Inoslav Bešker, PhD, full professor

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(born 30 January 1950 in Zagreb) is a Croatian journalist and scholar who lives and works in Italy.
Bešker graduated from the Classical Gymnasium in Split in 1966. He has a degree in journalism from the University of Zagreb. He obtained a Ph.D. in Comparative Slavistics from the University of Milan in 2001.

Bešker started his journalistic career in 1967. Since the eighties he was one of the pioneers in the introduction and use of information technology in journalism. Since 1989 he was working as a correspondent from Rome for Vjesnik, Večernji list, BBC, Radio 101, Danas, Croatian Radio-Television and Globus. Since 2000 he is a correspondent and columnist for Jutarnji list and since 2016 for Globus and Slobodna Dalmacija too, working occasionally for some other media, as AlJazeera Balkans, mostly as vaticanist.

Bešker has developed his research mainly in two fields: in philology, obtaining a degree of scientific adviser and full professor, and in science of information communication as senior research associate. His other interests include in particular cultural anthropology, with emphasis on the religion.

He started his academic career in philology at the Oriental University in Naples in 1996, and then he taught at La Sapienza University in Rome and at the University of Bologna. He currently teaches at the University of Split (Comparative Slavic Literatures, and Mediterranean Literary Characters). Since 2003 he has been teaching communication sciences at the University of Zagreb, and since 2013 at University of Dubrovnik, where he teaches The Culture of Religion too. Bešker is a co-director of the annual International Conference on Information Technology and Journalism, held in Dubrovnik since 1996.

Among his books are I Morlacchi nelle literature europee, La Musa violenta, Filološke dvoumice (Kiklop award for essays 2007), Goli blagdani, Istraživačko novinarstvo.

Bešker was named Journalist of the Year by the Croatian Journalists' Association in 2003 and received the Otokar Keršovani Life Achievement Award from the same organization in 2007. For his activities in defense of human rights through journalism Bešker received the Premio Calabria in 1996, the Otto von Habsburg Award in 2015, and the Joško Kulušić Award in 2016.Projects:

Projects:

  • „Hrvatska rječnička baština i hrvatski europski identitet“
  • „Halieutica Adriatica – filološka i antropološka istraživanja jadranske kulture“
  • “Jadranska priča – Interdisciplinarno istraživanje jadranskih narativa“