Centre for the Research of the Intangible Cultural Heritage

Name and surname

Antonija Huljev, Ph.D.

Title

Assistant Professor

e-mail

ahuljev@foozos.hr

Office Nr.

38

Research interests

pedagogy, socio-political impacts of music, history of Croatian literature

Antonija Huljev was born in Osijek on November 22, 1987. She was a teaching assistant for philology an pedagogy at the Department of Cultural Studies of Josip Juraj Strossmayer University in Osijek (2013 – 2018). Since 2018, she has been a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Education. The areas of her scientific and professional interest are pedagogical axiology and the history of Croatian literature, and in a broader sense, pedagogy and literature. In 2009 she graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek with a BA degree in Croatian language and literature and Pedagogy and in 2011 she became the Master of Education in Croatian Language and Literature and Master of Pedagogy at the same Faculty. In 2018, she completed the Post-graduate Interdisciplinary Doctoral Study Programme in Culture (Faculty of Arts and Literature in Culture) and earned a Ph. D. from the Doctoral School of Social and Human Sciences at the University of Josip Juraj Strossmayer in Osijek (interdisciplinary field of science, i.e. interdisciplinary humanities and interdisciplinary social sciences).

She has edited several conference proceedings and books, published several scientific papers in Croatian and foreign journals, and participated in several conferences in Croatia and abroad. So far, she has published three books. She is a member of the editorial board of the magazine "Vospitanie - Journal of Educational Sciences, Theory and Practice" (Republic of Northern Macedonia) and the magazine "Pannoniana" (Faculty of Educational Sciences, Osijek, Croatia).

In the period from 2009 to 2010, she worked as a student in the library of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Osijek. From 2011 to 2012, she worked as a proofreader for the magazine "Military History" published by Večernji list.

She is a member of the School Board of the Center for Education "Ivan Štark" in Osijek. She is also a member of Matica Hrvatska and an honorary member and professional associate of the Croatian Association of Prisoners in Serbian Concentration Camps.

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Name and surname

Damir Matanović, Ph.D.

Title / Position

Full professor with tenure

Vice-Rector for Organization and Human Resources

E-mail

dmatanovic@foozos.hr

Office number

27

Research interests

National history

Damir Matanović was born on 25 July 1970 in Vinkovci. He attended primary school in Bošnjaci, and finished mathematical and IT grammar school in Županja. In 1996 he completed two-subject studies in comparative literature and history at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb with graduation thesis Everyday life in Slavonia in the 18th century.

In 2000 he completed postgraduate studies of history at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb with master's thesis Companies of Brod regiment. He defended his doctoral thesis at the same Faculty in 2003, mentored by Dr Filip Potrebica, full professor, titled Military community Brod at Sava. Social and economic structure of a military border city 1753-1848).

Damir Matanović has been working for nineteen years in the system of science and higher education at the Croatian Institute of History, Faculty of Education of the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University in Osijek. He taught history courses as an external associate at the Faculty of Pedagogy of Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Centre for Croatian Studies in Zagreb, Department of Cultural Studies of Josip Juraj Strossmayer University in Osijek and Etvos Jozsef Foiskoli in Baja, Hungary.

He also worked for the publishing houses Fraktura and Hena-com Zagreb as an external associate. From 1997 to 2008 he worked at the Croatian Institute of History as a postdoctoral researcher and research associate. He acquired the title of teaching assistant in 2000 at the Croatian Institute of History. At the same institution he was elected senior assistant, and in 2004 by decision of Scientific field committee for humanities – scientific field history he was elected scientific associate.

By decision of Scientific field committee for humanities – scientific field history- he was elected senior research associate, and by decision of the Faculty council of the Faculty of education in Osijek he was elected the scientific teaching grade associate professor and the corresponding position for humanities, scientific field history, scientific discipline national history.

He has been employed at the Faculty of teacher education, the legal predecessor of the Faculty of Education of Josip Juraj Strossmayer University in Osijek, since 15 April 2008.

Since the 2013/2014 academic year, he served as the Acting Dean, from the 2014/2015 academic year until the 2021/2022 academic year he held the position of Dean of the Faculty of Educational Sciences, and since the 2022/2023 academic year, he has been serving as the Vice-Rector for Organization and Human Resources.

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First and last name

Emina Berbić Kolar, Ph.D.

Profession

Full Professor

Dean

Email

eberbic@foozos.hr

Office number

Dean Office and office no. 29

Research interests

Croatian Language, Dialectology, Communications, Sociolinguistics, Media Literacy

Curriculum vitae (up to 300 words)

Emina Berbić Kolar was born in Slavonski Brod in 1976.

In 2000 she completed the study of Croatian language and literature at the Faculty of Education, University of Osijek. In the 2000-2001 academic year, at the same Faculty, she enrolled in postgraduate studies of the Croatian Language and Literature in the Context of Central European Languages and Literature, focusing on Linguistics. In January 2007, she enrolled in a PhD Research program and received her PhD in 2009 with the topic “Speeches of Slavonian Dialects in the Brod Region”.

She has studied at home and abroad (Japan, Turkey, Great Britain, Finland, Germany, Austria, Norway, Hungary, Spain, France, and Australia).

In October 2010, she became the first Croatian language teacher in the study program entitled Balkan languages at the Trakya University.

She was the head of the University doctoral study ”Educational Sciences and Perspectives of Education” from October 2020 to October 2022.

In 2022, she was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Education.

She teaches several courses: Croatian dialects, Native idiom, Written and oral communication, Croatian language and communication, Public speech, Linguistic cultural heritage, Language and communication skills. At the doctoral study, she teaches Humanistic Heritage Themes in Education and Language and Identity in Education.

She has written more than a hundred professional and research papers and co-authored six books: The Memory Culture of Slavonski Kobaš in the historical-linguistic context, Siče Words, Lexicon of Slavonian folk medicine, Dyslexia and Dysgraphia: definitions, approaches and Guidelines, From Idea to Change: A Guide to Starting a Community Service Learning Program, Jump to the Media Literacy.

She is a member of the editorial board of many international and domestic journals: Evkonyv, Oral History, Social Sciences and Humanities, Danubis Noster, Educational Role of Language, Insan Bilimleri Dergisi, Life and School, and Pannoniana.

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Name and surname

Vjekoslav Galzina, Ph.D.

Title

Associate Professor

Vice Dean for Business Relations and International Cooperation

e-mail

vgalzina@foozos.hr

Office

Vice deans office and office no.57

Research interests

Artificial intelligence, production scheduling, human-machine interface, cybernetic-physical systems

Vjekoslav Galzina was born on August 21, 1975 in Slavonski Brod. He finished primary school in Sapci and Garčin, and graduate high school (Mathematical gymnasium) in Slavonski Brod. He graduated from the Mechanical Engineering Faculty in Slavonski Brod, University of Osijek in 2002, got his master’s degree in 2007 and PhD in 2011. Between 2002 and 2004 he was employed at the firm Đuro Đaković Ltd. SlavonskiBrod. From 2004 to 2014 he was employed at Mechanical Engineering Faculty in SlavonskiBrod. Since 2014, he has been employed as a docent at the Faculty of Education, University of Osijek. He is the main CEEPUS coordinator for the network CIII-HR-1005 Educational Systems in Central Europe.

Project involvement: 0152014 Expert System of Individual Production Technology MZOS RH. 52-1521781-2235 Development of an ERP system for a digital enterprise. Associate on the bilateral HR-SLO project Flexible production systems design using evolutionary programming (2006/2007). As a Technical Expert he worked on the project from Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) - Component IIIc: Flexible Manufacturing of Customized Spinal Orthoses (OrtoFlex) (IPA2007/HR/16IPO/001-040504) by September 2014. RED FAITH Restoring the Ecological Diversity of Forests with Airborne Imaging Technologies from 2017 and as a technical associate of the project co-financed by the EU: Safer Internet Center Croatia: Making the Internet a Good and Safe Place (INEA/CEF/ICT/A2015/1153209) in 2018.

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Name and surname

Nina Mance, Ph.D.

Title

E-mail

nmance@foozos.hr

Room

48

Research interests

Dialectology, lexicology

Nina Mance graduated in 2002 from the Faculty of Pedagogy, University of Josip JurajStrossmayer in Osijek, acquiring the title of Croatian language teacher. In the academic year 2006/2007 she enrolled in Doctoral studies of Linguistics at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Josip JurajStrossmayer in Osijek. She defended her thesis in June 2014 and acquired the title of PhD in humanities, scientific field philology.  She has taught numerous courses at the Faculty of Education in Osijek, Department of Philology, since 2008, as an assistant and senior assistant. The courses she has taught are: Croatian language lexicology and morphology, Local vernacular, Croatian language, Children’s literature, Integration-correlation system in the Croatian language, Oral and written communication, Croatian language and communication, Language games, Public speech and Croatian linguistic cultural heritage.

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First and last name

Marko Šošić, Ph.D. in Art

Profession

Associate Professor

Email

msosic@foozos.hr

msosicfoozos@gmail.com

Office number

35

Research interests

Art education, Children’s art and the community, Children’s art exhibitions

Curriculum vitae (up to 300 words)

Marko Šošić graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Široki Brijeg, University of Mostar, in 2001. In 2015, he obtained his PhD at the Postgraduate Painting Program at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb with the thesis "Dream – Painting the Dream through Direct Observation."

Since 2001, he has been continuously involved in teaching, first as a teacher of specialized art subjects at the Technical School in Vinkovci, then as a teacher of Graphic Design and Drawing and Painting at the School of Applied Arts and Design in Osijek, where he also worked as a mentor on numerous student projects and as the head of the Art Education Commission, a long-term member of the State Art Competition Commission (LIK). In 2012, he was promoted to the title of mentor professor.

Since 2015, he has been employed at the Faculty of Education, where he teaches courses in Visual Arts, Visual Arts in Integrated Curriculum, Visual Art Techniques and Plastic Arts, Visual Communication and Design, Protection and Communication of Art Heritage in Kindergarten, and Children's Art and the Community. In 2023, he was promoted to the title of Associate Professor.

He is a mentor on numerous student workshops, exhibitions, and projects such as AEXPO (International Exhibition of Art Works by Faculty of Education Instructors) and AEXPO futura (International Exhibition of Art Works by Faculty of Education Students). He is the author of the university textbook “Visual arts and fine arts techniques”(2019). He has also worked as a graphic editor for numerous print and online publications for the Faculty of Education.

He has held twenty-four solo exhibitions and participated in more than forty group exhibitions both in Croatia and abroad. In his artistic work, he explores the oneiric spaces of dreams and the human body as symbols of specific psychological states. He expresses himself through the traditional medium of easel painting, blending contemporary pop culture motifs and experimental materials with traditional and established techniques.

Since 2017, he has led the Art Workshop at the Saint Ana Children's Home in Vinkovci.

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Name and surname

Ivan Včev

Position

Assistant

e-mail

ivcev@foozos.hr

ivan.vcev@yahoo.com

Broj ureda

27

Research interests

Philosophy of Education, Bioethics

Ivan Včev was born in Osijek on January 25^th 1994. He attended St. Anne Primary School and Jesuit Classical Gymnasium in his hometown. At the University in Zadar, he completed his graduate studies in Philosophy and English.

At the Faculty of Educational Sciences, he participates in the teaching of the following courses: Philosophy of Education, Bioethics and Bioethics in Educational Rehabilitation.

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Name and surname

Tena Babić Sesar, Graduate Librarian and Croatian Language Teacher

Title

Expert Advisor

e-mail

tbsesar@foozos.hr

tenababicsesar@gmail.com

Office number

58

Research interests

Croatian language, dialectology, language history

About the teacher

Tena Babić Sesar was born on November 20, 1985, in Slavonski Brod. After completing elementary school and the Fra Marijan Lanosović Classical Grammar School with public rights in Slavonski Brod, she enrolled in the study of Croatian Language and Literature and Librarianship at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek. She graduated on June 23, 2011, earning the academic title of Professor of Croatian Language and Literature and Certified Librarian. From 2011 to 2017, she worked as a research assistant in the Department of Croatian Language and Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek.

She participated in the realisation of the following courses (exercises and seminars): History of the Croatian Grammatical System, History of the Croatian Literary Language, Croatian Dialectology, Slavonian Dialect, and the Kajkavian Dialect. She was a researcher in the scientific research project Slavonian Dialect (project leader: Prof. Dr. Ljiljana Kolenić). She also participated in the preparation, design, and execution of several outreach activities and was involved in organising and conducting fieldwork.

She has participated in more than fifteen academic conferences and is the author or co-author of around twenty academic, professional, and popular papers. She is enrolled in Doctoral Studies in Croatology at the Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb, and is a member of Matica Hrvatska.

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