Vukovar Regional Center

Josipa Jurja Strossmayera 25
32000 Vukovar
Phone: + 385 32 450 323
E-mail: ivana.bendra@pilar.hr

Ivana Bendra, PhD

2006

The Regional Center of the Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences in Vukovar was founded on September 28, 2006, by decision of the Institute’s Managing Board, with the prior consent of the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia.

The opening ceremony of the Center, in the presence of the Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Đakovo and Srijem, Msgr. dr. sc. Đuro Hranić, the Minister of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia, Prof. Dragan Primorac, PhD, the Prefect of Vukovar-Srijem County Božo Galić, the Deputy Mayor of the City of Vukovar Vladimir Emedij, the President of the Managing Board of the Pilar Institute Nevio Šetić, PhD, the State Secretary for Science Prof. Dražen Vikić Topić, PhD, the Vice President of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and academician Alice Wertheimer-Baletić, the Rector of the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University in Osijek Prof. Gordana Kralik, PhD, the Dean of the Lavoslav Ružička Polytechnic in Vukovar Prof. Antun Pintarić, PhD, as well as many other prominent figures from the academic and public life of Vukovar and the Vukovar-Srijem County, was held on 4 October 2006. On that occasion, Msgr. Dr. Sc. Đuro Hranić blessed the premises of the Centre and Minister Primorac was presented with the Pilar Medal for his contribution to the development of the Pilar Institute and the Regional Centre in Vukovar.

By decision of the Institute’s Managing Board of 28 November 2006, Dražen Živić, PhD, was appointed Head of the Regional Centre. The Centre’s work programme was adopted by the Institute’s Scientific Council in July 2007.

• Ivana Bendra, PhD, research associate
• Sandra Cvikić, PhD, research associate
• Marta Keglević, assistant
• Mateo Žanić, senior research associate
• Dražen Živić, PhD, scientific advisor with tenure

The fundamental reasons for establishing the Regional Centre of the Ivo Pilar Institute in Vukovar are based on the real and symbolic significance of Vukovar in the process of establishing, defending and developing the Croatian state. The Centre carries out programmes, themes and projects of a global, national and local-regional nature. The Centre provides scientific research, archival-documentation, publishing, consultancy and educational services to the academic, management and economic community. The work program and activities of the Pilar Institute Regional Center in Vukovar are aligned with the fundamental goal of the Institute’s network structure – that in addition to regular scientific and research activities, each center also develops activities that will direct thematic centers towards the national and global, and not just regional, levels of activity. This means that the Center in Vukovar, at the national and global levels, directs its activities towards the Croatian Homeland War and the geostrategic aspects of the history and future of Danubian Europe, and at the regional level towards topics related to Danubian Croatia and Croats in Serbia.

The primary and most important activity of the regional center is scientific and research work on global, national and local-regional topics. In this sense, programs and projects of permanent scientific and research activities have a dominant significance. In addition to original scientific research, the regional center organizes, collects and preserves a variety of historical materials, statistical and demographic documentation and other sources on the creation of the Croatian state and the Croatian Homeland War, as well as on all other aspects of the social, demographic, political, historical, cultural and economic development of the Croatian Danube region and the Croatian national minority in Serbia.

The Regional Center Vukovar, in cooperation with other regional centers of the Pilar Institute, as well as other scientific and cultural institutions from this area, also carries out an appropriate form of publishing activity, in particular the publication of scientific books (monographs), Proceedings and thematic issues of the journals “Društvena istraživanja” and “Pilar” on topics that are important for the global, national and local-regional level of its scientific and research activity.

The work of the Regional Center Vukovar is public, which means that the Center organizes or supports the organization of a number of public events (scientific conferences, symposia, congresses, round tables, public forums and book presentations). In this context, the largest public event organized by the Center is the traditional scientific and professional conference “Vukovar ´91”, which was first held in November 1997. By November 2010, a total of 13 conferences had been held, the last five of which were in Vukovar.

• Demographic Aspects of Urban-Rural Polarization of Croatia. Project duration:  2007 – 2013. Project leader: Dražen Živić. Project associates: Ivana Bendra, Bruna Esih, Nenad Pokos, Ivo Turk, Mateo Žanić, Ivana Žebec-Šilj (Source of funding: Ministry of Science, Education and Youth).
• Minorities in Croatia and Croats in Neighboring Countries: Historical Identities. Project duration: 2007 – 2013. Project leader: Dragutin Pavličević. Project associates: Krešimir Bušić, Ljiljana Dobrovšak, Željko Holjevac, Tomislav Jelić, Castilia Manea Grgin, Filip Tomić, Danijel Vojak (Source of funding: Ministry of Science, Education and Youth).
• Croatian Identity, Religion and Challenges of European Integration. Project leader: Vine Mihaljević ((Source of funding: Ministry of Science, Education and Youth).
• Vukovar-Srijem County: space, people, identity. Project duration: 2008 – 2012. Project leader: Dražen Živić. Project associates: Ivo Turk, Nenad Pokos, Ljiljana Dobrovšak et al. (Source of funding: Vukovar-Srijem County)
• Demographic Study of the City of Vukovar. Project duration: 2011 – 2012. Project leader: Dražen Živić (Source of funding: Fund for the Reconstruction and Development of the City of Vukovar).
• Local People’s Committee Borovo naselje 1945 – 1950. Study of social, demographic, political and economic conditions. Project duration: 2018. Project leader: Dražen Živić. Project associates: Mateo Žanić, Ivana Bendra, Sandra Cvikić (Source of funding: State Archives in Vukovar).
• Study on Program Justification, Accessibility Requirements and Rationality of a Secondary School in the City of Otok. Project duration: 2018. Project leader: Dražen Živić. Project associates: Sandra Cvikić, Ivana Bendra (Source of funding: City of Otok).
• Migration Aspirations and Quality of Life of Young People in Vukovar-Srijem County. Project duration: 2018 – 2019. Project leader: Mateo Žanić. Project associates: Ivana Bendra, Dražen Živić (Internal Institute Project).
• Religious Circumstances and Relations in the Municipality of Vinkovci (1964 – 1975) in the Light of Archival Materials (Commission for Religious Affairs) of the State Archives in Vukovar. Project duration: 2019. Project leader: Ivana Bendra. Project associate: Dražen Živić (Source of funding: State Archives in Vukovar).
• Implementation of Field Research on the Quality of Life in Vukovar-Srijem County and Collection and Processing of Demographic and Statistical Documentation, Project duration: 2019 – 2020. Project leader: Dražen Živić. Project associates: Sandra Cvikić, Mateo Žanić (Source of funding: Vukovar-Srijem County).
• The First World War in the Culture of Memory. Forgotten Heritage. Project duration: 2019 – 2023. Project associate: Sandra Cvikić (Source of funding: Croatian Science Foundation).
• Femme Industrielle – Industrial Workers in Socialist Croatia – the Example of Borovo, Vukovar. Project duration: 2019 – 2020. Project associate: Sandra Cvikić (Source of funding: Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences).
• GIS Approach to the Analysis of Demographic Resilience of Urban Settlements and Local Government Units in the Republic of Croatia: Towards Demographic Regionalization Project duration: 2019 – 2020. Project associate: Dražen Živić (Source of funding: Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences).
• Study Vukovar-Srijem County: Population, Quality of Life and Development Perspectives, Project duration: 2020 – 2021. Project leader: Dražen Živić. Project associates: Sandra Cvikić, Mateo Žanić (Source of funding: Vukovar-Srijem County).
• Transport Accessibility as a Factor in the Demographic Revitalization and Deperipherization of Croatia. Project duration: 2020 – 2022. Project associate: Dražen Živić (Source of funding: Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences).
• From Local to Virtual Communities. Social Relations of Youth in Conditions of Imposed Spatial Distancing. Project duration: 2020 – 2022. Project leader: Mateo Žanić (Source of funding: Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences).
• Towards a Safer Social Future: Sociological Research on Social Services in the Area of the City of Beli Manastir. Project duration: 2021. Project leader: Mateo Žanić. Project associate: Ivana Bendra (Source of funding: European Social Fund).
• War, People, Numbers – Vukovar 1991 and Today. Project duration: 2021 – 2022. Project leader: Sandra Cvikić. Project associate: Dražen Živić (Source of funding: State Archives in Vukovar).
• Demographic and Social Sustainability of Croats in Vojvodina – Current Trends, Challenges and Perspectives. Project duration: 2020 – 2021. Project leader: Dražen Živić. Project associate: Sandra Cvikić (Source of funding: Central State Office for Croats Abroad).
• Analysis of Social Factors Influencing the Quality of Life of the Veteran Population – Guidelines for the Future. Project duration: 2021 – 2023. Project section leader: Dražen Živić. Project associate: Ivana Bendra (Source of funding: European Social Fund).
• Preparation of a study on the evaluation of scientific and professional conferences of the project “Strategic Reflection on the Future of Croatia” of the Croatian Generals Association. Project duration: 2023. Project leader: Dražen Živić. Project associate: Sandra Cvikić (Source of funding: Croatian Generals Association).
• Preliminary evaluation of the document “Draft Proposal for a Demographic Revitalization Strategy by 2033” – Report on the preliminary evaluation. Project duration: 2023. Project leader: Dražen Živić. Project associate: Sandra Cvikić (Source of funding: Central State Office for Demography and Youth).
• Croatian Community in the Republic of Slovenia: Between Assimilation, Integration and Promotion of Croatian National Identity. Project duration: 2022 – 2023. Project associates: Ivana Bendra, Dražen Živić (Source of funding: Central State Office for Croats Abroad).
• Social, Cultural and Demographic Determinants of the Preservation and Promotion of the National Identity of Croats in the Republic of North Macedonia. Project duration: 2023 – 2024. Project leader: Dražen Živić. Project associates: Ivana Bendra, Sandra Cvikić (Source of funding: Central State Office for Croats Abroad).
• Transformation of local communities in the Republic of Croatia. Global challenges and development potentials. Project duration: 2024 – 2027. Project leader: Mateo Žanić. Project associates: Ivana Bendra, Sandra Cvikić, Marta Keglević, Dražen Živić (Source of funding: MZO-NextGeneration EU).
• Transformation of Second Home Use in the Age of Online Social Networking. Project duration: 2023 – 2027. Project associate: Mateo Žanić (Source of funding: Croatian Science Foundation).
• Dynamics and Challenges of Migration, Re-migration and Immigration in the Republic of Croatia. Project duration: 2024 – 2027. Project associates: Sandra Cvikić, Dražen Živić (Source of funding: MZO-NextGenerationEU).
• Factors of Intellectual Property Management and Digital Transformation in the Republic of North Macedonia. Project duration: 2025 – 2026. Project associates: Sandra Cvikić (Source of funding: Public Scientific Institution “Institute for Intellectual Property” – Skopje – Skopje).
• Scientific study Memorial Cemetery ‘Šapudla’. Project duration: 2026. Project leader: Sandra Cvikić (Source of funding: City of Vukovar).
• Possibilities and Limitations of Transforming the Activities of Religious Associations into Social Entrepreneurship: Sociological Research on Religious Associations in the Area of the Đakovo-Osijek Metropolis. Project duration: 2026 – 2028. Project section leader: Ivana Bendra. Project collaborators: Sandra Cvikić, Marta Keglević, Mateo Žanić (Source of funding: Institute for Scientific and Artistic Work of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Đakovo).

• VUKOVAR – CROATIAN HERITAGE AND DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVES, Proceedings of the 9th Scientific and Professional Conference “Vukovar ’91 – fifteen years later”; editors: D. Živić, I. Žebec, Ivo PIlar Institute of Social Sciences, Zagreb-Vukovar, 2007
• VUKOVAR – QUESTIONS ABOUT THE FUTURE, Thematic issue of the journal Društvena istraživanja (93-94/2008); guest editor: D. Živić.
• DEMOGRAPHIC CONTEXT AND SOCIO-CULTURAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE CROATIAN HOMELAND WAR, Proceedings of the 10th Scientific and Professional Conference “Vukovar ’91. – Sixteen Years Later”, editors: D. Živić, I. Žebec, Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, Zagreb-Vukovar, 2009
• PEACEFUL REINTEGRATION OF THE CROATIAN DANUBE REGION – SCIENTIFIC, EMPIRICAL AND EXPERIENCED INSIGHTS, Proceedings of the 11th Scientific and Professional Conference “Vukovar ’91. – Seventeen Years Later”; editors: D. Živić, S. Cvikić, Ivo PIlar Institute of Social Sciences, Zagreb-Vukovar, 2010
• THE CHURCH AND THE VUKOVAR FRANCISCANS. Author: Fr. Ivica Jagodić, editor: Dražen Živić; Franciscan Monastery Vukovar and Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, 2011
• VICTOR QUIA VICTIMA – Hope for Croatia, Proceedings of the 13th Scientific and Professional Conference “Vukovar ’91. – Nineteen Years Later”; editor: Dražen Živić, Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Zagreb-Vukovar, 2012
• VUKOVAR-SRIJEM COUNTY – Space, People, Identity, Monograph; editor: Dražen Živić, Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences and Vukovar-Srijem County, Zagreb – Vukovar, 2012
• IDENTITY OF SRIJEM IN THE PAST AND PRESENT II. Proceedings of the Scientific Conference; editors: Dražen Živić and Sandra Cvikić; Municipality of Nijemci and Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, 2012
• VUKOVAR ‘91. – TRUTH AND/OR CONTESTATION (between science and manipulation), Proceedings of the 14th and 15th scientific and professional conference Vukovar ’91; editors: Dražen Živić, Sanja Špoljar Vržina, Vinicije Lupis and Sandra Cvikić, Ivo PIlar Institute of Social Sciences and Matica hrvatska Vukovar Branch, Zagreb ‒ Vukovar, 2013
• VUKOVAR ’91. – GENOCIDE AND MEMORICID HERITAGE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION. Proceedings of the 16th scientific and professional conference “Vukovar ’91. – twenty-two years later”; editors: Dražen Živić, Sanja Špoljar Vržina, Ivana Žebec Šilj, Sandra Cvikić; Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences and Matica Hrvatska Vukovar Branch, 2014
• WHAT IS VUKOVAR TO CROATIA AND EUROPE? Proceedings of the 17th scientific and professional conference “Vukovar ’91. – twenty-three years later”; editors: Dražen Živić, Sanja Špoljar Vržina, Ivana Žebec Šilj, Vine Mihaljević; Ivo PIlar Institute of Social Sciences and Matica Hrvatska Branch in Vukovar, 2016
• SRIJEM IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1914 – 1918. Proceedings of the scientific conference; editor Stjepan Prutki; State Archives in Vukovar, Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, Faculty of Philosophy in Osijek, Matica Hrvatska Branch in Vukovar and Association of Historians and Heirs of Local Antiquities of Slavonia, Baranja and Srijem, 2017
• VUKOVAR ’91.: HOMELAND (AND EUROPEAN) SECURITY. SECURITY CRISIS AND POLICIES OF MANIPULATING SOVEREIGNTY. Proceedings of the 18th scientific and professional conference “Vukovar ’91. – twenty-four years later”; editors: Sandra Cvikić, Ivana Žebec Šilj, Ivana Bendra; Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, 2017
• JOSIP LOVRETIĆ (1865 – 1948), ONE CENTURY LATER. Proceedings of the scientific conference; edited by: Anica Bilić, Sandra Cvikić, Ljubica Gligorević, Luka Marijanović, Dražen Živić; City of Otoka, Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, Center for Scientific Work of the Croatian Academy of Sciences in Vinkovci, City Museum Vinkovci and Archdiocese of Đakovo-Osijek, 2017
• CULTURE OF MEMORY BETWEEN EMOTIONS AND INSTITUTIONS. REPRESENTING THE BATTLE OF VUKOVAR FROM 1991 TO 2016. Author Mateo Žanić, editor D. Živić;Ivo Pilar  Institute of Social Sciences, 2017
• CROATIAN SOCIETY: 25 YEARS AFTER VUKOVAR ’91 Proceedings of the 19th scientific and professional conference “Vukovar ’91 – twenty-five years later”; editors: Dražen Živić, Mateo Žanić, Petar Macut; Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, Branch of Matica Hrvatska in Vukovar, 2018
• Bata – Borovo (1931 – 2016). Historical Heritage and Perspectives (ed. D. Živić, I. Žebec Šilj, S. Cvikić). Ivo PIlar Institute of Social Sciences, 2019
• Bendra, I.; Živić, D. and Elez, P., Position of Religious Communities in the Municipality of Vinkovci (1964 – 1975), State Archives in Vukovar, Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, 2019
• Cities in Wars: Through history to the Present Day (ed. D. Živić and S. Cvikić), Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, 2019
• Franciscans in Vukovar: History, Spirituality, and Heritage (ed. D. Živić and I. Jagodić), Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, Franciscan Monastery in Vukovar, Vukovar City Museum and State Archives in Vukovar, 2020
• Cultural Identity of Vukovar. Contributions to the Research of Heritage and Heirs (ed. M. Žanić and P. Elez), Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences and State Archives in Vukovar, 2021
• Karač, Z., Chapel of the Miraculous Lady of the Oak in Vukovar. History and Architecture. Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences and Franciscan Monastery in Vukovar, 2021
• Contemporary Migrations in the Republic of Croatia. Causes, Consequences and Current Trends (ed. M. Žanić, D. Živić, S. Špoljar Vržina and G.-M. Miletić), Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, 2021
• S. Cvikić, D. Živić and J. Maras Kraljević. War, People, Numbers – Vukovar 1991 and Today. Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences and State Archives in Vukovar, 2021
• D. Živić, S. Cvikić and T. Žigmanov. Demographic and Social Sustainability of Croats in Vojvodina. Current Trends, Challenges and Perspectives. Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences and Institute for Culture of Vojvodina Croats, 2022
• Vukovar-Srijem County. Demographic Challenges, Quality of Life and Development Perspectives (ed. D. Živić), Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, 2022
• VUKOVAR ’91. A Tribute to Freedom – History, Memories, Identities, Integrations (ed. D. Živić and S. Cvikić), Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, 2023
• Vukovar Today – Memories, Experiences and the Realities of Life (ed. I. Bendra, M. Milak, and K. Perić Pavišić), Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, 2024
• 300 Years of the Franciscan Church in Vukovar (1723 – 2023) (ed. D. Živić, I. Jagodić), Franciscan Monastery in Vukovar and Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, 2024
• Past, Present and Future of Vukovar-Srijem County: Selected Historical, Demographic and Sociological Topics (ed. D. Živić and P. Elez), State Archives in Vukovar and Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, 2024
• Final Project Report: Research Report – Social, Cultural and Demographic Determinants of Preservation and Promotion of the National Identity of Croats in the Republic of North Macedonia, in 2024
• I. Bendra and S. Šota, The Catholic Church in the Virtual space in the Era of the Covid-19 pandemic. Example of the Archdiocese of Đakovo-Osijek, Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, 2025

• 9th scientific and professional conference “Vukovar ’91 – fifteen years later” – “Vukovar – Croatian heritage and development perspectives” (Vukovar, 2006).
• 10th scientific and professional conference “Vukovar ’91 – sixteen years later” – “Demographic context and socio-cultural consequences of the Croatian Homeland War” (Vukovar, 2007).
• 11th scientific and professional conference “Vukovar ’91 – seventeen years later” – “Peaceful reintegration of the Croatian Danube region: expectations, effects, perspectives (1996-1998-2008)” (Vukovar, 2008).
• 12th scientific and professional conference “Vukovar ’91 – eighteen years later” – “The Battle of Vukovar – the battle for Croatia” (Vukovar, 2009).
• 13th scientific and professional conference “Vukovar ’91. – nineteen years later” – “Victor quia victima – hope for Croatia” (Vukovar, 2010). Co-organizers: Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar – Regional Center Vukovar, Croatian Franciscan Province of St. Cyril and Methodius and Catholic Faculty of Theology in Đakovo.
• 14th scientific and professional conference “Vukovar ’91. – twenty years later” – Two decades of Croatian memory and development (Vukovar, 2011)
• 15th scientific and professional conference “Vukovar ’91. – twenty-one years later” – Vukovar ’91. – truth and/or denial (between science and manipulation) (Vukovar, 2012)
• 16th scientific and professional conference – “Vukovar ’91. – twenty-two years later – Vukovar ’91. – genocide and the memoricidal heritage of the European Union (Vukovar, 2013)
• 17th scientific and professional conference “Vukovar ’91. – twenty-three years later” – What is Vukovar for Croatia and Europe (Vukovar, 2014)
• 18th scientific and professional conference “Vukovar ’91. – twenty-four years later” – Vukovar ’91.: homeland (and European) security. The crisis of security and the politics of manipulating sovereignty (Vukovar, 2015)
• 19th scientific and professional conference “Vukovar ’91. – twenty-five years later” – Croatian society: 25 years after Vukovar ’91. (Vukovar, 2016)
• 20th Scientific and Professional Conference “Vukovar ’91 – Twenty-six Years Later” – Vukovar ’91: Public Discourses and Positions of Power (Vukovar, 2017)
• 22nd Scientific and Professional Conference VUKOVAR ’91 – TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS LATER: Contemporary Migrations in the Republic of Croatia, Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences – Vukovar Regional Center, November 12 and 13, 2019, Vukovar (national conference)
• Scientific Conference Franciscans in Vukovar, Franciscan Monastery in Vukovar, Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences – Vukovar Regional Center, State Archives in Vukovar and City Museum Vukovar, May 4, 2020 (online/national conference).
• 23rd Scientific and Professional Conference VUKOVAR ’91 – TWENTY-NINE YEARS LATER: The European Union between the Challenges of Sovereignty and Croatia’s Pledge to European Peace, Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences – Vukovar Regional Center, November 11, 2020, Vukovar (online, national conference)
• 24th Scientific and Professional Conference with International Participation VUKOVAR ’91 – THIRTY YEARS LATER: A Tribute to Freedom – Identities, Memories, History, Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, Vukovar Regional Center, November 14-16, 2021, Vukovar (national conference)
• Scientific and Professional Conference Gorjani – Place, People, Identity, Heritage, Municipality of Gorjani, Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences – Vukovar Regional Center, Catholic University of Croatia, Croatian Institute of History, Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb and Croatian Restoration Institute, 19 – 21 October 2022 (national conference)
• Scientific Conference on Nikola Andrić, Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Philosophy and Religious Sciences, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatian Philological Society, Branch of Matica Hrvatska Varaždin, Juraj Dobrila University in Pula, University of Zadar, Institute for Scientific Research and Artistic Work of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Vukovar and Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences – Vukovar Regional Center, 20 – 22 October 2022, Zagreb, Vukovar and Pécs (national conference)
• 25th Scientific and Professional Conference VUKOVAR ’91. – THIRTY-ONE YEARS LATER: Vukovar Today – Memories, Experiences and the Reality of Life, Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, Vukovar Regional Center, November 14 and 15, 2022, Vukovar (national conference)
• Scientific Conference 300 years of the Franciscan Church in Vukovar (1723 – 2023), Franciscan Monastery in Vukovar, Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences – Vukovar Regional Center, Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb, Croatian Institute of History – Branch for the History of Slavonia, Srijem and Baranja, State Archives in Vukovar, Vukovar, 24 June 2023 (nationalconference)
• Scientific Conference Vukovar-Srijem County – Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, Vukovar-Srijem County, State Archives in Vukovar, Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences – Vukovar Regional Center, Vukovar, 23 October 2023 (national conference)
• 26th Scientific and Professional Conference VUKOVAR ’91. – THIRTY-THREE YEARS LATER: Illegal Migration and (In)security at the Croatian Borders, Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, Vukovar Regional Center, November 14-15, 2024, Vukovar (national conference)
• Scientific and Professional Conference Virovitica 1234 – 2024: Church, Culture, Society, Heritage, Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb, Croatian Institute of History – Branch for the History of Slavonia, Srijem and Baranja, Catholic University of Croatia and Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences – Osijek Regional Center and Vukovar Regional Center, November 21-22, 2024 (national conference)