Lecture ‘Minorities in Their Own Language?’ by Milorad Pupovac

In the organization of the SASA Board for the Study of National Minorities and Human Rights, Professor Milorad Pupovac will deliver the lecture titled ‘Minorities in Their Own Language? –  The Study Cases of Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Montenegrian Minorities as Language Minorities – Theoretical Relevancy and Practical Feasibility’ on Monday, 23 September, at 1 p.m. at the SASA Grand Hall.

The experience of Serbs in Croatia, as well as the experience of Bosniaks, Montenegrins and Croats in their respective minority context, will serve as a basis for answering the first question: What does it mean to be a minority in one’s own language? How this phenomenon manifests or can be manifested? This reflection serves as a foundation for examining the question of how all members of the Serbian and other minority communities respond and could respond to their position as a minority in their language. And why certain political initiatives aimed at “protecting the Serbian language and Cyrillic alphabet” have not yielded the desired outcomes.

Milorad Pupovac is a political representative of the Serbian national minority in Croatia. A professor of linguistics at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, he is also an MP in the Croatian Parliament, president of the Serbian National Council, and a member of the Supreme Board of SKD Prosvjeta in Zagreb.