Željko Heimer held a lecture titled »Historical Origins of Modern Croatian Municipal Flags« on Wednesday 13 March 2018 at the Society of Brethren of the Croatian Dragon tribune in the Dragon Tower over the Stone Gates in Zagreb. The lecture presented historical and, as a rule from them derived, contemporary flags of 24 croatian cities […]
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International Congress of Vexillology
The Flag Heritage Foundation issued »Vexillology as a Social Science« by Željko Heimer
The sixth publication in The Flag Heritage Foundation Monograph and Translation Series, titled Vexillology as a Social Science, was issued in April. It is the English adaptation of the major part of the doctoral thesis by Željko Heimer, defended at the Postgraduate Doctoral Studies of Sociology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Studies of […]
In Memoriam Dr Whitney Smith
The father of modern vexillology, Whitney Smith established in 1961, together with Gerhard Grahl, the first vexilological journal The Flag Bulletin, and the next year estanlished the Flag Research Centre (FRC). He was its director until his retirement in 2013 when the entire considerable library and archive was transferred to the University of Texas in […]
»Grb i zastava« № 18 Issued
This year’s fall issue of our magazine »Grb i zastava« was just printed and our members may expect it soon in their mail boxes. Additional copes may be ordered through the Leykam International publishing house. From the contents we highlight: An exceptionally interesting presentation on the flag collection of the Museum of Slavonia, divided it […]
»Vexillology« Column in »Hrvatski vojnik« (2), 2013
Following the series of the 18 installments of the »Veksilologija« (Vexillology) column in 2012, Željko Heimer continued to write for the Ministry of Defence magazine in 2013. with 26 new articles in the issues № 412 through 437. The articles are available in the on-line arhivi »Hrvatskog vojnika«, i.e. directly at the following links (here titles are translated […]
Participating in 25th International Congress of Vexillology, Rotterdam, 4-10.8.2013
The 25th International Congress of Vexillology (25ICV) was held from 4 until 10 August 2013 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Željko Heimer participated for HGZD. In the academic program he held the paper “Croatian Municipal Ceremonial Flags“, and he took part in the work of the General Assembly of the International Federation of Vexillological Associations (FIAV), […]
14th HGZD Tribune, 26.2.2012 – Željko Heimer
Out fourteenth Tribune was held in cooperation with the Zagreb Classical Gymnasium Society (DZKG) on Monday 26 February 2012 at 7pm in the DZKG premises, Preradovićeva 44, 1. kat. Mr. Željko Heimer, the HGZD president, held the lecture titled »Identity in the flags of the political parties in the Republic of Croatia« In 1989, after […]
13th HGZD Tribune, 31.1.2012 – Jelena Borošak Marijanović
Our 13th Tribune was held on Tuesday, 31st January 2012 at 18:30 in the premises of the Zagreb Classical Gymnasium Society (DZKG), 44 Preradovićeva street. Ms. Jelena Borošak Marijanović from the Croatian History Museum, held the lecture »The flags of the Croatian Sokol societies until 1914«. The lecture based on the well researched paper presented […]
»Grb i zastava« № 10 Issued
The tenth volume of our journal »Grb i zastava« celebrates also the fifth anniversary of our Association. The № 10 of GiZ has the usual 20 pages of A4 size with articles both in Croatian and English language in full colours with numerous illustrations. It contains a series of highly interesting articles among which these […]
12th HGZD Tribune, 8.11.2011 – Željko Heimer
Our twelfth Tribune was held on Tuesday, 8th November 2011 at 18:30 in the premises of the Zagreb Classical Gymnasium Society (DZKG), 44 Preradovićeva street. Željko Heimer, the HGZD president, held a lecture that was presented on the 24th International Congress of Vexillology this summer in Washington, titled »The National Identity in the flags of […]