon.

 

One of the authors of the book Their faraway home was a live guest on April 27, 2024, in the U fokusu (In focus) program of the Croatian Television (HRT4, 3:35 p.m.). In the interview, the work on the Croatian Emigrant Press project and the content of the book were presented. The similarities and differences of lifes and activities of Croats in New Zealand and Brazil were discussed, since the second guest of the program was Milan Puh, PhD, who lives and works in Sao Paolo and researches the topic of Croatian emigrants in Brazil.