Sub-Department of Philosophy and History

Name and Surname

Ivica Kelam, Ph.D.

Title

Associate professor

e-mail

ikelam@foozos.hr

Office number

23

Research

Interest

Bioethics, ethics, philosophy

Associate Professor Ivica Kelam, Head of the Department of Philosophy and History at the Faculty of Education, where he teaches the philosophy of education and bioethics. Since October 21, he is Head of Osijek Unit of UNESCO Chair in Bioethics (Haifa). In 2014 he successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled Genetically modified crops as a bioethical problem. Since 2016 he has been Head of the Center for Integrative Bioethics at J.J. Strossamyer University of Osijek.  He is the president of the Organization Committee of the Osijek Days of Bioethics, an international bioethical conference held in Osijek.

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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

Pavao Nujić, Ph.D.

Profession

Email

pnujic@foozos.hr

Office number

57

Research interests

history of Slavonia and Syrmia in the 18th and 19th Century, local history, history of education

Curriculum vitae (up to 300 words)

Pavao Nujić was born in 1991 in Osijek, where he attended elementary and secondary school (I. Gymnasium). In 2009, he enrolled in a double program in History and Pedagogy at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek. During his studies, he received the Rector's Award and served as the editor-in-chief of the student journal Essehist. He graduated in 2014 with the distinction summa cum laude. In 2014, as an Erasmus scholar, he spent six months at the Institute of History at Karl Franzens University in Graz, and in 2015, he spent one month at the University of Vienna for professional and scientific training.

He began his postgraduate studies in History in 2014 at the Faculty of Croatian Studies (then Croatian Studies) at the University of Zagreb. In 2020, he defended his doctoral dissertation, "The Petrovaradin Grenzer Infantry Regiment in the 18th Century," under the mentorship of Prof. Damir Matanović, PhD.

Since 2015, he has been working as a research and teaching assistant of history at the Faculty of Education, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek. In 2021, he became a postdoctoral researcher (senior research and teaching assistant since 2022). He was involved in the conduct of the following courses: Croatian History, Local History, History of Education, World Religions, and Cultural History of Croatia in the Teacher Education program, as well as Local History, Environmental History, and Croatian National Heritage in the Early and Preschool Education program and The Historical Development of Inclusion in the Educational Rehabilitation program. At the Faculty of Kinesiology, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, he lectures as an external associate in the course History of Physical Exercise and Sports.

His research interests focus on the history of Eastern Croatia in the 18th and 19th centuries, with an emphasis on the Slavonian Military Frontier and Osijek. He has published several scientific and professional papers and has presented at numerous academic and professional conferences. He has been a member of the program or organizational committees of several international and domestic scientific conferences. Since 2018, he has served as assistant editor and later as technical and executive editor of the humanities journal Pannoniana, published by the Faculty of Education and Educational Sciences, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek.

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Pavao Nujić