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Participating in summer school on digital manuscript editing in Antwerp
From 30 June to 4 July 2025, Dr Igor Medić, a member of the project team, took part in the summer school programme Digital Humanities – Computer-assisted genetic editing: from medieval manuscripts to born-digital documents at the University of Antwerp in Belgium. Over five working days, various methods for the digital editing of manuscript texts […]
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Presentation on a witch tale at the University of Warwick
Dr. Igor Medić, a member of the project team, participated in the international conference Women in World Literature: Climate, Crisis, and Contagion, which took place on 19 and 20 June 2025 at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. There he delivered a presentation titled The bee, the witch, and the church – A […]
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Preparations for the Project’s exhibition
After the fifth workshop for the project’s FEMIGLA exhibition at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb (Croatia), art history students Ana Leko and Buga Kranželić visited the Old Church Slavonic Institute on June 5th 2025. The aim of their visit was gathering illustrations for the catalogue of the exhibition. The students’ exhibition […]
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Participating in Croatian National Television show about science “Prometej”
On June 4th 2025 the principal investigator of the project FEMIGLA, Dr. Ana Šimić, participated in Prometej, Croatian National Television show about science hosted by Dr. Jasna Burić. In the segment of the show called Science with signature Dr. Šimić discussed different aspects of her scholar work, including research project Women and the feminine in […]
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Presentation in Granada about Feminine Nouns
Jurica Polančec, PhD, a member of the project team, participated in the sixth international conference GranaSlavic, held in Granada, Spain from 2 to 5 June 2025. On June 2nd, he presented a paper entitled Development of the Feminine i-stems from Old Church Slavonic to Croatian Church Slavonic, in which he reported on the research on […]
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Fifth workshop for the Project’s exhibition
The final student workshop of the Department of Art History (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb) before the summer break focused on preparing the manuscript for the exhibition catalogue exploring female figures in miniatures from Glagolitic manuscripts. The workshop was held on June 3rd and it was led by full professor Sanja Cvetnić, […]
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Lecture on Virgin Mary in Croatian Glagolitic history
On May 29th 2025 in Split (Croatia), the principal investigator of the project FEMIGLA, Dr. Ana Šimić, held a lecture on the most mentioned woman in the Croatian Glagolitic texts titled Virgin Mary in Croatian Glagolitic history. Among other topics covered in the talk were the millennial Marian devotion of Croatian Glagolites, literary and liturgical […]
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Research visit to Vatican City and Rome
From May 11 to 17, 2025, project team member Assoc. Prof. Saša Potočnjak (University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences) was in Vatican City (Vatican) and Rome (Italy), where she researched Glagolitic manuscripts housed in the Vatican Apostolic Library (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana) and archival documents stored in the Vatican Apostolic Archive (Archivio Apostolico […]
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The FEMIGLA project’s presentation at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (Zagreb)
On the occasion of celebrating eleven centuries of Croatian Glagolitic culture (925 – 2025) the Club of students of Croatian language and literature “Jazik” hosted presentation of the project FEMIGLA at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (University of Zagreb) on May 14th. The presentation was led by project collaborators Dr. Sanja Cvetnić, Dr. […]
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Presentation in Zagreb about Mary Magdalene
Dr. Ana Mihaljević, a member of the project team, participated in the final scientific conference of the Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ) project Pre-modern Croatian Literature in European Culture: Contacts and Transfers, entitled The Works of Petar Kanavelić (1637–1719) and Ignjat Đurđević (1675–1737): Contacts and Transfers. The conference took place at the Faculty of Humanities and […]
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Presentation in Rijeka on women’s Glagolitic manuscript culture
Associate Professor Dr. Saša Potočnjak presented at the 14th International Scientific Conference Riječki filološki dani, which took place in Rijeka from April 10 to 12, 2025. Her presentation was titled With Her Own Frankopan Hand: On Women’s Glagolitic Manuscript Culture. Most notably, in a Latin document (the agreement with her husband Franjo Berislavić) from the year 1504, […]
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Presentation in Rijeka about female names
Ana Mihaljević, PhD, a member of the project team, participated in the international conference Riječki filološki dani (Rijeka Philological Days), which took place in Rijeka from April 10 to 12, 2025. She gave the presentation Female Names in the Missals and Breviaries of Beram – An Onomastic Analysis, in which she presented research on Croatian […]
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Fourth workshop for the Project’s exhibition
On 10 April 2025, the fourth workshop was held at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb with students of the graduate programme in art history. The workshop was organised as part of the project Women and the Female in Medieval and Early Modern Glagolitism (FEMIGLA), and provided guidance for the preparation of […]
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Research workshop on female characters
The event honouring International Women’s Day was organised by the project FEMIGLA at the Old Church Slavonic Institute in Zagreb on March 7th. The first part of the event, in which the FEMIGLA project was presented, continued its course with the research workshop entitled Female character in literature and visual art through the perspective of […]
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The FEMIGLA project’s public presentation
The event honouring International Women’s Day was organised by the project FEMIGLA at the Old Church Slavonic Institute in Zagreb on March 7th. The welcoming words were given by the project lead Ana Šimić, PhD; the director of the Old Church Slavonic Institute, Vida Vukoja, PhD; and by the representative of the Croatian Science Foundation, […]
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Research group meeting
The full FEMIGLA project research group (eleven members) had a meeting in person at the Old Church Slavonic Institute in Zagreb on March 7th. It was an opportunity to address the work plan for the current (first) year of the project: both results that had already been achieved during somewhat less than three months of […]
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Research visit to Udine
From February 24 to March 1, 2025, project collaborator Jozo Vela Ph.D. (Old Church Slavonic Institute) was in Udine (Italy), where he conducted research on pre-Tridentine liturgical manuscripts in northern Italy. He visited three institutions. At the Archivio di Stato di Udine, he consulted 39 fragments from the 10th to 15th centuries. At the Archivio […]
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Third workshop for the Project’s exhibition
At the third workshop for students on the project’s exhibition, held on 17th February 2025 at the Department of Art History (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb), the preparation of an exhibition of miniatures featuring female figures in Glagolitic manuscripts was further developed. The publication structure was defined, topics and tasks were assigned, […]
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Lecture on the fictional female Glagolites
The history of Croatian Glagolitism mostly remembers its male participants, especially regarding writing and reading Glagolitic books and publicly nurturing and supporting the Glagolitic culture. Such an imbalance didn’t go unnoticed among the writers who told stories about the Glagolitic tradition. Relying on their privilege of artistic freedom they created fictional female Glagolites thus complementing […]
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Second workshop for the Project’s exhibition
On Tuesday, January 28, graduate students of art history at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb—Tonka Belamarić, Nikolina Colnago, Buga Kranželić, Karla Somek, and Ivan Adam Šestan—visited the Old Church Slavonic Institute for research. They were led by the project’s collaborator, full professor Sanja Cvetnić Ph.D. Thanks to the support of the […]