Pula Regional Center

Stankovićeva 18
52100 Pula
E-mail: Marin.Beros@pilar.hr

Marin Beroš, PhD

1992

The Regional Center was founded by a decision of the Institute’sManaging Board in 1992 as a regional research unit of the Institute.The goal of establishing the Center was, on the one hand, to research and affirm the Croatian component of the Istrian past and present in an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary manner, and on the other hand, to highlight its multiculturalism and multiethnicity. Prof. Miroslav Bertoša, PhD, the long-time head of the Pula Center, directed the Center’s work in two areas: scientific research work on the project Istrian Croats between suppressed identity and slow integration and organizing the scientific forum Science and Society.

• Marin Beroš, PhD, research associate
• mr. sc. Tatjana Tomaić, expert advisor in science

The activity of the regional center is aligned with the fundamental goal of the Institute’s network structure – that in addition to regular research activities, each center should also develop activities that will direct it towards the national and global, and not only regional, level of activity. This means that the work of the regional center in Pula on the global and national level is focused on researching the encounters and interpenetration of different national, cultural and linguistic entities, as well as the geostrategic place and significance of Istria in the Mediterranean area. At the regional level, these are the issues of social structure, integration and disintegration of Istrian Croats, and the consequences of 20th century totalitarianism for Istrian social development.

• COST Action 1621 “Reappraising Intellectual Debates on Civic Rights and Democracy in Europe”
• Istrian Croats between repressed identity and slowed integration
• The Catholic Church in the encounter with ideologies and programs
• Religious pluralism, postmodern religious movements and Croatian identity
• Social evaluation of the Croatian innovation system in the function of a knowledge society

• Istria: specificities and the general Croatian context – the topic of the journal Društvena istraživanja, no. 6-7/1993.
• Identity of Istria – origins and perspectives, Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, Zagreb, 2006.
• Stipan Trogrlić, The Catholic Church in Istria: national-political and ideological divisions (1882 – 1914). Pula, 2006.
• Stipan Trogrlić, The relationship between the Catholic Church and the Yugoslav state authorities, Pazin-Pula, 2008.
• Stipan Trogrlić, Mons. Božo Milanović Istrian priest (1890 – 1980). Church-religious and public-political activities, Zagreb-Pazin, 2011.
• Stipan Trogrlić, Repression of the Yugoslav Communist Regime towards the Catholic Church in Istria 1945 – 1971, Pazin, 2014.
• Stipan Trogrlić, The Catholic Church in Istria Between Resistance and Support for the Italian Authority in Istria 1918-1943., Pazin, 2019.

• Identity of Istria – origins and perspectives, Pula 2004.
• Hands to Istria, heart to God (150th anniversary of the enthronement of Bishop Dobrila and 30th anniversary of the unification of the Istrian Church), Pazin, 2008.
• Mons. Božo Milanović (1890 – 1980) – traces of a vision, Pazin, 2010