CROATIAN
DIASPORA CONGRESS
23rd – 26th
June 2014, ZAGREB
Day One:
Monday 23rd June
THE OLD TOWN HALL
5 St Cyril and Methodius Street (Upper City)
Hall A
8.30 AM
Preparatory Actions
Registration
of Participants
Accreditation,
promotional material
Information,
Book of abstracts
9.00 AM
Opening of the
Congress
Chair: Ozana Ramljak
Opening Speakers:
President of the Parliamentary
Committee for Diaspora, Republic of Croatia
Cardinal Josip Bozanić, Archbishop
of Zagreb
Mons. Edward Robinson Wijesinghe,
Director of the Council for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Refugees at the Holy
See
Milan Bandić, Lord Mayor of Zagreb
Davor Stier, Croatian Representative
in European Parliament
Ruža Tomašić, Croatian
Representative in European Parliament
Toni Krstičević, Member of State
Parliament, Western Australia
Susan Cox, Australia's Ambassador to
Croatia
German Ibarra, Chile's Ambassador to
Croatia
Louise LaRocque, Canada's Ambassador
to Croatia
Maciej Szymański, Poland's Ambassador to
Croatia
Marin Sopta, President
of the Organising Committee of the Croatian Diaspora Congress
10.30 AM
Congress
Proceedings
CROATIAN DIASPORA – HERE AND NOW
Moderators: Marin Sopta and Branko
Salaj
LUKA BUDAK: Croatian Diaspora and Croatian Identity
1945 - 1990
BRANKO SALAJ: Organisational Gathering of the Diaspora
ADELA POPRZENOVIC: Remittances in Croatia
ŠIMUN ŠITO ĆORIĆ: Current State of the Diaspora and the
Need for Healthy Wholeness of the Croatian National Body
DARIJA KRSTIČEVIĆ: Strategic Working Basis of the State
Office of the Republic of Croatia for Croats Abroad
ANTUN BABIĆ: Institutional Relationship of the Republic
of Croatia Towards the Croatian Diaspora
MARIN SOPTA: Towards Responsible Policy of Migrants'
Return
BREAK 11.30 – 11.45 AM
JOSIP BEBIĆ: Integrative Role and Actvities of Croatian
Catholic Missions in the Croatian Diaspora
VLADO ŠAKIĆ: Global Networking of the Croatian Diaspora
and Building of Capacities for the Development
JOSIP JURČEVIĆ: Croatian Diaspora in the Establishment
and Defence of the Republic of Croatia
ANĐELKO AKRAP: Two Great Waves of Emigration from
Croatia in the Second Half of 20th Century
MARICA KARAKAŠ OBRADOV: Endeavours of the Yugoslav
Communist Authorities related to the Return of Migrants from the Yugoslav
Territory
Discussion
LUNCH 1.30 – 2.30 PM
Klović's Palace, 4 Jezuits' Square
SCIENCE & SCHOLARSHIP IN THE DIASPORA:
PERSPECTIVES FOR COLLABORATION
Moderators: Frances Šeparović and
Marino Manin
DRAGAN PRIMORAC: Croatia – Society of Knowledge: Myth
or Reality
VAL COLIC-PEISKER: Internalisation
of Croatian Higher Education: It is Time for a Comprehensive Coordinated Strategy
IVAN
MARUŠIĆ: The Diaspora and Advancing Science and Innovation in Croatia
CAROLINE
HORNSTEIN-TOMIĆ: Skilled Mobility and the Return of Scientists from Abroad –
Policies and Practices in Croatia
BREAK 3.45 – 4.00 PM
JOHN PETER KRALJIĆ: The Croatian Academy of America and
Croatian Intellectuals in the Diaspora
BORIS MARTINEC: Possibilities
for Cooperation Between the Republic of Croatia and Croatian Scientific Diaspora
in Australia
DAVOR LAUC:
Project Croatian Topics
DANIJEL DŽINO: The Activities of the Croatian Studies
Foundation in Australia in the Promotion and Development of Research Activities
Related to Croatia and Croatians (1984 – 2014)
Discussion
Day One
THE OLD TOWN HALL
HALL B
3.00 PM
COLLABORATION OF THE CROATIAN
DIASPORA AND THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA: CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES
Moderators: Josip Jurčević and Božo
Skoko
JURE VUJIĆ: Croatian Diaspora: Challenges and Perspectives
of Geo-political Integration in Multipolar World
ANTE BELJO: Framework and Forms of Earlier
Collaboration between the Republic of Croatia and the Croatian Diaspora
BOŽO SKOKO: Croatian Emigrants as Promoters of Croatia
in the World
IVO LOVRIĆ: Has Unified Media Space been Formed between
Public Media in the Republic of Croatia and Media in Croatian Emigrant
Communities?
BREAK 4.15 – 4.30 PM
WOLLFY KREŠIĆ: Genesis and Modifications of the Idea
about Croatian Peace
TUGA TARLE: The Museum of the Croatian Diaspora
IVICA TOLIĆ / ANTE NAZOR: The Significance of the
Participation of Croatian Emigrants in the Homeland War
PETAR ĆOSIĆ: Democratic Partcipation of the Croatian
Diaspora in Democratic Processes in the Example of the Demonstrations in
Support for the Croatian Generals
Discussion
Day One
THE OLD TOWN HALL
HALL C
3.00 PM
DILEMMAS OF THE SECOND GENERATION
Moderators: Luka Budak and Šimun
Šito Ćorić
VICE
JOHN BATARELO: Maintenance of the Diaspora – Human Capital for Croatia
REBEKA MESARIĆ ŽABČIĆ: The Republic of Croatia in the
Eyes of Croatian Emigrants: Comparative Representation of the Reconsiderations,
Indvidual Exepriences and Opinions of the Younger Generations of Croatian
Descendants in Australia and the USA
ILIJA ŠUTALO: Croatian Community in
Australia: Contributions, Identity and Links with Croatia
TIHOMIR TELIŠMAN: The Role of Prominent Croatians in the
Maintenance of the Croatian Community in Western Australia
BREAK 4.15 – 4.30 PM
STEPHEN NIKOLA BARTULICA: Croatian Political Culture
after 20 Years of Transition as a Factor of Relationship with the Croatian
Diaspora
ANTE LUČIĆ: Two-way Mobility and Trends in Education
and Careers as a Vehicle for Strengthening Relations with the Croatian Diaspora
MARIJA DURAKOVIĆ: Strategic Communication and Use of
Social Networks and New Media in Connecting Croatia and the Diaspora
MARIJANA
KÖPF: Possibilites of Cooperation
between Media in the Republic of Croatia and Media in the Croatian Diaspora
Discussion
Day One
THE OLD TOWN HALL
HALL D
3.00 PM
TO LEARN CROATIAN
Moderators: Danijel Džino and Ante
Nazor
DIANA STOLAC: Is it Possible to Define Identities
Without Language?
VINKO GRUBIŠIĆ: The Role of Croatian Schools Abroad in
the USA and Canada in Teaching Croatian Outside Croatia
JADRANKA GVOZDANOVIĆ: The Scholarship About the
Croatian Language and Culture at German Universities
JIM HLAVAČ: Croatian Language Amongst the Second
Generation of the Australian-Croatian Community
ALEKSANDRA ŠČUKANEC: Multilinguality and Identity of
the Burgenland Croatians
BREAK 4.15 – 4.30 PM
MARKO LUKENDA: Education and the Croatian Language –
Unsolved Croatian Problems in Austria
DAVOR PISKAČ / ANDREJA SRŠEN: National Identifiers of
Croatian Emigrants in Toronto – Croatian Language at the University of Toronto
SANJA VULIĆ: Traces of the Croatian Language in the
Language of Bulgarian Minority in Romania
Discussion
PALACE DVERCE
6 Catherine's Square (Upper Town)
7.00 PM
RECEPTION with the Mayor of the City
of Zagreb, Milan Bandić
Day Two:
Tuesday 24th June
ARCHDIOCESAN PASTORAL INSTITUTE
HALL VIJENAC
Kaptol 29a
9.00 AM
CROATIAN CATHOLIC MISSIONS IN THE CROATIAN
DIASPORA
Moderators: Zvonimir Ancić and Adolf
Polegubić
Welcomig
Speech by Mons. Dr Želimir Puljić, President of Croatian Bishops' Conference
Introduction
of the Croatian Catholic University, Rector, Željko Tanjić
EDWARD ROBINSON WIJESINGHE: The Experiences and
Initiatives of the Council for Pastoral of Migrants and Refugees at the Holy
See
MIROSLAV AKMADŽA: The Relation of the Communist Party
in ex-Yugoslavia Towards Croatian Catholic Clergy in the Diaspora
MIRKO
JURAJ MATAUŠIĆ / SUZANA VRHOVSKI PERAN: Croatian Catholic Missions Abroad in the
Croatian Catholic Press in Croatia
ALDO
SINKOVIĆ: The Church and Emigrants as
per Papal Messages for the Day of Emigrants
BREAK 10.15 – 10.30 AM
ADOLF POLEGUBIĆ: Croatian Pastoral Care in Germany –
Current State and Perspectives
MATE BIŽACA: Pastoral Care Amongst Croatian Emigrants
in the Western United States
JOSIP A. KEŠINA: Some Features from Problem-areas for
the Survival of Australian Croatian Communities
DOMAGOJ
TOMAS / LOREDANA FABIJANIĆ: Croatian Emigrant Pastoral Service 1962-1966
IVAN
ŽAN: Liturgical Music in Croatian
Catholic Communities in German Speaking
Regions
JOZO
GRBEŠ: Diaspora: State of Affairs and Problems. Short View from America
Discussion
LUNCH 1.00 – 2.00 PM
CROATIAN DIASPORA AND IDENTITY
Moderators: Ozana Ramljak and
Caroline Hornstein-Tomić
VESNA DRAPAČ: Croatian Identity Formation in
South Australia 1945 – 1995: A Model for the Future?
TONI
KRSTIČEVIĆ: Croatians
in Western Australia
HELENA BURIĆ: Women in the Diaspora
VORI WALTER LALIĆ: Foreigner Here – Foreigner There!
The Diaspora and Myth of Return in Contemporary Transnational Space
GOJKO BORIĆ: Croatia and Croatians in the German Press
MAJA GROŠINIĆ: Croatian Communities, Organisations or Institutions
of Emigrant Croats: Comparison between
Austria and Australia
PETAR HINIĆ: Croatia and Croatian Diaspora in the Contemporary
World
SENKA BOŽIĆ VRBANČIĆ: Stereotyping of Migrants: The
Experiences from Australia and New Zealand
MARINA
PERIĆ KASELJ: Identity of Croatian
Diasporic Communities of South America
IVA
ČULINA: Forming of Ethnic Stereotypes
and Creating Concurrent Identity – Austrian Example
BREAK 3.30 – 3.45 PM
TOMISLAV SUNIĆ: Croatian Identity in the Global World
DOMAGOJ NOVOSEL: A testimony of one missionary about
Croatian emigrants in Belgium
RADOSLAV ZARADIĆ: Croatians in Belgium
RUŽA STUDER: Regional Division of the Croatians in
Switzerland - We have a Homeland but We are not United
VJEKOSLAV LASIĆ: Croatians in Scandinavia – Model for
Maintenance of National and Religious Identity
BOŽIDAR NAGY: The Contribution of Croatians from France
to the Homeland War
TONI MATKOVIĆ: Role and Significance of Croatian
Football Clubs in Germany in the Maintenance of National Identity
JOSIP PAVEŠIĆ: The Beginnings of Croatian Diplomacy
BERISLAV JANDRIĆ / MARINO MANIN: Political Emigration
in West Germany and Argentina (1946 –
1950)
IVAN BULIĆ: The Influence of Serbian Propaganda on the Croatian
Diaspora in the Early 20th Century
VERA GRAOVAC MATASSI / ANICA ČUKA: Emigration from Dalmatia
to the USA Towards the End of 19th and Beginning of the 20th Century: The
Origins and Structure of Croatian Emigrants
IVAN HRSTIĆ: Emigration from Dalmatia from 1921 to 1931
- The Example of Makarska County
VORI WALTER LALIĆ: Heated Celebration of Australia Day
in 1934 Amongst the Gold Diggers in Kalgoorlie
Discussion
HALL I
10.30 AM
HOW TO IMPROVE ECONOMIC
COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE CROATIAN DIASPORA AND THE CROATIAN ECONOMY
Moderators: Stipe Hrkač and Predrag
Haramija
SAŠA POLJANEC BORIĆ: Croatian Economic Identity and the
Diaspora: A Glimpse at the Development of Competitiveness of the Croatian
Hospitality Industry
STIPE HRKAČ: Investments of the Diaspora into Croatia
MARIJANA BABIĆ: The Role of the Diaspora in the Economic Growth of the Republic of Croatia –
Investments with the Possibility of Utilising EU Funds
DON MARKUŠIĆ: Investment Opportunities in Croatia –
Diaspora as a Leader of Foreign Investors in Croatia and a Factor of
Improvement of the Investment Climate
MONIKA JUROVIĆ: Contribution of the Croatian Diaspora
to Croatian Economy
KARLO STARČEVIĆ: The Presence of Returnees in Croatian
Economy
JADRANKA MATEŠIĆ BELFRANIN: The Presence of Women
Returnees – Business Women in Business
in Croatia
BLAŽENKA ČVORAK: Tourism from Australia as a Factor of
Development of the Croatian Economy
NIKOLA MIJATOVIĆ: Tax on Returnees' Pensions - Why are We Making the Return of our
Emigrants Difficult and Pushing the Returnees Away to Emigration?!
ZLATKO ZELJKO: The Absence of Legal Protection and
Human Rights in the Republic of Croatia
JAKOV ŽIŽIĆ: Mechanisms for Inclusion of Croatians
Outside of the Republic of Croatia into Croatian Political and Social Life: The
Development and Perspectives
IVAN ŠIMEK: The Fight was not in Vain – Croatia within the
EU
LUNCH 1.00 – 2.00 PM
PREDRAG HARAMIJA / OLIVERA JURKOVIĆ MAJIĆ: The
Perception of Croatia in the World – The Role of the Diaspora in Branding
Croatia
NATASHA LEVAK: ŽAR Mentoring
Project: Supporting the Professional Development of Croatians in Croatia and
the Diaspora
STJEPAN ŠTERC / MONIKA KOMUŠANAC: Croatian Diaspora as
Strategic Revitalising of Croatian Population
CAROLINE SPIVAK: The Experiences and Expectations of
Croatian Emigrants in Croatia
RATIMIR KVATERNIK / ZDRAVKO BELANČIĆ: The Contribution
to the Building of Strategy Towards the Croatian Diaspora
NINOSLAV MOGOROVIĆ: „THE BRIDGE OF RETURN“. The Review
of Collaboration and Relations of Croatian Emigrants and the Homeland
TOMISLAV ĐURASOVIĆ: A Short Review of Relationships
between the Croatians in Croatia and Croatians Abroad
PANEL
POSSIBILITIES AND POTENTIAL FOR
INVESTMENTS IN CROATIA
Moderator: Michael Prpić
Michael Prpić, Mark Lesić, Dan
Markušić, Dan Maček, Caroline Spivak
NATIONAL AND UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
Croatian Fraternal Union 4
7.00 PM
EXHIBITION OF SERIAL PUBLICATIONS BY
CROATIANS ABROAD
Moderator: Željka Lovrenčić
Dunja Seiter-Šverko, Director of NUL
Janko Herak: Distinguished Croatian
Scholars in the Diaspora
Cocktails
Day Three:
Wednesday 25th June
St Mark's Church
9.00 AM
MASS ON THE OCCASION OF CROATIA'S
STATEHOOD DAY
Celebrated by Cardinal Josip Bozanić
7.30 PM
SOLEMN CONCERT FOR CONGRESS
PARTICIPANTS
City Theatre "Komedija", 9 Kaptol
Program Participants:
OLIVER DRAGOJEVIĆ and CHOIR „IZVOR“
ANJA ŠOVAGOVIĆ, JOŠKO ŠEVO, TOMISLAV
MARTIĆ
TAMBURITZA ORCHESTRA
"BOSILJAK" FROM ČUČERJE
VALENTINA FIJAČKO I NIKOLINA PINKO
RENATA SABLJAK I STJEPAN FRANETOVIĆ
KLAPA „JANJEVO“
RECEPTION after Concert,
Archiepiscopal Theological Seminary,
29 Kaptol
Day Four: Thursday 26th June
CROATIAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION
3 Trg Stjepana Radića
9.00 am
INSTITUTIONS AND THEIR PORTRAITS
Moderators: Luka Budak and Vesna
Kukavica
MARIN KNEZOVIĆ: Croatian Heritage Foundation
JOSIP BEBIĆ: Croatian Catholic Missions Abroad
LUKA BUDAK / DANIJEL DŽINO: Croatian Studies Centre, Macquarie
University, Sydney
HELENA BURIĆ: The Chair of Croatian Language and
Culture, University of Waterloo, Ontario
BREAK 10.45 – 11.00 AM
VLADO ŠAKIĆ: Lexicon of the Croatian Diaspora and
Minorities
ŠIMUN ŠITO ĆORIĆ: Croatian World Congress
IVAN TEPEŠ: Croatian Fraternal Union
IVAN ČIZMIĆ: Croatian National Council
MIJO KORADE: Croatian Studies
BREAK 12.30 – 12.45 PM
12.45 PM
Launching of Vesna Drapač's book: „Constructing
Yugoslavia“
Speakers: Danijel Džino, Mladen
Ibler, Ivo Lučić, Mladen Ančić
Launching of Electronic Version „Lexicon
of the Croatian Diaspora and Minorities“
Speakers: Vlado Šakić and Colleagues
LUNCH 2.30 – 3.30 PM
3.30 PM
IVAN
OTT: Projection of the Film about Bleiburg „Otroci sa Petricha“
Day Four:
Thursday 26th June
CROATIAN WRITERS' ASSOCIATION
7/1 Trg bana Josipa Jelačića
9.00 AM
CULTURAL LINKS BETWEEN CROATIA AND THE
CROATIAN DIASPORA
Moderators: Božidar Petrač and
Željka Lovrenčić
ZDENKA
WEBER: The Importance of Croatian Cultural Projects Abroad
TAMARA
TVRTKOVIĆ: When did Croatians enter the European Union?
MIJO
KORADE: Croatians in the World before Emigration: Scientific, Cultural, Social
and Religious Aspect
ŽELJKA
LOVRENČIĆ: Croatian – Latino-American Cultural Bonds
DRAGO
ŠARAVANJA: Literary World of Croatian Emigrants in Australia
ZINKA
ŠARIĆ: La imagination y la creativided, los cuentos para ninos
BREAK 10.15 – 10.40 AM
BOŽIDAR PETRAČ: Bogdan Radica – The Croat, The European
and the Citizen of the World
ALOJZ JEMBRIH: Strohalov's Literary Care for Croatian
Emigrants
VESNA KUKAVICA: Literary World of Marica Bodrožić
KATICA IVANDA / OZANA RAMLJAK: Identitety in the Works
of Croatian–German Writer, Irena Vrkljan
MLADEN IBLER: The Tale from Long Ago, Ivana Brlić
Mažuranić in Scandinavia
VJEKOSLAV BOBAN: A Few Emigrant Poets
MARIJAN KARABIN: A Poem as a „Witness of its Time“
LUNCH 12.30 – 1.30 PM
CROATIAN WRITERS' ASSOCIATION CLUB
Moderators:
Zdenka Weber and Mijo Korade
VLADIMIR BUBRIN: Ivan Meštrović in Canada
NEVENKA NEKIĆ: Katarina Livljanić – Promoter of
Croatian Literary and Music Heritage
JUAN CARLOS RADOVICH: Anthrpological Works of Ivan
Benigara in Argentina
MIRJANA
PISKULIĆ: The Importance of Culturological Aspects of Engagement in Folkloric
Associations in the Diaspora
DRAGUTIN
PAVLIČEVIĆ: About the Need of Getting Acquainted with and Affirmation of
Croatian History and Culture in the World
IVNA ČIZMIĆ: Croatian Catholic Missions in Germany in
the Battle for Maintaining Religious,
Cultural and National Identity
BREAK 2.30 – 2.45 PM
MARICA ČUNČIĆ: Gaudeamus
– Croatian Journal in English and the Homeland War
STJEPAN ŠULEK: Croatian Press in Germany, With Special
Emphasis on Kroatische Berichte
LIDIJA BENCETIĆ: Review of Writings in Publication Hrvatska volja: glasilo Hrvata na
Orientu (1949- 1952)
MIRJANA POLIĆ BOBIĆ: How to Edit the Croatian Review Today, Taking into
Account its Croatian and Exile Past?
SARA OCEPEK: The Survival of Media in Croatian
Communities in Australia
Discussion
GALA DINNER FOR CONGRESS
PARTICIPANTS
7.30 PM
RESTORAN ŠESTINSKI LAGVIĆ
Prilaz Kraljičinom zdencu 12
Day Five:
Friday 27th June
CROATIAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION
11.00 AM
PRESS CONFERENCE
Moderator: Ozana Ramljak
Participants:
MARIN SOPTA
MIJO KORADE
SELECTED PARTICIPANTS OF THE
CONGRESS
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