Conferences, Talks and Lectures

CONFERENCES (THE UNITED KINGDOM, PORTUGAL, CZECHIA, ESTONIA AND CROATIA)

Photo: Narratives of Migration and Exile, King’s College London (2013), second from the right

  • Matkovic B. (2023) The pit of Jazovka (Croatia): A killing and a burial site of the POWs and the Zagreb hospital staff murdered by the Yugoslav communists during and at the end of the Second World War (1943-1945), Archaeology of Conflicts, University of Hradec Králové, Department of Archaeology & Museum of eastern Bohemia in Hradec Králové, Location: Hradec Kralove (Czechia), 12-14 September 2023.
  • Matkovic B. (2023) Politics of war commemoration in Croatia: From the on-going historical debates to the impact of the recent wars in the 1990s and current political influences, Commemorating the Second World War in the ‘young 21st century’, Organisers: Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past, University of York, and the Chair of Modern and Contemporary History, University of Bonn, Location: York (UK), 21-22 July 2023.
  • Matkovic B. (2023) Croatia at the crossroads between the new democracy and the communist past: the challenges in locating, investigating and memorialising the burial sites, Necropolis of Communist Terror, Location: Tallinn (Estonia), 9-10 February 2023.
  • Matkovic B. (2022) Executions at Kočevski Rog (Slovenia): The role of the 11 Dalmatian Brigade through the archival sources, publications and testimonies,  The Importance of European Memory  for European Future: Communist Crimes, The Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb, Location: Zagreb (Croatia), 22 June 2022.
  • Matkovic B. (2019) Unreachable Dream: A ‘Normal Life’ is the One Before the War,  5th Annual Research Conference, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, Location: Coventry (UK), 2 July 2019
  • Matkovic, B. (2018) From Combatants to Civilians: The Role of Croatian Defenders in Post-Conflict Croatia (1995-2017), Warwick IPC, Warwick SU, Location: Coventry (UK), 21 June 2018
  • Matkovic, B. (2013) Demographic losses in the Second World War in former Yugoslavia: How did the communist propaganda shape politics and society?, War and Propaganda in the Twentieth Century, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, NOVA University of Lisbon, Location: Lisbon (Portugal), 11-12 November 2013. Programme available at http://warandpropagandaxx.wordpress.com/.
  • Matkovic B. (2013) Demographic losses in the Second World War in former Yugoslavia: Methodological issues, the Warwick History Postgraduate Conference, University of Warwick, Location: Coventry (UK), 30 May 2013.

  • Matkovic, B. (2013) Croatian diaspora in Latin America: The example of successful integration of the national minority and its links with the homeland, Narratives of Migration and Exile, King’s College London, Location: London (UK), 22 February 2013, programme available at https://migrationconference.wordpress.com/programme/

  • Dukic, J., Matkovic, B. (2011) Problems of research of demographic losses in World War II and the post-war period in the case of Dugopolje, Demographic and economic moment of the EU and the Republic of Croatia. The conference was organized by the Croatian Education and Teacher Training Agency and held on 1 July 2011. Location: Split (Croatia). Available at http://warwick.academia.edu/BlankaMatkovic/Talks.

LECTURES (CANADA, SWITZERLAND, CROATIA AND BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA)

  • Matkovic B. (2023) Post-war anti-communist resistance in the city of Split and the surrounding area (1945-1947), Tribina “Hrvatsko srce” – U spomen na hrvatske velikane (povodom 200 godina rođenja dr. Ante Starčevića te 150 godina rođenja dr. Rudolfa Horvata i Antuna Gustava Matoša), The Croatian Society of Historians “Dr. Rudolf Horvat”, Location: Split, 18 April 2023.
  • Matkovic B. (2023) The Crusaders in Neretva Region (1945-1946): the Crusaders group of Ivana Milasa, Tribina “Hrvatsko srce” – U spomen na hrvatske velikane (povodom 200 godina rođenja dr. Ante Starčevića te 150 godina rođenja dr. Rudolfa Horvata i Antuna Gustava Matoša), The Croatian Society of Historians “Dr. Rudolf Horvat”, Location: Metković, 17 April 2023.
  • Matkovic B. (2018) Croatian modern history between myths and reality: Challenges in researching war crimes and demographic losses, Croatian Centre Zrinski, Luzern, Switzerland, 17 June 2018
  • Matkovic B. (2018) Croatian modern history between myths and reality: Challenges in researching war crimes and demographic losses, NK Croatia, Zürich, Switzerland, 16 June 2018
  • Matkovic B. (2018) Communist war and post-war crimes and human rights violations in Croatia, Croatian Martyrs Parish, Mississauga, Canada, 16 March 2018 (event for youth)
  • Matkovic B. (2018) Communist war and post-war crimes and human rights violations in Croatia, University of Toronto, Canada, 15 March 2018
  • Matkovic B. (2018) Communist war and post-war crimes and human rights violations in Croatia, University of Waterloo, Canada, 13 March 2018
  • Matkovic B. (2018) Communist war and post-war crimes and human rights violations between ideology and historical truth and concentration camp Jasenovac, Croatian parishes in Ontario (Canada) – Hamilton, Mississauga, Norval and Oakville (4 lectures in total), 9-11 March 2018
  • Matkovic, B. (2017) Communist war and post-war crimes and human rights violations between ideology and historical truth, lecture organized by the Croatian Catholic Mission, Bern, Switzerland, 11 March 2017
  • Matkovic, B. (2017) Communist war and post-war crimes and human rights violations between ideology and historical truth, Bern, Switzerland, 12 March 2017
  • Matkovic, B. (2017) Communist war and post-war crimes and human rights violations between ideology and historical truth, Thun, Switzerland, 12 March 2017

In the period between May 2017 and September 2022, I also held approximately 100 lectures in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

PANEL DISCUSSIONS (CANADA)

  • Emerging from Communism, How various Eastern European countries liberated themselves from communism (panel), speakers: Robert Austin, Blanka Matkovic, Matthew Light and Crina Bud, University of Toronto, Canada, 16 March 2018 (Blanka Matkovic’s talk available here)

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