Croatian studies Teacher/FellowshipSSEES, London 

Subject: Job: Croatian studies Teacher/Fellowship SSEES, London 

(deadline 18.11.) November 18th

Teacher/Fellowship in Croatian Studies 2003-2004

The School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University
College London invites applications for a fully-funded Croatian
Teacher-Fellowship. The purpose of the Teacher-Fellowship is to provide
training and experience of British university teaching, research, and
administration. The post is funded by the British Foreign and
Commonwealth Office's Chevening Scholarships Scheme and SSEES/UCL, and
supports a Teacher-Fellow for one academic year as a visiting faculty
member at SSEES attached to the Centre for South-East European Studies.

The Teacher-Fellowships will be awarded following free and open public
competition. Applicants must be citizens of Croatia and must propose a
research project in an area of the humanities or social sciences
supported by SSEES. Preference will be given to doctoral candidates
writing PhDs or recent doctorates. Closing date for applications is 18
November 2002. Full details are available at
http://www.ssees.ac.uk/seecent.htm.
 

KOJIJE TO BO`
NJAČKIJEZIK?

       Prof. Antun Pinterović  

 Povodom članka g. RobertaBubala u ťVečernjem listuŤ (br. 14010 od 17. X. 02., str. 10), podnaslovom ťBoa
njački intelektualci ~
ele "pomesti" hrvatskijezikŤ, htio bih, kao jezikoslovac, pojasniti neke jezikoslovne (ali i pobrkane!)pojmove.

           Pitanje da li boa
njački jezik postoji ovisi o samoj definicijipojma ťjezikŤ. Dok su pojmovi ťnarječjeŤ, ťgovorŤ, ťmjesni govorŤjezikoslovno prilično točno određeni, definicija pojma ťjezikŤje problematična, ukoliko u tu definiciju ulaze i ideoloa
ki, odnosnokulturni, socioloa
ki i nacionalni parametri.

           Ako prihvatimo vrlo a
iroku jezikoslovnu definiciju jezika kao ťskupajezičnih postupaka u upotrebi u izvjesnoj drua
tvenoj skupiniŤ (Jodogne),jasno je da prema takovoj definiciji nitko ne mo~
e Boa
njacima osporiti pravo da svoj govor nazovu boa
njačkim. No kako stvari stoje, ako sepogleda o kojim se to ťjezičnim postupcimaŤ radi, koji bi taj boa
njačkigovor razlikovali od ťsrodnihŤ, ťsusjednihŤ jezika, hrvatskoga i srpskoga,postavlja se pitanje koji je to zapravo ťboa
njački jezikŤ.

           S čisto povijesnoga gledia
ta, zahtjev posebnosti boa
njačkogajezika (i narodnosti!) nije nekakva novotarija. Kako sam već u via
enavrata imao prilike istaknuti, nastojanje oko afirmacije boa
njačkogidentiteta (jezika i narodnosti!) pojavilo se svjesno krajem XIX. stoljeća,poduprto i s muslimanske (Mehmed-beg Kapetanović Ljubua
ak) i s katoličke dakle hrvatske  strane (fra Antun Kne~
ević), ali ne i spravoslavno-srpske, a
to valja ipak istaknuti, jer se zapravo tom činjenicompovijest u neku ruku ponavlja. Danas također imamo naime, s jedne strane,bosansko-hrvatsku federaciju, a s druge, Republiku srpsku; ideoloa
ko-političkaopredjeljenja nisu se dakle u Bosni kroz stotinjak godina bitno promijenila.

Buđenjeboa
njačke nacionalne svijesti ia
lo je dakako u prilog austrijske politike,koja je svim silama nastojala osujetiti s jedne strane hrvatska nastojanja okopriključenja Bosne i Hercegovine Hrvatskoj kao ťpovijesnoga lena ugarskekruneŤ, a s druge strane, srpska svojatanja. U tom političkom kontekstu jeZemaljska vlada Bosne i Hercegovine čak financirala i tiskanje ťGramatikebosanskog jezika za srednje a
koleŤ autora Franje Vuletića 1890. godine,te je sve do 1907. godine slu~
beni naziv za jezik u Bosni i Hercegovini bio ťbosanskiŤ,a spomenuti Mehmed-beg Kapetanović izdavao je sa svoje strane od 1891. do1910. list ťBoa
njakŤ pod krilaticom: OdTrebinja do Brodskijeh vrata nije bilo Srba ni Hrvata.

Nokako stvaristoje s jezičnoga gledia
ta?

Baa
kao a
to se od osamostaljenja Hrvatske početkom devedesetih godina proa
logastoljeća ponovno nastoji odrediti identitet hrvatskoga jezika isključivousuprotnosti sa srpskim,isto se tako u zadnje vrijeme nastoji definirati identitet boa
njačkogajezika također u suprotnosti, sjedne strane, s hrvatskim, a s druge, sa srpskim jezikom. No drugačijepsiholoa
ki ne mo~
e ni biti, jer  da se poslu~
imo jednom psihoanalitičkomanalogijom  baa
kao a
to i jedan dječak u razdoblju sazrijevanja postavljasvoj osobni identitet upravo time a
to se suprostavljaidentitetu roditelja, dotično oca kada se radi o dječaku, isto tako sei jedan nacionalni identitet mo~
e afirmirati jedino suprostavljanjemsrodnim identitetima.

Najočitija odnosno najisticanija  značajka ťnovogaŤ boa
njačkog jezika,koja ga povezuje s hrvatskim jezikom, je ijekavski izgovor, a sa srpskim gapovezuju dočetci  isati(nasuprot  iratiu hrvatskom) za glagole pozajmljene iz stranih jezika, pa sintagma da+indikativumjesto hrvatskogainfinitiva za objektne rečenice.

Nopremda je ijekvavica danas sigurno bitna značajka hrvatskoga standardnogjezika, nije ona ipak isključiva osobina hrvatskoga jezika: ijekavskigovore i Crnogorci, a do nedavna (naime prije sustavne ťekavizacijeŤ putemjugoslavenskoga a
kolskog ustroja) bili su ijekavci i bosanski i hrvatski Srbi,tzv. ťPrečaniŤ. I dok je infinitiv za objektne rečenice rijedak kodCrnogoraca, Boa
njaka i Prečana, sintagma da+indikativ  upotrebljava se naprotiv i uhrvatskom standardnom jeziku. Pa i sam infinitivni dočetak  isatiza glagole iz stranihjezika, akoji se danas nekako smatra ťsimbolomŤ hrvatskoga jezika, bijaa
e krajemXIX. i početkom XX. stoljeća  upotrebljavani od mnogih hrvatskih pisaca, kao, na pr., Matoa
a, kojega se sigurno ne bimoglo proglasiti ťloa
imŤ Hrvatom!

`
tose pak tiče turcizama, koji bi trebali biti nekakva posebna (ťmuslimanskaŤ!)oznaka boa
njačkoga jezika, ni oni nisu, po mom skromnom mnijenju, isključivaznačajka boa
njačkih govora. Upotrebljavaju ih također i Srbi,ali i Hrvati. Da dadem samo jedan sasvim osobni primjer. Moja baka s očevestrane, podrijetlom Srijemkinja iz Vrbanje kraj }
upanje (`
okica!),upotrebljavala je  sjećam se iz djetinjstva  riječi kao a
to su:pend~
er(prozor), sokak(ulica), pea
kir(ručnik), čirjak (svijećnjak),i t. d.

Kakovidimo, ijekavci su (bili!) u većini, pa zato i ne začuđuje da jeVuk Stefanović Karad~
ić bio odlučio nametnuti svojimsunarodnjacima kao standardni jezik hercegovački ijekavski govor (a
tonjemu uostalom ni nije potpuno poa
lo za rukom), kao a
to ne začuđujeni činjenica da su hrvatski ťPropagadandistiŤ (Congregatiode propaganda fide), snaa
im prvim slovničarom Bartolom Kaa
ićem na čelu, već uXVII. st. izabrali taj isti govor, i iz istoga većinskoga razloga, kaohrvatski standardni jezik. No postoji ipak jedna velika razlika u samom poimanjustandardnoga jezika: nasuprot nesnoa
ljivosti i isključivosti (danas bismorekli ťintegrizmuŤ!) Karad~
ićeva ťčistunstvaŤ (dijalektalnogapurizma), stari hrvatski jezikoslovci, a nakon njih i njihovi nasljednici ťIlirciŤu XIX. st. shvaćali su hrvatski standardni jezik kao sintezusvih hrvatskih knji~
evnih govora (dakle i kajkavskoga i čakavskoga), a kao temelj takova standardnoga (tadase govorilo: knji~
evnoga) hrvatskog jezika vidjeli su radije a
tokavski govordubrovačke knji~
evnosti, nego li pučki hercegovački govor (Ma~
uranić,Vraz, Demeter, među inim). Takav standardni hrvatski jezik imao je naimesvoju knji~
evnu predaju, koju srpski jezik nije imao, jer je srpska knji~
evnapredaja bila pisana na tzv. ťslavenoserbskomŤ jeziku, odnosno na jednomliturgijskom ťmrtvomŤ jeziku, mrtvom, jer njime srpski puk nije govorio. I toje dakako razlog zbog kojega je Karad~
ić također pokua
ao ťposvojitiŤi dubrovačku knji~
evnost, proglasiva
i je srpskom.

Izato se ne ustručavam ustvrditi da, striktno jezikoslovno gledajući,postoji samo jedan jezik, a to je hrvatski jezik, koji su Vuk StefanovićKarad~
ić i njegovi srpski (ali na ~
alost i hrvatski!) sljedbenici inasljednici pokua
ali Hrvatima ukrasti, oteti!Dadanas taj hrvatski jezik jedni nazivaju srpskim, drugi boa
njačkim, a trećicrnogorskim, to je njihova stvar, to mene ne smeta! Baa
kako je to većdavno vrlo ispravno bio shvatio jedan Starčević: ťTrebadakle da i oni pisci, koi se za Serbe ili nea
to drugo der~
e, nastoje pisatiizobra~
enim jezikom hervatskim, kao a
to nekoi sbilja rade, a budi im prostojezik nazivat makar i koptičkim.Ť (NarodneNovine, br. 189, 18. VIII. 1852.)

Branimir Krstić

www.branimir.net 

The Croatian House, the National Capital Group of the Association of the 
Alumni and Friends of Croatian Universities (AMAC), and the Croatian 
Catholic Mission of St. Blaise, Washington, D.C., proudly present the 
distinguished young guitarist and composer, Branimir Krstic. On 
Saturday, October 26, 2002, at 7:30 p.m., Mr. Krstic will inaugurate the 
Croatian Musical Heritage Series with a concert to be held at Our Lady 
of Victory Church, 4835 MacArthur Boulevard, N.W., (walking distance 
from Georgetown University), Washington, D.C. 20007. 

Mr. Krstic is a native of Croatia, where he began his musical studies. 
He continued his guitar and composition studies in Cologne, Germany, 
under world-renowned professors such as Eliot Fisk, Charles Ramirez, 
Ansgar Krause, Mauricio Kagel, Johannes Fritsch and Sir Peter Maxwell 
Davis. His music has been broadcast on the BBC and West German radio, 
and performed throughout Europe. Branimir Krstic is currently living in 
Mount Vernon, Baltimore. 

PROGRAM

Luys Milan Six Pavins 

Branimir Krstic Croatian Songs, Part II (The Sitting Owl) 
World Premiere

Heitor Villa-Lobos Study No. 12 

Branimir Krstic Four Nocturnes from Osijek, January 1990 
US Premiere 

Ernesto Halffter Habanera 

Branimir Krstic Croatian Songs, Part I (I Raise My Eyes) 
US Premiere 

After the concert, a reception will follow in the Hess Auditorium of Our 
Lady of Victory Church, featuring Croatian delicacies prepared by the 
celebrated chef, Mr. Ivo Svircic.

Tickets $25.00 (adults) and $10.00 (students) will be available at the 
door, 45 minutes prior to the concert. The proceeds from the concert are 
Mr. Kristic's donation to a undergoing project focused on an opening of 
the Croatian House in Washington DC.

Free parking available.

For further information, please contact: croatianhouse@aol.com 

VLADIMIR TOMLJENOVIC - MICKT

Croatian on Newsweek Cover

bio

www.mickt.com 
Here is the photo of his Newsweek cover
http://www.mickt.com/gal9_frames/gal9_8frame_main.html 

You are invited to see 

Josip Novakovich on Friday Oct. 25, 2002, at 7pm for a fiction reading 

at the DACTYL FOUNDATION for the Arts & Humanities 

Croatian-born Novakovich has published numerous works of fiction, including, Yolk and Salvation and Other Disasters. He received the Whiting Writer's Award (1997), Guggenheim Fellowship (1999), two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships (1991 and 2002), and a fellowship at The New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers in 2001/02. Novakovich also teaches in the English Department at Penn State University. 

64 Grand Street, New York, NY 10013 / 212-219-2344 / www.dactyl.org  

Op-ed

Supportthis talented Croatian writer by your presence and by buying his books.

NenadBach

Joško Marušić's book "Istinita priča o Hrvatima", "Croats - The True Story"

Josko Marusic, famous Croatian cartoonist, book, large, beautiful, in color "Croats - a true story".
Croatian history (good), in beautiful landscape (A3) paintings, with
little jokes. Excellent for presentation of our history.

Matko Marusic

If you require any further information, please feel free to contact us.

Best regards,

Kruno Matešić
Editor-in-Chief
Naklada Slap

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P.O. Box 78
10450 Jastrebarsko
Croatia
++385 1 6281-774; 6284-001
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Lighthousesin Croatia

Lighthouse sleepers 
Sarah Crown finds a world of dazzling colour and seclusion in the Adriatic, where the best rooms with a view are found in the islands' old lighthouses 

Sarah Crown
Friday October 18, 2002
The Guardian 
You'd be forgiven for thinking that they've been mixing Persil Colour Care in with the rain around here. Arriving in Split from smeary, waterlogged London, it feels like I am stepping into a different, paintbox-bright universe: the houses are red-roofed and white-walled, the trees sweeping down to the waterline are green as spinach, the sky is as blue as the sea and the sea is as blue as you dreamt it would be. 
In terms of singular holiday destinations, it is definitely up there. Croatia's coastline is scattered with islands like breadcrumbs on a duck pond - 1, 185, to be precise. There are lighthouses on 48 of them, and it was to one of these that we were heading. Built between 1818 and 1880 under Austro-Hungarian rule, it was when they were undergoing renovation and automation in the late 1990s that some bright spark recognised the tourist potential of all these empty, absurdly picturesque buildings, purpose-built to command the best views the islands have to offer. 
We are planning a three-night stay on Plocica, meaning 'slate', named because of its appearance: low and flat, like a slate rising out of the sea. It's a speck of an island, small enough to spit over with barely room to contain its lighthouse and the colony of white rabbits that live on it. Rather than the fresh salt-and-seaweed smell I was expecting, the whole place smells like a sweetshop thanks to the rosemary bushes, which have taken root on every spare inch of soil. The lighthouse itself is solid as a rock; its white walls and green shutters blending so seamlessly with the rest of the island that it looks as though it has shouldered its way up out of the ground. The rooms are clean, if basic - all electricity is solar-generated, so hot water can be temperamental - but such fripperies are forgotten when you throw open the shutters and soak up the view over the sea to the higher, rockier islands which ring Plocica like a stockade and behind which the sun sets in layers of colour like a particularly expensive sponge cake. 
The sense of Crusoe-like seclusion is heightened by the three hours it takes us to sail from the mainland to Plocica. The captain of our motor launch - and Plocica's lighthouse keeper - is Ante, an enormous grizzly bear of a man who alleviates the tedium of the voyage and the vague paranoia that comes over you when everyone around you is speaking a language you don't understand by teaching me my first two words of Croatian: tragedia and catastropha. These are his favourite words, and he uses them at any and all available opportunities over the following days - to describe the inclement weather, the overcooking of a fish, the bottom of a bottle of wine. 
Fortunately, he takes a shine to me, as I discover at dinner that night. Via several willing translators and much bashing of ham-sized fist on table, he expresses deeply held convictions on the twin subjects of women who wear high heels and people who don't eat their supper. The one has difficulty negotiating the leap from boat to island (there is no harbour here); the other is rude and has no place at his table. Thankfully I am sensibly shod and the food is fresh and unbelievably good - although if you don't like fish you are in trouble, to be honest. My belief that he is the most terrifying man I have ever met - triggered by stories of him rowing for six hours to tow his broken-down, several-tonne motor boat back to land, and shooting a rare and valuable bird which landed on Plocica with a cry of the Croatian equivalent of "Get off my land!" - is confirmed when he offers me the eyeball of the fish we've just eaten. I balk: he shrugs and munches it himself with every appearance of relish. 
The following morning, my hangover is instantly banished by a deep breath of rosemary-scented air and an industrial strength cup of coffee. We set off to visit some of the other islands in the best of weather and the highest of spirits. But it doesn't do to forget about the forces of nature while you're out here. We've been on the sea for an hour or so when we run into one of the electrical storms to which the area is prone. In a matter of moments, the light leeches from the sky, the sea churns up and turns from brilliant blue to the colour of gunmetal, and fingers of lightning begin to twitch down around the bowl of the horizon. When we land on Susac, the full irony of its name - 'dry island' - is made abundantly clear. We scramble up to the lighthouse in the sort of rain that leaves you deaf, dumb and blind and stumble inside to stand coursing with water and squeaking in disbelief. 
Once we've wrung out our hair and clothes, we can appreciate the lighthouse's spectacular situation: perched on a rocky bluff on what must be one of the most beautiful islands in the Adriatic. Plocica feels isolated, but Susac is truly an open sea island, utterly deserted apart from the lighthouse keeper and a shepherd who keeps his flock on the southern side, and makes very free with his rakija, a ferocious local brandy. The steep white cliffs, raked by the "bura" (the prevailing north-eastern wind), are counterpointed by the sea and caper bushes, and the colours have a shape and clarity which make this easily my favourite of all the islands we visit. 
Everywhere we go we're offered a drink. On Struga it's raw red wine round the kitchen table with the family while we watch their dog giving birth to puppies in the corner. On Korcula we visit a household that has been making wine on the island for over 500 years. In the cool, dark interior of the farmhouse - no longer lived in, but still housing the wine-making equipment - the stones are impregnated with the scent of fermenting grapes. When the wine comes it's served with smoked ham and goat's cheese, courtesy of the family's three goats, which live in the yard outside. I take my cue from Ante, who sips and sups as if there's no tomorrow - or indeed lunchtime. 
Wine was brought to Korcula from Greece in 400BC, according to a document discovered on the island 130 years ago which is purported to be the oldest surviving document in the whole of Croatia. Further evidence of Croatia's bibulous heritage continues to appear through the discovery of more and more amphoras from the days of the country's Roman occupation. Such artefacts are considered to be property of the state and, upon discovery, Croatians are obliged to hand them over under pain of a hefty fine. Ante has three in his lighthouse. 
Despite its Greek origins, the wine bears the name of a Roman, Lucul, who liked it so much they named it after him. He was into Bacchanalian revels; drink the wine and it's easy to see why. I personally thought it was a bit fizzy, but if it's good enough for a top-flight Roman hedonist, who am I to argue? The tangerine brandy, served next, tastes like marmalade and white spirit, but by this time I am several glasses down and pronounce it "Super!" in my best Croatian before wandering outside to have a chat with the goats. 
We lunch in the island's main town, also called Korcula. It's as tumbledown and beautiful as Split, but without the industry or tourists. Down a narrow alley we found a house - more of a staircase with walls around it, really - which purports to be the place where Marco Polo was born. True or not (where did his family live? on the stairs?), who cares? For five kuna (about 36p) you can climb up to the tower at the top and have all to yourself one of the best views of the city: the clutter of rooftops dotted with moss and ivy, roof gardens, washing looping from window to window, down to the sea. Suddenly I'm back where I started, admiring the vivid colours which will form my lasting impression of these islands. And believe me, I'm impressed.Ways to go Sarah Crown flew to Split with Croatian Airlines  www.croatiaairlines.hr . A return flight cost approximately Ł275. A week's accommodation on Plocica in peak season (July-August) costs 1,366 euros (around Ł850) dropping to 1, 179 euros (Ł750) in September and 888 euros (Ł550) off-season. Accommodation is per apartment, and an apartment in the lighthouse can sleep up to six. Transfer from the island of Korcula costs 100 euros (Ł60) and is charged separately. Tax is not included. For further information and price for the other islands, visitwww.adriatica.net.  

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