During his visit to the University of Zagreb, Professor Nunan delivered two lectures to the students of his host, Prof. Dr. Tvrtko Jakovina: “ Graveyard of Empires? Afghanistan Between Decolonization, the Cold War, and the "Global War on Terror", 1921-2021” and “The Islamist Century: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Transformations of Political Islam, 1924-2024.”
Following conversations on pedagogy and teaching with Prof. Dr. Jakovina and Prof. Hroje Klasić, Nunan also made use of materials at the National Library of Croatia on the history of the Non-Aligned Movement to prepare future courses on the history of multipolarity on international relations.
During his visit, Professor Nunan also had the opportunity to deliver a lecture on approaches to teaching the history of the Cold War to a student conference held at the Faculty of Croatian Language on March 19, 2025. He further had the chance to meet with University of Zagreb faculty in his capacity as member of the Center for German and European Studies, a joint initiative between the University of Regensburg and the University of Zagreb. Besides meeting with scholars from Zagreb, Nunan met with historian Vjeran Pavlaković and anthropologist Jeremy F. Walton from the University of Rijeka.
Prof. Dr. Timothy Nunan thanks the University of Regensburg and the Erasmus+ program for facilitating and financing his trip to Zagreb, and he looks forward to developing further teaching and research collaborations with colleagues in Croatia.
