Wednesday, May 3, 2000

12.00 Departure from Zagreb by bus

Excursion: two hours at the Plitvice Lakes

19.00 Arrival to Zadar (Hotel “Kolovare”)

21.00 Official Opening of the Conference & Reception

Pavao Mikić, Prof. Dr., Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Letters in Zadar.

Welcome Address.

Drago Roksandić, Prof. Dr.

Introductory Speech on Major Objectives of the Zadar Conference.

Thursday, May 4, 2000

9.00 First Session:

Zrinka Blažević, B.A. “Miserrima facies Croatiae:” Perception of the Natural Environment of the Triple Border in the Poem “Plorantis Croatiae seculae duo” by Pavao Ritter Vitezović

Larry Wolff, Prof. Dr. Chestnut Trees and Enlightened Ecology in Venetian Dalmatia: Alberto Fortis before the Economic Society of Split.

Eva Faber, Dr. Perceptions of Nature in the Military Border based on German Descriptions in the Early Modern Period

Željko Holjevac, B.A. People and Water on the Triplex Confinium: Environmental Observations by Vukasović and Hacquet in Lika and Krbava in the Second Half of the 18th Century

Stefan Halikowski Smith, M.A. The Discovery of the Plitvice Lakes

10.15 Break

10.30 First Session: Continuation

Snježana Šušnjara, M.A. Bosnian Franciscan Sources on Natural Disasters in the 18^th Century

Damir Magaš, Prof. Dr. Geographic Determinants in the Conception of Matea Pagano’s Map “Tvto el Cótado. di. -Zara et Sebenicho-“ (Venice, c. 1530)

Josip Faričić, B.A. The Triplex Confinium on Mercator’s Map From the End of the 16^th Century

Dubravka Mlinarić, M.A. A Comparative Analysis of the Toponyms of the Triplex Confinium in the Literature and Cartographic Sources of the Early Modern Period

11.45 Break

12.00 Discussion

13.00 Lunch Break

15.00 Visit to the Zadar Archives hosted by the Director Prof. Marko Ražov

16.30 Second Session:

Marko Šarić, B.A. The Turkish Wars and the Changing Realities of the Lika & Krbava Ecosystem (15^th-16^th Centuries)

Željka Šiljković, Ass. Prof. Dr. Anthropo-geographic Analysis of Migrations in the Triplex Confinium Area with an Emphasis on the Lika Region from the 16^th until the 18^th Century

Snježana Buzov, M.A. Environmental Aspects of Demographic Changes in the Triplex Confinium Area in the 16^th Century Related to the Ottoman Expansion

Ramiza Smajić-Ibrahimović, M.A. Demographic and Environmental Issues in the Sources of Ottoman Provenance

Nenad Moačanin, Prof. Dr. Using the Ottoman Version of a Text on Border Delimitation with the Austrian Empire from 1792/95 for Eco-historical Purposes

17.45 Discussion

18.45 End of the Second Session

Evening Walk Around Zadar guided by

Prof. Dr. Pavao Vežić, art historian (optional)

Evening free

Friday, May 5, 2000

8.00 Field Trip

Route: Zadar - Benkovac - Drniš - Mirilović - Drniš - Knin (Triplex Confinium) - Obrovac - Starigrad - Zadar

Third Session (Franciscan Monastery Visovac):

Samuel Willcocks, B.A. The Turkish Administration of Silver Mines in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Were the Christian Powers Attempting to Reclaim their Right to Mine Silver in the Triplex Confinium?

Šime Pilić, Prof. Dr. A Social Eco-history of Localities Along the Krka River (c. 1500-1800) in Contemporary Travelogues. (Paper will be submitted in advance)

Jelka Vince-Pallua, M.A. Eco-history of the Morlachian Way of Life in the Second Half of the 18h Century and the First Half of the 19^th Century

Elisabetta Novello, Dr. Venetian Reclamation Works in the Dalmatian Borderlands in the 18^th Century

Ivan Jurišić, Dr. Food and Beverages in the Karlovac Generalate in the 18^th Century

Lunch Break

Return to Zadar in the early evening & dinner in the hotel “Kolovare”

Saturday, May 6, 2000

9.00 Fourth Session:

Borna Fürst-Bjeliš, Assis. Prof. Dr. - Giovanni D’Alessio, M.A. - Olga Diklić, B.A. The Venetian Cadastre in Dalmatia and the Eco-historical Evaluation of the Triplex Confinium in the 18^th Century.

Mirela Slukan, Dr. Comparative Analysis of Rural Settlements in Venetian and Habsburgs Krajinas

Anna-Maria Grünfelder, Dr. Senj’s Natural Resources and Habsburg-Venetian Conflicts of Economic Interests (16^th-18^th Centuries)

Nataša Štefanec, M.A. The Wood Trade in the Triplex Confinium or How to Procure Cash from the Senj Woodlands (c. 1600-1630)?

Karl Kaser, Prof. Dr. An Ecological Catastrophe in the Habsburg Maritime Military Borderlands: the Demographic, Economic and Social Roots of the Karst (First Half of the 18^th Century)

10.15 Discussion

11.00 Break

11.15 Fourth Session: Continuation

Ivan Mimica, Prof. Dr. Environmental Motives in Early Modern Southern Croatian Oral Epics

(Paper will be submitted in advance)

Živko Bjelanović, Prof. Dr. The Anthroponomy of the Triple Border Area as Inspired by the Natural Environment in the 17^th and 18^th Centuries (Paper will be submitted in advance)

Pamela Ballinger, Prof. Dr. The Ruins of the Past: Symbolic Boundary Construction in the Triplex Confinium

Valentina Gulin-Zrnić, M.A. People and Multiple Natures

Sanja Lazanin, B.A. The “Natural History” of the Triplex Confinium Area in the Works of B. Hacquet

Tamás Faragó, Prof. Dr. Croatian and Serbian Settlers in the Hungarian Kingdom Between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Century. (Lessons of Half a Century of Research)

Hrvoje Petrić, B.A. Environmental Micro-History of a Multiple Borderland: Podravina’s Torčec in the Second Half of the 18^th Century

Attila Furstand, M.A. A Comparative Analysis of Landscape Protection in Western Hungary with an Emphasis on Land-use and Rural Settlement Structure

12.45 Discussion

13.30 Lunch Break

15.00 Departure for Ugljan

19.30 Return to Zadar

20.30 Dinner in the Old City

Sunday, May 7, 2000

7.00 Departure for Bihać

9.30 Arrival to Bihać & Closing session in Bihać

Arrival to Zagreb around 15.00

Conference was sponsored by the

European Cultural Foundation from Amsterdam

and the

Central European University Budapest

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