Right to left: Zrinko Novosel, Goranka Šutalo, László Kontler, Marta Jurković, John Robertson, Teodora Shek Brnardić, Katja Radoš-Perković, Matea Marušić, Maja Perić and Stipe Ledić. On 28 November 2025, the first research workshop titled “What is the Enlightenment?” was held in the Multimedia Hall of the Ivo Pilar Institute in Zagreb. Alongside invited lectures by […]

From Wednesday (2 September) to Saturday (5 September), Barcelona hosted the 17th edition of one of the largest conferences on urban history, organised by the European Association for Urban History (EAUH). The conference, entitled City Networks in Europe and Beyond, comprised over 100 sessions, bringing together more than 1000 scholars from various disciplines at the […]

On 24 September 2026, we will hold our second research workshop, titled Enlightenment Actors in Croatian Lands, in the Conference Hall of the Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences in Zagreb. We are honoured to welcome two distinguished keynote speakers: Professor Karen Harvey from the University of Birmingham and Professor Ivana Tomić Ferić from the […]

A research fellow on the LIGHT project, Zrinko Novosel, participated in the 45th International Conference of the European Society for History of the Human Sciences (ESHHS), held at Sigmund Freud Private University in Vienna from 30th of June to 3rd of July. This year’s conference focused on the relationship and dialogue between research in the humanities […]

From 11 to 12 June 2026, Aberystwyth University in Wales played host to the international conference Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500–1850: A Continent in Conversation. The event featured 42 papers from scholars across Europe and the Americas, including representation from British institutions such as Cambridge, Oxford, York, and St Andrews, alongside academics […]