As part of the MEDHRID project, Associate Professor Tonija Andrić, PhD, conducted research at the State Archives in Zadar. During the research period, she examined approximately 30 boxes of fifteenth-century notarial records belonging to the Municipality of Split archival collection (HR-DAZD-16). The collected data are significant for the study of the social and historical development …
Associate Professor Edi Miloš of the Department of History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split, conducted his second research visit to France from 29 June to 12 July 2026 as part of the MEDHRID project. During his stay, he visited the French National Archives (Archives nationales) in Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, where he …
From June 21 to 28, 2026, Assoc. Prof. Snježana Bralić, PhD, conducted corpus research during a study visit to Milan (Italy) at two key scientific institutions. The first was the Braidense National Library (Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense), one of Italy’s largest and most significant libraries located within the impressive Brera Palace (Palazzo di Brera). The second …
From 1 to 10 May 2026, Associate Professor Nikša Varezić conducted research at the Vatican Apostolic Archive and the Vatican Apostolic Library in Rome. The primary aim of the research was to identify, catalogue, and preliminarily analyse archival and manuscript material relevant to reconstructing the activities of Petar Beneša (1586–1642) within the papal administration, with …
At the Ivan Meštrović Secondary School in Drniš, teaching assistant Frane Prpa held two lectures on 4 May 2026 titled “Urbanism of Islamic-Ottoman Cities in the Klis Sanjak Area” for second- and third-year general grammar school students. The presentation aimed to encourage students’ interest in the humanities and to bring closer to them the influence …
Associate Professor Edi Miloš from the Department of History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split stayed in France from 11 to 22 April 2026, where he conducted initial research planned within the MEDHRID project. He consulted various collections at the National Archives (Archives nationales, Pierrefitte-sur-Seine) and the Diplomatic Archives of the …
While researching the everyday life of the town of Hvar during the First World War, Prof. Mladenko Domazet, Ph.D., conducted archival research in Hvar from 27 March to 2 April. He examined the archival holdings of the Museum of Hvar Heritage and the material from the Hvar Municipality Fund. The collected and scanned material, in …
Prof. Brian Daniel Willems, PhD, held a conference presentation titled Gendering Inter-Brain Synchronicity in E.M. Forster, Dorothy Richardson, and Golnoosh Nour at the II International Conference on Gender Studies and Intermedial Narratives: Bodies / Texts / Media: Gendered Narratives and Critical Assemblages, held at Complutense University in Madrid on March 5 – 6, 2026. The …
As part of the MEDHRID project Assistant Frane Prpa from the Department of Art History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split stayed in Venice from 19 February to 19 March 2026. During his one-month stay in Venice, he conducted archival research in Archivio di Stato di Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana,Museo Correr, …
The presentation by Assoc. Prof. Bašić Hanžek, PhD, entitled “What Is That Gleaming in the Green Forest? Inference to the Best Explanation and Where to Find It,” aimed to point out that the invocative Slavic antithesis in the Ballad of Hasanaginica contains a stylistically modified procedure of inference to the best explanation, and that within …
The conference was organized by the Institute of Art History and the public cultural institution Fortress of Culture Šibenik. Šibenik, 27–28 November 2025. This scientific conference brought together experts engaged in the study of fortification architecture in the Croatian context. The presentation by Assistant Frane Prpa, entitled “From Gradina to Meteriz – The Historical Development …
New Perspectives on the Practice of Chanceries in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Period, organized by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften). Vienna, 4–5 November 2025. In her presentation entitled “Split Notary Office in the 15th Century: Paleographic and Diplomatic Analysis of Notarial Documents,” Assoc. Prof. Toni Andrić, PhD, presented the …
Associate Professor Snježana Bralić, PhD, delivered a presentation entitled “Interculturalità e insegnamento linguistico: accezioni positive e negative nelle espressioni culturospecifiche sugli animali in italiano e in croato” at the international scientific conference “Literature, Art, Culture Between the Two Shores of the Adriatic” / Convegno internazionale “Letteratura, arte, cultura tra le due sponde dell’Adriatico”, held at …
