Igor Graovac - Centar za politološka istraživanja

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the participants were not only historians, but also demographers, economists,
philosophers, political scientists, lawyers, sociologists, victimologists,
mathematicians, and statisticians, archivists, engineers, civil
servants, librarians, museologists, journalists, politicians, representatives
of NGOs, publicists, students and priests, and naturally also
representatives of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, as workshop
moderators. All together, at eight conferences held so far, there were
112 participants from seven different countries: 64 with a Ph.D. in
several different professions, 27 M.Sc., M.A. or M.Phil., 14 university
professors, three members of the Academy, and a graduated political
scientist, lawyer, engineer, and a student. Most of them worked or still
work at different faculties (45 participants), or in scientific institutes
(40, i.e. 38+2 participants), whereas the rest (27 participants) worked
at ministries, councils, government institutions... the Friedrich Naumann
Foundation, NGOs, centres and institutes, museums, publishers’,
archives, as well as at the Academy, a library, elementary school and a
culturally protected area. For a minor number of participants, the place
of their work is unknown or it is not strictly defined, among those
there are unemployed or retired persons.
Except at the first conference under the working title State-building
Ideas and the National-Integrationalist Ideologies of Croats and Serbs,
the work at the subsequent conferences was organized in topic-related
plenary sessions and workshops. The plenary sessions were devoted to
the following topics: principal topics, theoretical and methodology
issues, new methodological approaches to historical research, disintegration
of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and problems of
history school books revision, whereas the workshops dealt with the
following topics: National Identity of Croats and Serbs, the Status of
Croats in Serbia, and of Serbs in Croatia, the Catholic and Serbian Orthodox
Church in Croatia and Serbia in the 19 th and the 20 th Centuries,
Elites and Modernization, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
(SHS) – Croatian and Serbian Perspectives at the End of the 20 th
Century, i.e. Democracy, Republicanism, Nationalism: Influence of
Modern Ideologies on the Kingdom of SHS/Yugoslavia, Minorities in
the Kingdom of Yugoslavia during the Second World War and afterwards,
Socialist Yugoslavia [second] Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1990
and Casualties in the 20 th Century Croatia and Serbia.