Israel to host Croatia in Jerusalem
Tue 30 November, 2004 10:22

JERUSALEM, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Israel will host Croatia in a friendly in Jerusalem on February 9, the Israel Football Association said.

The match will be Israel's only preparation fixture against international opponents before home World Cup qualifiers against Ireland on March 26 and France four days later.

Israel's 2-1 victory in Cyprus this month left them on eight points from four Group Four games, the same as leaders Ireland and second-placed France.

The match in Jerusalem is the first international there since February 1999 and the first outside the Tel Aviv area for the national team since 2001.

When UEFA allowed Israel to host matches again last April following a two-year ban due to security concerns, it specified that all games under its jurisdiction must be played in the Tel Aviv area.

The Croatia friendly is not sanctioned by UEFA and can therefore be held at another venue.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldFootballNews&storyID=6951453&section=news

Deklaracija Prvog kongresa Hrvatskih znanstvenika

Znanstvenici okupljeni na Prvome kongresu hrvatskih znanstvenika iz domovine i inozemstva u
glavnome gradu Zagrebu i u gradu Vukovaru, koji je svojim stradanjem postao simbol hrvatske borbe
za slobodu, svjesni izazova današnjega trenutka kada Republika Hrvatska kao slobodna i
demokratska dr ava stupa prema clanstvu u Europskoj uniji,
i svjesni uloge koju u tome imaju znanost i obrazovanje,
smatrajuci da se Hrvatska mo e ekonomski, kulturno i politicki razvijati uz puno
uvazavanje ljudskih sloboda, vladavine prava, afirmaciju znanja i obrazovanja,
polazeci od odgovornosti koju znanstvenici imaju za razvoj Republike Hrvatske, mi,
hrvatski znanstvenici iz domovine i inozemstva, donosimo sljedecu
Deklaraciju
1. Svrha je Kongresa hrvatskih znanstvenika iz domovine i inozemstva, koji je organiziralo
Ministarstvo znanosti, obrazovanja i športa Republike Hrvatske, a kojemu smo se odazvali iz svih
krajeva svijeta,
- da na njemu potvrdimo i posvjedocimo svoje uvjerenje da je od svih ulaganja u razvoj
neke zemlje, a tako i naše domovine Hrvatske, najvrednije i najisplativije ulaganje u
ljude, posebice mlade ljude, i to osobito ulaganje u obrazovanje i znanje,
- te da pokazemo svojom prisutnošcu koliko je Hrvatska dala svijetu, obrazujuci svoje
znanstvenike koji su potom stjecajem okolnosti otišli u svijet u potrazi za
prihvatljivim uvjetima rada, te da taj "odljev mozgova" koji je istovremeno jedna od
najvecih opasnosti za zemlje poput Hrvatske i jedan od najvecih darova koje neka
zemlja mo e dati svijetu, pretvorimo od bolesti u lijek za domovinu, i da svojom
suradnjom, mi hrvatski znanstvenici iz svijeta i iz domovine, pomognemo da svijet
Hrvatskoj za taj dar uzvrati jednakim darom potpore, strucne i materijalne, u razvoju
znanosti u Hrvatskoj i u cjelovitom razvoju zemlje, za koji je ulaganje u ljude i u
obrazovanje najpresudniji preduvjet.
2. Razvoj i bogatstvo neke zemlje temelje se na razvoju slobode, demokracije s jedne strane, a
gospodarstva i tehnologije s druge strane. Ni jedno od toga nije zamislivo bez znanja i znanosti.
Današnji se vrtoglavi razvoj tehnologije zasniva na znanosti, a što je preduvjet uspješnog
gospodarstva. Tu je uloga prirodnih, medicinskih, tehnickih i informacijskih
znanosti u temelju svakoga suvremenog gospodarstva. Ali se ni bez društvenih i
humanistickih znanosti ne mo e ustrojiti suvremeno društvo, a još manje cuvati i
razvijati kulturni identitet i suvremene civilizacijske i kulturne tekovine.
Politicka odgovornost mora pocivati na suverenitetu naroda i gradjana, koji je
izra avaju kroz svoje ustanove politickoga sustava, i ne mo e je u demokraciji
zamijeniti ekspertiza znanstvenika. Volja gradjana i njihovih zastupnika treba
pocivati na dobroj obaviještenosti o mogucnostima rješavanja problema
suvremenoga svijeta, a tu znanost ima ogromnu savjetodavnu ulogu. Iako je sna no
povezivanje znanosti s gospodarstvom preduvjet i gospodarskoga i znanstvenoga
razvoja, znanost ne smije samo slu iti gospodarstvu, nego mora cuvati i svoju
autonomiju, jer su gotovo sva velika otkrica sprva slu ila spoznaji, a tek potom
nalazila svoju bogatu i korisnu primjenu.
3. Svjesni toga, i svjesni razvojnih potreba Republike Hrvatske i potrebe njena brza
razvoja i dostizanja standarda razvijenoga svijeta, pozivamo
institucije Republike Hrvatske:
- Hrvatski sabor, izabran slobodnom voljom hrvatskih gradjana, da
svojim zakonima omoguci što bolju i plodniju suradnju hrvatskih
znanstvenika iz svijeta i znanstvenika iz Hrvatske, kao i razvoj svake
druge korisne medjunarodne znanstvene suradnje, koju elimo poticati,
- Vladu Republike Hrvatske da ukloni sve prepreke toj suradnji i da
stvara što povoljnije materijalne i druge uvjete za ostvarivanje
znanstvene, a i svekolike druge suradnje domovinske i iseljene
Hrvatske,
- sva ministarstva da odrede osobe kojima se mogu obracati znanstvenici
iz inozemstva i domovine, kao i za to kvalificirani gradjani s
prijedlozima za medjunarodnu znanstvenu i srodnu suradnju, te da se
otvore racunalne mre ne stranice za raspravu o takvoj suradnji;
hrvatske znanstvenike u inozemstvu
- da poticu i razvijaju suradnju s domovinom Hrvatskom i sa
znanstvenicima u njoj, da predla u zajednicke medjunarodne
znanstvene i razvojne projekte, da tra e mogucnosti financijske potpore
u svijetu takvim projektima, i poma u u školovanju mladih
znanstvenika iz Hrvatske u svijetu,
- da šire obaviještenost o Hrvatskoj u svijetu, zala u se za suradnju s
njom i rade na afirmaciji njene kulture i identiteta u svijesti javnosti i
kulturnih sredina u kojima ive,
- da u svoje projekte ukljucuju znanstvenike u domovini, podupiru
stipendiranje naših mladih znanstvenika za studij u inozemstvu, da
sudjeluju u domacim projektima i nastavi u Hrvatskoj kao i u
recenziranju sveucilišnih programa i znanstvenih projekata i radova,
- da pozivaju znanstvenike iz Hrvatske i da dolaze u Hrvatsku na pozive
za strucnu, znanstvenu i obrazovnu suradnju;
hrvatske znanstvenike u domovini
- da predano rade na razvoju svojih znanosti i na širenju medjunarodne
suradnje s hrvatskim znanstvenicima u svijetu u sklopu svekolike
medjunarodne suradnje u znanosti koja pridonosi dosezanju najviših
svjetskih standarda, te razvoju hrvatskoga društva i gospodarstva,
- da promišljeno razvijaju, u suradnji s hrvatskim znanstvenicima u
inozemstvu, strategiju afirmacije hrvatske kulture, jezika i identiteta u
svijetu i obavješcivanja inozemne i svjetske javnosti o Hrvatskoj,
ukljucujuci se svojim znanstvenim radom u tokove svjetske znanosti i
mre u medjunarodne suradnje na takav nacin koji ce njima slu iti na
cast, Hrvatskoj biti na korist, a razvoju znanosti na slu bu.
4. Djelovanje znanstvenika treba vrednovati prema najvišim znanstvenim kriterijima,
uva avajuci specificnosti pojedinih znanstvenih podrucja, posebice nacionalnih
disciplina, kao i prema etickim nacelima. Naše djelovanje pociva na autonomiji
znanstvenih organizacija i samih znanstvenika, usmjereno na afirmaciju tolerancije,
nediskriminacije, razvoj ljudskih prava i sloboda te vrijednosti demokratskog
pluralistickog društva.
5. Razmišljamo o oblicima razvoja suradnje medju hrvatskim znanstvenicima u
domovini i inozemstvu, kao što su:
- potpora Nacionalnoj zakladi za znanost, visoko školstvo i tehnologijski
razvoj RH koju treba podupirati gospodarstvo, i koja, uz ostalo, treba
osigurati stipendije mladim hrvatskim znanstvenicima za studij u
inozemstvu i potpomagati projekte koji se rade u suradnji s inozemnim
partnerima,
- osnivanje burze medjunarodne suradnje na kojoj ce se nuditi ali i tra iti
znanstvena suradnja na svim vrstama znanstvenih projekata,
- organiziranje informacijske mre e o mogucnostima medjunarodne
suradnje hrvatske znanosti sa svijetom,
- razvoj institucija za afirmaciju hrvatske kulture, osobito znanosti i
umjetnosti u svijetu,
- širenje mre e lektorata, katedara za kroatistiku, hrvatskih studija u
svijetu,
- razvoj strategije suradnje na afirmaciji hrvatske kulture i identiteta u
svim podrucjima humanistickih i drugih odgovarajucih znanosti.
Mi se obavezujemo da cemo ulagati trajne napore u takvu suradnju, razvoj
znanosti u Hrvatskoj i u cjelokupni razvoj moderne, demokratske, europske i
medjunarodno afirmirane Hrvatske koja ce svojom kulturom, znanošcu i blagostanjem
ravnopravno i kreativno sudjelovati u ivotu i napretku svjetske zajednice.
Prirodne znanosti
Prof. dr. sc. Davor Pavuna Akademik Vladimir Paar
Tehnicke znanosti
Prof. dr. sc. Ivica Crnkovic Prof. dr. sc. Darko Stipanicev
Biomedicina i zdravstvo
Prof. dr. sc. eljko Bošnjak Akademik Daniel Rukavina
Društvene znanosti
Prof. dr. sc. Stjepan G. Meštrovic Prof. dr. sc. Ivo Josipovic
Humanisticke znanosti
Prof. dr. sc. Vladimir Goss Akademik Mislav Je ic
Biotehnicke znanosti
Prof. dr. sc. Stanimir Vuk-Pavlovic Akademik Slavko Matic
Predsjednik Hrvatske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti
Akademik Milan Moguš
Predsjednica Rektorskog zbora
Prof. dr. sc. dr. h. c. Gordana Kralik
U Vukovaru, 18. studenoga 2004. godine
Ministar znanosti, obrazovanja
i športa
Doc. dr. sc. Dragan Primorac
Potpredsjednik Vlade Republike Hrvatske
i ministar zdravstva i socijalne skrbi
Prof. dr. sc. Andrija Hebrang

Molim pogledati:
http://www.mzos.hr/pkhz/dokumenti/deklaracija.pdf 

Vas odani,
Matko Marusic
Editor-in-Chief
Croatian Medical Journal
Zagreb University School of Medicine
Salata 3, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Phone: + 385 1 4566 782; fax: ++ 4590 222
mmarusic@mef.hr 
www.cmj.hr 

 

HOTEL BOSKINAC NEW YEARS OFFER

NEW YEAR 2005

 

NEW YEAR PARTY IN RESTORANT

- Welcome drink with Domestic buffet table in wine cellar
- Five courses delicate dinner
- Live music by quartet with repertoire of world standard, evergreens, jazz, movie music, very famous canzone, rock’ n ’roll…
- Firework from our wine yards with Champagne at midnight

- We can feast 50 + 30 persons in two halls that are connected with a dancing floor
- The price for arrangement is 590,00 kn (79euro) per person

ACCOMODATION IN HOTEL BOSKINAC
 

We can offer accommodation for 29 persons in our hotel.
(placed in 4 double bed room, 4 rooms for 3 persons and 3 Suites for 3-4 persons)

- 1 night including breakfast/ 696,00 kn (94euro)/ for 2 persons
- 2 nights including breakfast/ 680,00 kn (92euro)/ for 2 persons
- 3 nights including breakfast/ 640,00 kn (86euro)/ for 2 persons
- 4 nights including breakfast/ 640,00 kn (86euro)/ for 2 persons
- The deficiency pay for third bed/ 200,00 kn (27euro)

The residence tax is 4,50 kn (0,60euro) per person a day.
Prices are same for groups or individuals.


As we are small hotel with limited numbers of seating place, we would prefer to have table reservations for New Year Eve, at least until 01.12.2004.
Same with advance payment of 50% for accommodation in hotel, as confirmation for the reservation.



AFTER PARTY IN WINE CELLAR BOSKINAC ON 1ST of January 2005. NIGHT

- Traditional re-run New Years Eve with the same quartet, dance and domestic menu
- A la card offer

Note:
To make your New Year days more interesting we can organize excursion through Island Pag with a guide.

- Trucking to the highest hill of the Island “St.Vid”, with a spectacular panorama, lunch packet included, (excursion take app. 3-5 hours)
- Walking to “Pag triangle”, lunch packet included (excursion take app. 3 hours)
- Excursion to Lun, place with thousand years old olive trees (excursion take 2- 3 hours)

Price for a guide is 100,00 kn (14 euro) per hour.
All excursions could be arranged only in nice weather.

-We can organize fishing for groups up to 60 persons, with lunch on boat.
Price for that arrangement is 25 euro per person, or 500 euro per boat, for a group of 20 persons.



As we are hotel with limited capacity, and you are a big group, we can help you to find an additional accommodation in Novalja, in three stars Hotels:
Loža-tel.053/661 326
Vila Palcic-053/663 680
Both Hotels are app. 2 km away from Hotel Boškinac.

Or private accommodation Vila Škoda****- 098/528 430

For any other information’s, please contact us by e-mail or by telephone number
++385 (0)53/ 663 500.

CREATE YOUR WAY OF ADVANTURE ENTERING 2005th.

Best regards,

Mirela Šanko

Wine Cellar Hotel Boškinac
www.boskinac.com
info@boskinac.com
 

The Croatian Embassy has the pleasure of inviting you
to a talk by:

Dr Tomislav Sunic, Minister Counsellor,

Croatian Embassy

On:

"British-Croatian Cultural Links: A Brief History"

on Thursday, 13th January 2005 at 6.30 pm for 7 pm

Refreshments will be served

R.S.V.P.
tel: 020 7387 2022


Embassy of the Republic of Croatia

21 Conway Street, London, W1T 6BN

YOU ARE INVITED!
Il Dolce Theatre Company and Spirit of Sarajevo
present
Macbett
by Eugene Ionesco
Directed by NENO PERVAN
Music by MLADEN MILICEVIC
Light Design by SUKI MEDENCEVIC
Performing at the
Globe Playhouse
1107 N. Kings Road
(two blocks east from La Cienega on Santa Monica Bd. Next to HUGO'S CafĂŠ)
West Hollywood
Nov 12- Dec 12
Thr, Fri, Sat 8pm and Sun 7pm
Reservations:
(310) 458-3312
For more information please visit:
www.macbettatglobe.org

 

LA TIMES REVIEW OF MACBETT

November 26, 2004

THEATER BEAT

A bubbling caldron of mayhem in 'Macbett'

Revising a play that is already revisionist is a tricky proposition.
But director Neno Pervan boldly dickers with Eugene Ionesco's
"Macbett" in Il Dolce Theater Company's gratifyingly revisionist
staging at the Globe Playhouse in West Hollywood.

An absurdist take on Shakespeare's "Macbeth," Ionesco's lengthy 1972
play is remarkably faithful to the dramatic arc of its source
material. So too is Pervan's drastically abbreviated version, taken
from Charles Marowitz's translation and presented here by special
permission of Ionesco's daughter.

Pervan's production is Cliffs Notes brief yet in keeping with
Ionesco's absurdist spirit. What results is surprisingly
perspicacious Shakespeare, albeit with a few soap-opera
embellishments, most notably Ionesco's innovative subplot in which
Duncan's disgruntled wife has a steamy affair with Macbett, urges him
on to regicide and subsequently marries him.

A nimble cast, including Pervan himself, keeps the action clean and
streamlined. Hilariously cowardly and self-serving, Pervan's Duncan
is a preening dandy of suitably ridiculous ilk. As Macbett, glowering
Zoran Radanovich hits the right emotional levels but needs to scale
back his leaping, occasionally unmotivated aerobics. In the most
full-fledged performance of the evening, Pamela Clay plays Lady
Duncan/Lady Macbett as a saucy siren on the downhill slope to lunacy
and despair.

Now for a quibble. For some odd reason, Pervan blocks numerous scenes
on the stage floor, beneath the sightlines of a majority of the
audience, which strains and cranes to see glimpses of the prostrate
actors. Surely, a few suitably placed platforms could have raised
this production, not to mention its performers, to new heights.

- F. Kathleen Foley

"Macbett," Globe Playhouse, 1107 N. Kings Road, West Hollywood. 8
p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays, 7 p.m. Sundays, 2 and 7 p.m. Dec.
12 only. Ends Dec. 12. $20. (310) 458-3312. www.macbettatglobe.org.
Running time: 1 hour, 30 minutes.


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DECEMBER 3 - 9, 2004
Doomed Couples
Scottish malice, Sicilian malaise
by Steven Mikulan

You know theater has entered its Halloween season when Macbett, Eugene IonescoĂ­s late-career take on the Scottish play, opens in black light with a horror-movie score, and as ShakespeareĂ­s Highland hellhound is wordlessly welcomed into existence by only two weird sisters who have emerged from a trapdoor. This eerie prologue, in which Macbett, lifelessly seated on a throne, appears more like the dead Christ in a Deposition painting than the vigorous Thane of Glamis, suggests the territory weĂ­re to cover tonight Ăł Dark Ages realpolitik dampened by the mists of magic and superstition.


IonescoĂ­s 1972 play is rarely produced professionally (UCLA mounted a technologically elaborate version three years ago) and is not considered one of his more important works. Still, Il Dolce Theater Company and Spirit of Sarajevo are to be complimented for staging this effort at the Globe Playhouse. Director Neno Pervan, editing down Charles MarowitzĂ­s translation of the original French, explores the comedy and pretense Ionesco found in ShakespeareĂ­s solemn characters, while sometimes reverently quoting from the BardĂ­s original text. In this story, both Macbett (Zoran Radanovich) and his comrade in arms, Banco (Julius Noflin), are made mad with visions of power upon hearing the witchesĂ­ prophecies. In fact, everyone involved is either after power or buffoonishly trying to hold on to it. King Duncan (Pervan), seen here as a cowardly bully dressed in a shiny, lime-green Teddy Boy outfit (or is it a zoot suit?), is an obnoxious boor whoĂ­s constantly shoving the queen off his throne.

Which leads us to one of IonescoĂ­s additions to the script -Ăł Lady Duncan (Pamela Clay). She is a cunning, conniving bitch who marries Glamis to become Lady Macbett. Our potential confusion doesnĂ­t matter since the two women meld into the same malignant spirit goading Macbett to murder his benefactor and, later, Banco. To Ionesco, MacbettĂ­s murder of his king overshadows everything; Lady MĂ­s death, Birnan wood, the concluding swordplay are all afterthoughts to the regicidal theme.


In MacbethĂ­s brutality, we can discern a cleaving apart of ShakespeareĂ­s more enlightened world, as though in the fossil record of pre-Norman Britain stirs a dream of government that serves a common good, as opposed to mere blood sport. This notion runs elsewhere in popular cultures Ăł EisensteinĂ­s film Aleksandr Nevsky opens on a brooding landscape whose inhabitants seem nearly primordial, yet ends with NevskyĂ­s appeal to justice and progress. However, in Macbett, the Romanian-born Ionesco, looking back in time past the refinement of constitutions and parliaments, is fascinated with the primitive urges that still lie at the heart of virtually all modern conflicts. Pervan, attuned to this, presents a kingdom uneasily lit with flickering candles and governed by a belief in witches. In a sense, he combines Macbeth with Ceausescu, and Scotland with Transylvania, drawing out of the mad forest of European villainy a narcotic faith in selfish violence.


These themes have a track record: Ron MagidĂ­s pulpily political history Dracula Tyrannus played at this same venue in 1988, and indeed when in Bram StokerĂ­s Dracula the Count dismisses modern Continental treaties as "these days of dishonorable peace," he may well be looking nostalgically at MacbethĂ­s Scotland and NevskyĂ­s bloodied Russia. The Globe, with its two-tiered set, balcony and Tudor windows, lends itself to demagogic nightmares. None of this is to suggest that Macbett is a gruesome meditation on power politics Ăł if anything, itĂ­s more of a Rocky Horror Show meets Ubu Roi, complete with Ionescoan touches: A grizzled man (Alexander Veadov) sells lemonade from his wheelchair, a little boy (Andrej Pervan) with a butterfly net searches for Macbett. And, for pure nuttiness, Duncan is murdered on Animal Healing Day, an annual holiday on which the king cures the local livestock and pets of their ailments. (A significant change from IonescoĂ­s original scene.)


Director Pervan gets some good performances from his cast, notably Radanovich and Clay, and his production benefits from Slavko PervanĂ­s spartan set that, nevertheless, places a guillotine behind DuncanĂ­s chair (talk about your throne of blood), while Mladen MilicevicĂ­s cheesy synth-goth score recalls Euro-horror films of the 1970s. In the end, this is a story about a man who murders another for his coat and crown, while forgetting the woman who made his ascent possible. After Macbett meets death, his corpse is carried and caressed by women to the throne with its awaiting blade Ăł perhaps that is the absurdest touch of all.


MACBETT | By EUGENE IONESCO | Il Dolce Theater Company at the GLOBE PLAYHOUSE, 1107 N. Kings Road, West Hollywood | Through December 12 | (310) 458-3312
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Dr. Mladen Milicevic, Professor
Loyola Marymount University
School of Film and Television
Recording Arts Program
One LMU Drive, MC 8230
Los Angeles, CA 90045-2659, USA
tel. (310) 338-4575
FAX (310) 338-3030
e-mail: MMilicev@LMU.edu
Office: Xavier Hall 312
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Mladen's web site:
http://myweb.lmu.edu/mmilicevic/
School of Film and Television web site:
http://film.lmu.edu
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Sudjelujte u komunikaciji Hrvata BiH i Svijeta

Postovanje! Ja sam Marko Karacic, novinar-urednik Dnevnog lista i tjednika
''Danas'' iz Mostara, kao i Internet portala Bljesak.info. Nazalost,
koliko sam ja zamjetio u zadnje vrijeme, bar ovdje u BiH, komunikacija
Hrvata iz BiH sa Hrvatima iz dijaspore je jako losa. Obican hrvatski puk u
BiH ima veoma malo ili nimalo informacija o aktivnostima Hrvata i
hrvatskih centara u Americi. Upravo iz ovoga razloga nadao sam se Vasoj
pomoci!Zelio bi stupiti u kontakt sa vodecim ljudima u hrvatskim centrima
u Americi, E-mailom naravno, te na taj nacin bar jednom tjedno
objavljivati clanke o manifestacijama koje Hrvati organiziraju u Americi,
kulturne, politicke i druge. MOLIM Vas, ako imate e-mail adrese ljudi od
kojih bi mogao dobiti ove informacije, da mi ih posaljete. Takodjer,
komunikacija se moze odvijati i u suprotnom pravcu. Sve informacije koje
Vama trebaju, dnevni dogadjaji, politicka zbivanja, polozaj Hrvata u BiH,
kulturne manifestacije i drugo, ja Vam mogu dostavljati na mail, ovisno o
tome sto Vas zanima. S stovanjem!
 

                                                    Marko Karacic

maki@bljesak.info

AAASS is the largest Slavic studies organization in the US

The AAASS is the largest Slavic studies organization in the US. It is holding its annual convention in Boston this Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday (December 4-7, 2004). There are literally scores of panels. I have set forth below some which may of of interest to readers (including one where yours' truly will be speaking). The events take place at the Boston Marriott Copley Place at 110 Huntington Avenue in downtown Boston.

John Kraljic
************************

SATURDAY, 4 DECEMBER

SESSION 1 * SATURDAY * 1:30 - 3:30 P.M.

1-08 Bosnia-Herzegovina: Ten Years after Dayton: A Grassroots,
Geographical, and Historical View of Dayton Bosnia - Simmons

Chair: John R. Lampe, U of Maryland

Papers: Paula Pickering, College of William and Mary
"Views of Ordinary People Regarding the Hopes and Progress for
Reconciliation in Post-War Bosnia-Herzegovina"

Daniel Michael Rhea, U of Maryland
"The 1939 Serbian-Croatian Sporazum: A Blueprint for Regionalization?"

Gerard Toal, Virginia Tech, and Carl Dahlman, U of South Carolina
"The West Bank and Drina: Ethnic Engineering and Land Allocation in the
Republika Srpska"

Disc.: Richard D. Kauzlarich, National Intelligence Office for Europe

1-27 Information or Propaganda? Advertising in Socialist Eastern Europe -
Salon J

Chair: Laurie S. Koloski, College of William and Mary

Papers: Bradley F. Abrams, Columbia U
"'Reklama' or 'Propogace'? The Almost Rise and Telling Fall of Socialist
Advertising in Czechoslovakia"

Patrick H. Patterson, UC, San Diego
"Capitalist Tool? Commercial Promotion, Marketing, and the Problem of
'Socialist Advertising' in Hungary and Yugoslavia"

Jonathan R. Zatlin, Boston U
"Selling Socialism: Advertising in East Germany, 1971-1989"
Disc.: Mark Pittaway, The Open U (UK)

SESSION 2 * SATURDAY * 3:45 - 5:45 P.M.

2-01 South Slavic Literature and Ideology - Boston College
Chair: Henry R. Cooper, Jr., Indiana U

Papers: Marko Juvan, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Slovenia)
"Parodic Writing, National Canon, and Hegemony: Literary Modernism in a
Communist Context (Some Slovenian Examples)"

Slobodan Prosperov Novak, Yale U
"Figures of Fear in the Theater of Marin Drzic"

Bogdan Rakic, U of Chicago
"The Humanist as Cannibal: Borislav Pekic's 'How to Quiet a Vampire'"

Disc.: Radmila J. Gorup, Columbia U

2-03 State and Development in Former Communist States - Brandeis

Chair: Ioannis Armakolas, U of Cambridge (UK)

Papers: Karlo Basta, U of Toronto (Canada)
"States and Industrial Policies in Independent Estonia and Slovenia"

Maja Catic, Brandeis U
"State-Building and Development in Bosnia Post Dayton: A Look at the
Bosnian Development Strategy"

Benjamin H. Loring, Brandeis U
"State-Building in Central Asia: The Kyrgyz Experience"
Disc.: Steven L. Burg, Brandeis U

2-30 Musical Pan-Slavism in Habsburg Lands during the Late Nineteenth
and Early Twentieth Centuries - Yarmouth

Chair: Ivan Runac, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Papers: William A. Everett, U of Missouri, Kansas City
"Slavs Creating Slavs: Slavic Self-Imagining in Operetta"

Vjera Katalinic, Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences
"Musical Pan-Slavism among Southern Slavs: The Case of the Croatian
Musicologist Franjo Ksaver Kuhac (1834-1911)"

Cathryn Wilkinson, SUNY, Plattsburgh
"The Sacred Dimension in Slovak Pan-Slavicism"
Disc.: Marijan Despalatovic, Connecticut College

2-35 Systems in Conflict: Eastern European Folk Beliefs and the Other -
Rhode Island

Chair: Mario Fenyo, Bowie State U
Papers: Anna Brzozowska-Kraijka, Maria Curie-Sklodowska U (Poland)
"Coexistence or Conflict? The Problem of Dual Belief in Polish Folklore"

Marija Dalbello, Rutgers U
"Diffusion, Invention, or Production of Culture? Popular Print and the
Formation of Historical Consciousness in the Croatian Diaspora
Community in the 1950s"

Andriy Nahachewsky, U of Alberta (Canada)
"Ukrainian Canadian Dance: Tensions between the Folk, National, and
Spectacular Paradigms"

Disc.: Veronica E. Aplenc, U of Pennsylvania

SUNDAY 5 DECEMBER

SESSION 3 * SUNDAY * 8:00 - 10:00 A.M.

3-09 Croatia and the European International Organizations - Suffolk

Chair: James Joseph Sadkovich, Texas A&M U Press

Papers: Antoine Cloutier, Laval U (Canada)
"Croatia and European Union"

Reneo Lukic, Laval U (Canada)
"Croatia and ICTY"

Jean-Francois Morel, Laval U (Canada)
"Croatia and the NATO"

Disc.: Jadranko Prlic, South East Institute (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Dean Vuletic, Columbia U

3-11 Codependency and Regime Change: Lessons from Southeastern
Europe - Wellesley

Chair: Robin Remington, Peace Haven Intl

Papers: Elez Biberaj, Voice of America
"Albanian-Kosova Connection: Lesson for Regime Change"

Francine Friedman, Ball State U
"Reinventing Yugoslavia: The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina"

Obrad Kesic, TSM Global Consultants, LLC
"Political, Ideological, and Emotional Splits in Serbian Society"

Disc.: Colette Mazzucelli, Columbia U

SESSION 4 * SUNDAY * 10:15 A.M. - 12:15 P.M.

4-05 International Intervention and Local Politics in the Balkans - MIT

Chair: Timothy J. Pershing, Brandeis U

Papers: Ioannis Armakolas, U of Cambridge (UK), and Silvia Lauzzana, U of
Cambridge (UK)

"Humanitarian Aid, Local Politics, and the Political Economy of War: A
Case Study from Bosnia-Herzegovina"

Mieczyslaw P. Boduszynski, UC, Berkeley
"Building State Capacity in International Protectorates: Lessons from
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia"

Bojan Petrovic, UC, Irvine
"European Union Adaptive Pressures and Political Party Systems of
(Potential) Candidate States: The Cases of Croatia and Serbia"

Disc.: Steven L. Burg, Brandeis U

4-16 New Voices in Post-Communist Literature and Art - Orleans

Chair: Thomas Peter Hodge, Wellesley College

Papers: Justyna Anna Beinek, U of Toronto
"Western Culture a la polonaise: Imports and Rejects"

Olga S. Partan, Wellesley College
"Post-Soviet Estrada: Infatuation with the West and Nostalgia for the Past"

Cynthia F. Simmons, Boston College
"Miljenko Jergovic and Yugo-Nostalgia"

Disc.: Tatiana Smorodinskaya, Middlebury College

SESSION 5 * SUNDAY * 2:00 - 4:00 P.M.

5-02 Conflict and Politics in the Twentieth-Century South Slavic Literatures -
Boston University

Chair: Andrew Baruch Wachtel, Northwestern U

Papers: Gordana Crnkovic, U of Washington
"Catastrophes of the Intimate in Miroslav Krleza"

Aida Vidan, Harvard U
"Killing Words: Croatian and Bosnian War Fiction since the 1990s"

Ivana Vitomir Vuletic, UNC, Chapel Hill
"Novels of Milica Micic-Dimovska"

Disc.: Tomislav Z. Longinovic, U of Wisconsin, Madison
Bogdan Rakic, U of Chicago

5-15 Sounds as Identity Symbols: The Potential for a "Musical Turn" in the
Study of Modern Eastern Europe - (Roundtable) - Nantucket

Chair: Larry Wolff, Boston College

Part.: Halina Goldberg, Indiana U
Lynn M. Hooker, Indiana U

Sarah Anne Kent, U of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
Lynn M. Sargeant, California State U, Fullerton

Philipp Ther, European U (Germany)

MONDAY
6
DECEMBER

6-14 New Balkan States: Road to Economic Vitality - Hyannis

Chair: Russell O. Prickett, Independent Scholar

Papers: Svetlana Adamovic, U of Belgrade (Yugoslavia) and Gordana Pesakovic,
Argosy U
"Serbia-Montenegro: One or Two Economies?"

Ljubisa (Stevan) Adamovich, Florida State U
"FYR of Macedonia: Interrupted Growth"

Azra Hadziahmetovic, U of Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
"Bosnia and Herzegovina: New Issues of Economic Development"
Disc.: Jasminka Ninkovic, Emory U

SESSION 8 * MONDAY * 2:00 - 4:00 P.M.

8-06 Reassessing the Causes and the Course of the Muslim-Croat Conflict
in Bosnia-Herzegovina - Northeastern

Chair: Ante Cuvalo, Joliet Junior College

Papers: Marko A. Hoare, U of Cambridge (UK)
"The Bosnian Army and the Croat Defense Council, 1992-1995"

James Joseph Sadkovich, Texas A&M U Press
"Road to War in Central Bosnia"

Charles R. Shrader, Independent Scholar
"Military Misperceptions: The Muslim-Croat Civil War in Central Bosnia,
1992-1994"

Disc.: Robert J. Donia, U of Michigan
Zdenka Gredel-Manuele, Niagara U

8-35 Augustin Ujevic: The Man/The Myth - Rhode Island

Chair: Audrey Helfant Budding, Harvard U

Papers: Ellen Elias-Bursac, Harvard U
"Tin Ujevic: The Self-Made Myth"

Giga Graca, Croatian Radio
"Is Ujevic Still Our Contemporary?"

Srecko Lipovcan, Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences (Croatia)
"The Young Ujevic"

Disc.: Aida Vidan, Harvard U

SESSION 9 * TUESDAY * 8:00 - 10:00 A.M.

9-08 Searching for New Cultural Coordinates in South Slavic Literatures -
Simmons

Chair: Daniela S. Hristova, U of Chicago

Papers: Lauren Lydic, U of Toronto

"Naming that Tune: The Influence of Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself' on
Stevan Raickovic's 'Pesma trave'"

Mirna Solic, U of Toronto (Canada)
"The Influence of Bosnian 'Sevdah' and Oriental Elements on the Poetry
of Croatian Nineteenth-Century Poet Luka Botic"

Snezana Zabic, UNC, Wilmington
"The Importance of Memory in the Works of Two South Slavic Writers in
Exile: Aleksandar Hemon and Josip Novakovich"
Disc.: Ellen Elias-Bursac, Harvard U

9-31 East European Immigrants and Communist Newspapers in the United
States - Connecticut

Chair: Thomas Allan Emmert, Gustavus Adolphus College

Papers: John Kraljic
"The Evolution of Croatian Communist Newspapers in the U.S. and Canada"

Thomas L. Sakmyster, U of Cincinnati
"A Communist Newspaper for Hungarian-Americans: The Strange World
of the Uj Elore"

Jason C. Vuic, The Ohio State U
"South Slavic (un)Americans: 'Slobodna Rec' and 'Narodni Glasnik' before
Congressional Subcommittees"

Disc.: June Granatir Alexander, U of Cincinnati

SESSION 10 * TUESDAY * 10:15 A.M. - 12:15 P.M.

10-02 The Croatian Peasant Party from Its Beginning to 1948: A Hundred
Years of Political Struggle - Boston University - Sponsored by: Association
for Croatian Studies

Chair: Joseph T. Bombelles, John Carroll U

Papers: Elinor Murray Despalatovic, Connecticut College
"Economic Program of the Croatian Peasant Party"

Mario Jareb, Croatian Institute of History (Croatia)
"Treatment of the HSS and Dr. Macek by the Ustasha-Domobran
Movement from 1930 to April 1941"

Amy Katherine Schmidt, National Archives
"The HSS in Exile 1945-1948"

Disc.: John Peter Kraljic, Garfunkel, Wild & Travis, PC

Jure Kristo, Croatian Institute of History (Croatia)

10-03 Contemporary Slovene History and Politics: Recent Research by Young
Scholars - Brandeis

Chair: Karl W. Ryavec, U of Massachusetts, Amherst

Papers: Alenka Barber-Kersovan, U of Hamburg (Germany)
"Work in the Name of Revolution: Slovene Punks and the De-Construction
of the Soviet Work Ethos"

Charles Fletcher, Institute of Defense Analysis
"Is There a Case for Slovene Exceptionalism?"
Tamara Kotar, Carleton U (Canada)

"Heroics versus Humble Histories: A Brief Comparative Political History of
Slovenia and Croatia"

Disc.: Cathie Carmichael, U of East Anglia (UK)
Sarah Anne Kent, U of Wisconsin, Stevens Point

10-12 Andrija Kacic Miosic and Croatian Literature - Cape Cod

Chair: Ralph B. Bogert, U of Toronto (Canada)

Papers: Vinko Grubisic, U of Waterloo (Canada)
"Reception of 'Pleasant Conversations of the Slavic People' in the
English-Speaking World"

Gabrijel Jurisic, "Kacic" Editor
"Andrija Kacic Miosic in the Modern Era"

Anita Mikulic-Kovacevic, U of Toronto (Canada)
"Chronicle of the Priest of Dioclea and Andrija Kacic Miosic's 'Pleasant

Conversations of the Slavic People'"
Disc.: Ivo Soljan, Grand Valley State U
 

Skupimo Samopouzdanje,

pokrenimo drzavu,

osvojit cemo svijet

Hrvatski List, 18 Studenog 2004

Successful Santic now fishing for a Cox Plate
 

Tony Arrold
November 03, 2004
THE OWNER

WITH Makybe Diva delivering two Melbourne Cups and a Sydney Cup within a year, owner-breeder Tony Santic has one further ambition: to win a Cox Plate.

"I don't think I will be doing that with this mare," Santic, 52, said of his record-breaking mare, "but, hopefully, I can win it somewhere down the track."

The Melbourne and Sydney Cups sit in the Santic home showcase in Port Lincoln, South Australia, alongside a Cox Plate trophy of national significance.

That one is an 18-carat trophy won by the great Phar Lap, in 1931. Santic bought it at public auction for $420,000 -- claimed at the time as a national record for a piece of sporting memorabilia -- just days after Rogan Josh's Cup win in 1999.

One of the three biggest tuna farmers in Australia, Santic is among the nation's biggest individual owners of bloodstock, with about 200 horses on his books. He has 47 in training and the rest is made up of breeding stock and foals, weanlings and yearlings.

His latest venture in the racing-breeding side of his business is Smytzer's Lodge, a breeding operation built at substantial cost at Geelong, south-west of Melbourne.

Santic deflected questions about the turnover of his tuna farming and export business to Japan and Europe.

"I couldn't say what my turnover is -- it fluctuates so much. But it keeps the horses going," Santic said.

Croatian-born Santic, husband to Christine and father of five children, entered BRW's rich list in 2003, with his wealth then estimated at $200 million. His burgeoning tuna farming business, which was set up in Port Lincoln, has expanded to his native Croatia.

All Santic-owned runners race in red, white and blue colours, with the top half of the jacket featuring the Southern Cross, the bottom half the red and white checks of Croatia's national flag.

Makybe Diva, a six-year-old mare who has had only 25 starts over three seasons, contributes heavily to cash-flow requirements of Santic's racing-breeding operation.

When she ran up and took the lead from the crack European stayer Vinnie Roe in the closing 300 metres and went on to become the first mare in 144 years to win the Cup for a second time, she picked up a winner's cheque of $2.7 million and associated trophies valued at $80,000.

That bounty lifts Makybe Diva's lifetime earnings to $7,157,135 in prizemoney, becoming the second highest stakes-winning mare in Australian history, after Sunline's $11.1m.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11269874%255E2722,00.html

Croatian Cultural Thursdays in New York Introduces

 Sheri Fink

Dear friends,

Please join Croatian Cultural Thursdays in celebrating
the paperback release of

WAR HOSPITAL by SHERI FINK

7 PM
Thursday, December 2, 2004
Croatian Center
501 West 41 Street (btw 10 and 11 ave)
New York, NY
Info: kdeletis@excite.com

SHERI FINK MD, PhD is a visiting fellow at the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University School of Public Health. She has worked with the humanitarian organization International Medical Corps in the Balkans,
north Caucasus, southern Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia, and she directed medical assistance programs in Iraq. Fink's writing has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the International
Herald Tribune, JAMA, and The American Journal of Public Health. A graduate of the University of Michigan and Stanford University School of Medicine, Fink serves on the advisory council of Physicians for Human Rights. She is also a dynamic and engaging speaker and interviewee.

WAR HOSPITAL is a young physician-reporter's chronicles of the experiences of doctors and nurses trapped in besieged Srebrenica, Bosnia, illuminating the passions, challenges, tragedies, and agonizing moral quandaries of practicing medicine in a war zone.

In April 1992, a handful of young physicians, not one of them a surgeon, was trapped along with 50,000 men, women, and children in the embattled enclave of Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina. There, in a town whose tragedy still reverberates, the physicians faced
the most intense professional, ethical, and personal predicaments of their lives. WAR HOSPITAL is their story, and that of those who want to help them. More information is available at www.warhospital.net.