2026.
- Assoc. Prof. Ana Werkmann Horvat, PhD, and Prof. Tanja Gradečak, PhD, with the assistance of undergraduate English Studies students, held the workshop ‘Emotions in Language’ at SciArt on 13 March (organized by UNIOS and the MUUZA Association).
- Prof. Tanja Gradečak, PhD, co-organized GONG’s media literacy workshop entitled “Sailing the Sea of Information”, held at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek on 21 January 2026.
2025.
- On 22 May 2025, Jelena Pataki Šumiga, PhD, moderated the presentation of Paula Rem’s novel “Kad se večernje sjene izdulje” at the Pannonian Book Festival in Osijek (https://www.osijek031.com/osijek.php?topic_id=103408)
- On 13 May 2025, Jelena Pataki Šumiga, PhD, gave a lecture entitled “‘Give Us Our Daily Dread’: Dystopian Echoes in the Covid-19 Media Discourse”, organized by Glotta, the English Studies Students’ Association of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek: https://www.instagram.com/p/DJwu1k5Mnb8/?img_index=1
- Prof. Tanja Gradečak, PhD, participated in the Science Festival of Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, held from 5 to 10 May 2025, with the activity ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND SOCIALIZATION NETWORKS IN OLDER AGE
- Assoc. Prof. Draženka Molnar, PhD, participated in the Science Festival held from 5 to 10 May 2025 and presented the poster ‘What Type of Learner are You? Untangling the Path to Effective Learning’
- Assoc. Prof. Draženka Molnar, PhD, and Ksenija Benčina, PhD, gave the lecture ‘Word Webs: Surprising Word Journeys’ at the Science Festival held from 5 to 10 May 2025.
- Assoc. Prof. Ljubica Matek, PhD, gave a lecture entitled “Censorship and Literature” on 9 May 2025, organized by Glotta, the English Studies Students’ Association of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek: https://www.instagram.com/udrugaglotta/p/DJeCwXmM7nd/
- Assoc. Prof. Ljubica Matek, PhD, and collaborator Valentina Markasović participated in the Science Festival, held from 5 to 10 May 2025, with the poster “Brain Rot – When Neural Networks Decline”
- Prof. Biljana Oklopčić, PhD, and collaborators Vedran Domjanović, Iva Romić and Petra Sršić participated in the Science Festival of Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, held from 5 to 10 May 2025, with the poster (Social) Networks in Popular Culture.
- On 11 April 2025, Jelena Pataki Šumiga, PhD, moderated the panel discussion “AI and Translation”, FUZ&JA, FFOS, with Prof. Marija Omazić, PhD, Nina Tuđman Vuković, PhD, and literary translator Ela Varošanec Krsnik
- Prof. Tanja Gradečak, PhD, organized the EstLab event A Conversation with Nataša Govedić on 18 March 2025.
- Assoc. Prof. Ljubica Matek, PhD, and collaborators Valentina Markasović, Jelena Pataki Šumiga, PhD, and Zvonimir Prtenjača participated in Science Week, held from 10 to 14 February 2025, with the poster “British Women of Letters”
- Asst. Prof. Jasna Poljak, PhD, gave a public lecture organized by the English Studies students’ association “Glotta” entitled “The F Word: From the Feminine Mystique to the Bad Feminist” at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek.
2024.
- Jelena Pataki Šumiga, PhD, participated in the “Find Your Voice” panel on 30 October 2024 at American Corner, GISKO, together with literary translators Patricija Horvat and Mirna Čubranić: https://www.ffos.unios.hr/activities-post/knjizevnoprevoditeljski-panel-find-your-voice-u-american-corneru-gisko
- Assoc. Prof. Ana Werkmann Horvat gave the lecture ‘Are Multilingual People Smarter?’ at the Science Festival held from 22 to 26 April 2024.
- Assoc. Prof. Ljubica Matek, PhD, Valentina Markasović, Jelena Pataki Šumiga and Zvonimir Prtenjača participated in the Science Festival held from 22 to 26 April 2024 with the poster “Reading and Intelligence”
- Prof. Tanja Gradečak, PhD, held the workshop “Language and Artificial Intelligence” as part of the 2024 Science Festival together with collaborator and student Filip Ćaleta
- Asst. Prof. Draženka Molnar, PhD, and Assoc. Prof. Jadranka Zlomislić, PhD, held the workshop ‘Past Meets Present: Integrating MI Theory in the EFL Classroom’ at the Science Festival held from 22 to 26 April 2024.
- Prof. Tanja Gradečak, PhD, organized the EstLab event “Writer and Researcher – Kristian Novak’s Autoethnographic Landscapes” on 19 March 2024.
- Assoc. Prof. Alma Vančura, PhD, gave an invited lecture at the Department of Phonetics of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb on 16 February 2023 entitled Digital Rhetoric as a Means of Political Communication
- From 22 to 25 January 2024, Assoc. Prof. Alma Vančura, PhD, presented the English Language and Literature study programme to secondary school students at the 2nd Open Days of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek
- Prof. Biljana Oklopčić, PhD, participated in the online panel “Memory, Identity, Belonging: Narratives of Eastern and Central European Presence in North America: Meet the Authors” on 19 January 2024.
- Prof. Tanja Gradečak, PhD, organized the EstLab event “Art and Activism – A Conversation with Kornel Šeper” on 9 January 2024.
2023.
- Asst. Prof. Jasna Poljak Rehlicki, PhD, organized the lecture “Radical Imaginations: Contemporary Native Arts and Cultures” on 10 November 2023, delivered by Prof. Timothy Petete, PhD, from the University of Central Oklahoma.
- Prof. Gabrijela Buljan, PhD, gave a public popular-science lecture on 26 October 2023 as part of the science popularization project of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek (FUZ&JA), entitled “Keeping Up with the Times: Word Formation between the World and the Internet”
- Prof. Biljana Oklopčić, PhD, participated in the “Media Literacy Cafe” panel on 28 June 2023 as part of the Media Education Matters project at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek.
- Prof. Tanja Gradečak, PhD, held the Fake News Fighters workshop during the FFOS Open Week on 25 May 2023.
- Prof. Biljana Oklopčić, PhD, participated in a panel discussion entitled “Different Perceptions of Love” on 15 March 2023 as part of the Art of Love project at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek.
- Prof. Tanja Gradečak, PhD, held the Fake News Fighters workshop during FFOS Science Week on 10 February 2023.
- In cooperation with students, from 2016 to 2023 Asst. Prof. Draženka Molnar, PhD, participated in the “Language Weekend” project at Dragutin Tadijanović Primary School in Vukovar, contributing to the organization, preparation and implementation of thematic English-language workshops for pupils from grades 2 to 8.
2022.
- Asst. Prof. Draženka Molnar, PhD, held the workshop “Is What We Understand and Imagine What We Look For? The Teacher’s Conceptualization of Textual Coherence – Implications for Classroom Writing Assessment” as part of Science Week, held from 7 to 11 February 2022.
- Assoc. Prof. Biljana Oklopčić, PhD, and collaborator Kristina Božić held the workshop “Creative Writing as a Method of Feminist Pedagogy” on 10 February 2022 as part of Science Week at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek.
- Assoc. Prof. Ljubica Matek, PhD, Valentina Markasović, Jelena Pataki Šumiga, PhD, and Zvonimir Prtenjača presented the poster “Is Everything Really Awesome? The Lego Movie as a Dystopian Parody” during Science Week, held from 7 to 11 February 2022.
- Asst. Prof. Jasna Poljak Rehlicki, PhD, organized the lecture “Writing a True Story: Memory, Narrative, and the Experience of Writing”, delivered by Dr Robert Yagelski from the University at Albany, United States of America.
- Jelena Pataki Šumiga, PhD, is the coordinator of FUZ&JA, FFOS’s science popularization project (March 2022 – September 2026), responsible for coordinating the activities of all sub-cycles, moderating Open Thursday, preparing written reports and media announcements.
- From 2016 to 2020, Jasna Poljak, PhD, as Chair of the Committee for the Organization and Implementation of the Open Thursday science popularization project, organized a total of 32 popular-science lectures and launched the Open Thursday YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb1z3cV_K-lzuc9VzdHcB-Q