The lecture lasted 90 minutes, and in an exceptionally productive session of questions and answers Baričević management of various aspects of the institutional functioning of the European Union, Croatia’s position on the European market, questions about entering the Eurozone, as well as economic trends.

If you have any questions, or would like to reserve a seat ahead of time, please contact Nina Šorgić (nsorgic@libertas.hr).

The Zagreb Forum is an international scientific conference that gathers top experts in international relations and diplomacy from around the world. It will be held on Monday, May 14, 2018  at the Libertas International University in Zagreb. Emphasis will be placed on the importance of achieving security and stability in the Southeastern Europe region, especially in the context of relations between Russia and the West.

Dr. Michał Skorzycki is a Guest Professor for Current Current Issues in International Affairs for this Spring Semester 2018.

Michał Skorzycki is a graduate of the University of Lodz (MA in International Relations, PhD in Sociology). He is currently engaged as Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Social Sciences in Lodz, Poland. His field of interest is a contemporary transformation of nationalism and national identities as well as national conflicts observed in Europe. Currently he is occupied with analyzing the possible future of Catalonian-Spanish conflict using L. Coser’s conflict theory to define the direction of its further development.The above mentioned study is conducted in the framework of a project devoted to contemporary conflicts in Spain and Hispanic culture, run by the Department of Latin American and Comparative Studies. Magdalena Śniadecka-Kotarska, who has recently been nominated ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador. He is also busy with a research program “Searching for Sense of Security of Young People from the Visegrád Group Countries”, designed to highlight the sources of anxieties experienced by young people in the named countries. Presently the project is in a preparatory phase and the University of Social Sciences in Lodz plans to carry it out with their partner institutions from V4 countries.designed to single out the sources of anxieties experienced by young people in the named countries. Presently the project is in a preparatory phase and the University of Social Sciences in Lodz plans to carry it out with their partner institutions from V4 countries. designed to single out the sources of anxieties experienced by young people in the named countries. Presently the project is in a preparatory phase and the University of Social Sciences in Lodz plans to carry it out with their partner institutions from V4 countries.

Dr. Skorzycki was also awarded a scholarship from the International Visegrad Fund to conduct a study entitled “Nationalism and Myth in Political Discourse of the Czech Republic” with a view to summarizing contemporary findings related to the character of Czech nationalism. On this basis, he described the role of political elites as an introduction to the nationalist ideology and political myths, in the direction of political discourse, of the Czech Republic in the first years after the fall of communism and their contribution to the dissolution of Czechoslovakia . His goal was also to enumerate the Czech political myths and locate the position of nationalism specific to this ethnic group in the framework of classical division into Western and Eastern types.The studies in question were the beginning of the research on the cultural background of the directions and the intensity of the transformation of a post-socialist society, whose findings were published in a book “Skazani na sukcesi”. Mityczne podstawy czeskiej transformacji “Sentenced to Success: Mythical Background of the Czech Transformation”.

Combining fields of sociology and international relations, he is also interested in the international relations of the EU and international political affairs in Central Europe and has published several   papers  on these topics.

Dr. Skorzycki is also a frequent guest on local radio and TV stations  to comment on current social and political affairs.

Interested in attending one of his lectures? Join us!

Dr. Skorzycki has a set of three lectures on the following dates and times at the LIU Dubrovnik Campus: 
Monday – May 3, 2018 – 9am to 11:40 pm
Friday – May 4, 2018 – 9am to 11:40 pm
Monday – May 7, 2018 – 9am to 11:40 am

We recommend you contact us to reserve your seat! 

Vedran Lesic is an Associate Faculty at the Center for Decision Research at the Leeds University Business School in the United Kingdom. He is working on the European Commission’s SPRING project with the primary goal of enhancing the absorption of new and new systems and technologies for improving EU energy efficiency and process efficiency. At the moment Vedran is busy with the project on redesigning and improving the way metrics on impact and innovation are being measured. Also, he recently completed his doctoral degree on the topic of “Understanding and Informing

Consumers’ About Their Electricity Use. ” If you want to hear more about his PhD project check this video blog . The contributors of this project were an interdisciplinary team of researchers, consisting of Professor Wanda Bruine de Bruin (CDR), Dr. Davis (Socio-Technical Center), Professor Ines Azevedo (Carnegie Mellon University) and Assistant Research Professor Tamar Krishnamurti (Carnegie Mellon University) .These team included methods from behavioral decision research, user research, psychology, engineering, and public policy Previously completed Fulbright Predoctoral Program at the Department of Engineering and Public Policy Department at Carnegie Mellon University.Vedran has participated in several international conferences and events and if you would like to see more of his GESA research talk click on this link.