On Friday, 8 May, beginning at 12:00 noon, the Faculty of Croatian Studies of the University of Zagreb will organise the International Scientific Conference “Fascism: Theory and History of an Idea” in the Library of the Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb.

The Organising Committee consists of Asst. Prof. Vlatko Smiljanić, PhD, Asst. Prof. Ivan Perkov, PhD, Prof. Hrvoje Volner, PhD, Adrijan Štivić, MA in Comparative Literature and History (doctoral candidate), and Bruno Šagi, MA in History (doctoral candidate).

The conference is included in the programme of Kliofest, the History Festival. This is the fourth year in which Bruno Šagi and Adrijan Štivić, both doctoral candidates in the Doctoral Programme in History, have initiated an interdisciplinary scientific conference within Kliofest, with the aim of strengthening ties among scholars and enhancing the role of scholars in the public sphere.

In previous years, they organised the conferences “Liberalism: Theory and History of an Idea” (2023), “Conservatism: Theory and History of an Idea” (2024), and “Socialism: Theory and History of an Idea” (2025). To date, a volume of conference proceedings has been published under the title Liberalism: Theory and History of an Idea. Proceedings Marking the 300th Anniversary of the Birth of Adam Smith, 1723–2023, edited by Darko Polšek, Bruno Šagi and Adrijan Štivić.

The participants in the International Scientific Conference “Fascism: Theory and History of an Idea” are:

Miguel Cabo, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Gael Proupín Cantelar, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Tihomir Cipek, Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb
Vana Gović Marković, Maritime and History Museum of the Croatian Littoral Rijeka
Željko Karaula, Institute of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Bjelovar
Renato Matić, Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb
Marko Medved, Faculty of Medicine in Rijeka, University of Rijeka
Tea Perinčić, Maritime and History Museum of the Croatian Littoral Rijeka
Ivan Perkov, Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb
Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe, Freie Universität Berlin
Sandro Skansi, Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb
Vlatko Smiljanić, Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb
Bruno Šagi, Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb
Adrijan Štivić, Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb; Libertas International University
Danijel Vojak, Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar
Hrvoje Volner, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Rory Yeomans, Independent Researcher

Admission is free, and the Book of Abstracts, which contains the detailed programme, is available via the link.