The project – implemented through cooperation between three chairs at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek (the Chair of Hungarian Language and Literature, the Chair of Art History, and the Chair of Common Courses) – consists of two main disciplinary components:
The project primarily focuses on contemporary literary and cultural processes within the Central European region, with particular emphasis on the dynamics of interethnic, linguistic and cultural contacts. Literature is at the centre of interest as a space for negotiating identity, memory and imagination, but also as a sphere in which deeper social and historical changes are reflected. Particular attention is devoted to relations between majority cultures and national minorities, as well as to the ways in which literary production reflects changing perceptions of cultural mentalities and new forms of identification. The project also explores how local and regional traditions intersect in the contemporary context and how cultural patterns are redefined through processes of translation, reception and intercultural exchange.
The second aspect of the research encompasses the changes brought about by the digital age in the fields of artistic production and the humanities. Particular attention is given to the ways in which digital artistic practices challenge established concepts of art and require theoretical adaptation within art history. The digital world is understood as a space of intellectual and aesthetic practices that increasingly shape the contemporary cultural landscape, blurring the boundaries between art, science and popular visual culture.
The linguistic component of the project also includes the development of a Croatian-Hungarian online terminological dictionary at the level of morphological terminology. The aim is to create a bilingual online dictionary that will serve as a professional tool for teaching Croatian in Hungary and Hungarian in Croatia, with particular emphasis on cross-linguistic specialist terminology in morphology. The development of a digital English-Croatian glossary of basic concepts in art and culture is also an integral part of this proposal. Teachers and students from the Chair of Art History and the Chair of Hungarian Language and Literature will be involved in the development of the glossary.
The project is organised into three work packages through which ITDOS activities will be implemented:
–> Digital glossaries of concepts in art and culture and language contacts
–> Literary discourse and cultural transfers
–> Visual culture and digital artistic practices: theoretical and methodological perspectives