history and collaboration
The Cres Summer School was launched in 2013 as a collaboration between the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and the University of Rijeka in Croatia to offer students an excellent opportunity to learn about how societies deal and overcome war crimes and human rights violations during conflicts and under authoritarian regimes.
Between 2013 and 2018 our collaboration expanded, including Pomona College, Montclair State University, Sewanee and New York University in the United States. During that time period we had the pleasure of welcoming dynamic, new groups of students and practitioners for a 10-day summer program on transitional justice and the politics of memory on the beautiful island of Cres along the Adriatic coast.
The program included lectures, seminars, workshops and excursions with a high-caliber faculty and guest lecturers, including scholars, practitioners and activists.
The program is currently being revised as organizers seek new curricular, pedagogical and research-related engagements for participants in the future.
support
From 2013-2017 the summer school school has been generously supported by Globalisation Studies Groningen. In addition, for 5 years, the European Union Center of California has lend generous support to the school, providing close to a dozen students with scholarships to travel to Croatia and participate in the program. In addition, Pomona College funded students for one iteration of the program. The Unger Foundation has also generously supported the participation of Croatian scholars in our school since 2016.
