Prof. Nikica Mihaljević participated in the international conference XXIII Congreso Internacional del Grupo de Investigación Escritoras y Escrituras: “Aun ignorada sigue la obra mía”. Escritoras andaluzas de la Edad de Plata y la modernidad europea y asiática, held in Seville, Spain, from 14 to 16 October 2026, as part of the planned project activities for the second phase of the project’s implementation.
Her presentation, entitled Storia “noir” di una vicenda familiare. Vittime e carnefici nella prosa intima e biografica di Milka Pogačić (“A Noir Story of a Family Affair: Victims and Perpetrators in the Intimate and Biographical Prose of Milka Pogačić”), was delivered in Italian. In her paper, Prof. Mihaljević examined the role of women in Ispovijest (Confession), a novel by Croatian writer Milka Pogačić, with particular emphasis on the distinctive representation of the Mediterranean in this prose work.
Through this presentation, she introduced an important Croatian-language novel to an international audience, analysing the role of the Mediterranean and its connections with the female characters in the narrative.
